Archives for August, 2019 - Page 5

27 Aug

RIP Arun Jaitley: From Powering Digital India To Investing In AI, The Former FinMin Spearheaded Our Tech Transformation

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India under the regime of former finance minister and late Arun Jaitley saw one of the most fast-paced growth in usage and adoption of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, data science, data analytics and internet of things in the public as well as the private sector. Jaitley, who passed away on 24 August, spearheaded the…

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27 Aug

Is Angel Tax Exemption A New Beginning For The Indian Startup Ecosystem?

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On 23 August, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman made some policy announcements in order to help give a boost to the slowing economy. Among them was a particular announcement that the startup community in India had been waiting for years — the Angel Tax exemption. The finance minister brought relief to thousands of startups in the…

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27 Aug

What Are The Challenges Of Training Recurrent Neural Networks?

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The traditional feed-forward neural networks are not good with time-series data and other sequences or sequential data. This data can be something as volatile as stock prices or a continuous video stream from an on-board camera of an autonomous car. Handling time series data is where RNNs excel. They were designed to grasp the information…

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27 Aug

How Tech Giants Are Advocating Open Source Software As Vehicle Of Change

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Open-sourced projects branched out from the free-software movement which began in the late 80s. Almost every big tech organisation has been open-sourcing its innovative projects to the public as well as the developer communities for several years now.  According to the 2018 Open Source Program Management survey by Linux Foundation, open-source projects are set to…

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27 Aug

Could Big Data And AI Help Have Helped In Predicting & Battling The Amazon Wildfire?

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You all must have seen #PrayForAmazon all over the internet as the issue is much bigger than we can imagine. Spanning 9 countries ­— Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, where the majority of the forest is contained within Brazil.…

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27 Aug

How Zero Copy Data Virtualization Can Help Enterprises Become AI Ready

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Molecula is a Data Virtualization Platform that can created instantaneous access to huge, disparate, and geographically distributed datasets to help machine learning and analytical workloads at a much small cost compared to traditional approaches. There is an unabating amount of growing data distributed across the modern-day business in multiple formats, types, and locations. Every day…

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27 Aug

My Journey To Getting A Data Science Job As A Fresher — Part 2: The Hustle

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In my last article, I wrote about how I began my journey in Data Science. You can read the first part of my story here: My Journey To Getting A Data Science Job As A Fresher — Part 1: The Struggle So to pick from where I left last time, I managed to get an…

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26 Aug

No, Gary Marcus, It’s Not Fair To Criticise DeepMind’s Research, Despite Its Ballooning Losses

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Gary Marcus is at it again — flogging Deep Learning’s biggest contributor Google-owned DeepMind over its astounding $572 million loss. In an authored article, Marcus not only bemoaned DeepMind’s losses but also raised questions whether AI research is heading in the right direction. While the company’s losses show the challenges faced by the AI community…

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26 Aug

Beyond AR & VR: AI-Assisted Mixed Reality Is The Culmination Of Decades Worth Of Research

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Stanley Weinbaum in his short story Pygmalion Spectacles introduced the world to the idea of goggles that allow users to experience an artificial reality. Weinbaum pondered over this idea and went as far as creating a reality that also has tastes and touch along with vision. Though works of Weinbaum were considered to push the…

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26 Aug

How India & France Are Collaborating To Create A Secure Cyberspace

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In recent times, India has witnessed some of the most notorious cyberattacks, not only on individuals but also on business and government entities. According to reports, India bags the third place in 2018 after Mexico and France in terms of most number of cyberattacks in businesses. India was also the most attacked nation in the…

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