insideBIGDATA

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Above the Trend Line: your industry rumor central is a recurring feature of insideBIGDATA. In this column, we present a variety of short time-critical news items grouped by category such as M&A activity, people movements, funding news, financial results, industry alignments, customer wins, rumors and general scuttlebutt floating around the big data, data science and machine learning industries including behind-the-scenes anecdotes and curious buzz.

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Machine Learning Mastery

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At the very start of your machine learning journey, making use of publicly available datasets alleviates the worry of having to create the datasets yourself, and rather lets you focus on learning to use the machine learning algorithms. It also helps if the datasets are moderately sized and do not require too much pre-processing, to […] The post Image Datasets for Practicing Machine Learning in OpenCV appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.

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Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Light-based photonics rather than silicon & electricity, photonics can give us 125 times more transmission capacity than silicon and it is 100x more power efficient

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Read on to find out everything you need to become a SAS Certified Machine Learning Engineer.

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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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Data Science Dojo

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Losing a job is never easy, but for those in the tech industry, the impact of layoffs can be especially devastating. According to data from Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks tech layoffs, there were over 240,000 tech layoffs globally in 2023. This is a 50% increase from 2022. With the rapidly changing landscape of technology, companies are constantly restructuring and adapting to stay competitive, often resulting in job losses for employees.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Perry Johnson & Associates (PJ&A), a trusted transcription services provider, filed a notice of a data breach that extends its tendrils across multiple companies, with Northwell Health emerging as a prominent victim. The breach, discovered on May 2, 2023, unraveled a disconcerting narrative of unauthorized access to sensitive data, encompassing the personal and medical details of countless individuals.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I recently blogged about why I believe the future of cloud data services is large-scale and multi-tenant, citing, among others, S3. “Top tier SaaS services like S3 are able to deliver amazing simplicity, reliability, durability, scalability, and low price because their technologies are structurally oriented to deliver those things. Serving customers over large resource pools provides unparalleled efficiency and reliability at scale.

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Flipboard

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In its plans to implement a White House executive order, CISA aims to strike a balance between promoting AI adoption for national security and defending against its malicious use.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

vivym/midjourney-messages on Hugging Face is a large (~8GB) dataset consisting of 55,082,563 Midjourney images - each one with the prompt and a URL to the image hosted on Discord.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

AI image generator Stable Diffusion already has a lot of fans, and now those experimenting with the new AI technology to develop their own models have a place to share their work with other enthusiasts.

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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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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Two months ago, we announced our intention to create a non-profit organization to help fund and secure the future of the MonoGame framework as an open-source initiative. Today, we are pleased to announce that the MonoGame Foundation is officially in business and has applied for non-profit status (which is pending validation). The MonoGame Foundation’s goal is to bolster the development of the MonoGame framework by voting and funding initiatives to strengthen or expand the open-source project.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A new AI model from Google DeepMind is the world’s most accurate 10-day global weather forecasting system, according to the London-based lab. Named GraphCast, the model promises medium-range weather forecasts of “unprecedented accuracy.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The system uses Martian materials to produce catalysts that release oxygen from water. The system uses Martian materials to produce catalysts that release oxygen from water.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Artificial intelligence can analyze speech patterns to detect type 2 diabetes with astonishing accuracy. The method could prove to be a useful diagnostic tool. But it comes with a warning label.

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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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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While all non-compliant DMCA takedown notices are invalid by default, there’s a huge difference between those sent in error and others crafted for purely malicious purposes. Bogus DMCA takedown notices are nothing new, but the rise of organized groups using malicious DMCA notices as a business tool has been apparent in recent years. Since the vast majority of culprits facing zero consequences, that may have acted as motivation to send more.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Fine-tuning large language models (LLM) has become an important tool for businesses seeking to tailor AI capabilities to niche tasks and personalized user experiences.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s since embarked on a project to bring this forgotten music back.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The introduction of file uploading in ChatGPT Plus is creating some unfortunate future problems. Thanks to new ChatGPT updates like the Code Interpreter, OpenAI's popular generative artificial intelligence is rife with more security concerns.

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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.

Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Scientists in Hong Kong have demonstrated a new ultra-white ceramic material that can drastically cool buildings by reflecting sunlight and heat at record highs. The beetle-inspired material gets its ability from its nanostructure, stays tough to the elements and should be relatively easy to scale up for production.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Which countries are the global innovation powerhouses? In many ways, the past year has represented an inflection point in technological advancement.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This year, the YJIT team and I have gotten a paper accepted at MPLR 2023 (Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes), which is now freely available through ACM open access. The paper, titled “Evaluating YJIT’s Performance in a Production Context: A Pragmatic Approach”, goes into details of the strategy taken to evaluate YJIT’s performance in a production context.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The early stages of the venture-backed startup life cycle can be daunting. There is immense pressure to deliver a viable product, land meetings with investors, and secure the necessary funding to keep going — all at breakneck speed.

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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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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A lot of damage can be seen around Grindavík after the earthquakes and the formation of a deformation that is moving downwards towards the magma intrusion that is underneath the ground. This depression formation is now estimated to be over 1.2 meters in the northwest end of Grindavík.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Biggest Questions is a mini-series that explores how technology is helping probe some of the deepest, most mind-bending questions of our …

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The device, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, could be useful in resource-limited or off-grid environments, since it works with any open water source and does not require any

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Opinion | “Whoever leads in AI will rule the world,” President Vladimir Putin declared at an address commencing the 2017 Russian school year.

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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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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The field of Computer Science is headed for a major upheaval with the rise of large AI models, such as ChatGPT, that are capable of performing general-purpos.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Generative AI has overtaken the business world at breathtaking speed, and it can be overwhelming to know how to start integrating it into your work. These tech experts have answers. As generative AI sweeps the culture, entrepreneurs have been racing to seize market opportunities.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While a menu from Titanic goes up for auction, a chef is paying homage to Maryland fried chicken, a dish served on the ocean liner's fateful last day, at his New York City pop-up.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

According to Kathleen Hogan, Chief People Officer at Microsoft, AI will have a greater impact how we work than the PC. AI is the defining technology of our time, creating a massive paradigm shift that will transform the way we work with even greater impact than the introduction of the PC.

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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.

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