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The Synergy of AI and Cloud Transformation in the Payment Sector: Advancing Security, Scalability, and Innovation

insideBIGDATA

In this contributed article, technical leader Kamala Manju Kesavan discusses how AI and cloud computing research in the payment industry sheds light on a prosperous arena of inventions and transformation. In the near future, the payment sector will probably welcome advanced technologies such as blockchain, biometric authentication, and AI-powered solutions, which will lead to transactions that will be more secure, rapid, and user-friendly.

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Salesforce BLIP: Revolutionizing Image Captioning

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Image captioning is another exciting innovation in artificial intelligence and its contribution to computer vision. Salesforce’s new tool, BLIP, is a great leap. This image captioning AI model provides a great deal of interpretation through its working process. Bootstrapping Language-image Pretraining (BLIP) is a technology that generates captions from images with a high level […] The post Salesforce BLIP: Revolutionizing Image Captioning appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Overcoming 12 Challenges in Building Production-Ready RAG-based LLM Applications

Data Science Dojo

Large Language Models are growing smarter, transforming how we interact with technology. Yet, they stumble over a significant quality i.e. accuracy. Often, they provide unreliable information or guess answers to questions they don’t understand—guesses that can be completely wrong. Read more This issue is a major concern for enterprises looking to leverage LLMs.

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X-CLIP: Advancing Video Recognition with Language-Image Pretraining

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Video recognition is a cornerstone of modern computer vision, enabling machines to understand and interpret visual content in videos. With the rapid evolution of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers, significant strides have been made in enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of video recognition systems. However, traditional approaches are often constrained by closed-set learning […] The post X-CLIP: Advancing Video Recognition with Language-Image Pretraining

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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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Announcing the General Availability of Databricks Notebooks on SQL Warehouses

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Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Databricks Notebooks on SQL warehouses. Databricks SQL warehouses are SQL-optimized compute that provide.

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10 GitHub Repositories to Master MLOps

KDnuggets

Begin your MLOps journey with these comprehensive free resources available on GitHub.

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Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps

Hacker News

The researchers hit a rate of 301 terabits per second — equivalent to transferring 1,800 4K movies over the internet in one second — using existing fiber-optic cables.

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World Backup Day Is So 2023 – How About World Data Resilience Day?

Dataversity

Instead of celebrating World Backup Day 2024 for accomplishing another year of successful backups, I recommend using it to look forward to a year of testing recovery. Instead of starting data protection strategies by planning backups, organizations should flip their mindset and start by planning recovery: What data needs to be recovered first? What systems […] The post World Backup Day Is So 2023 – How About World Data Resilience Day?

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Scientists Put Tardigrade Proteins into Human Cells. Here's What Happened

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Freeze 'em, heat 'em, blast them into empty space; with survival skills unlike any other organism on the planet, those hardy critters known as tardigrades will only come back for more.

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Mapping NBA basketball shots

FlowingData

Alasdair Rae outlines the basics of visualizing basketball shot data with QGIS , an open-source software package typically used for geographic maps. Even if you’re not into basketball, sports data can be fun to poke at because it’s comprehensive and usually covers a good range of time and categories.

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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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Engineers find a new way to convert carbon dioxide into useful products

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MIT chemical engineers devised an efficient way to convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, which can be used to generate useful compounds such as ethanol and other fuels.

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Provide live agent assistance for your chatbot users with Amazon Lex and Talkdesk cloud contact center

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon Lex provides advanced conversational artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to enable self-service support for your organization’s contact center. With Amazon Lex, you can implement an omnichannel strategy where customers engage via phone, websites, and messaging platforms. The bots can answer FAQs, provide self-service experiences, or triage customer requests before transferring to a human agent.

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Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Local residents who at first suspected gold or uranium deposits had been found are being won over by the initiative to protect nature and economically develop the areas involved

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Best Free AI SQL Large Model of 2024

Towards AI

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Meng Li Originally published on Towards AI. Best AI SQL Query Tools Want to quickly get answers from your database? The Vanna framework makes this simple. It’s an open-source tool that helps you generate SQL to let the data speak for itself. [link] Vanna has three modes to suit different needs.

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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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Santa Barbara's Collective Memory, Sold for Kindling

Hacker News

The digital archive of the 'Santa Barbara News-Press' is poised for sale to a murky foreign firm likely to destroy it for data to feed online search algorithms. Will we step up to save our history?

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Integrating AI into Asset Performance Management: It’s all about the data

IBM Journey to AI blog

Imagine a future where artificial intelligence (AI) seamlessly collaborates with existing supply chain solutions, redefining how organizations manage their assets. If you’re currently using traditional AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation, aren’t you already getting deep insights into asset performance? Undoubtedly. But what if you could optimize even further?

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The roller ship was not an effective way to cross the high seas

Hacker News

Boats come in all shapes and sizes. We have container ships, oil tankers, old-timey wooden sailing ships, catamarans, trimarans, and all sorts besides. Most are designed with features that give them a.

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Designing Responsible AI Solutions

Towards AI

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Dr Richard Matthews – Chief AI Officer RHEM Labs Originally published on Towards AI. Microsoft’s 6 responsible AI Principles that we use at RHEM Labs Top highlight At RHEM Labs, we run on trust, and we’re committed to building using the latest responsible AI solutions and guidelines to provide our partners and customers with secure platforms for business and data.

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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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Maersk names first vessel of its large methanol-enabled fleet "Ane Maersk"

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The world’s first large methanol-enabled container vessel has been named "Ane Mærsk" at a ceremony in the shipyard of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HD HHI) in Ulsan, South Korea.

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Insights from a Computer Science Conference: DATE 2024

Towards AI

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Federico Peccia Originally published on Towards AI. Top highlight In the last week of March, I attended the Design, Automation, and Test in Europe 2024 Conference. This academic conference is focused on techniques and methods for designing better electronic systems. It covers a wide range of topics, from optimizing Neural Networks for a particular hardware platform to new fabrication methods for building new hardware for AI applications

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EEG channels with low-cost PiEEG device

Hacker News

Brain-computer interface is PiEEG This project is the result of several years of work on the development of Brain-computer interface (BCI) for measure EEG, EMG and EKG. We want to provide an easy way to get started with biosignals to use a shield.

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Artificial General Intelligence Or AGI: A Very Short History

Gil Press for Forbes

The term AGI was coined in 2007 when a collection of essays on the subject was published.

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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 Stability AI’s founder tanked his billion-dollar startup

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Unpaid bills, bungled contracts and a disastrous meeting with Nvidia's kingmaker CEO. Inside the stunning downfall of Emad Mostaque.

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How I Use Custom GPT Builder For My Data Storytelling Workshops

Towards AI

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): John Loewen, PhD Originally published on Towards AI. Organizing CSV files and custom rules into a shared GPTDall-E image: highlighting the importance of innovative thinking in addressing worldwide issues. With all of the recent additions to OpenAI’s flagship ChatGPT Plus tool, I have been looking at how to take advantage of its new functionality.

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Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab

Hacker News

First, they build programs with open source. Then they build their business with open source. Then they abandon it and cash out.

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Create a lasting customer retention strategy

IBM Journey to AI blog

Customer retention must be a top priority for leaders of any company wanting to remain competitive. An effective customer retention strategy should support the company to maintain a healthy stable of loyal customers and bring in new customers. Generating repeat business is critical: McKinsey’s report on customer acquisition states (link resides outside of ibm.com) that companies need to acquire three new customers to make up the business value of losing one existing customer.

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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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James Webb Telescope Confirms That the Universe Is Expanding at Different Speeds

Hacker News

Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm that the universe appears to be expanding at different speeds.

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Improving Our Agility

SAS Software

SAS SVP Kimberly May provides an update about the new Support Operating Model. The post Improving Our Agility appeared first on SAS Blogs.

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History of JavaScript Interop in Dart

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Support for Wasm just landed in the current Flutter beta, thanks to an exciting JavaScript interop milestone reached in Dart 3.3.

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Developing Credit Scoring Models for Banking and Beyond

ODSC - Open Data Science

Editor’s note: Aric LaBarr is a speaker for ODSC East this April 23–25. Be sure to check out his talk, “ Developing Credit Scoring Models for Banking and Beyond ,” there! The interpretability of machine learning models is paramount in many industries. From credit-worthiness to insurance claims, and anti-money laundering to readmittance to a hospital, getting end-users to understand the output of analytical models can be a challenge.

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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.