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Mastering Decoder-Only Transformer: A Comprehensive Guide

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In this blog post, we will explore the Decoder-Only Transformer architecture, which is a variation of the Transformer model primarily used for tasks like language translation and text generation. The Decoder-Only Transformer consists of several blocks stacked together, each containing key components such as masked multi-head self-attention and feed-forward transformations.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? Why is it now subject to the same kind of antitrust complaints faced by Microsoft, once the “evil empire” of the previous generation of computing? Why is it that Amazon, which has positioned itself as “the most customer-centric company on the planet,” now lards its search results with advertisements

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Cohere Launches Toolkit to Expedite Generative AI Application Development

Analytics Vidhya

Cohere, a leading figure in AI innovation, has unveiled a new toolkit for enterprise AI. This new toolkit is aimed at speeding up the pace of generative AI application development within the enterprise sphere. It offers developers a comprehensive set of tools and resources to expedite their projects. It further promises to streamline the intricate […] The post Cohere Launches Toolkit to Expedite Generative AI Application Development appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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CIOs eager to scale AI despite difficulty demonstrating ROI, survey finds

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs rank AI as a top priority alongside cybersecurity for IT departments. However, barriers such as adoption speed and security concerns hinder rapid AI integration, according to a new survey. There is a promising surge in the use of AI technologies across various industries. Of the 750 CIOs around the world surveyed by Lenovo, 81% said they are already leveraging third-party AI Tools or deploying a mix of third-party and proprietary AI.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

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.

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Retrieval Augmented Generation: Where Information Retrieval Meets Text Generation

KDnuggets

This article introduces retrieval augmented generation, which combines text generation with informaton retrieval in order to improve language model output.

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Dynamic DAG generation with YAML and DAG Factory in Amazon MWAA

AWS Big Data

Amazon Managed Workflow for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed service that allows you to use a familiar Apache Airflow environment with improved scalability, availability, and security to enhance and scale your business workflows without the operational burden of managing the underlying infrastructure. In Airflow, Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) are defined as Python code.

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For the planet and people: IBM’s focus on AI ethics in sustainability

IBM Big Data Hub

AI can be a force for good, but it might also lead to environmental and sustainability concerns. IBM is dedicated to the responsible development and deployment of this technology, which can enable our clients to meet their sustainability goals. “AI is an unbelievable opportunity to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges in health care, manufacturing, climate change and more,” said Christina Shim, IBM’s global head of Sustainability Software and an AI Ethics

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IBM doubles down on hybrid cloud with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition

CIO Business Intelligence

In a move that significantly bolsters its position in the cloud services market, IBM has announced it is acquiring HashiCorp , a multicloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4 billion. HashiCorp is known for its Terraform product, an infrastructure automation tool, which is considered an industry standard for infrastructure provisioning in hybrid and multicloud environments.

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5 Free Stanford University Courses to Learn Data Science

KDnuggets

Are you an aspiring data scientist? If so, these free data science courses from Stanford will help you move forward in your data science journey!

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Climate and Sustainability Hackathon—Meet the Judges!

Cloudera

Back in October, we announced the first-ever Cloudera Climate and Sustainability Hackathon , powered by AMD. The Hackathon was intended to provide data science experts with access to Cloudera machine learning to develop their own Accelerated Machine Learning Project (AMP) focused on solving one of the many environmental challenges facing the world today.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Hugging Face Launches Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard to Evaluate GenAI in Healthcare

Analytics Vidhya

Generative AI models hold promise for transforming healthcare, but their application raises critical questions about accuracy and reliability. Hugging Face has launched an Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard aiming to address these concerns. It provides a standardized platform to evaluate and compare models’ performance in various medical tasks. Let’s find out how this helps improve healthcare and […] The post Hugging Face Launches Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard to Evaluate GenAI in Healthcar

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AI this Earth Day: Top opportunities to advance sustainability initiatives

IBM Big Data Hub

This Earth Day, we are calling for action to conserve our scarcest resource: the planet. To drive real change, it’s crucial for individuals, industries, organizations and governments to work together, using data and technology to uncover new opportunities that will help advance sustainability initiatives across the globe. The world is behind on addressing climate change.

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Salesforce-Informatica acquisition talks falls through: Report

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce’s negotiations to acquire enterprise data management software provider Informatica have fallen through as both couldn’t agree on the terms of the deal. That the talks about the deal had come to a close was reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Reuters , citing an anonymous source. The disagreement about the terms of the deal is more likely to be around the price of each share of Informatica, WSJ reported, adding that Salesforce was negotiating a mid-30s price per share with th

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7 Python Libraries Every Data Engineer Should Know

KDnuggets

Interested in switching to data engineering? Here’s a list of Python libraries you’ll find super helpful.

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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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#ClouderaLife Allyship April Q&A with Antoine Burrell

Cloudera

This month is Allyship April—a time dedicated to deepening our understanding of allyship and its profound impact on fostering inclusive cultures. Allyship isn’t merely a buzzword; it’s a fundamental commitment to actively support and advocate for marginalized individuals and communities within our organization. This month, we’ve engaged in meaningful conversations, challenged our assumptions, and committed to tangible actions that drive positive change.

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Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR Serverless from Amazon EMR Studio

AWS Big Data

Starting from release 6.14, Amazon EMR Studio supports interactive analytics on Amazon EMR Serverless. You can now use EMR Serverless applications as the compute, in addition to Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters and Amazon EMR on EKS virtual clusters, to run JupyterLab notebooks from EMR Studio Workspaces. EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it straightforward for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug analytics applications written in PySpa

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CIO risk-taking 101: Playing it safe isn’t safe

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIO, you’re in the risk business. Or rather, every part of your responsibilities entails risk, whether you’re paying attention to it or not. And in spite of the spate of books that extol risk-taking as the only smart path, it’s worth remembering that their authors don’t face what might be the biggest risk CIOs have to deal with every day: executive teams adept at preaching risk-taking without actually supporting it.

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5 Free Advanced Python Programming Courses

KDnuggets

Looking to level up your Python skills without spending a dime? Check out this article featuring 5 advanced Python courses that you can take for free!

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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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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. A school asks parents to verify their identities before giving out student information. These are just some examples of how organizations support data privacy , the principle that people should have control of their personal data, including who can see it, who can collect it, and how it can be used.

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How to Use Adobe Firefly Image 3?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction The world of AI-powered image generation is growing quickly, and Adobe Firefly Image 3 is at the forefront. Adobe Firefly Image 3 enables you to generate high-resolution, actual images or visual diagrams by giving its explanation in a text message. This software works well for you whether you are a developer, artist, or marketer, […] The post How to Use Adobe Firefly Image 3?

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Smart Factories Use AI to Create OT and IT Security Protection

Smart Data Collective

Smart factories offer a number of new solutions for manufacturing companies trying to bolster their bottom lines.

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Will AI kill jobs? History says otherwise

CIO Business Intelligence

In April 1860, the Pony Express launched its operation to much fanfare. Using a series of riders on horses to relay messages from Missouri to California, it became an instant icon of the Wild West. The service lasted all of eighteen months. The Pony Express couldn’t compete with the transcontinental telegraph, completed in 1861, which delivered messages in a fraction of the time.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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7 End-to-End MLOps Platforms You Must Try in 2024

KDnuggets

List of top MLOPs platforms that will help you with integration, training, tracking, deployment, monitoring, CI/CD, and optimizing the infrastructure.

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Optimize data layout by bucketing with Amazon Athena and AWS Glue to accelerate downstream queries

AWS Big Data

In the era of data, organizations are increasingly using data lakes to store and analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. Data lakes provide a centralized repository for data from various sources, enabling organizations to unlock valuable insights and drive data-driven decision-making. However, as data volumes continue to grow, optimizing data layout and organization becomes crucial for efficient querying and analysis.

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KissanAI Unveils Dhenu Llama 3: A Revolutionary Agricultural AI Model

Analytics Vidhya

KissanAI has made waves in the agricultural sector with the introduction of Dhenu Llama 3, a cutting-edge AI model tailored specifically for farmers. This innovative creation, fine-tuned on Meta’s Llama 3 8B architecture, promises enhanced capabilities and superior performance benchmarks. Let’s delve deeper into this innovative development.

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How to Build Tailored Enterprise Chatbots at Scale

Dataiku

Today, every company should be using Generative AI capabilities to complement machine learning techniques, streamline operations, and ultimately work smarter. Chat-based use cases will quickly become the new normal. That means increasingly more demand from the business to develop and deploy these use cases enterprise-wide.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s universally accepted that to thrive, enterprises must embrace transformation through technology. CIOs are at the forefront of this as they help shepherd their organizations through digitalization. “Digital is a powerful business lever,” says Alessandra Luksch, director of the Digital Transformation Academy Observatory at Politecnico di Milano, which has been mapping trends in ICT spending by Italian organizations since 2016.

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Is Data Science a Bubble Waiting to Burst?

KDnuggets

The need for data science has not decreased or been replaced; instead, it’s the field of data science maturing, with a greater demand for specialized skills and practical experience.

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Augmented Analytics Must Provide Data Quality and Insight!

Smarten

How Can I Ensure Data Quality and Gain Data Insight Using Augmented Analytics? There are many business issues surrounding the use of data to make decisions. One such issue is the inability of an organization to gather and analyze data. These enterprises will typically focus on building a team of data scientists or business analysts to help with this task OR they might take on an augmented analytics initiative to provide access to data and analytics for their business users.

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100 Deep Learning Terms Explained

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Ever felt overwhelmed by the jargon of deep learning? You’re not alone! This field is packed with powerful concepts, but remembering every term can be challenging. This glossary is here to bridge the gap. further in this article, we will explore 100 essential deep learning terms, making complex ideas approachable and empowering you to […] The post 100 Deep Learning Terms Explained appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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.