April, 2024

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How to Run Llama 3 Locally?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Discover the latest milestone in AI language models with Meta’s Llama 3 family. From advancements like increased vocabulary sizes to practical implementations using open-source tools, this article dives into the technical details and benchmarks of Llama 3. Learn how to deploy and run these models locally, unlocking their potential within consumer hardware.

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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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Accelerating Industry 4.0 at warp speed: The role of GenAI at the factory edge

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s Wednesday night. You’re fast asleep aboard the USS Enterprise Star Trek. Suddenly, you wake to an urgent announcement and rush to the bridge of the starship. Captain James T. Kirk is activating warp drive and you see the iconic blurred streaks of light as the spaceship reaches warp speed. Within seconds, you are traveling faster than the speed of light to reach a Klingon war in the Alpha Quadrant–arriving in minutes versus years.

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5 Free Courses to Master Math for Data Science

KDnuggets

Want to learn math for data science? Check out these three courses to learn linear algebra, calculus, statistics, and more.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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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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4 ways generative AI addresses manufacturing challenges

IBM Big Data Hub

The manufacturing industry is in an unenviable position. Facing a constant onslaught of cost pressures, supply chain volatility and disruptive technologies like 3D printing and IoT. The industry must continually optimize process, improve efficiency, and improve overall equipment effectiveness. At the same time, there is this huge sustainability and energy transition wave.

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Querying Minds Want to Know: Can a Data Fabric and RAG Clean up LLMs?

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 4 minutes Providing timely, intuitive access to information has been top-of-mind for many companies, and their data professionals in particular. Over the past few decades, we have been storing up data and generating even more of it than we have known what. The post Querying Minds Want to Know: Can a Data Fabric and RAG Clean up LLMs? appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information.

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AI poised to replace entry-level positions at large financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Global banks and investment firms are currently mulling plans to replace entry-level financial analyst positions with artificial intelligence (AI), with as many as two-thirds of these positions potentially on the chopping block. This anticipated move could completely transform how these companies hire new employees and how they manage and deliver the technology employees use.

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10 GitHub Repositories to Master Python

KDnuggets

Learn Python through tutorials, blogs, books, project work, and exercises. Access all of it on GitHub for free and join a supportive open-source community.

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A Look Back at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit

Cloudera

Artificial intelligence (AI) is something that, by its very nature, can be surrounded by a sea of skepticism but also excitement and optimism when it comes to harnessing its power. With the arrival of the latest AI-powered technologies like large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI), there’s a vast amount of opportunities for innovation, growth, and improved business outcomes right around the corner.

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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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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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Fine-tuning Google Gemma with Unsloth

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Converting natural language queries into code is one of the toughest challenges in NLP. The ability to change a simple English question into a complex code opens up a number of possibilities in developer productivity and a quick software development lifecycle. This is where Google Gemma, an Open Source Large Language Model comes into […] The post Fine-tuning Google Gemma with Unsloth appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Power analytics as a service capabilities using Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

Analytics as a service (AaaS) is a business model that uses the cloud to deliver analytic capabilities on a subscription basis. This model provides organizations with a cost-effective, scalable, and flexible solution for building analytics. The AaaS model accelerates data-driven decision-making through advanced analytics, enabling organizations to swiftly adapt to changing market trends and make informed strategic choices.

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CIOs not entirely sold on generative AI copilots

CIO Business Intelligence

A new breed of AI assistant has set its sights on the enterprise user in recent months, with Microsoft and other vendors promising huge productivity gains that offset the cost. But Microsoft still has work to do on its value proposition. Its Copilot for Microsoft 365, a high-profile offering among the growing list of AI agents, costs $30 per seat per month, with a 300-seat minimum.

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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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10 GitHub Repositories to Master Computer Science

KDnuggets

These GitHub repositories provide valuable resources for mastering computer science, including comprehensive roadmaps, free books and courses, tutorials, and hands-on coding exercises to help you gain the skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in the ever-evolving field of technology.

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FedRAMP In Process Designation, A Milestone in Cybersecurity Commitment

Cloudera

It’s been said that the Federal Government is one of, if not the largest, producer of data in the United States, and this data is at the heart of mission delivery for agencies across the civilian to DoD spectrum. Data is critical to driving the innovation and decision-making that improves services, streamlines operations and strengthens national security.

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Building the human firewall: Navigating behavioral change in security awareness and culture

IBM Big Data Hub

The latest findings of the IBM X-Force® Threat Intelligence Index report highlight a shift in the tactics of attackers. Rather than using traditional hacking methods, there has been a significant 71% surge in attacks where criminals are exploiting valid credentials to infiltrate systems. Info stealers have seen a staggering 266% increase in their utilization, emphasizing their role in acquiring these credentials.

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ColBERT – Improve Retrieval Performance with Token Level Vector Embeddings

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Retrieval Augmented-Generation (RAG) has taken the world by Storm ever since its inception. RAG is what is necessary for the Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide or generate accurate and factual answers. We solve the factuality of LLMs by RAG, where we try to give the LLM a context that is contextually similar to […] The post ColBERT – Improve Retrieval Performance with Token Level Vector Embeddings appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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Introducing Amazon MWAA larger environment sizes

AWS Big Data

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed service for Apache Airflow that streamlines the setup and operation of the infrastructure to orchestrate data pipelines in the cloud. Customers use Amazon MWAA to manage the scalability, availability, and security of their Apache Airflow environments. As they design more intensive, complex, and ever-growing data processing pipelines, customers have asked us for additional underlying resources to provide greater concurrency an

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

New tech moves from bleeding edge to mainstream at an ever-increasing pace. Consider how fast generative AI went from avant-garde to ubiquity: At under two years, it may be a record. Feats like that have ramped up pressure on CIOs to not just modernize, but modernize faster so they’re ready to seize new opportunities as they arise by having infrastructure that can support emerging technologies and a team that isn’t mired in maintenance mode.

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The Psychology of Data Visualization: How to Present Data that Persuades

KDnuggets

This article discusses the psychology of data visualization, including the principles and techniques that underpin the creation of persuasive and effective visuals.

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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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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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The future of application delivery starts with modernization

IBM Big Data Hub

IDC estimates that 750 million cloud native will be built by 2025. Where and how these applications are deployed will impact time to market and value realization. The reality is that application landscapes are complex, and they challenge enterprises to maintain and modernize existing infrastructure, while delivering new cloud-native features. Three in four executives reported disparate systems in their organizations and that a lack of skills, resources and common operational practices challenge

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Apple Boosts AI Capabilities with Acquisition of French Startup

Analytics Vidhya

Apple has made yet another strategic move in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The company has recently acquired Datakalab, a French startup specializing in AI compression and computer vision technology. The deal, finalized in December, signals Apple’s commitment to enhancing its on-device AI capabilities. Let’s delve into the details of this acquisition and its […] The post Apple Boosts AI Capabilities with Acquisition of French Startup appeared first on Analytics Vid

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Chart Snapshot: Beanplots

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

A Beanplot is a visualisation used for comparing univariate data between different groups. It provides a comprehensive view of the distribution of values within each group, offering insights into central tendency, spread, and shape of the data distribution. The Beanplot integrates elements of Barcode Plots , Density Plots , and Rug Plots, resulting in a rich depiction of the data.

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Decoding Salesforce’s plausible $11 billion bid to acquire Informatica

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce’s reported bid to acquire enterprise data management vendor Informatica could mean consolidation for the integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) market and a new revenue stream for Salesforce, according to analysts. “With this deal, Salesforce would be the dominant data integration company, making it the starting point for enterprises trying to bring disparate data sources together,” said Hyoun Park, chief analyst at Amalgam Insights.

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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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7 Steps to Mastering Data Engineering

KDnuggets

The only data engineering roadmap you need for an introduction to concepts, tools, and techniques to collect, store, transform, analyze, and model data.

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New AI Startups Surpass ChatGPT for Legal Solutions

Smart Data Collective

Unleash the power of new AI startups transforming legal solutions, surpassing ChatGPT's performance. Elevate your legal processes today!

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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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Mistral’s New Model Crushes Benchmarks in 4+ Languages

Analytics Vidhya

Mixtral 8x22B by Mistral AI Crushes Benchmarks in 4+ Languages The post Mistral’s New Model Crushes Benchmarks in 4+ Languages appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.