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PyTorch 1.3 Release Adds Support for Mobile, Privacy, and Transparency
Facebook recently announced the release of PyTorch 1.3. The latest version of the open-source deep learning framework includes new tools for mobile, quantization, privacy, and transparency.
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Dropbox Predicts What File You Need Next with Content-Specific ML Pipelines
The Dropbox machine learning team shared how the company improved the model behind their content suggestions feature. The enhancements allow Dropbox to deal with different types of content, incorporate folder suggestions into the existing file suggestions model and handle cloud-based documents resulting from relatively recent partnerships.
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Google Applies NLP Algorithm BERT to Search
BERT, Google's latest NLP algorithm, will power Google search and make it better at understanding user queries in a way more similar to how humans would understand them, writes Pandu Nayak, Google fellow and vice president for Search, with one in 10 queries providing a different set of results.
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Alexa Research Paper Shows Genetic Algorithms Offer Best Solution for Neural Network Optimization
Amazon's Alexa Science researchers published a paper providing a theoretical basis for neural network optimization. While showing that it is computationally intractable to find a perfect solution, the paper does provide a formulation, the Approximate Architecture Search Problem (a-ASP), that can be solved with genetic algorithms.
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Google Introduces TensorFlow Enterprise in Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced TensorFlow Enterprise, a cloud-based TensorFlow machine learning service that includes enterprise-grade support and managed services.
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PyTorch and TensorFlow: Which ML Framework is More Popular in Academia and Industry
An article that was recently published on the gradient is examining the current state of Machine Learning frameworks in 2019. The article is utilizing some metrics to argue the point that PyTorch is quickly becoming the dominant framework for research, whereas TensorFlow is the dominant framework for applications in the industry. In this article we will dive into their differences.
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Microsoft Releases Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) as GA
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), making it the first cloud vendor providing native support for this format in a managed cloud service. With the API, customers can quickly ingest, persist, and manage healthcare data in the cloud.
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Gutenberg – a Publish-Subscribe Service for Datasets Created by Netflix
To propagate datasets from a single producer to multiple consumers, Netflix has created Gutenberg, a service using a publish-subscribe technique to propagate versioned datasets between their microservices. In a blog post, Ammar Khaku, senior software engineer at Netflix, describes an overview of the design as well and some use cases for Gutenberg.
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The Robot Operating System (ROS) Can Make Hospitals Smarter
The ROSCon 2019 conference kicked off with a keynote from Selina Seah from Changi General Hospital and Morgan Quigley from Open Robotics. In their talk, they outlined the need for robotics and automation in hospitals. To support robotics, the Open Robotics foundation works actively to create tools to support multiple robotics platforms, fleets working together, and tools for QA and simulation.
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High-Performance Data Processing with Spring Cloud Data Flow and Geode
Cahlen Humphreys and Tiffany Chang spoke recently at the SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference about data processing with Spring Cloud Data Flow and Apache Geode frameworks.
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Microsoft and University of Maryland Researchers Announce FreeLB Adversarial Training System
Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Maryland (UMD) announced Free Large-Batch (FreeLB), a new adversarial training technique for deep-learning natural-language processing (NLP) systems that improves accuracy, increasing RoBERTa's scores on the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark and achieving the highest score on AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC) benchmark.
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Cockroach Labs Announces CockroachCloud, a Fully-Managed Distributed SQL Database in Beta
Recently, Cockroach Labs announced the beta program of CockroachCloud, a fully-managed service for its CockroachDB distributed SQL database. With CockroachCloud, customers can provision, scale and manage a complex, highly available distributed SQL database within minutes.
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Facebook AI Releases New Computer Vision Library Detectron2
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) has released Detectron2, a PyTorch-based computer vision library that brings a series of new research and production capabilities to the framework. While the first Detectron was written in Caffe2, Detectron2 represents a full rewrite of the original framework in PyTorch from the ground up, with several new object detection capabilities.
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Extending the Reach of SQL to IoT Microcontrollers, ITTIA and Cypress Release SDK
In a recent press release, ITTIA, a maker of embedded database software for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and Cypress Semiconductor Corp, announced a collaborative IoT device and data management capability. The new capability integrates SQL into the WICED SDK and unlocks the power of flash media on Cypress wireless microcontrollers (MCU).
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Amazon Releases the Anomaly Detection Feature for CloudWatch to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the Anomaly Detection feature in Amazon CloudWatch, a monitoring and management service providing customers data and insights from AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources.