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Intellectual debt: The hidden costs of machine learning

Dynatrace

Even small amounts of technical debt compound as new code branches from old, further embedding the shortcomings into the system. Technical Debt—Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03. The sudden lure of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems designed for IT brings new urgency to the topic of intellectual debt.

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Introducing the Alexa Prize, It’s Day One for Voice

All Things Distributed

Voice makes access to digital services far more inclusive than traditional screen-based interaction, for example, an aging population may be much more comfortable interacting with voice-based systems than through tablets or keyboards. However, it is still Day One, and a lot of innovation is underway in this world.

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Improving Customer Service with Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex

All Things Distributed

Once connected, the systems that power call centers generally don't do a good job of using and sharing available information. When we set out to build Amazon Connect, we thought deeply about how artificial intelligence could be applied to improve the customer experience. AI has incredible potential in this area.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 Dataflow Processing Unit (DPU) is the product of Wave Computing, a Silicon Valley company which is revolutionizing artificial intelligence and deep learning with its dataflow-based solutions. The new GV100 packs 7.4

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

They published the original Transformer paper (not quite coincidentally called “Attention is All You Need”) in 2017, and released BERT , an open source implementation, in late 2018, but they never went so far as to build and release anything like OpenAI’s GPT line of services.

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Planning for Responsive Images

CSS - Tricks

In general, images are either: Dynamic : Dynamic images are uploaded by the audience, having been generated by other events in the system. Another strategy for handling dynamic images is to crop them intelligently to avoid deleting important content and refocus on (or re-center) the primary content. Strategy for dynamic images.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. Coincidence? Probably not, but only time will tell.