NVIDIA’s AI advance: Natural language processing gets faster and better all the time
Yesterday NVIDIA announced record-breaking developments in machine learning for natural language processing. How and why did it do this, and what does it mean for the world at large?
Read More →Forget silicon – SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases
A couple of years back, even researchers would wave off using DNA to store data as something too futuristic to have any practical value. Today, you can extend PostgreSQL with the right software and bio-chemical modules, and run SQL on DNA.
Read More →Advancing human exploration: Is space the final frontier, and how can data and AI get us there?
Fifty years after the moon landing, it's not just NASA working on what many consider the final frontier for humanity: space travel. NASA, however, is special, and one of the reasons is that data is at the heart of what it does.
Read More →The state of AI in 2019: Breakthroughs in machine learning, natural language processing, games, and knowledge graphs
A tour de force on progress in AI, by some of the world's leading experts and venture capitalists.
Read More →Salesforce open sources research to advance state of the art in AI for common sense reasoning
Deep learning is great for many applications, but common sense reasoning is not one of them. New research from Salesforce promises to alleviate this, advancing previous results by a considerable margin.
Read More →Getting your corporate data ready for prescriptive analytics: data quantity and quality in equal measures
Good news: there's nothing special about getting your data ready for prescriptive analytics. Bad news: you need to do what's needed to get your data ready for any type of analytics – and that's hard work.
Read More →A guide for prescriptive analytics: The art and science of choosing and applying the right techniques
Prescriptive analytics is nothing short of automating your business. But there's lots of hard work, and many stages you need to go through before you get there.
Read More →Breaking up Facebook? Try data literacy, social engineering, personal knowledge graphs, and developer advocacy
Yes, Facebook is a data-driven monopoly. But the only real way to break it up is by getting hold of its data and functionality, one piece at a time. It will take a combination of tech, data, and social engineering to get there. And graphs — personal knowledge graphs.
Read More →A standard for storing big data? Apache Spark creators release open-source Delta Lake
From data lakes to data swamps and back again. Data reliability, as in transactional support, is one of the pain-points keeping organizations from getting the most out of their data lakes. Delta Lake is here to address this.
Read More →Google Cloud gives open-source data vendors a break. Will that save open source?
Google will give open-source data vendors that offer their software on Google Cloud a share of the proceeds. It's a good move, and a good thing. But there's more than meets the eye here.
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