11 Dec

Google+ To Shut Down In April 2019 Due To Massive Data Leak

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Google has this time fallen trap to a data breach and the company is set to shut down its social media application Google+. This decision has been taken by the officials due to a second data breach at Google+. David Thacker, VP, Product management, G suite, posted an update saying, “With the discovery of a…

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11 Dec

An AI-Based ‘Tag’ By This Indian Startup May Just Revolutionise The Fake Products Market

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Trotting that fake designer bag? Don’t brag, because this artificial intelligence-based ‘tag’ by an Indian startup may just call you out. Exploring AI in a unique way, this one-year-old startup has brought some interesting offerings to eliminate counterfeit products in the market, which is one of the major challenges companies face today. With offices in…

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11 Dec

How Google’s Gpipe Is Using Pipeline Parallelism For Training Neural Networks

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Training bigger neural networks can be challenging when faced with accelerator memory limits.  The size of the datasets being used by machine learning models is very large nowadays. For example, a standard image classification datasets like hashtagged Instagram contains millions of images. With increasing quality of the images, the memory required will also increase. Today,…

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11 Dec

Show Me The Money: MachineHack Challenges You To Predict Data Scientists’ Salaries

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Analytics India Magazine’s hackathon platform MachineHack.com is working towards creating great competitions for data science lovers and enthusiasts. This month we are challenging our participants to predict the salary of working professionals in the industry based on the data gathered by us. As we all know, Data Scientist has been dubbed the “sexiest job” of…

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11 Dec

Would You Chat With An AI Bot Just Because It Reminds You Of Your Loved One?

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Moscow-based researcher, Eugenia Kuyda has developed an app which can help one reconnect with their loved ones. According to reports, Kyuda was inspired by an episode from the dystopian Netflix show Black Mirror, where the protagonist reconnects with her dead boyfriend via a chatbot. Kyuda lost her best friend, Roman Mazurenko in 2015, after which…

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11 Dec

Is Python The New MS Excel In Data Science?

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Advanced Excel skills are still in high demand, especially in the financial sector. But, in the data science industry, Python is fast picking up as a competing tool against Excel. While there can be no grounds for comparing the two, in this article we set out the many overlapping areas that make Python a much-favoured…

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10 Dec

Tesla’s Mad Max Autopilot Is To Driving, What Jarvis Is To Iron Man

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Tesla announced the ‘On-ramp to Off-ramp’ feature with the release of Autopilot 2.0 and the Enhanced Autopilot package back in 2016. This year, Tesla launched its ‘Mad Max’ autopilot mode. The company’s technology has always created immense anticipation among not just car enthusiasts, but also technology enthusiasts in general. With its new Version 9 of…

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10 Dec

Can Julia Be The New Python? Here’s What You Need To Know

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Python is undoubtedly the most popular language among data scientist and machine learning professionals. But Julia, founded in 2009 by three Indian computer scientists, is now gaining popularity in the field. This year in August, Julia developers announced the 1.0 release of their project, which means that the language is no longer at a ‘developer’s…

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10 Dec

Cognizant’s Sudden Layoff Is A Lesson Why IT Professionals Should Future-proof Their Jobs ASAP

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The news of 200 director-level executives being laid off this year by Cognizant gave many techies the chills. The extreme step was taken to align Cognizant’s talent pool to the newer digital requirements. The company let go of employees who reportedly “could not adjust” to the current technology environment and failed to add new skills…

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10 Dec

5 Python Unit Test Frameworks To Learn In 2019

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Testing applications have become a necessary skill set to become a proficient developer today. The Python community supports testing and the Python standard library has well-built tools to support testing. In the Python environment, there are abundant testing tools to handle the complex testing needs. Unittest Inspired by the JUnit framework and having similar characteristics,…

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