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Strategic Leadership in the Digital Age

Strategic Leadership in the Digital Age

Beyond changing the technologies we use, the digital revolution has completely changed how companies run and compete. This change calls for new leaders-strategic leaders who can successfully negotiate the challenges of digital transformation and use technology improvements to propel organisational success. Understanding what is strategic leadership and management in this context is crucial. These terms encompass the adoption of technology and the capacity to anticipate and manage complicated developments to align them with long-term strategic goals. Table of Contents Understanding Strategic Leadership in the Digital Context Challenges of Strategic Leadership in the Digital Age Developing Strategic Leadership Capabilities Conclusion Understanding…
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Data Machina #255

Data Machina #255

New Trends in AI-RAG and Graphs. I’ve been doing a bit of research on how to improve RAG with graphs. I’m especially interested in augmenting agentic-RAG with the knowledge graph. A while back, Maya @Neo4j wrote a nice article on The Future of AI: Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs. I think that makes sense to me. Let me share some new, interesting stuff on RAG and Graphs:Graph RAG. Unlike RAG approaches that focus solely on text-based entity retrieval, GRAG maintains an acute awareness of graph topology, which is crucial for generating contextually and factually coherent responses. The researchers claim that…
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HOW DATAOPS PIVOT THE FUTURE OF DATA ENGINEERING?

HOW DATAOPS PIVOT THE FUTURE OF DATA ENGINEERING?

The quality of data matters while deriving targeted business insights. Data plays an elemental role across industries with wider applications. This is where a specialized data science expert comes in with a massive pool of skill sets. Deploying the correct efficiencies and tools in the data science industry has made realizing business goals possible. DevOps and Data Engineering work in tandem to intensify data harnessing and business amplification. Today, the global DataOps platform market size is estimated to reach USD 4 billion by 2024 (Future Market Insights). Understanding these concepts shall impact the pace at which your business dwells and…
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Mistral AI Unveils Codestral, Its First GenAI Model For Developers

Mistral AI Unveils Codestral, Its First GenAI Model For Developers

(whiteMocca/Shutterstock) Mistral AI, one of Europe’s premier artificial intelligence startups, has marked its entry into the programming and development space with the launch of Codestral, an open-weight generative AI model explicitly designed for code generation tasks. Trained on a dataset of 80 programming languages, Codestral is designed for various coding functions and can complete any partial code using a fill-in-the-middle mechanism, according to a blog post released by Mistral. Developers can also use the model as a learning tool to improve their coding skills and minimize errors.  Mistral claims that Codestral outperforms other AI models in coding tasks, including CodeLlama…
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Delta Sharing and The Emergence of the Lakehouse Customer Data Platform (CDP)

Delta Sharing and The Emergence of the Lakehouse Customer Data Platform (CDP)

Special thanks to Caleb Benningfield and Sam Malissa at Amperity for their valuable insights and contributions to this blog. Today, businesses face a significant challenge in handling a greater volume and complexity of customer data to power personalization at scale while also staying compliant with privacy regulations. This means prioritizing data quality and implementing an effective governance layer, but existing tools and methods that businesses used to rely on aren't up to the challenge.To address this challenge, many businesses have transitioned from cloud data warehouses and data lakes to a data lakehouse architecture. The data lakehouse combines the best of what…
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Conformal Recursive Feature Elimination

Conformal Recursive Feature Elimination

arXiv:2405.19429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unlike traditional statistical methods, Conformal Prediction (CP) allows for the determination of valid and accurate confidence levels associated with individual predictions based only on exchangeability of the data. We here introduce a new feature selection method that takes advantage of the CP framework. Our proposal, named Conformal Recursive Feature Elimination (CRFE), identifies and recursively removes features that increase the non-conformity of a dataset. We also present an automatic stopping criterion for CRFE, as well as a new index to measure consistency between subsets of features. CRFE selections are compared to the classical Recursive Feature Elimination…
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A Full-duplex Speech Dialogue Scheme Based On Large Language Models

A Full-duplex Speech Dialogue Scheme Based On Large Language Models

arXiv:2405.19487v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a generative dialogue system capable of operating in a full-duplex manner, allowing for seamless interaction. It is based on a large language model (LLM) carefully aligned to be aware of a perception module, a motor function module, and the concept of a simple finite state machine (called neural FSM) with two states. The perception and motor function modules operate simultaneously, allowing the system to simultaneously speak and listen to the user. The LLM generates textual tokens for inquiry responses and makes autonomous decisions to start responding to, wait for, or interrupt the user…
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Career Notes for May 2024

Career Notes for May 2024

(metamorworks/Shutterstock) In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details. Check in each month for an updated list and you may even come across someone you know, or better yet, yourself! Matt Garman Matt Garman AWS announced that starting June 3, Matt Garman will be its new CEO, replacing Adam Selipsky, who announced his resignation earlier in the month. Garman joined AWS as a college intern in 2005 when he was still in college,…
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Empowering Data Teams with Snowplow for First-Party Digital Event Data Collection

Empowering Data Teams with Snowplow for First-Party Digital Event Data Collection

With more and more customer interactions moving into the digital domain, it's increasingly important that organizations develop insights into online customer behaviors. In the past, many organizations relied on third-party data collectors for this, but growing privacy concerns, the need for more timely access to data and requirements for customized information collection are driving many organizations to move this capability in-house. Using customer data infrastructure (CDI) platforms such as Snowplow coupled with the real-time data processing and predictive capabilities of Databricks, these organizations can develop deeper, richer, more timely and more privacy-aware insights that allow them to maximize the potential…
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On the Convergence of Multi-objective Optimization under Generalized Smoothness

On the Convergence of Multi-objective Optimization under Generalized Smoothness

arXiv:2405.19440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-objective optimization (MOO) is receiving more attention in various fields such as multi-task learning. Recent works provide some effective algorithms with theoretical analysis but they are limited by the standard $L$-smooth or bounded-gradient assumptions, which are typically unsatisfactory for neural networks, such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and transformers. In this paper, we study a more general and realistic class of $ell$-smooth loss functions, where $ell$ is a general non-decreasing function of gradient norm. We develop two novel single-loop algorithms for $ell$-smooth MOO problems, Generalized Smooth Multi-objective Gradient descent (GSMGrad) and its stochastic variant, Stochastic…
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