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Confluent Announces Strategic Alliance with Microsoft
Confluent, the company of the founders of Apache Kafka, recently announced a new strategic alliance between them and Microsoft to enable a more integrated experience between Confluent Cloud and the Azure platform.
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Facebook Open-Sources Multilingual Speech Recognition Deep-Learning Model
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) open-sourced Cross-Lingual Speech Recognition (XSLR), a multilingual speech recognition AI model. XSLR is trained on 53 languages and outperforms existing systems when evaluated on common benchmarks.
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Microsoft Research Develops a New Vision-Language System: VinVL
Microsoft Research recently developed a new object-attribute detection model for image encoding, which they named VinVL - Visual features in Vision-Language.
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AWS Introduces HealthLake and Redshift ML in Preview
AWS introduced preview releases of Amazon HealthLake service and a feature for Amazon Redshift called Redshift ML during re:Invent 2020 in December. Amazon HealthLake is a data lake service that helps healthcare, health insurance, and pharmaceutical companies to derive value out of their data with the help of NLP. Redshift ML is a service that provides a gateway into SageMaker to Redshift users.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Health Bot
Microsoft recently introduced Azure Health Bot, an evolution of Microsoft Healthcare Bot that is becoming an Azure service with added functionalities. Built for developing virtual health care assistants, Azure Health Bot combines medical databases with natural language capabilities.
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TensorFlow 2.4 Release Includes CUDA 11 Support and API Updates
The TensorFlow project announced the release of version 2.4.0 of the deep-learning framework, featuring support for CUDA 11, cuDNN 8, and NVIDIA's Ampere GPU architecture, as well as new strategies and profiling tools for distributed training. Other API updates include mixed-precision in Keras and a NumPy frontend.
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AI Models from Google and Microsoft Exceed Human Performance on Language Understanding Benchmark
Research teams from Google and Microsoft have recently developed natural language processing (NLP) AI models which have scored higher than the human baseline score on the SuperGLUE benchmark. SuperGLUE measures a model's score on several natural language understanding (NLU) tasks, including question answering and reading comprehension.
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Medium Describes "Rex" - a Go-Based Recommendation Service
In a recent blog post, Medium describes how it built a recommendation service named "Rex." The original recommendation service was part of the Node.js monolith, and it could only rank 150 stories. However, Medium wanted this service to rank hundreds of thousands of stories per user in under a second. So, they decided to build an entirely new, separate service using Go.
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Red Hat Releases OptaPlanner 8
InfoQ spoke to Geoffrey De Smet about Red Hat’s OptaPlanner 8 release. This new version provides better support for new technologies such as Spring Boot and Quarkus, while still supporting Spring Boot and plain Java. One of the improvements for release 8 are quickstart examples showcasing the various OptaPlanner features in the supported technologies.
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PASS to Cease Operations on January 15
PASS, formerly known as the Professional Association for SQL Server, will cease operations on January 15. The non-profit organization, which was known primarily for its conferences, is unable to meet its financial obligations.
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DeepMind's AlphaFold2 AI Solves 50-Year-Old Biology Challenge
The Protein Structure Prediction Center announced that AlphaFold2, an AI system developed by DeepMind, has solved its Protein Structure Prediction challenge. AlphaFold2 achieved a median score of 92.4 on the Global Distance Test (GDT) metric, above the threshold considered competitive with traditional methods.
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Experiences from Testing Stochastic Data Science Models
A data science model is a statistical black box; testing it requires an understanding of mathematical techniques like algorithms, randomness, and statistics. To validate data science models you can use thresholds to handle output variance.
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation Based on Machine Learning Wins Gordon Bell Prize
The 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize was given to a team of researchers from institutions in the USA and China for their project titled: "Pushing the limit of molecular dynamics with ab initio accuracy to 100 million atoms with machine learning"
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Caltech Open-Sources AI for Solving Partial Differential Equations
Researchers from Caltech's DOLCIT group have open-sourced Fourier Neural Operator (FNO), a deep-learning method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). FNO outperforms other existing deep-learning techniques for solving PDEs and is three orders of magnitude faster than traditional solvers.
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AWS Introduces Batch Support for AWS Fargate
During the first week of the annual re:invent, AWS introduced the ability to specify AWS Fargate as a computing resource for AWS Batch jobs. With the AWS Batch support for AWS Fargate, customers will have a way to run jobs on serverless compute resources, fully-managed from job submission to completion.