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BBC Spotlight – The Lough Neagh Monster (2024)

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BBC Spotlight – The Lough Neagh Monster (2024)
English | Documentary | Size: 602 MB


Toxic algae, sewage spills and pollution – all in a major source of Northern Ireland’s drinking water. Environmentalists and users of Lough Neagh contend the largest lake in the UK or Ireland is dying. Patrick Fee investigates the Lough Neagh crisis and tracks down polluters. [Read more…]

Spotlight on Data – The Power of Deep Learning in the Hands of Domain Experts with Jeremy Howard and Hirokazu Narui

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Spotlight on Data – The Power of Deep Learning in the Hands of Domain Experts with Jeremy Howard and Hirokazu Narui
English | Size: 467.55 MB
Category: Tutorial


How do you put the power of deep learning into the hands of product managers, business analysts, innovators, educators, and researchers?
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O’Reilly – Spotlight on Learning from Failure Fixing HealthCare gov

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O’Reilly – Spotlight on Learning from Failure Fixing HealthCare gov-ZH
English | Size: 488.04 MB
Category: Tutorial


When Healthcare.gov officially launched on October 1, 2013, problems with the website were apparent immediately. High demand caused the site to go down within two hours of launch, and only six people were able to actually complete their applications on the first day. These issues were eventually addressed with the help of Nava, a public benefit corporation formed during efforts to help fix HealthCare.gov‘s troubled launch. Ultimately, over 1 million people successfully signed up for healthcare by the end of the open enrollment period. [Read more…]

O’Reilly – Spotlight on Data The Power of Deep Learning in the Hands of Domain Experts

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O’Reilly – Spotlight on Data The Power of Deep Learning in the Hands of Domain Experts-ZH
English | Size: 467.55 MB
Category: Tutorial


How do you put the power of deep learning into the hands of product managers, business analysts, innovators, educators, and researchers?

In this Spotlight on Data, find out how Silicon Valley Innovation Laboratories-a research center established by Japanese electric and electronics equipment company Furukawa Electric-trained a deep learning model to recognize manufacturing defects in fiber optic cables using platform.ai, without writing any code or needing the help of a data scientist.
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O’Reilly Spotlight on Cloud Moving to the Cloud – What Your Company Needs to Know

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OReilly – Spotlight on Cloud Moving to the Cloud – What Your Company Needs to Know-ZH
English | Size: 458.88 MB
Category: Tutorial


Companies are spending a lot of time and money migrating applications and data to the cloud-in the process, making the IT infrastructure, such as storage and platforms, more complex for administrators, developers, and ultimately end users. Legacy systems still have to run, and IT leaders now have public and private cloud-based systems to deal with as well. So how do you manage the complexity? Find out how to mitigate all of this complexity when planning a migration to the cloud. David Linthicum walks you through current challenges, explaining how to think of them conceptually and how to fix them going forward. [Read more…]

Safari Spotlight on Learning from Failure Stablecoin Derisks The Blockchain Landscape

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Safari Spotlight on Learning from Failure Stablecoin Derisks The Blockchain Landscape-ZH
English | Size: 447.32 MB
Category: Tutoria


Stablecoins cryptocurrencies designed to avoid volatility have been tried various times in the past with little to no success. Today, they're seeing a resurgence, as multiple firms work to develop their own [Read more…]

Safari Spotlight on Cloud The Hidden Costs of Kubernetes

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Safari Spotlight on Cloud The Hidden Costs of Kubernetes-ZH
English | Size: 485.90 MB
Category: Tutorial


If you’re considering Kubernetes, you’ve probably thought about the potential time and cost savings you could stand to gain. At Gannett and USA TODAY, migrating to Kubernetes cut their daily infrastructure spend in half and reduced their network failover time from almost four hours to about 10 minutes. These are huge savings for any company. That said, there were a number of costs to migrating that they didn’t anticipate. Gannett’s migration to Kubernetes had a ripple effect through its entire stack-from its CI pipelines to its approach to monitoring and even employee happiness. In this case study, Bridget Lane, Gannett’s manager of developer solutions, details the problems her team faced while migrating and explain how they dealt with them. [Read more…]

Safari Spotlight on Data Caching Big Data for Machine Learning at Uber

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Safari Spotlight on Data Caching Big Data for Machine Learning at Uber-ZH
English | Size: 491.60 MB
Category: Tutorial


From determining the most convenient rider pickup points to predicting the fastest routes, Uber uses data-driven machine learning to create seamless trip experiences. Within engineering, big data and machine learning inform decision-making processes across the board. As Uber expands to new markets, the ability to accurately and quickly use data to make predictions becomes even more important. In this case study, Uber’s Zhenxiao Luo details the company’s machine learning architecture and talk about how Uber uses big data to power machine learning jobs. [Read more…]