Maine's Three Ring Binder Network
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The Three Ring Binder Project is a public-private partnership that invested over $32 million to build a fiber optic network throughout rural Maine. The network will consist of 1,100 miles of high capacity fiber optic cable by 2012, passing through hundreds of communities and making broadband internet accessible to 110,000 households and 600 community institutions. The fiber strands are available for equal lease to qualified users at $9-12 per strand per mile per month on a non-discriminatory basis.
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Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdf
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdf
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Webinar: Designing a schema for a Data Warehouse
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A data warehouse is a central relational database that contains all measurements about a business or an organisation. This data comes from a variety of heterogeneous data sources, which includes databases of any type that back the applications used by the company, data files exported by some applications, or APIs provided by internal or external services.
But designing a data warehouse correctly is a hard task, which requires gathering information about the business processes that need to be analysed in the first place. These processes must be translated into so-called star schemas, which means, denormalised databases where each table represents a dimension or facts.
We will discuss these topics:
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- Understanding dictionaries and how to identify business entities;
- Dimensions and facts;
- Setting a table granularity;
- Types of facts;
- Types of dimensions;
- Snowflakes and how to avoid them;
- Expanding existing dimensions and facts.
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* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
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* Best practices and optimization strategies
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TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy Survey
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In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
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Project Management Semester Long Project - Acuity
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“Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” a Presentation...
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Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
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AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial Intelligence
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Maine's Three Ring Binder Network
- 1. Maine’s Three Ring Binder Network
- 2. What is the Three Ring Binder Project? • A public private partnership, the Maine Fiber Company, Inc.’s Three Ring Binder Project represents an investment of over $32 million in Maine. • $25.4 million in funding provided through the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, matched with $7 million in private equity. 3RB Ceremonial Ribbon Cutting at Mid Coast Hospital 10/8/10
- 3. What is the Three Ring Binder? (Continued) • The Three Ring Binder will provide ultra-modern, high capacity (144-288 strands) fiber optic cable that is available for lease to all qualified users on an equal basis. No customers are given preferential treatment, and no single entity may use more than 20% of any segment of the network. • The network will pass through hundreds of communities throughout rural Maine, making broadband internet more readily accessible to 110,000 households and 600 community anchor institutions, including hospitals, rural healthcare clinics, community colleges, University of Maine campuses, libraries, government facilities, and public safety departments.
- 4. Three Ring Binder • Cost of fiber is $9-$12 per strand per mile per month on an open access, non- discriminatory basis • 26 miles of fiber are currently available for lease • 150 miles will be constructed by mid-summer of 2011 • 500 miles will be completed by the end of 2011 • 1,100 mile by end of 2012 • Leasing info at: info@tilsontech.com