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Heard on the Street – 8/21/2024

insideBIGDATA

Welcome to insideAI News’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column. In this feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the AI industry ecosystem. We cover 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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Is Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs) Inevitable?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction You’ve probably interacted with AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for various tasks – answering questions, generating creative content, or assisting with research. But did you know these are examples of large language models (LLMs)? These powerful AI systems are trained on enormous text datasets, enabling them to understand and produce text that […] The post Is Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs) Inevitable?

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Cleaning and Preprocessing Text Data in Pandas for NLP Tasks

KDnuggets

A step-by-step guide to getting your raw text data nice and ready for Language Models and other NLP use cases!

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How to Build an AI Agent using Llama Index and MonsterAPI?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction AI agents are the future and they can be the driving force to the future. They are the future and they can be the driving force to the future. AI agents are becoming increasingly integral to AI’s growth and new technological advancements. They are applications that mirror human-like attributes to interact, reason, and even […] The post How to Build an AI Agent using Llama Index and MonsterAPI?

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Degree or Certificate? Which Credential Do Employers Value More?

KDnuggets

What you really need to succeed in 2024s job market.

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7 Ways to Train LLMs Without Human Intervention

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Think about a society that knows, evolves and works well without human interaction, as children who do not need a tutor to pass an exam. While this sounds like a scene from a Transformers movie, it is the vision of the future of the machine’s learning process that artificial intelligence brings to us. Large […] The post 7 Ways to Train LLMs Without Human Intervention appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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7 AI PPT Makers For Your Next Office Presentation

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction You might be in your final year of college, striving to make your capstone project stand out, or a working professional navigating the demands of daily meetings and client presentations. In both scenarios, you understand how crucial a strong first impression is, whether it’s in a professional setting or a personal encounter. A well-designed […] The post 7 AI PPT Makers For Your Next Office Presentation appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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How to Apply Padding to Arrays with NumPy

KDnuggets

In this article, you will learn how to apply padding to arrays with NumPy, as well as the different types of padding and best practices when using NumPy to pad arrays.

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An Age of Hyperabundance

Hacker News

Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversation: on a Hinge date, doomed but persisting as a form of protocol. At a publishing party, surrounded by people who look and talk like me, all of us a little drunk but maintaining our nervous, manic professionalism.

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It’s Not Easy Being Green (Coders)

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

Implementing these key green coding concepts will have varying levels of impact, which can be amplified by the scale at which they are adopted.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains

Hacker News

Rising global concentrations of environmental micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) drive concerns for human exposure and health outcomes.

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Analyze customer reviews using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Customer reviews can reveal customer experiences with a product and serve as an invaluable source of information to the product teams. By continually monitoring these reviews over time, businesses can recognize changes in customer perceptions and uncover areas of improvement. Analyzing these reviews to extract actionable insights enables data-driven decisions that can enhance customer experience and reduce churn.

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Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes

Hacker News

For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals otherwise.

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Is AI Coming For Coders’ Jobs? It’s Much More Interesting Than That

MoorInsights for Forbes

AI is already having an impact on the workflows of some coders, but it's a long way from replacing humans for software development.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Webtoon Targets 170+ Pirate Domains Through DMCA Subpoena

Hacker News

Launched two decades ago, Webtoon Entertainment has established itself as one of the prime hosting platforms for short digital comics. Partly owned by the South Korean company Naver , Webtoon rode the popular ‘webtoon’ wave all the way to the Nasdaq exchange, where it got a listing this summer. With millions of creators on board, and roughly 170 million active monthly users, the webtoon company is seen as a growth story.

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Classifier-Free Guidance Is a Predictor-Corrector

Machine Learning Research at Apple

We investigate the unreasonable effectiveness of classifier-free guidance (CFG). CFG is the dominant method of conditional sampling for text-to-image diffusion models, yet unlike other aspects of diffusion, it remains on shaky theoretical footing. In this paper, we disprove common misconceptions, by showing that CFG interacts differently with DDPM and DDIM, and neither sampler with CFG generates the gamma-powered distribution.

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Google's 'Reimagine' tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to photos

Hacker News

What is a photo, etc., etc.

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PsiQuantum Is Closing In On Fault-Tolerance And A Million Qubits

MoorInsights for Forbes

PsiQuantum will be the main tenant of a newly announced quantum campus in Illinois, where it will pursue its goal to create a fault-tolerant million-qubit computer.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs

Hacker News

The update wasn’t supposed to reach dual-boot PCs.

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Unlock the power of data governance and no-code machine learning with Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon DataZone

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it quick and convenient to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored in AWS, on-premises, and third-party sources. Amazon DataZone allows you to create and manage data zones , which are virtual data lakes that store and process your data, without the need for extensive coding or infrastructure management.

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How to Build a 50k Ton Forging Press

Hacker News

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a revolution took place in American military aircraft design.

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Elevate healthcare interaction and documentation with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Transcribe using Live Meeting Assistant

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Today, physicians spend about 49% of their workday documenting clinical visits, which impacts physician productivity and patient care. Did you know that for every eight hours that office-based physicians have scheduled with patients, they spend more than five hours in the EHR ? As a consequence, healthcare practitioners exhibit a pronounced inclination towards conversational intelligence solutions, wherein the doctor-patient dialogue is automatically transcribed during consultations and subseque

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years

Hacker News

Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas failed after CEO Shan Hanes caused $47 million in wire transfers to be sent to scammers running a pig butchering scheme.

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Enhance call center efficiency using batch inference for transcript summarization with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Today, we are excited to announce general availability of batch inference for Amazon Bedrock. This new feature enables organizations to process large volumes of data when interacting with foundation models (FMs), addressing a critical need in various industries, including call center operations. Call center transcript summarization has become an essential task for businesses seeking to extract valuable insights from customer interactions.

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Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in Android apps

Hacker News

The Google Play Security Reward Program is being discontinued. It encouraged researchers to find vulnerabilities in popular Android apps.

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Superblocks, an urban planning compromise for cars and pedestrians

FlowingData

Living in city centers with little space to spend time outside and a lot of space for cars is not ideal. However, the elimination of roads for cars to drive on is also usually not ideal. Superblocks, as Amanda Shendruk for the Washington Post illustrates, is an urban planning compromise that gives way to pedestrians in the center and cars around the perimeter.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux

Hacker News

Today marks 6 years since Valve decided to change everything, especially for Linux fans, with the announcement of Steam Play Proton. Thanks to it, the Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming have continued to thrive.

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HP Z Captis — Bringing The World’s Materials To Digital Life

MoorInsights for Forbes

After five years of development, HP has launched the HP Z Captis, which captures real-world textures in high resolution for use in virtual environments.

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I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

Hacker News

How I learned the old truth that when building a software product and selling it to people, "building" is just the beginning. And often, it's the easiest part.

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How to use Luma AI for free and best alternatives worth trying

Dataconomy

Luma AI offers some of the best free tools in the growing world of AI-powered video creation. The AI video generation business is booming, with a multitude of players entering the market, each vying for attention with their innovative solutions. As competition heats up, many companies are offering free demos, allowing users to explore their capabilities before committing to a subscription.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?