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This blog post is co-written with Chaoyang He and Salman Avestimehr from FedML. Analyzing real-world healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) data poses several practical challenges, such as distributed data silos, lack of sufficient data at a single site for rare events, regulatory guidelines that prohibit data sharing, infrastructure requirement, and cost incurred in creating a …
This blog post is co-written with Chaoyang He and Salman Avestimehr from FedML. Analyzing real-world healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) data poses several practical challenges, such as distributed data silos, lack of sufficient data at any single site for rare events, regulatory guidelines that prohibit data sharing, infrastructure requirement, and cost incurred in creating a …
An allocation is the process of shifting overhead costs throughout an organization. One company might want to distribute costs across business units or departments. Another might want to assign costs to individual products or projects. Fundamentally, the smartest approach to allocations is about properly assigning costs to the areas that benefit from those costs. When …
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This post was co-authored with Mark Lott, Distinguished Technical Architect, Salesforce, Inc. Enterprises that operate globally are experiencing challenges sourcing customer support professionals with multi-lingual experience. This process can be cost-prohibitive and difficult to scale, leading many enterprises to only support English for chats. Using human interpreters for translation support is expensive, and infeasible since …
This is guest post by Andy Whittle, Principal Platform Engineer – Application & Reliability Frameworks at The Very Group. At The Very Group, which operates digital retailer Very, security is a top priority in handling data for millions of customers. Part of how The Very Group secures and tracks business operations is through activity logging …
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We meet daily with contact center owners and customer experience (CX) execs across all industries, geographies, and business sizes. Looking back at these conversations, it’s crystal clear that 2022 was a high-stakes year for call centers, with three primary challenges trending across all customers and continuing in 2023: Many organizations feel pressure to rapidly scale …
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Understanding protein geometries is essential to understanding a protein’s function, and thus essential to a range of disruptive research projects, from creating more sustainable materials to developing more effective treatments to diseases. For this reason, the “protein-folding problem” ranked for decades among biological science’s grand challenges—until Google’s DeepMind developed AlphaFold. Widely hailed as a breakthrough …
Using a pretrained AI model from NVIDIA, startup Evozyne created two proteins with significant potential in healthcare and clean energy. A joint paper released today describes the process and the biological building blocks it produced. One aims to cure a congenital disease, another is designed to consume carbon dioxide to reduce global warming. Initial results …
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The global retail industry has a $100 billion problem. “Shrinkage” — the loss of goods due to theft, damage and misplacement — significantly crimps retailers’ profits. An estimated 65% of shrinkage is due to theft, according to the National Retail Federation’s 2022 Retail Security Survey, conducted in partnership with the Loss Prevention Research Council. And …
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OpenAI researchers collaborated with Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and the Stanford Internet Observatory to investigate how large language models might be misused for disinformation purposes. The collaboration included an October 2021 workshop bringing together 30 disinformation researchers, machine learning experts, and policy analysts, and culminated in a co-authored report building on …