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Top 12 Data Science Leaders to Follow in 2024

Analytics Vidhya

In the burgeoning realm of data science, the advent of 2024 heralds a pivotal moment as we cast our spotlight on a select cohort of luminaries driving innovation and shaping the future of analytics. The ‘Top 12 Data Science Leaders List’ serves as a beacon, celebrating these individuals’ exceptional expertise, visionary leadership, and substantial contributions […] The post Top 12 Data Science Leaders to Follow in 2024 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Heard on the Street – 12/18/2023

insideBIGDATA

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers 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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Unlocking the Power of Containers: Exploring the Top 20 Docker Containers for Every Development Need

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Docker containers have emerged as indispensable tools in the fast-evolving landscape of software development and deployment, providing a lightweight and efficient way to package, distribute, and run applications. This article delves into the top 20 Docker containers across various categories, showcasing their features, use cases, and contributions to streamlining development workflows.

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Portals For Mortals, How Digital Doorways Became A Work Standard

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

If the use of portals has ever actually come down to Earth, it has been as a term we use to describe a doorway to digital resources.

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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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Predict & Analyze marketing campaign effectiveness with SAP Datasphere and Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

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An effective campaign can help improve a company's revenue by increasing the sales of its products, clearing out more stock, bringing in more.

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5 Use Cases of DALLE-3

KDnuggets

Learn how you can use DALL-E 3 to make your life a little bit easier (or a lot).

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A Hidden Pattern in Children's Eyes Can Reveal if They Have Autism

Flipboard

Deep learning AI models could be used to screen for autism and check on the severity of the condition, according to new research – and all the AI might need is a photo of the subject's retina.

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Carolina chemists discover eight new PFAS with novel testing method

Hacker News

The “forever chemicals” found in the Cape Fear River were detected through a non-targeted testing method developed at UNC-Chapel Hill that broadens researchers’ abilities to identify the hazardous compounds.

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5 ChatGPT Prompts To Master The Art Of Storytelling

Flipboard

A story is a simple and compelling way of communicating information. Stories transcend language and generations to be retold for decades. In your business, stories generate team buy-in and customer loyalty. They make prospects want to buy and journalists want to write about you.

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The Oldest Settlements Were Built by a Culture Nobody Expected

Hacker News

Thousands of years before ancient people in Central Eurasia learned to farm, hunter-gatherer groups in the subarctic were building some of the first permanent, fortified settlements, challenging the notion that agriculture was a prerequisite for societies.

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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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AI Memory Mirrors Human Brain

Flipboard

This innovative research not only propels Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) development but also offers a deeper understanding of the human brain's memory systems.

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Ruby 3.3's YJIT: Faster While Using Less Memory

Hacker News

This year, the YJIT team has been working hard to improve and optimize YJIT. We’re proud to say that the version of YJIT to be included with Ruby 3.3 is leaps and bounds ahead of Ruby 3.2’s. It provides better performance across the board, while also warming up faster and using less memory. The 3.3 release is also more robust, including a number of bug fixes along with an improved test suite.

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Education and Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Path to Transformation

Flipboard

In a world where technology is evolving at an unprecedented pace, education stands on the cusp of transformation. Imagine classrooms where teachers are empowered by cutting-edge technology and where students don't just learn from textbooks but co-create their educational journey. Artificial intelligence resides at the nexus of education and technology, where the opportunities seem limitless, though uncertain.

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In 2024, Intel Hopes to Leapfrog Its Chipmaking Competitors

Hacker News

For the past five years, Intel has lagged behind Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung in advanced chip manufacturing. Now, in an attempt to regain the lead, the company is making a bold—and risky—move, introducing two novel technologies in its desktop and laptop Arrow Lake processor, due out in late 2024. Intel hopes to leapfrog its competitors with new transistor technology and a power-delivery system that would be the first of its kind.

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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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AI’s Billion-Dollar Copyright Battle Starts With a Font Designer

Flipboard

A handful of lawsuits assert the budding AI industry has unfairly vacuumed up the creative work of authors, artists, and programmers to train the chatbots and image generators that will ultimately replace them. At their core sits Matthew Butterick, a Los Angeles typographer and lawyer.

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Transaction Isolation in Postgres

Hacker News

Ever dealt with glitches in a SaaS platform where your actions don't seem to sync up? That's often a transaction isolation issue in databases. Lets talk about transaction isolation and how they work in Postgres, so you can write reliable and performant code with minimal headache.

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AI's Leap in Predicting Life Events - Neuroscience News

Flipboard

Analyzing extensive health and labor market data of 6 million Danes, the life2vec model demonstrates a remarkable ability to predict outcomes like …

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Google's True Moonshot

Hacker News

Google could do more than just win the chatbot war: it is the one company that could make a universal assistant. The question is if the company is willing to risk it all.

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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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Human Cognition Enhanced By AI Use

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A recent study highlights the cognitive benefits of Interlingual Respeaking (IRSP), where language professionals collaborate with speech recognition …

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PostgreSQL 16 Bi-Directional Logical Replication

Hacker News

Introduction In this blog, we’ll be going over some more advanced topics new in Postgres 16. Having some experience with Linux, Postgres, and SQL is necessary as we’ll not only be going over these new features but also how to implement them. This blog was written using PostgreSQL 16 (Development Version) running on Ubuntu 23.04.

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10 Marketing Trends That Will Dominate In 2024

Flipboard

Chief Growth Officer of Tynker, a leading K-12 edtech platform that has helped more than 100 million kids learn to code. The marketing landscape is evolving due to many factors: technological advancements, changing consumer behaviors, regulatory changes and more.

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I Love Ruby

Hacker News

I've done a lot in my career. From working on business support software to big backend systems and even robotics. If there's been a consistent through-line to my career, it's the Ruby programming language.

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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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How To Build Your Own Custom ChatGPT Bot

Flipboard

You can now get even more creative with your ChatGPT creations. There’s something new and powerful for ChatGPT users to play around with: Custom GPTs.

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Python, C, Assembly – Faster Cosine Similarity

Hacker News

In this fourth article of the “Less Slow” series, I’m accelerating Unum’s open-source Vector Search primitives used by some great database and cloud providers to replace Meta’s FAISS and scale-up search in their products. This time, our focus is on the most frequent operation for these tasks - computing the the Cosine Similarity/Distance between two vectors.

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Worried About Political Deepfakes? Beware the Spread of ‘Cheapfakes’

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Generative AI is only one way of creating deceptive and manipulated media—and experts are concerned that not enough attention is paid to “cheapfakes” …

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Internet Archive appeals, says judge Koeltl "misapplied the fair use factors"

Hacker News

In a highly anticipated appeal brief, officials at the Internet Archive argued that district court judge John G. Koeltl misunderstood the facts and misapplied the law in finding that the IA’s scanning and lending of print library books infringed publishers’ copyrights.

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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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Artificial intelligence now capable of creating new AI without human intervention, scientists say

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“Right now, we’re using bigger models to build the smaller models, like a bigger brother helping [its smaller] brother to improve.

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Word2Vec Received 'Strong Reject' Four Times at ICLR2013

Hacker News

We propose two novel model architectures for computing continuous vector representations of words from very large data sets. The quality of these representations is measured in a word similarity.

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2023 was the year of generative AI. What can we expect in 2024?

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Generative AI has changed the ways we work, study and even pray. Here are some highlights of an astonishing year of change – and what we can expect next.

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The Marvin Attack

Hacker News

The Marvin Attack is a return of a timing variant of a 25-year-old vulnerability that allows performing RSA decryption and signing operations with the private key of a TLS server.

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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.