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Google Applies NLP Algorithm BERT to Search
BERT, Google's latest NLP algorithm, will power Google search and make it better at understanding user queries in a way more similar to how humans would understand them, writes Pandu Nayak, Google fellow and vice president for Search, with one in 10 queries providing a different set of results.
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Alexa Research Paper Shows Genetic Algorithms Offer Best Solution for Neural Network Optimization
Amazon's Alexa Science researchers published a paper providing a theoretical basis for neural network optimization. While showing that it is computationally intractable to find a perfect solution, the paper does provide a formulation, the Approximate Architecture Search Problem (a-ASP), that can be solved with genetic algorithms.
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Vlingo Joins the Reactive Foundation
Vlingo, creators of a platform designed to simplify building reactive systems using an actor model, has joined the Reactive Foundation. Launched in September, the Reactive Foundation was formed under the Linux Foundation to accelerate technologies for building the next generation of networked applications. Vlingo is a new charter member, joining Alibaba, Facebook, Lightbend, Netifi and Pivotal.
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TriggerMesh Announces EveryBridge Serverless Event Bus
Recently TriggerMesh announced EveryBridge, an event bus that can consume events from various sources. These events are then used to start functions, which can run at any of the major cloud providers as well as on-premises.
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Google Introduces TensorFlow Enterprise in Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced TensorFlow Enterprise, a cloud-based TensorFlow machine learning service that includes enterprise-grade support and managed services.
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Platforms Demystified: Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Eirini, and Knative
Matthias Haeussler and Dr Nic Williams spoke at this year's SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference about different cloud platforms and how they compare in terms of features from a developer perspective.
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Predicting the Future of the Web: Richard Feldman at ReactiveConf 2019
At ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague, Richard Feldman drew on his 12 years of professional Web development experience, and history of being an early adopter of technologies like React in 2013 and Elm in 2014, to make and justify some concrete predictions about the future of the Web in both 2020 and 2025.
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DOES 2019: Michael Winslow and Leslie Chapman on the Black Employees Network Engineers at Comcast
Comcast presented several talks at the 2019 DevOps Enterprise Summit. Michael Scott Winslow, director software development and engineering, and Leslie Chapman, distinguished engineer, presented a DevOps Confession about how challenging it is to feel fully included and to emerge as a successful technology leader when we belong to a diverse and minority group.
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How Digital Culture Can Drive the Digital Transformation
Digital culture is the key ingredient for digital transformations; it increases productivity and innovation in order to maintain a competitive edge, said Aisling Curtis. At Women in Tech Dublin 2019 she spoke about the future of work and the role that digital culture plays in digital transformations.
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Open Source CNCF CloudEvents Specification Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
CloudEvents is an open-source specification for describing event data in a standard way and is intended to ease event declaration and delivery across services, platforms, and beyond. The driving force behind the specification is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which recently announced that the specification had reached a version 1.0 milestone.
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Alternatives to RViz for Visualising Robotics Data Presented: Summary from ROSCon 2019
During ROSCon 2019 two interesting tools for visualising and interacting with ROS were demonstrated. The first tool which was demonstrated is Webviz, an online web-based replacement for RViz. Another interesting option which gives you more options for interaction is using Jupyter notebooks to visualise and interact with your robot.
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How the USCIS Bridged the Divide between IT and the Business at DOES 2019
An IT and business USCIS team who led their largest IT transformation program to date presented their journey at the 2019 DevOps Enterprise Summit. In 2017, they embarked on their digitalization journey with the goal to optimize their manual adjudication processes. They overcame the challenges and delivered business outcomes while improving on their DevOps technology.
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PyTorch and TensorFlow: Which ML Framework is More Popular in Academia and Industry
An article that was recently published on the gradient is examining the current state of Machine Learning frameworks in 2019. The article is utilizing some metrics to argue the point that PyTorch is quickly becoming the dominant framework for research, whereas TensorFlow is the dominant framework for applications in the industry. In this article we will dive into their differences.
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iRobot’s Experience in Running ROS2 on Linux-Based Embedded Platforms
During ROSCon 2019, Alberto Soragna, Juan Oxoby, and Dhiraj Goel from iRobot presented their experience in using ROS 2 on a low-cost embedded platform. By experimenting with different Data Distribution Service (DDS) implementations they reduced the CPU and memory usage of their application, which improved performance.
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NetBeans Celebrates 20 Years of Guidance
NetBeans recently celebrated their 20th year since the company was acquired by Sun Micrososystems. Former members gathered to celebrate the journey from student project, into Sun, then Oracle, finally ending up in the Apache Software Foundation.