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One Simple Chart: Technology Adoption in the U.S.

I just came across a new paper that analyzes results from the 2018 Annual Business Survey, a study conducted by the US Census Bureau in partnership with the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. This survey was conducted over the second of half of 2018, and while the data is over a year old,Continue reading “One Simple Chart: Technology Adoption in the U.S.”

One Simple Chart: Computational Limits of Deep Learning

While deep learning proceeds to set records across a variety of tasks and benchmarks, the amount of computing power needed is becoming prohibitive. A recent paper – “The Computational Limits of Deep Learning” – from M.I.T., Yonsei University, and the University of Brasilia, estimates of the amount of computation, economic costs, and environmental impact thatContinue reading “One Simple Chart: Computational Limits of Deep Learning”

One Simple Chart: job postings that mention “serverless”

Ray is the future of the serverless API: Learn all about it at Ray Summit, a FREE virtual conference showcasing best practices, real-world case studies, and the latest in AI and scalable systems built on Ray. Join Dave Patterson, Ion Stoica, Manuela Veloso, Azalia Mirhoseini, Michael Jordan, Zoubin Ghahramani, Oriol Vinyals, and many other speakersContinue reading “One Simple Chart: job postings that mention “serverless””

Natural Language Processing: an industry survey

Dear Friends, We need your help with our Natural Language Processing In Industry Survey. We want to find out how people are using NLP, what tools they are using, and what challenges they face. PLEASE take 5 minutes to fill out our survey and pass it along to your friends and colleagues. In return, you’ll have access to the full reportContinue reading “Natural Language Processing: an industry survey”

One Simple Chart: skills gap in data science

NLP in industry survey: We want to find out how people are using NLP, what tools they are using, and what challenges they face. Please take 5 minutes to fill out our survey and pass it along to your friends and colleagues. There are many interesting bits in the recent survey from Anaconda (“The StateContinue reading “One Simple Chart: skills gap in data science”

Five Key Features for a Machine Learning Platform

ML platform designers need to meet current challenges and plan for future workloads. By Ben Lorica and Ion Stoica. [This post originally appeared on the Anyscale blog.] As machine learning gains a foothold in more and more companies, teams are struggling with the intricacies of managing the machine learning lifecycle. The typical starting point isContinue reading “Five Key Features for a Machine Learning Platform”

One Simple Chart: Correlated Technologies

NLP in industry survey: We want to find out how people are using NLP, what tools they are using, and what challenges they face. Please take 5 minutes to fill out our survey and pass it along to your friends and colleagues. A February/2020 survey from Stack Overflow clustered together tools into groups that tendContinue reading “One Simple Chart: Correlated Technologies”