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5 Machine Learning Models Explained in 5 Minutes

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Learn about the most popular machine learning models, understand how they work, and discover the best free courses to master them.

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Databricks Marketplace Welcomes 42 New Data Providers in Q1 2024

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In June 2023, we launched Databricks Marketplace as an open marketplace for all your data, analytics, and AI needs, powered by the open.

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Heard on the Street – 6/3/2024

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Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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Databricks + Tabular

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We are excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire Tabular, Inc, a data management company founded by Ryan Blue, Daniel Weeks.

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The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar

Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.

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Building RAG Application using Cohere Command-R and Rerank – Part 2

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Introduction In the previous article, we experimented with Cohere’s Command-R model and Rerank model to generate responses and rerank doc sources. We have implemented a simple RAG pipeline using them to generate responses to user’s questions on ingested documents. However, what we have implemented is very simple and unsuitable for the general user, as it […] The post Building RAG Application using Cohere Command-R and Rerank – Part 2 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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5 Free Machine Learning Courses from Top Universities

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If you’re reading this article, I assume you already know what machine learning is. But just for a quick refresher, it’s simply making computers smart enough to do jobs that humans used to do, for example, taking attendance using facial recognition. Anyway, moving on to our main discussion, I know there are a lot of […] The post 5 Free Machine Learning Courses from Top Universities appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.

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Databricks Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models for Language, Q2 2024

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We are excited to announce that Forrester has recognized Databricks as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models for Language, Q2.

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Disable Microsoft’s Recall AI feature or be ready to…

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You might want to disable the Microsoft Recall AI feature when it’s ready, because of several significant cybersecurity concerns that have recently come to light. These issues could potentially compromise your data security. Microsoft has refuted allegations that Recall, a feature designed to enhance system-wide searches by remembering user activities on your PC, presents a privacy threat.

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Summarize audio with LLMs in Node.js

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of performing a wide range of tasks with text. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use LLMs using LeMUR to summarize audio with Node.js. Summarizing audio is a two-step process. First, you need to transcribe the audio to text. Then, once you have a transcript, you need to prompt an LLM to summarize it.

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Introducing the Open Variant Data Type in Delta Lake and Apache Spark

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We are excited to announce a new data type called variant for semi-structured data. Variant provides an order of magnitude performance improvements compared.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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“Confidential” 988 Conversation Records Shared with Corporations

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Editor’s Note: This story is the second in a two-part series on 988. This piece addresses issues around privacy and the sharing of the contents of conversations for AI development. The first part addresses the increase in unwanted or coercive police and EMS interventions after 988’s implementation, and can be found here: Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers.

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Bird Aren't Real: What one man learned when he made up a conspiracy theory

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The performance artist behind "Birds Aren't Real" believes that people fall for conspiracy theories because they feel disconnected from society.

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Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash

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After weeks of withering criticism and exposed security flaws, Microsoft has vastly scaled back its ambitions for Recall, its AI-enabled silent recording feature, and added new privacy features.

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USA Solar Panel Manufacturing Capacity Soared 71% in Q1 2024

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Florida and Texas charge ahead on solar installs while California stumbles due to policy changes WASHINGTON, D.C. — A record-setting 11 gigawatts (GW) of new solar module manufacturing capacity came online in the United States during Q1 2024, the largest quarter of solar manufacturing growth in American history. According to. [continued] The post USA Solar Panel Manufacturing Capacity Soared 71% in Q1 2024 appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash

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Retired American astronaut William Anders, who was a member of the Apollo 8 crew, was killed in a plane crash just off the San Juan Islands on Friday afternoon.

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Adobe users are outraged over vague new policy's AI implications

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Adobe has notified users of a new policy saying it can access user content to "improve its Services and Software." Users are outraged that this might mean using their content to train AI.

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Why are debut novels failing to launch?

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For first-time writers, it’s harder than ever to break out. That poses an existential crisis for publishing—and disturbing limits on your access to exciting new voices.

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Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Central Time

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Venezuela's Last Glacier, Humboldt, Has Melted Away

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Venezuela is the first postglacial nation in the Andes, as its last substantial patch of ice is now considered too small to flow under its own weight.

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Telegram Stars: Pay for Digital Goods and More

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Over 400 million users interact with bots and mini apps on Telegram every month – to buy products, access services, play games, and much more. With today's update, bots and mini apps can sell digital goods and services.

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FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing

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The federal government’s antitrust investigation into price fixing in the rental market appears to have found a fulcrum in Atlanta after a surprise FBI raid of multifamily property developer Cortland Management.

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U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI

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The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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The Lost Art of the Negative

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Film cameras are seeing another renaissance. But some new photographers are leaving something behind: the tea-colored originals that determine the life of pictures.

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Quieting the Global Growl

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Underwater noise from ships has gotten louder, reshaping marine ecosystems and the lives of animals that depend on sounds to eat, mate, and navigate. Can ships ever pipe down?

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A new discovery about carbon dioxide is challenging decades-old ventilation doctrine

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Carbon dioxide monitors have been around for decades. But in 2020, they became, almost overnight, a hot commodity. All of a sudden, people wanted them to help assess the safety of indoor spaces — to gauge the likelihood of breathing in coronavirus-laced particles that until very recently had been in someone else’s lungs. No sensor can monitor how many infectious aerosols are swirling around us in real time.

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Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem

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Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from the vulnerable server.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Night-vision lenses so thin and light that we can all see in the dark

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From evening drives to navigating a house or a park in the dark, there are so many situations where it'd be handy to slip on a simple pair of night-vision lenses and the world that's beyond human optical perception could be illuminated like never before. This vision could be a reality, with a technology breakthrough that could deliver this elusive view to everyday consumers, with an ultra-thin film or lens the width of cling wrap.

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Chang'e-6: Moon dark side samples collected and launched into lunar orbit

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Chang’e-6: Moon samples collected and launched into lunar orbit Material from the far side of the moon has begun its journey for Earth after Chinese spacecraft collected samples and launched them into lunar orbit.

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Harvard's Largest Faculty Division Will No Longer Require Diversity Statements

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Instead, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will require applicants to describe their “efforts to strengthen academic communities,” a senior university leader said in an email.

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The Man Who Reinvented the Cat

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The curious career of the illustrator Louis Wain tells the story of how our feline friends came in from the alley and took up their place at the hearth.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene