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How Intel’s Data Approach is Driven from the Inside Out
Over the last few years, every major technology company has made a grand movement to embrace data in much the same way they did in the mid-2000s with cloud. …
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Intel Fellow Outlines Bright Future for Deep Learning
“Machine learning connects supercomputing to consumers; its impact will be felt everywhere.” …
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Making NoSQL Scale Better On Hadoop
Document databases are an integral part of the application stack, but they often have scalability issues and they tend to end up off to the side of the Hadoop systems that are increasingly being used as a the repository of record for all kinds of data. …
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MemSQL Wants To Be The Storage Engine For Spark
The Spark in-memory processing framework that came out of the AMPLab at the University of California at Berkeley is hotter than hot. …
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Deep Learning and the New Bayesian Golden Age
If one were to look at the approximate results from various deep learning tasks; from image classification to speech recognition and beyond, the stand-by quote from Bayesian statistics that “probability is orderly opinion, and that inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information,” takes on added weight. …
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Google Fires Up Spark, Hadoop Service On Its Cloud
If Google knows a lot about one thing, it is that developers do not want to spend a lot of time setting up infrastructure just so they can create applications that chew on lots of data to run the business. …
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Making Cassandra Do Azure, But Not Windows
When Microsoft says that it is embracing Linux as a peer to Windows, it is not kidding. …
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Why Twitter Dumped Storm for Homegrown Real-Time Engine
If there is any phrase that describes Twitter, both from the infrastructure and end user points of view, it is real time. …
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Deep Belief Networks at Heart of NASA Image Classification
Deep learning algorithms have pushed image recognition and classification to new heights over the last few years, and those same approaches are now being moved into more complex image classification areas, including satellite imagery. …
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Airbnb Shares The Keys To Its Infrastructure
There was something ironic about meeting Mike Curtis, the vice president of engineering at Airbnb, in a hotel in lower Manhattan. …