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Amazon Releases SageMaker Studio IDE for Machine Learning
At the recent re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon SageMaker Studio, an integrated development enviornment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that brings code editing, training job tracking and tuning, and debugging all into a single web-based interface.
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Amazon Announces the Open Preview of a Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) on AWS
At the recent AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a new way of managing Cassandra databases on AWS. With Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), the public cloud vendor can offer Cassandra directly to customers instead of through third-party vendors.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2019
Last week in Las Vegas, AWS held their annual re:Invent conference and unveiled a slew of new products, while updating many existing ones. Here's a review of announcements impacting compute, data and storage, app integration, networking, machine learning, identity management, enterprise services, and development.
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Payara Server: the Latest Product Certified as Jakarta EE 8-Compatible
With the release of Payara Server 5.193.1, Payara joins the Eclipse Foundation, IBM and Red Hat to offer products that are certified as Jakarta EE 8-compatible since the formal release of Jakarta EE 8 on September 10, 2019. Patrik Duditš, Java software engineer at Payara, spoke to InfoQ about this milestone.
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TensorFlow 2.1.0 Will Be the Last Version to Support Python 2
The TensorFlow project announced a release candidate for version 2.1.0. In addition to several improvements and bug fixes, this release will be the last version of the deep-learning framework to support Python 2.
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LG Releases New Hyperparameter Optimization Framework Called Auptimizer
Scientists at LG’s Advanced AI division released Auptimizer, an open-source framework for hyperparameter optimization of machine learning models. The software focuses on job distribution, scheduling and bookkeeping associated with performing hyperparameter optimization at scale, relying on existing packages for optimization algorithms.
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Google Introduces New Metrics for AI-Generated Audio and Video Quality
Google AI researchers published two new metrics for measuring the quality of audio and video generated by deep-learning networks, the Fréchet Audio Distance (FAD) and Fréchet Video Distance (FVD). The metrics have been shown to have a high correlation with human evaluations of quality.
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Michael Berthold on End-to-End Data Science Using KNIME Software
Open source data analytics platform KNIME CEO and co-founder Michael Berthold gave the keynote presentation at this year's KNIME Fall Summit 2019 Conference. He spoke about the end-to-end data science cycle. The data science process lifecycle mainly involves create and productionize categories.
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Data Science at the Intersection of Emerging Technologies
Kirk Borne, principal data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, gave a keynote presentation at this year’s Oracle Code One Conference on how the connection between emerging technologies, data, and machine learning are transforming data into value. Emerging technological innovations like AI, robotics, computer vision and more, are enabled by data and create value from data.
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JakartaOne 2019: Livestream 7am to 1pm Summary
The inaugural JakartaOne Livestream global virtual conference, scheduled in conjunction with the formal release of Jakarta EE 8, went live on September 10th, 2019 at 7am EDT with the first of 19 one-hour sessions. Focused on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile-related topics, these sessions included keynotes, demos and panel discussions delivered by an all-star cast of Java luminaries.
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Jay Kreps: Events, Event Streams and Their Importance in a Digital Business
Organizations are moving more and more processes into software, Jay Kreps notes in a blog post, and adds that in an accompanying change businesses are increasingly defined in software – the core processes are specified and executed in software. To support this transition, he believes we have to move away from traditional databases into working with the concepts of events and events streams.
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DataOps and Operations-Centric Data Architecture
Eric Estabrooks from DataKitchen spoke at this year's Data Architecture Summit 2019 Conference about how DevOps tasks should be managed for data architecture. DataOps is a collaborative data management practice and is emerging as an area of interest in the industry.
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Microsoft Releases DialogGPT AI Conversation Model
Microsoft Research's Natural Language Processing Group released dialogue generative pre-trained transformer (DialoGPT), a pre-trained deep-learning natural language processing (NLP) model for automatic conversation response generation. The model was trained on over 147M dialogues and achieves state-of-the-art results on several benchmarks.
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QCon London 2020: Kubernetes, FinTech, Streaming, ML, JavaScript, Performance, Cloud, Security, AI
Are you ready to uncover emerging trends, techniques, and tools in software development that will help you grow your career, build your network, and lead your team in 2020? Be part of QCon London, March 2-6, 2020, and join over 1,600 software leaders and their teams.
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Machine Learning on Mobile and Edge Devices with TensorFlow Lite: Daniel Situnayake at QCon SF
At QCon SF, Daniel Situnayake presented "Machine learning on mobile and edge devices with TensorFlow Lite". TensorFlow Lite is a production-ready, cross-platform framework for deploying ML on mobile devices and embedded systems, and was the main topic of the presentation.