insideBIGDATA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In this contributed article, Jim Liddle, Chief Innovation Officer at Nasuni, describes how having file data stored in the cloud and workloads on-premises can result in serious performance issues because remote access and data consolidation don’t play well together. In fact, the combination can create “data gravity” that complicates and slows the movement of data, worsened by the latency that often accompanies remote access.

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Data Science Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the contemporary age of Big Data, Data Warehouse Systems and Data Science Analytics Infrastructures have become an essential component for organizations to store, analyze, and make data-driven decisions. With the evolution of cloud computing, many organizations are now migrating their Data Warehouse Systems to the cloud for better scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency.

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insideBIGDATA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Welcome to the Generative AI Report round-up feature here on insideBIGDATA with a special focus on all the new applications and integrations tied to generative AI technologies. We’ve been receiving so many cool news items relating to applications and deployments centered on large language models (LLMs), we thought it would be a timely service for readers to start a new channel along these lines.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Explore the unsupervised learning paradigm. Familiarize yourself with the key concepts, techniques, and popular unsupervised learning algorithms.

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Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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insideBIGDATA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

SambaNova Systems, makers of the purpose-built, full stack AI platform, announced a revolutionary new chip, the SN40L. The SN40L will power SambaNova’s full stack large language model (LLM) platform, the SambaNova Suite, with its revolutionary new design: on the inside it offers both dense and sparse compute, and includes both large and fast memory, making it a truly “intelligent chip.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world. After its publication in 2013, the Signal Protocol was adopted not only by Signal but well beyond. Technical informat.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cracking the code of activation functions: Demystifying their purpose, selection, and timing.

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Flipboard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Some modern image generators rely on the principles of diffusion to create images. Alternatives based on the process behind the distribution of charged particles may yield even better results.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Microsoft has released Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2.0.0 with a set of new opt-in experimental features, including a new network mode and automated memory and disk size cleanup.

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Flipboard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Google is integrating its Bard artificial intelligence chatbot with some of its other products, including Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs, as the tech giant tries to keep up with fierce competition and get more people to use its AI tools.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Upgraded laser in California will produce one million X-ray pulses per second to study ultrafast processes at the atomic level. Upgraded laser in California will produce one million X-ray pulses per second to study ultrafast processes at the atomic level.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It seems like anything is possible with generative AI right now. But how will companies profit from those big ideas? Andy Wu breaks down the potentially painful tradeoffs that tech firms might face as artificial intelligence enters its next phase.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We demonstrate that Contrastive Decoding -- a simple, computationally light, and training-free text generation method proposed by Li et al 2022 -- achieves large out-of-the-box improvements over greedy decoding on a variety of reasoning tasks. Originally shown to improve the perceived quality of long-form text generation, Contrastive Decoding searches for strings that maximize a weighted difference in likelihood between strong and weak models.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the Wild West of generative AI, a new, unlikely cowboy is riding into town. LimeWire — once infamous for music piracy and incurring the wrath of the music industry before shutting down — last year pivoted under new owners into the world of content creation.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Western Australia’s Argyle Mine is famous for its rare pink diamonds, and scientists now think they know how these formed: a tectonic collision followed by the breakup of a supercontinent

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Google today is releasing a more capable version of Bard, its generative AI chatbot and ChatGPT rival, which now lets you double-check its answers, collaborate with others, and, notably, integrate with Google’s own apps and services, including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, YouTube, and Google Flights …

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

During the summer of 2003, Swedish pro-culture organization Piratbyrån was making a name for itself; sharing news and educating people on how they could share media online. What the group’s members didn’t realize at the time, is that the plans they made would create a ripple effect that still has an impact decades later. Like many other people mesmerized by the unbridled ability to share files over the Internet, the new BitTorrent protocol caught Piratbyrån’s eye.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Pryon, a startup developing an AI-powered platform to look for insights in — and surface answers from — enterprise knowledge bases, today announced that it raised $100 million in a funding round led by Thomas Tull’s U.S. Innovative Technology Fund.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Predictions over graphs play a crucial role in various domains, including social networks, molecular biology, medicine, and more. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the dominant approach for learning on graph data. Instances of graph labeling problems consist of the graph-structure (i.e., the adjacency matrix), along with node-specific feature vectors.

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Flipboard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Low-code and no-code development platforms have gained significant traction recently, and more so with the rise of artificial intelligence in 2023.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Apple doesn’t operate stores in Cuba; the sale of any Apple product, including iPhones and Macs, is prohibited. Underground Apple technicians are kings.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Seattle AI startup Griptape is led by Kyle Roche, left, and Vasily Vasinov. (LinkedIn Photos) A pair of Amazon alum is raising cash for a new startup that helps enterprises build and deploy secure artificial intelligence applications, preventing company data from slipping through the cracks. Founded earlier this year, Griptape is developing an open-source Python framework and cloud platform.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Huxley was a very special kind of expert witness to his own unusual states of consciousness, which he actively cultivated in the service of his writing.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This post is written in collaboration with Dima Zadorozhny and Fuad Babaev from VirtuSwap. VirtuSwap is a startup company developing innovative technology for decentralized exchange of assets on blockchains. VirtuSwap’s technology provides more efficient trading for assets that don’t have a direct pair between them. The absence of a direct pair leads to costly indirect trading, meaning that two or more trades are required to complete a desired swap, leading to double or triple trading costs.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There’s a certain community in tech that’s very vocal about their preference toward native apps. I share that sentiment, yet sometimes people take this idea too religiously. Unfortunately, the actual choice is about having an app or not, and I'd rather take something over nothing.

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Flipboard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We've all seen that generative AI tools like ChatGPT, or Stable Diffusion can create amazing text and images that very closely resemble those created by humans. But did you know there are many other potential use cases – including incredible things like potentially helping to cure cancer?

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

JPEG-XL is newest image format and Gumlet is first cloud provider to support it. Apple has announced support for the same in upcoming operating systems and Safari.

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FlowingData

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When looking into getting a pet, it’s important to consider life expectancy. You probably don’t want to accidentally sign up for a twenty-year commitment with an impulse adoption at the pet store. That’s a bad deal for you and the animal.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Are you ready to become an 'AI psychologist'? Now is the time to get in on the ground floor of this lucrative new career. Here's how to do it.

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