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PaddlePaddle deep learning framework expands AI to industrial applications
“Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 8/8/2022
Above the Trend Line: your industry rumor central is a recurring feature of insideBIGDATA. In this column, we present a variety of short time-critical news items grouped by category such as M&A activity, people movements, funding news, financial results, industry alignments, customer wins, rumors and general scuttlebutt floating around the …
Introduction to Data Types in Python
Python implements built-in data types, so programmers need to know their options — and when to use each one Python is an object-oriented language, and everything in it is an object. Each object is a specific type, and a class defines each type — this is the definition of a …
Sequoia tree wildfire protection
For Reuters, Travis Hartman, Ally J. Levine, and Anurag Rao describe the measures…Tags: Reuters, sequoia, trees, wildfire
Vetted Raises $14m To Help Consumers Buy Relevant Products At The Best Prices
When looking for the most relevant products and the best prices, shoppers don’t – surprisingly – have many options available to them. Depending on which research you believe, around 38-44% of product searches begin on Amazon, and another 40% or so start with a search engine. Mostly Google, of course. …
Seconds to hours
Suppose you have a number of seconds n and you want to convert it to hours and seconds. If you divide n by 3600, the quotient is the number of hours and the remainder is the number of seconds. For example, suppose n = 8072022. Here’s the obvious way to …
Memorizing Planck’s constant with DALL-E
Planck’s constant used to be a measured quantity and now it is exact by definition. h = 6.62607015×10−34 J / Hz Rather than the kilogram being implicit in the units used to measure Planck’s constant, the mass of a kilogram is now defined to be whatever it has to be …
Climate Change is an Existential Threat, and Businesses Need Data to Fight It
In this contributed article, Or Lenchner, CEO, Bright Data, examines how public web data collection is essential to ESG efforts in 2022. The recent International Panel on Climate Change report warned that we aren’t doing enough to avoid the dire impacts of climate change – businesses must use every tool …
How Fast Can You CitiBike?
Introduction In the last blog post about CitiBike, the feasibility of bike-share ridership in NYC was evaluated. Now, it is time to turn attention to the actual performance of riding the bikes in context. Variables to be considered include the type of rider and bike, the distance covered, the location …
DALL-E 2 and mnemonic images
I recently got an account for using OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 image generator. The example images I’ve seen are sorta surreal combinations of common words, and that made me thing of the Major memory system. I’ve written about the Major system before. For example, I give an overview here and I …
Best of Tableau Web: July 2022
Mark Bradbourne National Solutions Engineer, Tableau Bronwen Boyd August 5, 2022 - 10:29pm August 6, 2022 Happy Dog Days of Summer, DataFam! I recently learned that the phrase Dog Days of Summer has nothing to do with dogs, rather, it’s a reference to the celestial bodies above. In particular, it …
Best of Tableau Web: July 2022
Mark Bradbourne National Solutions Engineer, Tableau Bronwen Boyd August 5, 2022 - 10:29pm August 6, 2022 Happy Dog Days of Summer, DataFam! I recently learned that the phrase Dog Days of Summer has nothing to do with dogs, rather, it’s a reference to the celestial bodies above. In particular, it …
Monitoring and controlling digital manufacturing with AI
To track and modify the digital manufacturing processes in real-time, researchers trained a new AI. Although scientists and engineers are continually creating new materials with special features that can be utilized for 3D printing, figuring out how to print with them can be challenging and expensive. A simulation teaches the …
TikTok data privacy concerns push companies to review their social media strategies
Machine learning makes life easier for data scientists
The much-awaited comparison is finally here: machine learning vs data science. The terms “data science” and “machine learning” are among the most popular terms in the industry in the twenty-first century. These two methods are being used by everyone, from first-year computer science students to large organizations like Netflix and
Naming probability functions
Given a random variable X, you often want to compute the probability that X will take on a value less than x or greater than x. Define the functions FX(x) = Prob(X ≤ x) and GX(x) = Prob(X > x) What do you call F and G? I tend to …
The Conceptual Data Model’s Unwavering Role in Data Governance
In this contributed article, editorial consultant Jelani Harper highlights how in an age in which data governance has become all but synonymous with data privacy and data protection, there are numerous aspects of data management that are regarded much differently than how they traditionally were. Data modeling, for example, is …
Floating point inverses and stability
Let f be a monotone, strictly convex function on a real interval I and let g be its inverse. For example, we could have f(x) = ex and g(x) = log x. Now suppose we round our results to N digits. That is, instead of working with f and g …