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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” ” They weren’t quite sure what this “data” substance was, but they’d convinced themselves that they had tons of it that they could monetize.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

Amazon Rekognition's face comparison and face search features can provide businesses with face-based authentication, verification of identity, and the ability to detect the presence of a specific person in a collection of images. We are in the early days of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Face recognition.

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