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Building with Palantir AIP: Semantic Search

https://medium.com/media/0254ccf83cea026c178db2df184c0d42/href By Chad Wahlquist, Palantir Forward Deployed Architect Welcome! This is the first “cooking show”-style video in the Building with Palantir AIP series, where Palantir engineers and architects will take you through how to build end-to-end workflows using Palantir’s AI Platform. This first installment demonstrates how AIP enables developers to go from unstructured data to …

Winning the cloud game: Phoning the right friend to answer the cloud optimization question

Cloud optimization is essential as organizations look to accelerate business outcomes and unlock the value of their data. At its core, cloud optimization is the process of correctly selecting and assigning the right resources to a workload or application. But cloud optimization is also a lifecycle process that balances performance, compliance and cost to achieve efficiency. …

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Improving simulations of clouds and their effects on climate

Posted by Tapio Schneider, Visiting Researcher, and Yi-fan Chen, Engineering Lead, Google Research Today’s climate models successfully capture broad global warming trends. However, because of uncertainties about processes that are small in scale yet globally important, such as clouds and ocean turbulence, these models’ predictions of upcoming climate changes are not very accurate in detail. …

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Amazon EC2 DL2q instance for cost-efficient, high-performance AI inference is now generally available

This is a guest post by A.K Roy from Qualcomm AI. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL2q instances, powered by Qualcomm AI 100 Standard accelerators, can be used to cost-efficiently deploy deep learning (DL) workloads in the cloud. They can also be used to develop and validate performance and accuracy of DL workloads that …

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Open sourcing Project Guideline: A platform for computer vision accessibility technology

Posted by Dave Hawkey, Software Engineer, Google Research Two years ago we announced Project Guideline, a collaboration between Google Research and Guiding Eyes for the Blind that enabled people with visual impairments (e.g., blindness and low-vision) to walk, jog, and run independently. Using only a Google Pixel phone and headphones, Project Guideline leverages on-device machine …

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Palantir and the NHS

Today, the NHS has chosen Palantir, supported by a group of companies including Accenture, PwC, NECS and Carnall Farrar, to help deliver a Federated Data Platform (FDP). AWS and Microsoft will provide cloud platform services. The FDP will improve patient care by bringing together the information needed to plan and deliver care, and reduce the …

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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

by Jun He, Yingyi Zhang, and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset. This not only reduces the cost of compute resources but …

Your Black Friday observability checklist

Black Friday—and really, the entire Cyber Week—is a time when you want your applications running at peak performance without completely exhausting your operations teams. Observability solutions can help you achieve this goal, whether you’re a small team with a single product or a large team operating complex ecommerce applications. But not all observability solutions (or …

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Open sourcing Project Guideline: A platform for computer vision accessibility technology

Posted by Dave Hawkey, Software Engineer, Google Research Two years ago we announced Project Guideline, a collaboration between Google Research and Guiding Eyes for the Blind that enabled people with visual impairments (e.g., blindness and low-vision) to walk, jog, and run independently. Using only a Google Pixel phone and headphones, Project Guideline leverages on-device machine …

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How Amazon Music uses SageMaker with NVIDIA to optimize ML training and inference performance and cost

In the dynamic world of streaming on Amazon Music, every search for a song, podcast, or playlist holds a story, a mood, or a flood of emotions waiting to be unveiled. These searches serve as a gateway to new discoveries, cherished experiences, and lasting memories. The search bar is not just about finding a song; …