Tue.Oct 06, 2020

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AI and Creativity

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The release of GPT-3 has reinvigorated a discussion of creativity and artificial intelligence.* That’s a good discussion to have, primarily because it forces us to think carefully about what we mean when we use words like “creativity” and “art.” As I’ve argued in the past, each time we have this discussion, we end up raising the bar.

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Salesforce to add Einstein Analytics AI to Tableau platform

CIO

When Salesforce completed its $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software in August 2019, IT leaders were left wondering what the largest acquisition in Salesforce history might mean. A bit more than a year later, Tableau has provided some insight into its plans, announcing that Salesforce's Einstein Analytics will be rebranded Tableau CRM and Einstein's advanced analytics capabilities will be integrated with Tableau's other offerings.

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Centripetal wins historic $2.6-$3.2 Bil vs. Cisco Systems; largest US patent infringement award to date

CTOvision

Editor’s note: I am proud to say I have a history with Centripetal Networks serving on their board and then later as an advisor. It was horrible to learn that […].

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Microsoft Data Analyst Associate certification guide

CIO

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced it would retire 15 certifications and 44 exams, including MCSA: BI Reporting, which validated data analysts' expertise using Power BI and Excel to visualize data via dashboards and reports. The move is the culmination of the company's 2018 decision to focus on role-based certifications such as data analyst, data engineer, and data scientist.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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What Is GPT-3 And Why Is It Revolutionizing Artificial Intelligence?

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr explain what OpenAI’s GPT-3 is and how it will revolutionalize artificial intelligence on Forbes: There’s been a great deal of hype and excitement in the artificial intelligence […].

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Dispelling myths around AI within cyber security

CTOvision

The perception that artificial intelligence (AI) can serve as a “silver bullet” against a developing threat landscape is rooted in the ongoing quest to find technologies that will be able […].

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Making Machine Learning Deployment a Reality

Dataiku

While a majority of AI’s business value comes from deploying models operationally, a significant percentage of data science projects never actually make it out of the lab to even start making a real-world impact. Why is that so? In this recap from a recent webinar with GigaOm Research featuring Dataiku’s Lead Data Scientist Katie Gross , we break down some of the key barriers to machine learning deployment and what data teams (notably data scientists) have the power to do to help prevent this fr

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OODAloop Network Benefit: Direct participation with other members in monthly research meetings

CTOvision

OODA Network members are invited to participate in a monthly video meetings to discuss items of common concern to our membership. These highly collaborative sessions are great ways for our […].

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How to leap over the obstacles holding back your QA teams

TechBeacon

I was working as an agile coach at a large financial company when another agile coach came to me and proposed forming teams that could serve as "impediment-removal engines" (IREs). He had noticed that many of our teams were struggling with the same problems.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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How to Consolidate Your IT Operations Management Tools

DevOps.com

If your organization has more than 20 tools for IT operations management and DevOps, you’re not alone. According to one source, nearly 40% of IT teams are using more than 10 monitoring tools. There comes a time when you simply must clean house. This can be a painful chore, akin to cleaning out the garage […]. The post How to Consolidate Your IT Operations Management Tools appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Is software development a good career?

Coding Dojo

As our world gathers more apps, programs and technology, we can see just how essential software developers are to how … Read more >>. The post Is software development a good career? appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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CircleCI Brings Insights to CI/CD Platform

DevOps.com

CircleCI has added an Insights dashboard to its namesake CI/CD platform that makes it easier to surface metrics such as duration, mean time to recovery and throughput change over time as part of an effort to optimize DevOps workflows. The Insights dashboard makes it easier to discover, for example, which jobs are failing, which workflows […]. The post CircleCI Brings Insights to CI/CD Platform appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Isilon OneFS 8.2.2 New Features, Functionality and Enhancements

Dell EMC

Code currency is a significant initiative at Dell EMC which encourages our customers and partners worldwide to update their systems in order to benefit from the latest enhancements and new features now available for our products. Isilon’s recent release of version 8.2.2 offers an opportunity for customers to migrate from older code versions (7.0 – 8.1.2) to the newest 8.2.2 version now launched.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Treat AI As Intelligence — Not Technology

CTOvision

Read why Bryan Clark says that artificial intelligence should be treated as intelligence and not technology from a military point of view on Breaking Defence: The US military is rolling […].

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Restoring Balance to the Cluster: Self-Balancing Clusters in Confluent Platform 6.0

Confluent

Apache Kafka® scales well. A Kafka cluster can grow to tens or hundreds of brokers and easily sustain tens of GB per second of read and write traffic. But scaling […].

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How to Reclaim the Best Part of Your Commute

Next Level Blog

If you’re working from home, are you missing your commute? That kind of sounds like a stupid question. Who misses sitting in traffic looking at taillights? Not many people, I’d guess, but that’s probably not the part of your commute you’re missing. What you’re missing is the best part – the interstitial time between one place and the next or, to put it another way, between one now and the next now.

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Four short links: 6 October 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Algorithms Can Collude — To analyze the possible consequences, we study experimentally the behavior of algorithms powered by Artificial Intelligence (Q-learning) in a workhorse oligopoly model of repeated price competition. We find that the algorithms consistently learn to charge supracompetitive prices, without communicating with one another.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Oracle Launches Observability Platform

DevOps.com

Oracle, at its online Oracle Live event today, unveiled the Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform, which combines newly added logging, log analytics, database management, application performance monitoring, operations insights and service connector hub services with existing Oracle monitoring, notifications, events, functions, streaming and operating system management capabilities.

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Unleash Innovation with PowerEdge and OpenManage

Dell EMC

Innovation is more than just getting there first. It is about understanding what it takes to deliver flawlessly and consistently. Importantly, it requires an enterprise-wide vision of data for a connected experience, rapid enablement and continuous refinement. New capabilities across the Dell EMC PowerEdge server and OpenManage solutions portfolio help empower enterprises to become innovation engines with scalable, connected and reliable infrastructure and tools.

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Netlify Extends JAMstack Reach to Edge Computing

DevOps.com

Netlify, at its JAMSTACK CONF VIRTUAL event today, announced Netlify Edge Handlers, which make it possible to extend a Git-based workflow to edge computing applications. Company CEO Matt Biilmann said Netlify Edge Handlers, available in beta, puts the primitives in place for deploying serverless web applications based on a JAMstack software architecture that employs JavaScript, […].

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Facing data scientist shortage, organizations turn to ML automation and embedded analytics

DXC

Data-driven insights are wholly dependent on the ability of enterprises to collect and analyze data for actionable information about customers, markets, product development, and operations. Up until recently this has meant hiring data scientists who know how to create machine-learning algorithms, build predictive computing models, integrate data from multiple sources (including unstructured data), and uncover […].

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Maintaining Progressive Delivery Quality With Feature Flags

DevOps.com

How does Netflix know exactly what you want to watch? How do social networks ensure major software updates are smoothly deployed across millions of users? The answer, in part, lies in progressive delivery. Progressive delivery, the incremental introduction of new features, has become key to rolling out new features. By testing unproven features on a […].

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Why Should I Learn DevOps In 2021?

Dzone - DevOps

An Overview. People these days perceive software as a swift changing aspect due to which it is crucial to learn DevOps in 2021. In the current scenario, one should be familiar with DevOps for a kick start to their career, especially if they are from an IT background. However, no matter whether you are a system admin, security specialist, or a developer, learning DevOps will shape an enhanced path for you.

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Nvidia unveils Maxine, a managed cloud AI videoconferencing service

CTOvision

Nvidia today launched Nvidia Maxine, a platform that provides developers with a suite of GPU-accelerated AI conferencing software to enhance video quality. The company describes Maxine as a “cloud-native” solution […].

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7 Popular Computer Degrees for IT Jobs

Gitprime

If you decide to pursue an IT-related degree, these three options will best prepare you for the career you want, depending on your interests and dream job.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Why AI can’t ever reach its full potential without a physical body

CTOvision

Read Mark Lee explain why artificial intelligence cannot reach its full potential without a physical body on Techxplore: Artificial intelligence seems to be making enormous advances. It has become the […].

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Building a Simple CRUD web application and image store using Cloudera Operational Database and Flask

Cloudera

The Cloudera Operational Database (COD) is a managed dbPaaS solution available as an experience in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). It offers multi-modal client access with NoSQL key-value using Apache HBase APIs and relational SQL with JDBC (via Apache Phoenix). The latter makes COD accessible to developers who are used to building applications that use MySQL, Postgres, etc.

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Curate Custom Content with mediastack

David Walsh

I used to have a personal aggregator of sites I enjoyed but maintaining it was a nightmare. I needed to grab each site’s RSS feed, categorize their contents, deal with errors and individual rate limits, etc. I had to tear the whole project down because it was a nightmare to manage. Fast forward a few years later and there’s an amazing API service that aggregates major news sources for me: mediastack !