Sat.Mar 30, 2024

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Video Highlights: The Best AI Startup Opportunities — with Venture Capitalist Rudina Seseri

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In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, sits down with Rudina Seseri from Glasswing Ventures to answer the question: "What has Glasswing Ventures done for the company beyond capital investment?" Rudina describes how her company uses data to assess venture capital investments, the secret sauce of successful AI startups, and why she feels generative AI is only the start of a much broader impact that AI will

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Guide to Fine-tuning Gemini for Masking PII Data

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), they have permeated numerous applications, supplanting smaller transformer models like BERT or Rule Based Models in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. LLMs are versatile, capable of handling tasks such as Text Classification, Summarization, Sentiment Analysis, and Topic Modelling, owing to their extensive pre-training.

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A Builder's Guide to Evals for LLM-based Applications

Eugene Yan

Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.

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Databricks DBRX: The Open-Source LLM Taking on the Giants

Analytics Vidhya

Large Language Models (LLMs) are the driving force behind AI revolution, but the game just got a major plot twist. Databricks DBRX, a groundbreaking open-source LLM, is here to challenge the status quo. Outperforming established models and going toe-to-toe with industry leaders, DBRX boasts superior performance and efficiency. Deep dive into the world of LLMs […] The post Databricks DBRX: The Open-Source LLM Taking on the Giants appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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Mamba Explained

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Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a formidable alternative to the widely used Transformer models, addressing their inefficiency in processing long sequences.

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We are under DDoS attack and we do nothing

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Modern, native SQL client with intuitive GUI tools to create, access, query & edit multiple relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, MariaDB, CockroachDB, Vertica, and Redis.

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Headless, dog-sized robot to patrol Alaska airport to prevent bird strikes

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The robot - named Aurora - can climb rocks, go up stairs and make dance-like movements while flashing green lights. These tactics will be used to scare away wildlife.

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Black Holes Are Even Weirder Than You Imagined

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It’s now thought that they could illuminate fundamental questions in physics, settle questions about Einstein’s theories, and even help explain the universe.

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Notes on El Salvador

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In 1995, El Salvador had an intentional homicide rate of 139 per 100,000, the highest in the world and one of the highest rates recorded in modern history.

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NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law

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The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker’s tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income. That's not right.

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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 Past, Present and Future of Stream Processing

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Blog about architectures, best practices and use cases for data streaming, analytics, hybrid cloud infrastructure, internet of things, crypto, and more

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Why Ireland's housing bubble burst

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Ireland’s housing bubble and bust has become emblematic of what not to do in housing debates around the world. The only problem is nobody agrees what actually went wrong.

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A Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI's $175M Fund Appears to Be Fake

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For a period of time in 2023, the person in charge of OpenAI's $175 million startup fund appears to have been completely fake.

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Linear Algebra of Types (2019)

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It gives my brain a pleasant thrum to learn new mathematics which mimics the algebra I learned in middle school. Basically this means that the new system has operations with properties that match those of regular numbers as much as possible. Two pretty important operations are addition and multiplication with the properties of distributivity and associativity.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers

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Executives should be focusing on employee outcomes and accountability rather than performative in-office appearances.

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Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth

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Chipmaker Nvidia has shown off a clone of our entire planet that could help meteorologists simulate and visualize global weather patterns.

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World Backup Day

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Be prepared against data loss and data theft. March 31st is the day to backup and better protect your data.

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Reducing Wealth Inequality: The Wealth Time Limit

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Reducing Wealth Inequality – The Wealth Time Limit If you have read my theories on Wealth Inequality and the economy, you will see that Wealth Inequality is the cause of most of the key probl…

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Rustic UI: Crafting the Future of UX

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Discover Rustic UI, a comprehensive design framework revolutionizing conversational UX with AI-driven interfaces. Learn how to streamline development, enhance user interaction, and stay ahead in today's competitive digital landscape with Rustic UI's Figma library and Javascript component library.

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xz: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects

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Originally a thread on Twitter about the xz/liblzma vulnerability, when I finished typing it, I realized I had a real world slice of Open Source interaction that deserved more attention.

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Map of US Foreign Assistance

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ForeignAssistance.gov is the U.S. government’s flagship website for making U.S. foreign assistance data available to the public. It serves as the central resource for budgetary and financial data produced by U.S. government agencies that manage foreign assistance portfolios.

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Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters

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Melina Moe writes about the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent as an editor at Random House.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."

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I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission. The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system(). It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.

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Cutting a 700 Carat Rare Valuable Gemstone [video]

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Steve Moriarty, a master gem cutter, takes on the challenge of transforming a massive 744-carat peach-colored morganite into a dazzling 294 carat faceted gem.

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Spacing the Cans

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Perfunctory brands What work is the “Happy Harvest” brand doing on this can of tomato paste from Aldi? It’s not competing with other brands of canned tomatoes, because Aldi pretty much sells only its own house brands. Despite this, Aldi doesn’t simply take a no-frills approach and uniformly brand all its products with “Aldi”; it invents sub-brands like Happy Harvest to internally differentiate them.

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Pacemaker powered by light: new research

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By harnessing light, my colleagues and I designed a wireless, ultrathin pacemaker that operates like a solar panel. This design not only eliminates the need for batteries but also minimizes disruptions to the heart’s natural function by molding to its contours.

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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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Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went

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Scientists find a "mitotic stopwatch" that lets individual cells remember something.

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Mathematician Who Made Sense of the Universe's Randomness Wins Math's Top Prize

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Michel Talagrand took home the 2024 Abel Prize for his work on stochastic systems, randomness and a proof of a physics reaction that many experts thought was unsolvable

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Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser

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I attended the Story Discovery At Scale data journalism conference at Stanford this week.

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App scans your pile of Lego and uses ML to suggest projects

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BrickIt is an app that's a couple of years old, but I've just seen a demonstration of it in use, and it's pretty amazing.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.