Fri.Oct 13, 2023

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How Can Platform Engineers Thrive in the Age of AI?

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In this contributed article, lead systems and DevOps engineer Manish Sharma discusses how platform engineering is a constantly developing field, and the advent of AI will likely accelerate the pace of change. Engineers can prepare for and adapt to the coming shifts by keeping up to date with developments in AI, including the increasing number of available AI tools and their applications for platform engineering.

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Exploring the Advanced Multi-Modal Generative AI

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In today’s ever-advancing world of technology, there’s an exciting development on the horizon – Advanced Multi-modal Generative AI. This cutting-edge technology is about making computers more innovative and great, creating content and understanding. Imagine a digital assistant that seamlessly works with text, images, and sounds and generates information.

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Rust Burn Library for Deep Learning

KDnuggets

A new deep learning framework built entirely in Rust that aims to balance flexibility, performance, and ease of use for researchers, ML engineers, and developers.

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Implementing Demand Based Hotel Room Pricing in Data Science using MLOps

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction During Covid, the hospitality industry has suffered a massive drop in revenue. So when people are traveling more, getting the customer remains a challenge. We will develop an ML tool to solve this problem to counter this problem and set the fitting room to attract more customers. Using the hotel’s dataset, we will build […] The post Implementing Demand Based Hotel Room Pricing in Data Science using MLOps 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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Exploring Data Mesh: A Paradigm Shift in Data Architecture

KDnuggets

Let’s explore Data Mesh, a modern approach to data architecture that decentralizes data ownership and management.

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Scalable, In-House Quality Measurement with a NCQA-Certified Engine on the Lakehouse

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This blog was written in collaboration with David Roberts (Analytics Engineering Manager), Kevin P. Buchan Jr (Assistant Vice President, Analytics), and Yubin Park.

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Announcing the General Availability of the Databricks SQL Statement Execution API

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Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Databricks SQL Statement Execution API on AWS and Azure, with support for.

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Optic AI or Not reveals the truth: See beyond the pixels

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In a world where artificial intelligence (AI) can weave intricate illusions indistinguishable from reality, the ability to separate fact from fiction has never been more critical. Meet Optic AI or Not, a groundbreaking web service that offers a digital-looking glass into the world of AI-generated imagery. It’s a portal to a realm where algorithms, machine learning, and creativity converge and where the line between human artistry and AI wizardry blurs into a mesmerizing dance of pixels and

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Fasten Your Seatbelt: Falcon 180B is Here!

KDnuggets

Let’s dive into the world’s largest open language model.

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2023 Solar Eclipse – Oct 14

Hacker News

On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America. Visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America, millions of people in the Western Hemisphere can experience this eclipse.

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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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ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken

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The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It’s time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding. The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It’s time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding.

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Takeaways from hundreds of LLM finetuning experiments with LoRA

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LoRA is one of the most widely used, parameter-efficient finetuning techniques for training custom LLMs. From saving memory with QLoRA to selecting the optimal LoRA settings, this article provides practical insights for those interested in applying it.

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How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington

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A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting top AI companies with ties to the network.

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The whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is now online

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The seminal DIY catalogs, journals, and magazines printed by the techno-hippie Whole Earth publishing house are finally available online in digital form, all for free.

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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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Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight

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Ukraine is using drones equipped with artificial intelligence that can identify and attack targets without any human control, in the first battlefield use of autonomous weapons or "killer robots"

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Extinct goat was cold-blooded (2009)

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(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.

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Computers Are Learning to Smell

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AI could revolutionize our understanding of one of the most mysterious human senses. You know the smell of warm, buttered popcorn. A crisp autumn day. The pungent, somewhat sweet scent that precedes rain. But could you begin to describe these aromas in detail? Or compare them?

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Sodium ascorbate treatment for sepsis moves to next phase of human trials

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Promising results from an initial clinical trial show that sodium ascorbate – a pH-balanced formulation of vitamin C – is effective in treating sepsis.

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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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Psychologists use machine learning to unveil unexpected links between positive communication and romantic outcomes

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Research published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy reveals that while positive communication enhances satisfaction in couples, the effects vary based on factors like age and type of communication. Some combinations, surprisingly, can even decrease sexual satisfaction.

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How to cook ground meat perfectly without vision

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Cook ground meat perfectly using these steps to make sure it is not over or under done. Directions are accessible for vision impaired cooks.

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AI in Higher Ed: Using What We Already Know About Good Teaching Practices

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How is AI currently utilized in higher education? As of fall 2023, we are still in the early stages of figuring out what AI integration means for higher ed. In some classrooms, such as my own, we talk about what AI can and can’t do. We look at examples of output from large language models (LLMs) and critique how well it did with the responses. Next semester, my students will spend time working with prompt writing, reflecting on LLM output and reflecting on when knowledge and learning matter vers

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The Quest to Recreate a Lost and 'Terrifying' Medieval Mead

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It starts with a cauldron, an open flame, and a good measure of raw honey. Then—double, double, toil and trouble—stir constantly until the honey spits black.

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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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Global DevSlam returns to unite the leading minds of innovators

Dataconomy

Global DevSlam is back, setting the stage for a unique gathering of tech aficionados from all corners of the world. Supported by Coders HQ—a standout initiative by the UAE government—and the Python Software Foundation, this year’s event is designed to cultivate innovation and foster meaningful connections. Taking place at the bustling Dubai World Trade Center from October 16-20 and co-located with GITEX, Global DevSlam is dedicated to offering a diverse platform that encourages widespread partic

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Connect/Enterprise: Building Products With Generative AI

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If one thing is certain about generative AI, it’s that no one knows exactly how it will play out from a product or user experience perspective. Which interfaces will win out? Which tasks will be augmented by large language models (LLMs), and which ones will be completely upended by them? How will creative AI models change our expectations of what we can do with computers?

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Is your art in AI’s hands? Have I Been Trained reveals the truth

Dataconomy

“Have I Been Trained?” It’s a question that echoes in the minds of artists and creators as they watch the relentless march of generative AI tools. As these AI engines continue to devour vast chunks of web content that we’ve shared online, the nagging feeling that your work might have been unwittingly conscripted for this digital army grows stronger.

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Future of AI and Data Science – How to Secure A Bright Career?

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Gain insight into the future of data science and artificial intelligence to get clarity of both the fields that help you make career in data science and AI.

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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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Large Language Models Are Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasters

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By encoding time series as a string of numerical digits, we can frame time series forecasting as next-token prediction in text. Developing this approach, we find that large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and LLaMA-2 can surprisingly zero-shot extrapolate time series at a level comparable to or exceeding the performance of purpose-built time series models trained on the downstream tasks.

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32 of the best Harvard University courses you can take for free

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Find free courses on Python programming, AI, JavaScript, and more without spending anything. TL;DR: A wide range of free online courses from Harvard University are available to take on edX.

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Text embeddings reveal almost as much as text

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How much private information do text embeddings reveal about the original text? We investigate the problem of embedding textit{inversion}, reconstructing the full text represented in dense text embeddings. We frame the problem as controlled generation: generating text that, when reembedded, is close to a fixed point in latent space. We find that although a naïve model conditioned on the embedding performs poorly, a multi-step method that iteratively corrects and re-embeds text is able to recover

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X is not showing tweets at the moment, is X down?

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Right now, X is not showing tweets, and people who are affected have taken the matter to other social media channels. The DownDetector page of X showed reports of the application going down, and here is what we know about it! On a recent Friday afternoon, X users, previously known as Twitter users, encountered a series of issues with the social media platform.

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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.