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How Big Data Assists in Disaster Relief and Preparedness

Dataconomy

Disasters are dangerous, but Big Data can help improve disaster relief and preparedness to cut back on lives lost and community damage. Historically, public policies have proved ineffective in providing adequate help for disaster-stricken citizens. A year after hurricane Harvey in 2017, for example, residents are still in the midst. The post How Big Data Assists in Disaster Relief and Preparedness appeared first on Dataconomy.

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A first step into the ‘Wild West’ of text analytics

Data Science Connect

If data science is the new frontier for businesses, text analytics is certainly the ‘Wild West’. But start talking about it to Joe Sutherland , PhD candidate at Columbia University, and you’ll quickly understand that while text analytics is still a growing and changing field, it is already revolutionizing the intersection between technology and society.

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OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) Review and Tips

Eugene Yan

OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) - How to scale education widely through technology.

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Tableau Conference Keeps on Getting Bigger and Better

DataRobot Blog

by Jen Underwood. Tableau’s right place, right time, right solution market momentum continues to fuel what seems to be unstoppable growth over the past five years. Hosted in New Orleans at the massive. Read More.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Text analysis with named entity recognition

Depends on the Definition

This is the second post of my series about understanding text datasets. If you read my blog regularly, you probably noticed quite some posts about named entity recognition. In this posts, we focused on finding the named entities and explored different techniques to do this.

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Dec 6 2018: Recapping Amazon re:Invent & HPE Discover

DataCentric podcast

In this episode of the DataCentric podcast, hosts Matt and Steve discuss the large number of datacenter-impacting announcements at Amazon’s premier cloud event re:Invent, including news of Amazon deploying their custom-built ARM parts, bringing cloud on-prem, and more. The team also recaps the highlights from HPE Discover in Madrid, where the focus was on edge computing, composable infrastructure and intelligent storage. * Here are some links to explore, should you want to go deeper: * We've

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Making a smart meter out of a dumb one for 4 $

Christian Haschek

As a geek who has a few servers and other devices at home I can't stop thinking about my power out

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23 Best Popular Science YouTube Channels

Machine Learning World

One man said “To become a genius you need to learn new thing every day”. So instead watching stupid TV-shows, TV-series or new SUPER DUPER BLOCKBUSTER with 3 lines of scenario, it’s much better to spent this time on learning something new. That’s where popular science do her job :) So thanks to my friends, we gathered list of YouTube channels that we are watching in a free time, and which are pretty cool: Kurzgesagt — In a Nutshell 3Blue1Brown Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky acapellascienc

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Simple guide to Neural Arithmetic Logic Units (NALU): Explanation, Intuition and Code

ML Review

The research engineers at DeepMind including well known AI researcher and author of the book Grokking Deep Learning , Andrew Trask have published an impressive paper on a neural network model that can learn simple to complex numerical functions with great extrapolation (generalisation) ability. In this post I will explain NALU, its architecture, its components and significance over traditional neural networks.

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Stand Out in Your Job Search with an Interactive Tableau Resume

Tableau

Tamsin Rowntree. Academic Program Specialist, Tableau. Marissa Michelotti. July 5, 2018 - 9:53pm. December 8, 2022. We get it, applying for jobs is hard work. With recruiters spending just 6 seconds skimming each resume , it's now more important than ever to make your resume standout. . No, I'm not going to recommend printing your resume on a cake.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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How Blockchain is Boosting Renewable Energy

Dataconomy

The explosion in renewable energy projects on blockchain is already promising—there are 122 startups operating in the space, with nearly half launching since 2017. More impressively, these startups have raised over $320 billion between the second quarter of 2017 and the first of 2018. Electricity is undoubtedly one of the. The post How Blockchain is Boosting Renewable Energy appeared first on Dataconomy.

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AngstromCTF Writeups

Shreyansh Singh

These are the writeups to the problems I solved during the AngstromCTF. MISC 1. Waldo1 We are given a zip file — flags.zip containing flags of countries. The file flag5.png, we see on opening has the flag. Flag-Waldo1 2. Waldo2 In this problem, we are given multiple flag images in a folder. Judging by the problem, it seems that one image is different.

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OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) Review and Tips

Eugene Yan

OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its variants).

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Industry Pulse September 2018 Highlights

DataRobot Blog

by Jen Underwood. Long time, no news summaries…what happened? I’ll share the scoop on that soon. In the meantime, Cloudera and Hortonworks announced a merger that was really “big” news yesterday. That merger. Read More.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Named entity recognition with Bert

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In 2018 we saw the rise of pretraining and finetuning in natural language processing. Large neural networks have been trained on general tasks like language modeling and then fine-tuned for classification tasks. One of the latest milestones in this development is the release of BERT.

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Dec 19 2018: 2018 Datacenter Trends

DataCentric podcast

In this episode of the DataCentric podcast, hosts Matt and Steve from Moor Insights & Strategy discuss the trends that drove the past year in enterprise compute. They touch on the just-released market numbers for enterprise server and storage, talk about how the realities of cloud are impacting innovation in a hybrid-cloud world, Nutanix, Microsoft Azure, and more. 00:00 Introductions 01:20 3Q18 Server and Enterprise Storage Numbers 02:20 The Impact of China on the Enterprise Hardwarwe Marke

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The process: Transforming spaCy’s docs

Explosion

Making your documentation work for users with vastly different needs is a challenge. Here’s how spaCy, an open-source library for natural language processing, did it.

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So you have been scammed

Christian Haschek

So you have been scammed It's okay, it happened to the best and even large companies aren't b

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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How I hacked my Xiaomi MiBand 2 fitness tracker — a step-by-step Linux guide

Machine Learning World

This is a step by step guide into how I hacked my Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) fitness tracker so I could control it from Linux. This story started from a Facebook post I made talking about a problem of the absence of an API for fitness trackers, and why that’s not helping data scientists make cool stuff for them. The post generated quite a lot of discussion and after caught the attention of my friend Volodymyr Shymanskyy who tried to help me and found some code on Github from Leo Soares for my fi

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Helping AI Uncover the Mysterious Veil of Chinese Characters

ML Review

This article is part of the Academic Alibaba series and is taken from the paper entitled “Learning Chinese Word Embeddings with Stroke n-gram Information” by Shaosheng Cao, Wei Lu, Jun Zhou, and Xiaolong Li, accepted by the 2018 Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The full paper can be read here. The field of natural language processing (NLP) has recently seen an increasing amount of attention given to word representation learning.

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Stand Out in Your Job Search with an Interactive Tableau Resume

Tableau

Tamsin Rowntree. Academic Program Specialist, Tableau. Marissa Michelotti. July 5, 2018 - 9:53pm. December 8, 2022. We get it, applying for jobs is hard work. With recruiters spending just 6 seconds skimming each resume , it's now more important than ever to make your resume standout. . No, I'm not going to recommend printing your resume on a cake.

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15 GLOBAL INFLUENCERS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING

Dataconomy

It’s easier to get a job if you are an Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) ‘expert’, and investors want to bet on companies which use the words AI or ML in their mission statements. And why should that not be the case? McKinsey estimates AI techniques have the. The post 15 GLOBAL INFLUENCERS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING appeared first on Dataconomy.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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NeverLAN CTF 2018 Writeups

Shreyansh Singh

These are the writeups of the problems I solved over the weekend for the NeverLAN CTF 2018. Scripting Challenges 1. Basic Math We are given a file with some numbers which we had to sum. File So, we write a simple python script to do it. This gives the flag — 49562942146280612 2. More Basic Math This time we have a larger list of numbers. However, we can just run the script again on the new file.

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OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) Review and Tips

Eugene Yan

OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add intelligence.

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My Favorite Shark Week Infographics

DataRobot Blog

by Jen Underwood. Grab the popcorn and a cool beverage. Shark Week (#SharkWeek) is upon us once again. Truth be told – I look forward to it. Shark Week is an annual, week-long TV programming. Read More.

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Understanding text data with topic models

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This is the first post of my series about understanding text datasets. A lot of the current NLP progress is made in predictive performance. But in practice, you often want and need to know, what is going on in your dataset.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Apollo.io Incident

Twilio Segment

Segment was impacted by Apollo.io’s recent security incident. Here’s what you need to know.

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How to Ignore Most Startup Advice and Build a Decent Software Business

Explosion

“In this talk, I’m not going to give you one "weird trick" or tell you to ~* just follow your dreams *~. But I’ll share some of the things we’ve learned from building a successful software company around commercial developer tools and our open-source library spaCy.

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How to fight child pornography with a Raspberry Pi and deep learning

Christian Haschek

The thing about the internet is, if you give people an open platform, the scum will follow.

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Dad And The Egg Controller

Hacker News

After dad died, trying to be useful, we looked through his office. ‘Office’ is underselling it – there was so much equipment that it could equally qualify as a workshop or even a lab. It had the special kind of ordely chaos of a place filled with a thousand incredibly specific things, meticulously organised by type, when you don’t know any of the types.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?