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AWS and NFL Partner to Bolster Next Gen Stats for American Football Games
For the 2021-2022 NFL season, the NFL and AWS are partnering to add a few new statistics to their Next Gen Stats (NGS) tool. The league will now track fourth down and two-point conversion analytics with Next Gen Stats Decision Guide, powered by AWS.
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AWS Announces the General Availability and Open Sourcing of the Amazon Genomics CLI
Amazon Genomics CLI is a tool that makes it easier to process genomics data at a petabyte-scale on AWS. Earlier this year, the public cloud vendor shared a preview of the tool, and it is now open source and generally available.
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MIT Researchers Open-Source Approximate Matrix Multiplication Algorithm MADDNESS
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have open-sourced Multiply-ADDitioN-lESS (MADDNESS), an algorithm that speeds up machine learning using approximate matrix multiplication (AMM). MADDNESS requires zero multiply-add operations and runs 10x faster than other approximate methods and 100x faster than exact multiplication.
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Amazon QuickSight Q: Answers to Business Intelligence Questions
Amazon recently announced the general availability of QuickSight Q, a natural language query tool for the enterprise edition of the managed business intelligence service QuickSight.
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Stanford Research Center Studies Impacts of Popular Pretrained Models
Stanford University recently announced a new research center, the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM), devoted to studying the effects of large pretrained deep networks (e.g. BERT, GPT-3, CLIP) in use by a surge of machine-learning research institutions and startups.
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Dedicated ML Track at QCon Plus Nov: Learn All about the Latest ML Innovations
Dio Synodinos, president of C4media (creators of InfoQ and QCon), recently spoke with Frank Greco, senior technology consultant, chairman at NYJavaSIG, and QCon Plus November 2021 committee member, to discuss the topics and tracks he’s looking forward to attending this November at QCon Plus online software conference.
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Georgia Tech Researchers Create Wireless Brain-Machine Interface
Researchers from Georgia Tech University's Center for Human-Centric Interfaces and Engineering have created soft scalp electronics (SSE), a wearable wireless electro-encephalography (EEG) device for reading human brain signals. By processing the EEG data using a neural network, the system allows users wearing the device to control a video game simply by imagining activity.
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Pinecone 2.0 Aims to Bring Vector Similarity Search to Production
Pinecone recently introduced version 2.0 of its vector similarity search solution aiming to make it easier for companies to build recommendation systems, image search, and similar applications. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Edo Liberty, founder and CEO of Pinecone.
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Data Collection, Standardization and Usage at Scale in the Uber Rider App
Uber Engineering recently published how it collects, standardises and uses data from the Uber Rider app. Rider data comprises all the rider's interactions with the Uber app. This data accounts for billions of events from Uber's online systems every day. Uber uses this data to deal with top problem areas such as increasing funnel conversion, user engagement, etc.
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Facebook Open-Sources Computer Vision Model Multiscale Vision Transformers
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) recently open-sourced Multiscale Vision Transformers (MViT), a deep-learning model for computer vision based on the Transformer architecture. MViT contains several internal resolution-reduction stages and outperforms other Transformer vision models while requiring less compute power, achieving new state-of-the-art accuracy on several benchmarks.
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Tesla Introduces D1 Dojo Chip to Train AI Models
Tesla introduced the Tesla D1, a new chip designed specifically for artificial intelligence that is capable of delivering a power of 362 TFLOPs in BF16 / CFP8.
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Amazon Announces Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 4 Winners
Amazon recently announced the winners of the 4th Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge, a competition for university students to develop conversational AI. A team from Czech Technical University (CTU) won first prize, while teams from Stanford University and University of Buffalo took second and third.
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Erlang-Inspired Language Gleam Now Compiles to JavaScript
Gleam, which self-describes as a language for building type-safe, scalable systems for the Erlang virtual machine, now also compiles to JavaScript.
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How Quantifying Information Leakage Helps to Protect Systems
Information leakage happens when observable information can be correlated with a secret. Secrets such as passwords, medical diagnosis, locations, or financial data uphold a lot of our world, and there are many types of information, like error messages or electrical consumption patterns, that can give hints to these secrets.
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PyTorch 1.9 Release Includes Mobile, Scientific Computing, and Distributed Training Updates
PyTorch, Facebook's open-source deep-learning framework, announced the release of version 1.9 which includes improvements for scientific computing, mobile support, and distributed training. Overall, the new release contains more than 3,400 commits since the 1.8 release.