21 Best Deals: WFH Gear, Weighted Blankets, and Phones
Now that the holiday craze is over, here are some discounts on a variety of gadgets to help ease you into the new year.
The FAA NOTAM Outage Lays Bare an Essential System Everyone Hates
A glitch in the so-called NOTAM system caused the agency to ground flights across the US. But its problems go back years.
A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects
SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible.
The US Just Greenlit High-Tech Alternatives to Animal Testing
Lab animals have long borne the brunt of drug safety trials. A new law allows drugmakers to use miniature tissue models, or organs-on-chips, instead.
A deep belief neural network based on silicon memristive synapses
While artificial intelligence (AI) models are becoming increasingly advanced, training and running these models on conventional computer hardware is very energy consuming. Engineers worldwide have thus been trying to create alternative, brain-inspired hardware that could better support the high computational load of AI systems.
Microsoft’s VALL-E can faithfully reproduce a voice after listening to a three second recording
A team of researchers at Microsoft has demonstrated a new AI system that is capable of mimicking a person’s voice after training with a recording just three seconds long. The team explains developing the new app in a paper published on the arXiv preprint server. They have also posted a webpage demonstrating the app’s capabilities.
How to use Netezza Performance Server query data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
In this example, we will demonstrate using current data within a Netezza Performance Server as a Service (NPSaaS) table combined with historical data in Parquet files to determine if flight delays have increased in 2022 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the airline travel industry. This demonstration illustrates how Netezza Performance Server …
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Best practices for load testing Amazon SageMaker real-time inference endpoints
Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service. With SageMaker, data scientists and developers can quickly and easily build and train ML models, and then directly deploy them into a production-ready hosted environment. It provides an integrated Jupyter authoring notebook instance for easy access to your data sources for exploration and analysis, so …
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Sparse Features Support in BigQuery
Introduction Most machine learning models require the input features to be in numerical format and if the features are in categorial format, pre-processing steps such as one-hot encoding are needed to convert them into numerical format. Converting a large number of categorical values may lead to creating sparse features, a set of features that contains …
How AI-powered conversational commerce will transform shopping in 2023
AI-powered conversational commerce will take ecommerce to the next level in 2023, benefiting customer and retailer alike.Read More