From the decades before the turn of the century until the global pandemic, great economic growth spread across the world, driving historic demand in commodities and consumer goods. But this economic growth, coupled with stringent labor laws, drove up labor costs. By sourcing materials and labor from countries with lower labor and manufacturing costs, businesses …
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Amazon SageMaker Studio is a web-based integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that lets you build, train, debug, deploy, and monitor your ML models. For provisioning Studio in your AWS account and Region, you first need to create an Amazon SageMaker domain—a construct that encapsulates your ML environment. More concretely, a SageMaker domain …
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Posted by Shaina Mehta, Program Manager, Google This week marks the beginning of the premier annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference (CVPR 2023), held in-person in Vancouver, BC (with additional virtual content). As a leader in computer vision research and a Platinum Sponsor, Google Research will have a strong presence across CVPR 2023 with …
Interfaces for machine learning (ML), information and visualizations about models or data, can help practitioners build robust and responsible ML systems. Despite their benefits, recent studies of ML teams and our interviews with practitioners (n=9) showed that ML interfaces have limited adoption in practice. While existing ML interfaces are effective for specific tasks, they are …
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Data Lifecycles: Protecting Data with Privacy First Principles From the Ukraine war and COVID-19 pandemic to preventing wildfires in California and facilitating cancer research — Palantir’s impact in supporting mission critical problems is widely known. What may be less apparent is the effort it takes for our products to even be in the room when it comes …
Moving forward, all IBM DB2 on Cloud instances in Toronto and Sao Paulo must be moved to the multi-zone regions (MZRs). Multi-zone regions are a modernized approach to resource deployment that provide better resiliency, availability and consistent cloud services across different zones. They also provide higher interconnect speed between data centers for your resources. Future …
At SambaSafety, their mission is to promote safer communities by reducing risk through data insights. Since 1998, SambaSafety has been the leading North American provider of cloud–based mobility risk management software for organizations with commercial and non–commercial drivers. SambaSafety serves more than 15,000 global employers and insurance carriers with driver risk and compliance monitoring, online …
When it comes to managing assets throughout their lifecycle, business leaders know they need a comprehensive strategy in place to succeed. But they aren’t always clear on the strategic opportunities around parts inventory management and the role it plays in maintenance strategy. While asset management solutions monitor buildings, equipment, vehicles, IT assets and other items …
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Posted by Juhyun Lee and Raman Sarokin, Software Engineers, Core Systems & Experiences The proliferation of large diffusion models for image generation has led to a significant increase in model size and inference workloads. On-device ML inference in mobile environments requires meticulous performance optimization and consideration of trade-offs due to resource constraints. Running inference of …
Dive into Deep Learning (D2L.ai) is an open-source textbook that makes deep learning accessible to everyone. It features interactive Jupyter notebooks with self-contained code in PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, and MXNet, as well as real-world examples, exposition figures, and math. So far, D2L has been adopted by more than 400 universities around the world, such as …