Tag: Data and analytics
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Rings of an ancient tree contain a record of Earth's magnetic field reversal
Posted on October 26, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An ancient Agathis australis tree with rings that document the near-reversal of Earth's magnetic field has been discovered on New Zealand's north island. The tree, which measures 8 feet in diameter and 65 feet in length, was found buried under 26 feet of soil. Carbon dating shows that the tree was alive for 1,500 years and lived between 41,000 and 42,500 years ago. By @ilovetheuniverse.com.ar.
Tags miscellaneous data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server exciting new backup and restore enhancements
Posted on October 17, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Backup and restore are key pillars for business continuity and disaster recovery offerings for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. We're excited to announce new features including Fast Restore, Geo Restore and Custom Restore Points to allow you more fine-grained control on your DR plan to achieve the RPO and RTO objectives. In this post we'll share an overview of each of these new features. By Varun Dhawan.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development devops-and-ci-cd
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Live streaming commerce: A playbook
Posted on October 14, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
To better assist customers with product discovery, retailers are discovering and leveraging innovative ways like live streaming. Live streaming commerce is an interactive social commerce tool that combines video streaming and TV entertainment formats like talk shows and chat. By Shantala Raman.
Tags miscellaneous data-and-analytics leadership-and-career how-to cloud-and-infrastructure
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Postgres: Better message queue than Kafka?
Posted on October 13, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Today author is going to talk about why they made the unconventional decision to build thier logging system on top of Postgres, what worked well, what didn't work well, and how they did it. By Pete Hunt.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development product-and-design
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NLU 101: Introduction to Natural Language Understanding
Posted on October 11, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a subtopic of Natural Language Processing. It focuses on "comprehension". NLU deals with users' intents and what they mean instead of what they say. Thus, some people refer to it as Intent Detection or Intent Detector. By picovoice.ai.
Tags data-and-analytics product-and-design
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Google Firebase with dotnet6
Posted on October 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Google Firestore is a document-oriented database that has some neat features for building modern apps as part of the Firebase offering. In most respects, I find it is conceptually similar to AWS Amplify on the surface. Having now worked with both, they feel very different in practice. By Charles Chen.
Tags data-and-analytics product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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The first RISC: John Cocke and the IBM 801
Posted on October 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
How a maverick genius at IBM helped to change the course of computing forever. The RISC idea has now been around for around fifty years and it's been the subject of debate and a degree of controversy for much of that period. By Babbage.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Why AI is perfect for mobile apps
Posted on October 2, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Why AI is the perfect accompaniment to modern mobile app development and how it's already being used to transform the apps we use every day. Artificial intelligence has been breaking into the mobile app development industry and becoming part of more developers' tools in their wheelhouse. This is because AI and machine learning are able to provide many benefits to not only the team building the application but to the end user as well. By @ninetwothree.co.ao.
Tags data-and-analytics product-and-design
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PyTorch on Google Cloud: How to train PyTorch models on AI Platform
Posted on September 23, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
PyTorch has been predominantly used in research and in recent years it has gained tremendous traction in the industry as well due to its ease of use and deployment. By Rajesh Thallam, Vaibhav Singh.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics backend-development
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How to run a Stable Diffusion server on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Posted on September 22, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Open-sourced alternative to OpenAI's gated DALL·E 2 with comparable quality, Stable Diffusion offers something to everyone: end-users can generate images virtually for free, developers can embed the model into their service, ML engineers can investigate and modify the code, and researchers have full leeway to push the state of the art even further. By Iulia Turc.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Reducing graph complexity using Go and transitive reduction
Posted on September 19, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) serve a wide variety of applications in computer science, biology, sociology, and other fields that involve complex networks. While these graphs often contain a large number of edges, some of the edges might be redundant, making computations unnecessarily expensive and the graph structure harder to understand. By Dominik Braun.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design software-engineering backend-development data-and-analytics
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Deep dive: How AI content generators work
Posted on September 11, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been steadily influencing business processes, automating repetitive and mundane tasks even for complex industries like construction and medicine. By Victor Dey.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning architecture-and-apis