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Documentation enhancements for Deephaven Community | Deephaven

Documentation enhancements for Deephaven Community | Deephaven

Deephaven's API continues to grow with each release, as does the base of documentation supporting it. In addition to documenting brand-new features, we continue to revise and expand existing documentation. Read on to learn about some of the most significant recent changes to the Deephaven documentation.Documentation of brand-new features includes:We've added a new section for Community Questions. Here, you'll find answers from the Deephaven team to frequently asked user questions. If you have a question, feel free to ask us on Slack.New additions to the Deephaven user guide include:New reference documents include:Deephaven's documentation team has been working hard on a…
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AI Chip Deficit: Alternatives to Nvidia GPUs – EE Times

AI Chip Deficit: Alternatives to Nvidia GPUs – EE Times

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> In January 2024, leading private equity firm Blackstone announced it was building a $25 billion AI data empire. A few months later, OpenAI and Microsoft followed suit with a proposition to build Stargate, a $100 billion AI supercomputer that will launch the company to the forefront of the AI revolution.   Of course, this is not a surprise. With the rapid acceleration the AI sector has witnessed over the past few years, industry giants all over the world are in a frantic haste to get front-row seats. Experts already predict the…
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Automatic retry function with Kotlin flows

Automatic retry function with Kotlin flows

Table of contents Short code example Why use this? My app on the Google play store Resources Programming Android with Kotlin: Achieving Structured Concurrency with Coroutines. Chapter 10 Short code example Here is the code that will allow you to make automatic retries on a flow: fun <T, R : Any> Flow<T>.mapWithRetry( action: suspend (T) -> R, predicate: suspend (R, attempt: Int) -> Boolean ) = map { data -> var attempt = 0L var shallRetry: Boolean var lastValue: R? = null do { val tr = action(data) shallRetry = predicate(tr, (++attempt).toInt()) if (!shallRetry) lastValue = tr } while (shallRetry)…
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NATO Innovation Fund announces its new investment team

NATO Innovation Fund announces its new investment team

The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) has announced its new investment team with experience that spans AI, energy and climate, quantum, materials, space tech and semiconductors. These knowledge sets will be used to “identify cutting edge startups, support leading founders, and help bolster the defence, security and resilience of allied nations.” They join our founding team that have worked over the past 12 months to kickstart the fund’s investment activity, including Managing Partner Andrea Traversone, Kelly Chen, Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky, Thorsten Claus and Chris O’Connor. Senior Associate Ben Banforth was previously an Investment Manager at XTX Ventures, the venture arm of XTX…
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New generative media models and tools, built with and for creators

New generative media models and tools, built with and for creators

Responsible from design to deploymentWe’re mindful about not only advancing the state of the art, but doing so responsibly. So we’re taking measures to address the challenges raised by generative technologies and helping enable people and organizations to responsibly work with AI-generated content.For each of these technologies, we’ve been working with the creative community and other external stakeholders, gathering insights and listening to feedback to help us improve and deploy our technologies in safe and responsible ways.We’ve been conducting safety tests, applying filters, setting guardrails, and putting our safety teams at the center of development. Our teams are also pioneering…
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Microsoft releases Windows 11 24H2 to the Release Preview channel – gHacks Tech News

Microsoft releases Windows 11 24H2 to the Release Preview channel – gHacks Tech News

Microsoft has released the upcoming 2024 feature update for Windows 11 to the Release Preview channel. The update is available for testing ahead of its final release later this year. The final version is expected to be released in September or October. It marks the start of Copilot+ PCs, which is a new PC class that is required to run most of the AI functions of the Windows 11 operating system. These PCs have new requirements, including a dedicated NPU chip. The early release is noteworthy for a number of reasons: Windows 11 version 24H2 can't be installed on devices…
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VivaTech & The New French Tech Next40/120: When AI Meets Green Tech

VivaTech & The New French Tech Next40/120: When AI Meets Green Tech

Paris will be the center of innovation and technology this week. The 2024 edition of VivaTech in Paris is set to be a great success with more than 150,000 in-person visitors. It has become the largest technology and innovation event in Europe with CEOs, C-leaders, VCs, and startups attending from all over the world. The lineup of speakers is quite impressive with Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, X), Robin Li (Baidu), Eric Schmidt (former CEO of Google), John Kerry (68th US Secretary of State), Charles Michel (European Council President), Marc Pritchard (P&G chief brand officer), Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montreal professor),…
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Knowledge Copilots

Knowledge Copilots

Generational features essays on the business of AI and spotlights outstanding AI companies and products. This essay began as a personal side project building knowledge graphs but evolved into an extensive exploration of knowledge copilots, retrieval augmented generation, and user experience. The main takeaway is that for knowledge intensive tasks, use multiquery RAG and thoughtful UX.A knowledge copilot is a user’s thought partner, optimized for retrieving information from a knowledge base, reasoning through context, and synthesizing responses. It is much more than a wrapper around foundation models for generating copy or poems. For instance, a business analyst synthesizing the latest…
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Which technologies will enable a cleaner steel industry?

Which technologies will enable a cleaner steel industry?

Decarbonizing the steel industry is a crucial challenge to overcome if the world is going to meet its climate goals. Steel production contributes around 11% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, making it one of the heaviest polluting industries and a heavy-emitting sector of focus for the First Movers Coalition, an initiative seeking to aggregate demand for near-zero emissions products and services across some of the world’s most polluting industries.The coalition’s mission is to drive investment and accelerate the scaling of the breakthrough technologies required to make these products by demonstrating a credible demand signal for highly decarbonized products.But how can…
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Ines Montani at QCon London: Economies of Scale Can’t Monopolise the AI Revolution

Ines Montani at QCon London: Economies of Scale Can’t Monopolise the AI Revolution

During her presentation at QCon London, Ines Montani, co-founder and CEO of explosion.ai (the maker of spaCy), stated that economies of scale are not enough to create monopolies in the AI space and that open-source techniques and models will allow everybody to keep up with the "Gen AI revolution". Montani opened her presentation by asking for a show of hands to identify the open-source users in the audience. The vast majority of the audience raised their hand, easily demonstrating that open-source is ubiquitous ("it would be easier to ask who doesn’t use open-source’"). She pointed out the multiple benefits of the…
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