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Why AWS Gave OpenSearch To The Linux Foundation

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

AWS has transitioned OpenSearch under the Linux Foundation and so led to the creation of the OpenSearch Software Foundation.

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Misty: UI Prototyping Through Interactive Conceptual Blending

Machine Learning Research at Apple

UI prototyping often involves iterating and blending elements from examples such as screenshots and sketches, but current tools offer limited support for incorporating these examples. Inspired by the cognitive process of conceptual blending, we introduce a novel UI workflow that allows developers to rapidly incorporate diverse aspects from design examples into work-in-progress UIs.

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Navigating Missing Data Challenges with XGBoost

Machine Learning Mastery

XGBoost has gained widespread recognition for its impressive performance in numerous Kaggle competitions, making it a favored choice for tackling complex machine learning challenges. Known for its efficiency in handling large datasets, this powerful algorithm stands out for its practicality and effectiveness. In this post, we will apply XGBoost to the Ames Housing dataset to […] The post Navigating Missing Data Challenges with XGBoost appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.

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The world knows Wim Hof as "The Iceman", his family suffered domestic violence

Hacker News

While Wim Hof was becoming one of the most famous health gurus in the world, his family at the time had to endure his physical and mental aggressiveness. Now that a movie about his life is in the making, his ex, their son, and her other children speak out.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Generalizable Error Modeling for Human Data Annotation: Evidence from an Industry-Scale Search Data Annotation Program

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems rely heavily on human-annotated data for training and evaluation. A major challenge in this context is the occurrence of annotation errors, as their effects can degrade model performance. This paper presents a predictive error model trained to detect potential errors in search relevance annotation tasks for three industry-scale ML applications (music streaming, video streaming, and mobile apps).

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FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Control

Hacker News

A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report confirms what EFF has been warning about for years: tech giants are widely harvesting and sharing your personal information to fuel their online behavioral advertising businesses.

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The Vagus Nerve's Crucial Role in Creating the Human Sense of Mind

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Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure, and fear.

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LLaMA 3.2 Vision: Revolutionizing Multimodal AI with Advanced Visual Reasoning — Now LLaMA Can See

Towards AI

Author(s): Md Monsur ali Originally published on Towards AI. Discover How LLaMA 3.2 Vision Integrates Advanced Visual Perception and Text Processing for Powerful Image Understanding and AI-driven Document Analysis This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. 👨🏾‍💻 GitHub ⭐️ | 👔LinkedIn |📝 Medium Image by Author The AI landscape has been rapidly evolving, with the growing emphasis on multimodal AI — the ability for models t

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Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture

Hacker News

I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.

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Bayesian Methods: From Theory to Real-World Applications

Towards AI

Last Updated on September 30, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Shenggang Li Originally published on Towards AI. A Practical Guide to Using Bayesian Techniques in A/B Testing and Uplift Modeling This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Mike Hindle on Unsplash The Bayesian approach is commonly applied in fields such as finance, marketing, and medicine.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.

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Why TCP needs 3 handshakes

Hacker News

Prerequisite KnowledgeFirst, let's look at the control bits and state machine of TCP, which form the basis for understanding the three-way handshake of TCP.

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Getting to Know AutoGen(Part2): How AI Agents Work Together

Towards AI

Last Updated on September 30, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Anushka sonawane Originally published on Towards AI. Credits In Part 1, we went over the basics — what AI agents are, how they work, and why having multiple agents can really make a difference. That was just an introduction, setting the stage for what’s next. Now, it’s time to take things up a level!

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US East and Gulf Coast Ports Face Shutdown as Union Announces Intent to Strike

Hacker News

Upcoming east coast port strike: ILA announces plans for a widespread strike at Atlantic and Gulf ports, impacting trade and supply chains.

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More Organizations Use AI to Manage Documents

Smart Data Collective

AI technology is making it easier than ever to manage documents.

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Building Your BI Strategy: How to Choose a Solution That Scales and Delivers

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve

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SteamOS is built on top of Arch, and Valve is now providing a build service infrastructure and secure signing enclave for Arch.

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How to Optimize Document Processing Through OCR Machine Learning Technologies

How to Learn Machine Learning

Hello deader! In this article we will speak about OCR Machine Learning technologies and how to hypercharge your documment processing using them. So sit back, relax, and enjoy! Introduction to OCR Machine Learning Tech Manually processing paperwork is slow and prone to mistakes. It takes up valuable time that could be better spent on more important tasks.

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Students Paid Thousands for a Caltech Boot Camp. Caltech Didn't Teach It

Hacker News

Hundreds of universities have lent their names to online programs, plugging budgets but alienating students who feel misled.

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What is PEAS in Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Pickl AI

Summary: The PEAS framework in Artifical Intelligence—Performance Measure, Environment, Actuators, and Sensors—defines how AI systems interact with their environment, set goals, and take action. It guides developers in creating adaptive, efficient AI solutions that enhance performance across applications like autonomous vehicles and game-playing systems.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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Floating megabomb heaves to near the English coast

Hacker News

The MV Ruby, a ship carrying a highly explosive Russian cargo, is damaged and looking for a port. The threat is clear.

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U-Net Paper Workthrough

Towards AI

Last Updated on September 29, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Fatma Elik Originally published on Towards AI. Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation Document Explanation in Detail This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Venti Views on Unsplash Convolutional networks have been around for a long time, but their performance has been limited by the size of the available training sets and the size of the networks under consideration.

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A Taxonomy of Tech Debt

Hacker News

What’s it like to be a part of Riot Tech? Explore everything from titles and personal development to tech challenges and philosophies.

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NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective

Hacker News

Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google’s NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Kris Kristofferson has died

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Kris Kristofferson, the revered songwriter whose poetic lyrics transcended genre, has died at age 88.

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Avoiding downtime: modern alternatives to outdated certificate pinning practices

Hacker News

The number of outages caused by certificate pinning is increasing. We’ll explore why certificate pinning hasn’t kept up with modern standards and recommend alternatives to improve security while reducing management overhead.

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Solving 100 Bushels Using Matrix Factorization

Hacker News

Nina Zumel shared a good solution to the 100 Bushels of Corn puzzle. The puzzle is: 100 bushes of corn are distributed to 100 people such that every man receives 3 bushels, every woman 2 bushels, and every child 1/2 a bushel. How many men, women, and children are there?

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Why I Write My Own Obituary Every Year

Hacker News

It’s not as maudlin as it might seem. If you take a few minutes to try it, you might find the same.

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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In the land of LLMs, can we do better mock data generation?

Hacker News

"Lorem ipsum is latin, slightly jumbled, the remnants of a passage from Cicero's _de Finibus_ 1.10.32, which begins 'Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit.' [There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain.].

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End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down

Hacker News

UK’s 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ends as turbines at Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stop for good Britain’s only remaining coal power plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire will generate electricity for the last time on Monday after powering the UK for 57 years. The power plant will come to the end of its life in line with the government’s world-leading policy to phase out coal power which was first signalled almost a decade ago.

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Web Components Are Okay

Hacker News

Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights tiresome, but I also see them as a good opportunity to reach across "the great divide" and try to find common ground rather than another opportunity to dunk on each other.

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Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement

Hacker News

How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.