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Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Tim O'Reilly. Broken screen (source: Pixabay) This post originally published on Quartz. It’s a nerve-wracking time to be a Big Tech company. Yesterday, a US subcommittee on antitrust grilled representatives from Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple in Congress, and presidential candidates have gone so far as to suggest that these behemoths should be broken up. In the European Union, regulation is already happening: in March, the EU levied its third multibillion-dollar fine against Googlefor anti-competitive behavior. In his 2018 letter to shareholders, published this past April, Jeff Bezos was already prepping for conversations with ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Objects detected with OpenCV's Deep Neural Network module (DNN). (source: MTheiler on Wikimedia Commons) Alex Ratner’s talk, "Building and managing training data sets for ML with Snorkel," is part of strong slate of sessions on "Data, Data Networks, Data Quality" at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Jose, September 9-12, 2019. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Alex Ratner, ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Michael Bradley, David Gorman, Matt Lucas, Matthew Golby-Kirk. Chain link (source: Pixabay) This is an adapted excerpt from “Getting Started with Enterprise Blockchain”—read the full free ebook here. Blockchain is a solution for business networks. It makes sense to deploy a blockchain-based solution only where there is a network of collaborating participants who are issuing transactions around a set of common assets in the network. In this article, we’ll identify the initial crucial steps to identifying scenarios for a successful blockchain-based solution, and the first steps toward transforming your business model. Our first observation ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica, Yishay Carmiel. Sound wave circle (source: Public Domain Pictures.net) Check out the “Text, Language, and Speech” sessions at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference in London, 14-17 October 2019. Early price ends 6 September. As companies begin to explore AI technologies, three areas in particular are garnering a lot of attention: computer vision, natural language applications, and speech technologies. A recent report from the World Intellectual Patent Office (WIPO) found that together these three areas accounted for a majority of patents related to AI: computer vision (49% of all patents), natural language processing ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Labyrinth (source: Pixabay) Cassie Kozyrkov will deliver a keynote on safe, reliable, and responsible machine learning at the Strata Data Conference in New York City, September 23-26, 2019. Early price ends August 9. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Cassie Kozyrkov, technical director and chief decision scientist at Google Cloud. She describes "decision intelligence" as an interdisciplinary field concerned with ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Andy Oram. Siren light (source: Pixabay) Check out Site Reliability Engineering and The Site Reliability Workbook for more incident response tips from Google SREs. Incident response is like security: when you do it well, no one notices because everything just works the way it should. With both incident response and security, the costs are obvious to the organization while the benefits remain amorphous. And as with security, a lack of attention to incident response could be regretted—you can lose a good deal of money while your systems are non-functional. Even worse, your clients and ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Mike Loukides. Stereogram (source: fdecomite on Flickr) A recent paper, Natural Adversarial Examples, pointed out many real-world images that machine learning (ML) systems identify incorrectly: squirrels classified as sea lions or frogs, eagles classified as limousines, mushrooms classified as pretzels or nails, and so on. If you’re involved with machine learning, you’ve probably seen a number of these images already, in addition to others. It's important to realize that machine learning makes mistakes. Not only does it make mistakes, it always will make mistakes; unlike traditional programming, it's impossible for any ML system to ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Research lab (source: SMU Libraries Digital Collections on Flickr) There are several outstanding training sessions and tutorials that cover PyTorch, TensorFlow, and other important topics at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference in San Jose, September 9-12, 2019. Early price ends August 2. In a recent survey—AI Adoption in the Enterprise, which drew more than 1,300 respondents—we found significant usage of several machine learning (ML) libraries and frameworks. About half indicated they used TensorFlow or scikit-learn, and a third reported they were using PyTorch or Keras. I recently attended an interesting RISELab presentation ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Adrian Cockcroft. This is a keynote highlight from the O'Reilly Open Source Software Conference in Portland 2019. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O'Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Adrian Cockcroft is vice president of cloud architecture strategy at Amazon Web Services, where he focuses on the needs of cloud native and all-in customers and leads the AWS open source community development program. Adrian has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology and is fascinated by what happens next. Previously ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Adam Jacob. This is a keynote highlight from the O'Reilly Open Source Software Conference in Portland 2019. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O'Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Adam Jacob is a CTO at Chef. A systems administrator for 25 years, he helped write Chef and Habitat, cofounded and is on the board of Chef Software, and is a passionate advocate for sustainable free and open source communities. He also likes beaches more than mountains, is allergic to plants, and gets nervous every ... Read More