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Jensen Huang Announces NVIDIA's New Projects at the GPU Technology Conference
Today the GPU Technology conference in Munich kicked off with a keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Holodeck, the Tensor RT 3 library, NVIDIA's Drive platform, and the Pegasus computer for autonomous taxis.
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QConSF Content Update: Less Than 40 Days to Go!
Marking its 11th year, QConSF will be located at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco (just off the Embarcadero). The conference has over 1,200 confirmed attendees at this point and expects to sell out around 1,600.
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Teachable Machine: Teach a Machine Using Your Camera in Your Browser
Teachable Machine is a browser application that you can train with your webcam to recognize objects or expressions. In the demo you use your webcam as input to recognize three different classes of objects or expressions. Based on your camera input, the site shows different gifs, plays prerecorded sounds, or plays speech. The demo can be found here: teachablemachine.withgoogle.com
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Google Announces Firestore, a Document Database
Google has announced Cloud Firestore, a document database for mobile, web and server applications.
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New Relic Releases El Dorado UI, a Web App for Visualizing a Neo4j Graph Database
New Relic open sourced the El Dorado UI project, a Sinatra app to query and visualize relationships between development teams, projects, and microservices, all stored in a Neo4J graph database. Ward Cunningham, the inventor of Wiki, described the origin of the project and demonstrated its capabilities at the Explore DDD conference in Denver, Colorado.
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Brian Goetz Speaks to InfoQ on Pattern Matching for Java
Brian Goetz and Gavin Bierman of Oracle introduce the concept of pattern matching for potential integration into the Java programming language. By starting from common Java source code idioms that are verbose or error prone, they explore how pattern matching may eliminate some of the pitfalls.
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Q&A with Alison Polton-Simon on Her 'Metrics That Matter’ Talk for DevOpsDays NZ
Raf Gemmail talks with ThoughtWorks’ Alison Polton-Simon about her DevOpsDaysNZ talk on metrics which teams should be measuring.
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Q&A with Hillery Hunter: IBM Reduces Neural Network Training Times by Efficiently Scaling Training
In August 2017 IBM announced it broke the training record for image recognition capabilities. IBM research reduced their training time for the neural network layout called "ResNet-50" to only 50 minutes. On another network layout called ResNet-101, they obtained an accuracy record of 33.8 percent. Using 256 GPUs they trained their neural network on a dataset containing 7.5 million images.
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LinkedIn Develops MySQL Query Analyzer Tool
In order to optimise the performance of their MySQL instances, LinkedIn has created a Query Analyzer tool in order to analyze and tune expensive queries. It runs on the network layer, stores everything within a centralized server, and provides a UI for users to analyze metrics.
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TensorFlow Serving 1.0 Release Detailed at Google I/O
Google's Noah Fiedel details new programming model for TensorFlow Serving in a stable 1.0 release. Subject matter addresses common challenges with portability, servablility, and reproducibility improvements.
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Apple’s iPhone X Has Custom Neural Engine Processor Built In
Speaking in the Steve Jobs Theatre at Apple Park yesterday Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, described some of the technology behind the facial recognition system in the newly announced iPhone X including a dedicated neural engine built into the A11 chip.
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Southbank Software Introduces dbKoda, an Open Source Database Development Tool for MongoDB
Southbank Software recently released its initial offering of dbKoda version 0.6.0, an open source MongoDB development tool written entirely in JavaScript. Guy Harrison, CTO at Southbank Software spoke to InfoQ about dbKoda.
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NERSC Scales Scientific Deep Learning to 15 Petaflops
Intel, Stanford and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) recently announced the first super computing cluster achieving 15 Petaflops of computing calculations power. This was achieved by a cluster of 9,622 Intel Xeon Phi processors at 1.4Ghz for a combined 2,629,696 threads of computation. In this article we will explore the hybrid approach behind achieving strong scaling.
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Apple Reveals the Inner Workings of Siri's New Intonation
Apple has explained how they use deep learning to make Siri's intonation sound more natural. IPhone owners can interact with Siri by asking questions in natural language and Siri responds by voice. At WWDC 2017, Apple announced that in iOS 11 Siri would use a new text to speech engine. In August 2017, Apple's machine learning journal unveiled how they were able to make Siri sound more human.
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QCon New York 2017: Migrating Speedment to Java 9
Dan Lawesson, CSO at Speedment, presented “Migrating Speedment to Java 9” at this year’s QCon New York. Lawesson spoke to InfoQ about Speedment and how they are addressing the challenges of migrating Speedment to Java 9.