The developers of Ruby announced version 2.7.0 which introduces new features and performance improvements such as pattern matching, REPL improvement, compaction GC and the separation of positional and keyword arguments. The new release also includes performance improvements such as JIT -ed code now being recompiled to less-optimized code when an optimization assumption is invalidated. The … continue reading
The new software development life cycle means working out ways to adapt the SDLC for your machine learning workflow and teams. With data scientists currently spending large chunks of their time on infrastructure and process instead of building models, finding ways to enable the SDLC to work effectively with machine learning is critical for not … continue reading
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking about them.” —Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician, 1919 Hailed as a truly transformational technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is positioned to disrupt businesses either by enabling new approaches to solving complex problems, or threatening the status quo for whole business sectors or … continue reading
Thought leaders weigh in on what we can expect from the software development industry in 2020: Adam Scroggin, CEO of CardBoard DevOps will continue to be key as we move toward 2020. Software teams will notice more and more that once a product is released, it is not done. Software products are never done. We … continue reading
The Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence lab at Stanford University has just released their AI Index 2019 Report. According to the lab, this report is one of the most comprehensive AI studies ever performed. For the report, the researchers took an interdisciplinary approach in order to discover patterns about AI’s impact on every industry, from national economics … continue reading
Cloudera is calling for industry-wide participation in setting open standards for machine learning operations (MLOps) and machine learning model governance. Cloudera believes that community participation in developing these standards will ensure that companies can leverage their machine learning investments and pave a path for the future. RELATED CONTENT: AI ethics: Early but formative days Ethical … continue reading
In recent years, technology analysts have devoted much attention to the topic of developers and how the demographics of developers are changing. For starters, the International Data Corporation (IDC) has noted the growth of developer populations in China, India, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia and Turkey, as well as select countries in East Africa. In addition, IDC … continue reading
Microsoft Azure Search will now be known as Azure Cognitive Search to signify the next wave of artificial intelligence in the enterprise. According to Microsoft, the first wave of AI was built for narrow apps, or training a single mode for a specific task. “What’s been challenging, however, is that these models individually can’t capture … continue reading
Fugue announced a free tier for Fugue Developer, which provides automation tools to visualize cloud infrastructure, identify misconfiguration risks, and demonstrate compliance “The cloud upended traditional IT security, forcing hard tradeoffs between agility and security,” said Phillip Merrick, CEO of Fugue. “Fugue Developer puts cloud security in the hands of the software developers building and … continue reading
The LF AI Foundation announced the Open Neural Network eXchange (ONNX) is its newest graduate level project. ONNX provides AI capabilities like model creation and export, visualization, optimization, and acceleration capabilities. “ONNX will retain its existing OSI-approved open source license, its governance structure and their established development practices,” said Ibrahim Haddad, executive director of the … continue reading
Brave launched its new browser designed to offer users a fast browsing experience, while funding the Web through a new attention-based platform of privacy-preserving advertisements and rewards. Brave’s private ads and payment platform (Brave Rewards) is now available for iPhones and iPads in addition to desktops and Android devices. “Either we all accept the $330 … continue reading
Microsoft is continuing to announce new tools and updates for developers and enterprises at its annual conference Microsoft Ignite. The company revealed a new version of its programming language TypeScript, a public preview of Visual Studio Online and new AI-based features. TypeScript 3.7 is now available Microsoft’s superset of JavaScript has reached its latest version. … continue reading
