Fundamentals

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new academic program developed at MIT aims to teach U.S. Air and Space Forces personnel to understand and utilize artificial intelligence technologies. In a recent study which the program researchers recently shared at the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, the program researchers found that this approach was effective and well-received by employees with diverse backgrounds and…

Three techniques can help companies build fundamentals that create foundations for data-based competitive advantagePhoto by Mike Kononov on UnsplashFrom Business Intelligence to Big Data to Machine Learning to AI, the world of data has made blinding progress in the last two decades. Yet, ever so often researchers keep pointing to sobering numbers on the failure of companies to leverage data. Oftentimes lack of executive support, data teams not focussing on real business problems, company not having the right skill sets,…

I’ve tested these fundamentals to prove they can be used to lay the foundation for a successful self-learning experiencePhoto by Ahmer Kalam on UnsplashSelf-teaching yourself anything is an admirable undertaking.Whether it’s a new language, baking, weightlifting, structural geology, basket weaving, driving manual transmission vehicles, or anything else you can think of, I have insane amounts of respect for anyone who decides they’re going to teach themselves something.When someone tells me they’re going to self-teach…

Since its launch in 2016, there have been several big, defining updates for No Man’s Sky. 2018 saw the release of the massive “Next” expansion alongside a new Xbox version, while 2020’s “Origins” update essentially doubled the variety in the game. With the game coming to the Nintendo Switch on October 7th, the team at Hello Games decided to use the launch as a chance to update some of the seemingly smaller — but still important — aspects of No Man’s Sky for its 4.0 update, which will hit all platforms.“What we want to do…

The economy faces a heightened risk of a recession, Ford (F) CEO Jim Farley told CNBC on Tuesday, a week after the automaker warned investors of $1 billion in unexpected supplier costs and parts shortages in the third quarter. But the Club is sticking with Ford because we believe it has what it takes to navigate macroeconomic headwinds and supply disruptions. "The risk has gone up for a moderate recession certainly from all the indicators we've seen," Farley said. "For us as a business we see labor inflation, a lot of…

The unsupervised process of creating groups of data containing similar elementsPhoto by ian dooley on UnsplashClustering is a method that can help machine learning engineers understand unlabeled data by creating meaningful groups or clusters. This often reveals patterns in data, which can be a useful first step in machine learning. Since the data you are working with is unlabeled, clustering is an unsupervised machine learning task.Data is categorized into groups based on their similarity to each other through a metric…

Using the “technology startup mentality” to successfully integrate data science tools in commercial contextsPhoto by Uriel SC on UnsplashIn his book Zero to One, Peter Thiel explores the core fundamentals that successful technology startups have in common. The takeaway: startups should embrace seven pivotal traits — otherwise, queue red flags. Here’s why great AI innovation projects also exhibit the fundamentals of successful technology startups, from the perspective of a Bay Area data scientist working in digital…

CLOUD COMPUTING | BIG DATA | TECHNOLOGYPart 2— Road to Google Cloud Professional Data EngineerPhoto by Pawel Czerwinski on UnsplashWelcome to the second part of the GCP Professional Data Engineer Certification series. In the first part we introduced Google’s cloud platform and its hierarchy. You can find Part 1 here:In this part, we will go over the services and GCP’s offerings when it comes to Big Data technologies and Machine Learning.Product Recommendations using Cloud SQL and SparkProduct recommendations are perhaps…

Understanding and implementing basic matrix algebra concepts and operations with PythonIntroductionThis article follows “Fundamentals of Matrix Algebra with Python | Part 1”. It introduces more basic concepts of matrix algebra with some Python code to demonstrate results.Photo by Dan Schiumarini on UnsplashContentsTraceDeterminantInverseOrthogonalityRow permutationsThis preliminary material on matrix facilitates the exploration of more advanced topics such as simulating dynamic systems using state-space models.1) TraceThe…