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Practical Computational Balance: The Challenges Of Software
Three months ago, The Next Platform promised a three part conversation about practical computational balance with the final part focusing on software. …
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Intel AI VP Gadi Singer On One Song To The Tune Of Another
In the United Kingdom, there is a topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show called I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. …
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Making AI Users Accountable For Their Algorithms
Any new and powerful technology always cuts both ways.
The rapid rise of the machine learning flavor of artificial intelligence is due to the fact that, unlike prior approaches, it actually works and therefore can be embraced by a wide swath of businesses, research and educational institutions, and technology companies. …
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Chewing A Billion By Billion Matrix Crammed Into Gigabytes Of Memory
Sometimes, to appreciate a new technology or technique, we have to get into the weeds a bit. …
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Playing Dominoes In Data Science
The growing amounts of data that are being generated due to such trends as the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing have naturally beget the need for data scientists who can collect, analyze and, most importantly, interpret these massive stockpiles of complex information to help their companies more quickly and accurately make better business decisions to give them a competitive edge over competitors and to improve their operations and make them more efficient. …
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Recruiting The Puppet Masters Of Infrastructure
All kinds of convergence is going on in infrastructure these days, with the mashing up of servers and storage or servers and networking, or sometimes all three at once. …
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Is Open Source The AI Nirvana For Intel?
Intel has been making some interesting moves in the community space recently, including free licenses for its compiler suite for educators and open source contributors can now be had, as can rotating 90 day licenses for its full System Studio environment for anyone who takes the time to sign up. …
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Will Chapel Mark Next Great Awakening for Parallel Programmers?
Just because supercomputers are engineered to be far more powerful over time does not necessarily mean programmer productivity will follow the same curve. …
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Deep Learning In R: Documentation Drives Algorithms
Hard to believe, but the R programming language has been with us since 1993. …
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An Inside Look at What Powers Microsoft’s Internal Systems for AI R&D
For those who might expect Microsoft to favor its own Windows-centric platforms and tools to power comprehensive infrastructure for serving AI compute and software services for internal R&D groups, plan on being surprised. …