October, 2023

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9 key probability distributions in data science: Easy explanation

Data Science Dojo

In the realm of data science, understanding probability distributions is crucial. They provide a mathematical framework for modeling and analyzing data. Understand the applications of probability in data science with this blog. 9 probability distributions in data science – Data Science Dojo Explore probability distributions in data science with practical applications This blog explores nine important data science distributions and their practical applications. 1.

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Three Next-Generation Data Architectures: How Cloud, Mesh, and Data Fabrics Impact your AI Deployments

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In this contributed article, Mohan Rajagopalan, vice president and general manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, discusses how the ideal solution to siloed data is implementing a single data plane across a business. This unified system allows enterprises to realize the grand vision they have been promised: One where data from all sources and apps can be used together for the benefit of the business.

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5 Free Books to Master Machine Learning

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Machine Learning is one of the most exciting fields in computer science today. In this article, we will take a look at the five best yet free books to learn machine learning in 2023.

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LLM Inference Performance Engineering: Best Practices

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In this blog post, the MosaicML engineering team shares best practices for how to capitalize on popular open source large language models (LLMs).

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model ; a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Life After “Calvin and Hobbes”

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Bill Watterson’s return to print, after nearly three decades, comes in the form of a fable called “The Mysteries,” which shares with his famous comic strip a sense of enchantment.

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Biden issues sweeping executive order on AI

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President Biden issued a highly anticipated, sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) on Monday, focused on seizing on the emerging technology and managing its risks. The order includes several new actions, which focus on areas like safety, privacy, protecting workers, and protecting innovation.

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A glimpse of the next generation of AlphaFold

DeepMind

Progress update: Our latest AlphaFold model shows significantly improved accuracy and expands coverage beyond proteins to other biological molecules, including ligands.

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Atom Computing Announces Record-Breaking 1,225-Qubit Quantum Computer

MoorInsights for Forbes

Vice President of AI & Quantum Computing, Paul Smith-Goodson shares his thoughts on Atom Computing's new second-generation 1,225-qubit neutral atom quantum computer.

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Announcing MLflow 2.8 LLM-as-a-judge metrics and Best Practices for LLM Evaluation of RAG Applications, Part 2

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Today we're excited to announce MLflow 2.8 supports our LLM-as-a-judge metrics which can help save time and costs while providing an approximation of.

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Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off

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Songtradr, which has acquired Bandcamp from Epic Games, said it did not have union membership information, but Songtradr’s CEO invited the bargaining team to a meeting last week.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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White House drops an AI regulation bombshell: 10 new mandates that'll shake up the industry

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Open AI, Google, Microsoft, and other prominent AI players must answer to the new AI legislation. The White House just announced a thunderous executive order tackling AI regulation.

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Use AWS PrivateLink to set up private access to Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service provided by AWS that offers developers access to foundation models (FMs) and the tools to customize them for specific applications. It allows developers to build and scale generative AI applications using FMs through an API, without managing infrastructure. You can choose from various FMs from Amazon and leading AI startups such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, and Stability AI to find the model that’s best suited for your use case.

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Most Common Causes of Death, by Age

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This is how the most common causes have changed over time for people aged 0 to 85.

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XaaS Delivers The Last Mile Of Digital Transformation

MoorInsights for Forbes

VP & Principal Analyst, Datacenter Compute, Matt Kimball, dives into the last mile of digital transformation, what he calls digital reinvention.

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Changing the Game with MES: Cut Costs, Drive Efficiency, & Achieve Sustainability Goals!

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

In an era where efficiency is king, are you leveraging the right tools to transform your manufacturing processes? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is critical for enhancing operational efficiency, reducing waste, and optimizing energy usage—key factors for improving your bottom line and lowering your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, a manufacturing technology expert with 18+ years of hands-on experience, in this new webinar as he uncovers the secrets of MES and how to best utilize thes

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Training LLMs at Scale with AMD MI250 GPUs

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Introduction Four months ago, we shared how AMD had emerged as a capable platform for generative AI and demonstrated how to easily and.

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Genetics firm 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack

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23andMe has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes the leak to a credential-stuffing attack. [.

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Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape

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The White House is poised to make an all-hands effort to impose national rules on a fast-moving technology, according to a draft executive order President Joe Biden will deploy numerous federal agencies to monitor the risks of artificial intelligence and develop new uses for the technology while …

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Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU

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Det europeiske personvernrådet har nå bestemt at det norske forbudet mot adferdsbasert markedsføring på Facebook og Instagram skal bli permanent og utvides til å gjelde hele EU/EØS.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals, US says

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Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers' funding mechanism, a senior White House official said on Tuesday.

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Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding

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Jina AI introduces jina-embeddings-v2, the world's first open-source model boasting an 8K context length. Matching the prowess of OpenAI's proprietary models, this innovation is now publicly accessible on Huggingface, signaling a significant milestone in the landscape of text embeddings.

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AI 'breakthrough': neural net has human-like ability to generalize language

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A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence. A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence.

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California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

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California on Tuesday ordered General Motors' Cruise unit to remove its driverless cars from state roads, calling the vehicles a risk to the public and saying the company had "misrepresented" the safety of the technology.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.

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Drought in Brazil's Amazon reveals ancient engravings

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An extreme drought in parts of the Amazon has led to a dramatic drop in river water levels, exposing dozens of usually submerged rock formations with carvings of human forms that may date back some 2,000 years.

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Rivian R1T is the first EV to win the longest off-road competition in the US

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Motorsports and off-road competition isn’t the typical fodder over here at TechCrunch — unless, of course, there also happens to be a podium-winning team driving an all-electric 2023 Rivian R1T. The Rebelle Rally, the longest off-road map-and-compass rally in the United States, wrapped up Friday evening with a new EV milestone under its belt. This […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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F-Droid: Android FOSS app store

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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors’ notes and analyze health records, a new study led by Stanford School of Medicine researchers cautions that popular chatbots are perpetuating racist, debunked medical ideas, prompting …

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.

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EPA fast-tracking of gene-altering pesticide sparks concerns

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By Shannon Kelleher US regulators are fast-tracking a novel, gene-altering insecticide in an unusual move that would greenlight the product for three years of commercial use before a standard testing period is completed. Calantha, a product of the company GreenLight Biosciences, contains the active ingredient ledprona, which uses a mechanism called RNA interference (RNAi) to kill the Colorado potato beetle, a notorious pest, by turning off genes it needs to survive.

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A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely

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Thirty years ago, astronomer Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn a passing space probe’s instruments on Earth to look for life — with results that still reverberate today. Thirty years ago, astronomer Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn a passing space probe’s instruments on Earth to look for life — with results that still reverberate today.

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Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring

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Shor’s algorithm will enable future quantum computers to factor large numbers quickly, undermining many online security protocols. Now a researcher has shown how to do it even faster.

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Microsoft's new AI assistant can go to meetings for you

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A ChatGPT-style AI assistant, developed by Microsoft and embedded into its office apps, will become available to all from 1 November, following trials. Microsoft 365 Copilot can summarise meetings held in Teams for anyone who chooses not to attend.

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.