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Invoking IT to help revitalize Indigenous languages at risk of extinction

CIO

So, they spent three years coordinating resources, requirements, budgets, and technology to map out the best approach to digitizing the language revitalization project. Seeing the creative ways other communities put the software to use has only helped the software improve, Baldwin says. “We

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Exafunction aims to reduce AI dev costs by abstracting away hardware

TechCrunch

But they share a common bottleneck: hardware. New techniques and chips designed to accelerate certain aspects of AI system development promise to (and, indeed, already have) cut hardware requirements. Emerging from stealth today, Exafunction is developing a platform to abstract away the complexity of using hardware to train AI systems.

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DIY: The Hidden Risks of Open Source Network Flow Analyzers

Kentik

From hardware to software, people have been grappling with the buy vs. build dilemma for years. However, as enterprises and service providers put their 2018 tech budgets into action, we’re here to point out one DIY networking trend where the fine print is worth reading: Open source network flow analyzers.