Tag: Patterns

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. I suck at the NCAA March Madness® bracket selection process.  I let my personal biases get in the way of making decisions based upon the numbers.  I over-rate the well-known Big Ten conference and under-rate the lesser-known Mid Majors and fall in love with the most recent team I saw on TV win their conference tournament.  You see, I fall prey to all the common decision-making traps – recency bias, over-confidence, anchoring, risk aversion, framing – that doom my brackets from the very beginning.  (See the Appendix for more ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Rosaria Silipo. We’ve all experienced the great data rush as companies push to use analytics to drive business decisions. After all, the proliferation of data and its intelligent analysis can change entire company trajectories. But to make the quintillions of data created each day truly useful, as well as all that has come before, it must be understandable to an artificial intelligence (AI) system.   Dealing with numbers is one thing, but human language is something else entirely. Making texts, comments, forum posts, tweets, web pages, blog posts, reviews and books ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Josefin Rosén. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are words that evoke a sense of inhumanity, of cold and mechanical functions. In reality, AI is coming closer and closer to reaching human understanding through capabilities like deep learning and natural language processing (NLP). With early chatbots, you had to ask exactly the right question to get the matched right answer. But with rapid advancements in NLP and deep learning, chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more and more sophisticated. For example, Google Assistant, debuted in 2016, has shown remarkable ability in mimicking human speech patterns. This allowed ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. I present here some innovative results in my most recent research on stochastic processes. chaos modeling, and dynamical systems, with applications to Fintech, cryptography, number theory, and random number generators. While covering advanced topics, this article is accessible to professionals with limited knowledge in statistical or mathematical theory. It introduces new material not covered in my recent book (available here) on applied stochastic processes. You don't need to read my book to understand this article, but the book is a nice complement and introduction to the concepts discussed here. None ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Nikki McDonald. Wind farm (source: Pixabay) Get expert guidance on building and running cloud native infrastructure at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in San Jose 2019. Register soon: best price ends March 22. Nearly all organizations today are doing some of their business in the cloud, but the push for increased feature performance and reliability has sparked a growing number to embrace a cloud native infrastructure. In Capgemini’s survey of more than 900 executives, adoption of cloud native apps is set to jump from 15% to 32% by 2020. The strong combination of growth in ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Patrick Hall. Cyber crime (source: Pixabay) Check out the "Ethics, Privacy, and Security" sessions at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in New York, April 15-18, 2019. Like many others, I’ve known for some time that machine learning models themselves could pose security risks. A recent flourish of posts and papers has outlined the broader topic, listed attack vectors and vulnerabilities, started to propose defensive solutions, and provided the necessary framework for this post. The objective here is to brainstorm on potential security vulnerabilities and defenses in the context of popular, traditional predictive modeling systems, such ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Isabella Ava. The use of technology is increasing day after day and so are the methods being advanced to reach the increasing demand. Today, we have come to a point where digital channels are becoming the norm, providing the brain with all the senses and limbs it needs. A typical Artificial Intelligence perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goalsArtificial Intelligence has the potential to vastly change the way that humans interact with the digital world and in the near future, its impact is likely to grow ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mujtaba Hamid. This blog post was co-authored by Patrick Mendenall, Principal Program Manager, Azure.  We are excited to join the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week to learn what’s new and share our work in Azure focused on enabling modern, global games via cloud and cloud-native technologies. Cloud computing is increasingly important for today’s global gaming ecosystem, empowering developers of any size to reach gamers in any part of the world. Azure’s 54 datacenter regions, and its robust global network, provides globally available, high performance services, as well as a platform that is secure, reliable, and ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: holly-vatter; For almost 20 years, Netezza technology has been at the forefront of advanced analytics, even as field of analytics has grown. New database architectures, vast increases in processing power, new tools and far more sources of data have combined to transform analytics. In this landscape of change, Netezza technology has evolved as well. After originating as a purely transactional database system, Netezza built the industry’s first true “data warehouse appliance,” rapidly increasing users’ ability to use different kinds of data while focusing on core strengths of simplicity, speed and low ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced new integrations with Slack to help sales and customer service professionals improve collaboration and increase productivity. The new integrations between Slack and Oracle Customer Experience (CX) Cloud leverage Slack’s platform features to build and support integrations in sales and service applications. The Slack integration with Oracle CX Cloud helps sales leaders to close deals faster by streamlining collaboration with broader teams, such as account executives, sales management, product specialists and contract managers, and enables deals to be viewed and closed in the context of a Slack channel or conversation. This integration also ... Read More