While you may have learned about generative artificial intelligence (AI), you may not know what it means for the future of Finance and Accounting (F&A). As the name suggests, it generates images, music, speech, code, video or text, while it interprets and manipulates preexisting data. For F&A leaders, this means that it may have the …
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Posted by Ramki Gummadi, Software Engineer, Google and Kevin Chen, Software Engineer, YouTube Caching is a ubiquitous idea in computer science that significantly improves the performance of storage and retrieval systems by storing a subset of popular items closer to the client based on request patterns. An important algorithmic piece of cache management is the …
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Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler is a single visual interface that reduces the time required to prepare data and perform feature engineering from weeks to minutes with the ability to select and clean data, create features, and automate data preparation in machine learning (ML) workflows without writing any code. SageMaker Data Wrangler supports Snowflake, a popular …
Researchers at Yamagata University in Japan have harnessed AI to uncover four previously unseen geoglyphs — images on the ground, some as wide as 1,200 feet, made using the land’s elements — in Nazca, a seven-hour drive south of Lima, Peru. The geoglyphs — a humanoid, a pair of legs, a fish and a bird …
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When IBM Consulting’s Neeraj Manik spoke recently with a large pharmaceutical client about how to streamline and improve its front-office and back-office financial processes, he pointed to a web of interconnected business challenges the organization was facing: “too many invoices, too many suppliers, too much money being paid to suppliers,” as Manik put it. Manik, …
Posted by Zalán Borsos, Research Software Engineer, and Marco Tagliasacchi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research The recent progress in generative AI unlocked the possibility of creating new content in several different domains, including text, vision and audio. These models often rely on the fact that raw data is first converted to a compressed format …
This post is co-written with Aruna Abeyakoon and Denisse Colin from Light and Wonder (L&W). Headquartered in Las Vegas, Light & Wonder, Inc. is the leading cross-platform global game company that provides gambling products and services. Working with AWS, Light & Wonder recently developed an industry-first secure solution, Light & Wonder Connect (LnW Connect), to …
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Detecting delirium isn’t easy, but it can have a big payoff: speeding essential care to patients, leading to quicker and surer recovery. Improved detection also reduces the need for long-term skilled care, enhancing the quality of life for patients while decreasing a major financial burden. In the U.S., caring for those suffering from delirium costs …
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Introducing Palantir FedStart: Helping SaaS companies do business with the Government Editor’s Note: The following post is intended for SaaS companies seeking to provide solutions to the U.S. government at the speed of innovation but lacking the accreditations to do so. Palantir FedStart can help. Each year, the U.S. federal government spends around $100 billion on …
To provide stakeholders with vital IT services, organizations need to keep their private data centers operational, secure and compliant. Data center management encompasses the tasks and management tools necessary for doing so. A person responsible for carrying out these tasks is known as a data center manager. What is the role of a data center …