The document provides an overview of Microsoft's AI platform, which includes AI Services, Infrastructure, and Tools. The platform offers a comprehensive set of AI services for rapid development, enterprise-grade infrastructure to run AI workloads at scale, and modern tools for data scientists and developers to create and operationalize AI solutions. It allows building intelligent applications that augment human abilities across various industries.
Transforming Oracle Enterprise Mobility Using Intelligent Chatbot & AI - A Wh...RapidValue
This whitepaper explains, developing intelligent Chatbot for Oracle Enterprise Applications using Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise. It discusses in detail the evolution of Artificial Intelligence, NLP and Machine Learning on top of Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, in order to bot-enable Oracle Enterprise Systems. It helps you to understand, how to develop an Oracle Approvals and Time-entry bot, using Oracle mobile cloud enterprise by programming & training the bot in NLP and Machine Learning.
A whitepaper is about How big data engines are used for exploring and preparing data, building pipelines, and delivering data sets to ML applications.
https://www.qubole.com/resources/white-papers/big-data-engineering-for-machine-learning
Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems Jiaheng Lu
Database and big data analytics systems such as Hadoop and Spark have a large number of configuration parameters that control memory distribution, I/O optimization, parallelism, and compression. Improper parameter settings can cause significant performance degradation and stability issues. However, regular users and even expert administrators struggle to understand and tune them to achieve good performance. In this tutorial, we review existing approaches on automatic parameter tuning for databases, Hadoop, and Spark, which we classify into six categories: rule-based, cost modeling, simulation-based, experiment-driven, machine learning, and adaptive tuning. We describe the foundations of different automatic parameter tuning algorithms and present pros and cons of each approach. We also highlight real-world applications and systems and identify research challenges for handling cloud services, resource heterogeneity, and real-time analytics
Learn about IBM's Hadoop offering called BigInsights. We will look at the new features in version 4 (including a discussion on the Open Data Platform), review a couple of customer examples, talk about the overall offering and differentiators, and then provide a brief demonstration on how to get started quickly by creating a new cloud instance, uploading data, and generating a visualization using the built-in spreadsheet tooling called BigSheets.
With this support you would be able to have the basic of Azure Data slack and it will help you to pass the DP-200 and DP-201. If you need some basics on Azure, you can download this support : https://www.slideshare.net/AlexandreBERGERE/azure-fundamentals-153339148.
This support is a summary from the paths:
Azure for the Data Engineer
Store data in Azure
Work with relational data in Azure
Large Scale Data Processing with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Implement a Data Streaming Solution with Azure Streaming Analytics
Implement a Data Warehouse with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
in Microsoft Learn.
Ironfan is the foundation for your Big Data stack, making provisioning and configuring your Big Data infrastructure simple. Spin up clusters when you need them, kill them when you don't, so you can spend your time, money, and engineering focus on finding insights, not getting your machines ready.
Learn more at http://infochimps.com
Transforming Oracle Enterprise Mobility Using Intelligent Chatbot & AI - A Wh...RapidValue
This whitepaper explains, developing intelligent Chatbot for Oracle Enterprise Applications using Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise. It discusses in detail the evolution of Artificial Intelligence, NLP and Machine Learning on top of Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, in order to bot-enable Oracle Enterprise Systems. It helps you to understand, how to develop an Oracle Approvals and Time-entry bot, using Oracle mobile cloud enterprise by programming & training the bot in NLP and Machine Learning.
A whitepaper is about How big data engines are used for exploring and preparing data, building pipelines, and delivering data sets to ML applications.
https://www.qubole.com/resources/white-papers/big-data-engineering-for-machine-learning
Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems Jiaheng Lu
Database and big data analytics systems such as Hadoop and Spark have a large number of configuration parameters that control memory distribution, I/O optimization, parallelism, and compression. Improper parameter settings can cause significant performance degradation and stability issues. However, regular users and even expert administrators struggle to understand and tune them to achieve good performance. In this tutorial, we review existing approaches on automatic parameter tuning for databases, Hadoop, and Spark, which we classify into six categories: rule-based, cost modeling, simulation-based, experiment-driven, machine learning, and adaptive tuning. We describe the foundations of different automatic parameter tuning algorithms and present pros and cons of each approach. We also highlight real-world applications and systems and identify research challenges for handling cloud services, resource heterogeneity, and real-time analytics
Learn about IBM's Hadoop offering called BigInsights. We will look at the new features in version 4 (including a discussion on the Open Data Platform), review a couple of customer examples, talk about the overall offering and differentiators, and then provide a brief demonstration on how to get started quickly by creating a new cloud instance, uploading data, and generating a visualization using the built-in spreadsheet tooling called BigSheets.
With this support you would be able to have the basic of Azure Data slack and it will help you to pass the DP-200 and DP-201. If you need some basics on Azure, you can download this support : https://www.slideshare.net/AlexandreBERGERE/azure-fundamentals-153339148.
This support is a summary from the paths:
Azure for the Data Engineer
Store data in Azure
Work with relational data in Azure
Large Scale Data Processing with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Implement a Data Streaming Solution with Azure Streaming Analytics
Implement a Data Warehouse with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
in Microsoft Learn.
Ironfan is the foundation for your Big Data stack, making provisioning and configuring your Big Data infrastructure simple. Spin up clusters when you need them, kill them when you don't, so you can spend your time, money, and engineering focus on finding insights, not getting your machines ready.
Learn more at http://infochimps.com
Webinar: Ways to Succeed with Hadoop in 2015Edureka!
The webinar on Big Data and Hadoop titled " Ways to Succeed with Hadoop in 2015 " conducted by Edureka in association with TechGig.com on 29th December 2014
At our March Data Analytics Meetup, Dan Rodriguez and Cherian Mathew demonstrated the variations in Microsoft Azure programs and how they are impacting digital transformation.
The Cloudera Impala project is pioneering the next generation of Hadoop capabilities: the convergence of interactive SQL queries with the capacity, scalability, and flexibility of a Hadoop cluster. In this webinar, join Cloudera and MicroStrategy to learn how Impala works, how it is uniquely architected to provide an interactive SQL experience native to Hadoop, and how you can leverage the power of MicroStrategy 9.3.1 to easily tap into more data and make new discoveries.
In the past, emerging technologies took years to mature. In the case of big data, while effective tools are still emerging, the analytics requirements are changing rapidly resulting in businesses to either make it or be left behind
Compare and contrast big data processing platforms RDBMS, Hadoop, and Spark. pros and cons of each platform are discussed. Business use cases are also included.
Massive sacalabilitty with InterSystems IRIS Data PlatformRobert Bira
Faced with the enormous and evergrowing amounts of data being generated in the world today, software architects need to pay special attention to the scalability of their solutions. They must also design systems that can, when needed, handle many thousands of concurrent users. It’s not easy, but designing for massive scalability is an absolute necessity.
The strategic relationship between Hortonworks and SAP enables SAP to resell Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and provide enterprise support for their global customer base. This means SAP customers can incorporate enterprise Hadoop as a complement within a data architecture that includes SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects enabling a broad range of new analytic applications.
Apache Tez : Accelerating Hadoop Query ProcessingTeddy Choi
호튼웍스 아시아 기술 총괄 이사 제프 마크햄 (Jeff Markham) 이 테즈에 대한 소개를 합니다. 테즈는 맵리듀스를 대체하여 하둡의 질의 처리를 가속하는 소프트웨어입니다. 왜 테즈를 만들었고, 어떻게 구성되었으며, 최적화는 어떻게 진행되고, 그 성능은 얼마나 좋아졌는지 전반에 대해 설명합니다.
Hadoop Reporting and Analysis - JaspersoftHortonworks
Hadoop is deployed for a variety of uses, including web analytics, fraud detection, security monitoring, healthcare, environmental analysis, social media monitoring, and other purposes.
Empowering you with Democratized Data Access, Data Science and Machine LearningDataWorks Summit
Data science with its specialized tools and knowledge has been a forte of data scientists. However, it is not easy even for data scientists to get access to data that could be in different data stores in the organization. To unleash the power of data and gain valuable insights, machine learning needs to be made easily consumable by various stake holders and access to data made simpler. As an organization's data volumes continue to grow, delivering these insights real time is a complex challenge to solve.
This session will provide on overview of an approach to building a scalable solution where machine and deep learning and access to data is made much more consumable and simpler by the fastest SQL on Hadoop engine on the planet, a rich data scientist toolset and an infrastructure that can deliver the responsiveness needed for production environments.
Speakers:
Pandit Prasad, Program Director, IBM
Ashutosh Mate, Global Senior Solutions Architect, IBM
A General Purpose Extensible Scanning Query Architecture for Ad Hoc AnalyticsFlurry, Inc.
We present Burst, an analytic query system with a scalable and flexible approach to performing lowlatency ad hoc analysis over large complex datasets. The architecture consists of hardwareefficient scan techniques and a language facility to transform an extensible set of ad hoc declarative queries into imperative physical scan plans. These plans are multicast across all nodes/cores of a two level sharded/distributed ingestion, storage, and execution topology and executed. The first release of this system is the query engine behind the Flurry Explorer product. Here we explore the design details of that system as well as the incremental ingestion pipeline enhancement currently being implemented for the next major release.
Microsoft is working hard to make Artificial Intelligence available to everyone. We not only infuse AI in our products but also give you the platform to build your very own solution, that you are a developer, a citizen data scientist or a hard core data scientist.
.NET Fest 2018. Олександр Краковецький. Microsoft AI: створюємо програмні ріш...NETFest
Штучний інтелект, беззаперечно, є трендом цього року. Когнітивні сервіси, цифрові асистенти, глобальні ініціативи трансформації бізнесу та соціальної сфери, машинне навчання та чатботи - все це дуже активно розвивається. Компанія Microsoft надає розробникам великий вибір різноманітних інструментів та технології (в тому числі у зв'язці з продуктами інших компаній), які дозволяють будувати "розумне" програмне забезпечення, а також трансформувати бізнес процеси. В доповіді на реальних прикладах ви дізнаєтесь, яким чином зробити ваше програмне забезпечення більш розумним, які кращі практики використання тих чи інших інструментів та до яких глобальних ініціатив ви можете приєднатись, будучи спеціалістом зі штучного інтелекту.
Webinar: Ways to Succeed with Hadoop in 2015Edureka!
The webinar on Big Data and Hadoop titled " Ways to Succeed with Hadoop in 2015 " conducted by Edureka in association with TechGig.com on 29th December 2014
At our March Data Analytics Meetup, Dan Rodriguez and Cherian Mathew demonstrated the variations in Microsoft Azure programs and how they are impacting digital transformation.
The Cloudera Impala project is pioneering the next generation of Hadoop capabilities: the convergence of interactive SQL queries with the capacity, scalability, and flexibility of a Hadoop cluster. In this webinar, join Cloudera and MicroStrategy to learn how Impala works, how it is uniquely architected to provide an interactive SQL experience native to Hadoop, and how you can leverage the power of MicroStrategy 9.3.1 to easily tap into more data and make new discoveries.
In the past, emerging technologies took years to mature. In the case of big data, while effective tools are still emerging, the analytics requirements are changing rapidly resulting in businesses to either make it or be left behind
Compare and contrast big data processing platforms RDBMS, Hadoop, and Spark. pros and cons of each platform are discussed. Business use cases are also included.
Massive sacalabilitty with InterSystems IRIS Data PlatformRobert Bira
Faced with the enormous and evergrowing amounts of data being generated in the world today, software architects need to pay special attention to the scalability of their solutions. They must also design systems that can, when needed, handle many thousands of concurrent users. It’s not easy, but designing for massive scalability is an absolute necessity.
The strategic relationship between Hortonworks and SAP enables SAP to resell Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and provide enterprise support for their global customer base. This means SAP customers can incorporate enterprise Hadoop as a complement within a data architecture that includes SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects enabling a broad range of new analytic applications.
Apache Tez : Accelerating Hadoop Query ProcessingTeddy Choi
호튼웍스 아시아 기술 총괄 이사 제프 마크햄 (Jeff Markham) 이 테즈에 대한 소개를 합니다. 테즈는 맵리듀스를 대체하여 하둡의 질의 처리를 가속하는 소프트웨어입니다. 왜 테즈를 만들었고, 어떻게 구성되었으며, 최적화는 어떻게 진행되고, 그 성능은 얼마나 좋아졌는지 전반에 대해 설명합니다.
Hadoop Reporting and Analysis - JaspersoftHortonworks
Hadoop is deployed for a variety of uses, including web analytics, fraud detection, security monitoring, healthcare, environmental analysis, social media monitoring, and other purposes.
Empowering you with Democratized Data Access, Data Science and Machine LearningDataWorks Summit
Data science with its specialized tools and knowledge has been a forte of data scientists. However, it is not easy even for data scientists to get access to data that could be in different data stores in the organization. To unleash the power of data and gain valuable insights, machine learning needs to be made easily consumable by various stake holders and access to data made simpler. As an organization's data volumes continue to grow, delivering these insights real time is a complex challenge to solve.
This session will provide on overview of an approach to building a scalable solution where machine and deep learning and access to data is made much more consumable and simpler by the fastest SQL on Hadoop engine on the planet, a rich data scientist toolset and an infrastructure that can deliver the responsiveness needed for production environments.
Speakers:
Pandit Prasad, Program Director, IBM
Ashutosh Mate, Global Senior Solutions Architect, IBM
A General Purpose Extensible Scanning Query Architecture for Ad Hoc AnalyticsFlurry, Inc.
We present Burst, an analytic query system with a scalable and flexible approach to performing lowlatency ad hoc analysis over large complex datasets. The architecture consists of hardwareefficient scan techniques and a language facility to transform an extensible set of ad hoc declarative queries into imperative physical scan plans. These plans are multicast across all nodes/cores of a two level sharded/distributed ingestion, storage, and execution topology and executed. The first release of this system is the query engine behind the Flurry Explorer product. Here we explore the design details of that system as well as the incremental ingestion pipeline enhancement currently being implemented for the next major release.
Microsoft is working hard to make Artificial Intelligence available to everyone. We not only infuse AI in our products but also give you the platform to build your very own solution, that you are a developer, a citizen data scientist or a hard core data scientist.
.NET Fest 2018. Олександр Краковецький. Microsoft AI: створюємо програмні ріш...NETFest
Штучний інтелект, беззаперечно, є трендом цього року. Когнітивні сервіси, цифрові асистенти, глобальні ініціативи трансформації бізнесу та соціальної сфери, машинне навчання та чатботи - все це дуже активно розвивається. Компанія Microsoft надає розробникам великий вибір різноманітних інструментів та технології (в тому числі у зв'язці з продуктами інших компаній), які дозволяють будувати "розумне" програмне забезпечення, а також трансформувати бізнес процеси. В доповіді на реальних прикладах ви дізнаєтесь, яким чином зробити ваше програмне забезпечення більш розумним, які кращі практики використання тих чи інших інструментів та до яких глобальних ініціатив ви можете приєднатись, будучи спеціалістом зі штучного інтелекту.
Top 7 Frameworks for Integration of AI in App Development in Saudi Arabia.pdfTechgropse Pvt.Ltd.
As Saudi Arabia continues to embrace digital transformation and promote innovation across various sectors, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in app development has become a key priority. The Kingdom's Vision 2030 emphasizes the importance of leveraging cutting-edge technologies, including AI, to drive economic diversification and enhance the quality of life for its citizens. In this blog post, we'll explore the top seven frameworks that are driving the integration of AI in app development in Saudi Arabia.
Builder: A human-assisted AI platform that lets you build, run, and scale sof...Amazon Web Services
Builder empowers anyone to create, operate and scale the lifecycle of digital projects. We do so with three products: BuilderStudio. Build your next software project using an assembly-line platform implemented with the assistance of human-assisted AI and a vast network of global technical resources. BuilderCare. BuilderCare guarantees your bespoke software stays up-to-date, and continues after third-party libraries such as Facebook APIs are updated. BuilderCloud. Leverage AI and machine learning to effortlessly maintain the scale of your cloud infrastructure.
Speakers:
Varghese Cherian, Managing Director & SVP, Builder.ai
A Quick Introduction to Microsoft Azure Public CloudZNetLive
In Cloud industry Microsoft Azure has become a leader.
This slideshow presents about Microsoft's Azure Public Cloud, its features, benefits and how ZNetLive, a cloud hosting provider, serves you an expertise in offering cloud solutions.
Want to know how much potential does Microsoft Azure cloud has? Go through with this slide set that shows a quick introduction to Microsoft Azure public cloud, its features and what amazing things you can do with its power, flexibility and scalability!
Adopting an IoT solution is not easy for a customer. Azure IoT Hub is great, powerful, but challenging to adopt. Why not evaluate Azure IoT Central as a starting point? As it is implemented on IoT Hub and all Azure IoT family of services, it can be a good starting point for a long term adoption to preserve the most of the initial effort. And then there is also IoT Plug and Play that give to all Azure IoT family the functional structure to be a great enterprise-grade solution.
Biometric Systems - Automate Video Streaming Analysis with Azure and AWSRoberto Falconi
Perform near-real-time analysis on faces (emotions, gender, age, etc.), taken from a live video stream with Azure Cognitive Services and AWS Rekognition.
Boost your business with Panoramic Infotech's top-notch mobile app development services. We master iOS, and Android apps with a seamless user experience.
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Adequate Infosoft is one of the best Software development company here you will get the best Iot developer, Visit website for more details : https://www.adequateinfosoft.com/IoT-development-company
Introduction to Power Platform
Low Code Evolution
Who is building solutions with the Power Platform?
Why Power Platform?
Integrated low code platform
What is the Common Data Service?
Two Types of Data.
Power Apps
Power Automate
Power BI
Demo
Reference
Why Choose Parangat Technologies for Mendix app development.pdfParangat Technologies
Mendix low code development is considered a game changer in the world of application development because it enables users to build custom software applications quickly and easily without requiring extensive coding knowledge.
Its key features, such as single-click deployment, visual app deployment, and open platform, make it easier and more efficient for organizations to build and deploy custom applications. Moreover, the benefits of low-code platforms like Mendix go beyond simplifying the application creation process. It also provides organizations with the agility and flexibility to meet their evolving business needs, keeping them at the forefront of their respective markets.
Lead your industry with the Best Low-Code Services at Parangat. We work closely with our clients to understand their requirements and goals, and we use this information to recommend the best low-code solutions for their projects. Whether you are looking to build a new application or update an existing one, Parangat is here to help you.
Investing in AI transformation today
The modern business advantage: Uncovering deep insights with AI
Organizations around the world have come to recognize AI as the transformative technology that enables them to gain real business advantage.
AI’s ability to organize vast quantities of data allows those who implement it to uncover deep business insights, augment human expertise, drive
operational efficiency, transform their products, and better serve their customers
Last year’s Global Risks Report warned of a world
that would not easily rebound from continued
shocks. As 2024 begins, the 19th edition of
the report is set against a backdrop of rapidly
accelerating technological change and economic
uncertainty, as the world is plagued by a duo of
dangerous crises: climate and conflict.
Underlying geopolitical tensions combined with the
eruption of active hostilities in multiple regions is
contributing to an unstable global order characterized
by polarizing narratives, eroding trust and insecurity.
At the same time, countries are grappling with the
impacts of record-breaking extreme weather, as
climate-change adaptation efforts and resources
fall short of the type, scale and intensity of climaterelated events already taking place. Cost-of-living
pressures continue to bite, amidst persistently
elevated inflation and interest rates and continued
economic uncertainty in much of the world.
Despondent headlines are borderless, shared
regularly and widely, and a sense of frustration at
the status quo is increasingly palpable. Together,
this leaves ample room for accelerating risks – like
misinformation and disinformation – to propagate
in societies that have already been politically and
economically weakened in recent years.
Just as natural ecosystems can be pushed to the
limit and become something fundamentally new;
such systemic shifts are also taking place across
other spheres: geostrategic, demographic and
technological. This year, we explore the rise of global
risks against the backdrop of these “structural
forces” as well as the tectonic clashes between
them. The next set of global conditions may not
necessarily be better or worse than the last, but the
transition will not be an easy one.
The report explores the global risk landscape in this
phase of transition and governance systems being
stretched beyond their limit. It analyses the most
severe perceived risks to economies and societies
over two and 10 years, in the context of these
influential forces. Could we catapult to a 3°C world
as the impacts of climate change intrinsically rewrite
the planet? Have we reached the peak of human
development for large parts of the global population,
given deteriorating debt and geo-economic
conditions? Could we face an explosion of criminality
and corruption that feeds on more fragile states and
more vulnerable populations? Will an “arms race” in
experimental technologies present existential threats
to humanity?
These transnational risks will become harder to
handle as global cooperation erodes. In this year’s
Global Risks Perception Survey, two-thirds of
respondents predict that a multipolar order will
dominate in the next 10 years, as middle and
great powers set and enforce – but also contest
- current rules and norms. The report considers
the implications of this fragmented world, where
preparedness for global risks is ever more critical but
is hindered by lack o
A big convergence of language, multimodal perception, action, and world modeling is a key step toward artificial general intelligence. In this work, we introduce
KOSMOS-12
, a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that can perceive
general modalities, learn in context (i.e., few-shot), and follow instructions (i.e.,
zero-shot). Specifically, we train KOSMOS-1 from scratch on web-scale multimodal corpora, including arbitrarily interleaved text and images, image-caption
pairs, and text data. We evaluate various settings, including zero-shot, few-shot,
and multimodal chain-of-thought prompting, on a wide range of tasks without
any gradient updates or finetuning. Experimental results show that KOSMOS-1
achieves impressive performance on (i) language understanding, generation, and
even OCR-free NLP (directly fed with document images), (ii) perception-language
tasks, including multimodal dialogue, image captioning, visual question answering,
and (iii) vision tasks, such as image recognition with descriptions (specifying
classification via text instructions). We also show that MLLMs can benefit from
cross-modal transfer, i.e., transfer knowledge from language to multimodal, and
from multimodal to language. In addition, we introduce a dataset of Raven IQ test,
which diagnoses the nonverbal reasoning capability of MLLMs.
We present a causal speech enhancement model working on the
raw waveform that runs in real-time on a laptop CPU. The proposed model is based on an encoder-decoder architecture with
skip-connections. It is optimized on both time and frequency
domains, using multiple loss functions. Empirical evidence
shows that it is capable of removing various kinds of background noise including stationary and non-stationary noises,
as well as room reverb. Additionally, we suggest a set of
data augmentation techniques applied directly on the raw waveform which further improve model performance and its generalization abilities. We perform evaluations on several standard
benchmarks, both using objective metrics and human judgements. The proposed model matches state-of-the-art performance of both causal and non causal methods while working
directly on the raw waveform.
Index Terms: Speech enhancement, speech denoising, neural
networks, raw waveform
Artificial neural networks are the heart of machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence
protocols. Historically, the simplest implementation of an artificial neuron traces back to the classical
Rosenblatt’s “perceptron”, but its long term practical applications may be hindered by the fast scal-
ing up of computational complexity, especially relevant for the training of multilayered perceptron
networks. Here we introduce a quantum information-based algorithm implementing the quantum
computer version of a perceptron, which shows exponential advantage in encoding resources over
alternative realizations. We experimentally test a few qubits version of this model on an actual
small-scale quantum processor, which gives remarkably good answers against the expected results.
We show that this quantum model of a perceptron can be used as an elementary nonlinear classifier
of simple patterns, as a first step towards practical training of artificial quantum neural networks
to be efficiently implemented on near-term quantum processing hardware
En los ̇ltimos 20 aÒos la Enfermedad de Alzheimer pasÛ de ser el paradigma
del envejecimiento normal -aunque prematuro y acelerado-, del cerebro,
para convertirse en una enfermedad autÈntica, nosolÛgicamente bien defini-
da y con una clara raÌz genÈtica. La enfermedad afecta hoy a m·s de 20
millones de personas, tiene enormes consecuencias sobre la economÌa de los
paÌses y constituye uno de los temas de investigaciÛn m·s activos en el ·rea
de salud.
Este artÌculo revisa el conocimiento actual sobre el tema. En esta primera
parte se analizan su epidemiologÌa, patogenia y genÈtica; se enumeran los
temas prioritarios de investigaciÛn; se revisa su relaciÛn con el concepto de
muerte celular programada (apoptosis) y se enumeran los elementos indis-
pensables para el diagnÛstico.
Palabras Clave
:Enfermedad de Alzhaimer; Demencia; GenÈtica; TerapÈuti-
ca.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities are growing at an unprecedented rate. These technologies have many widely beneficial applications, ranging from machine translation to medical image analysis. Countless more such applications are being developed and can be expected over the long term. Less attention has historically been paid to the ways in which artificial intelligence can be used maliciously. This report surveys the landscape of potential security threats from malicious uses of artificial intelligence technologies, and proposes ways to better forecast, prevent, and mitigate these threats. We analyze, but do not conclusively resolve, the question of what the long-term equilibrium between attackers and defenders will be. We focus instead on what sorts of attacks we are likely to see soon if adequate defenses are not developed.
There is an increasing interest in exploiting mobile sensing technologies and machine learning techniques for mental health monitoring and intervention. Researchers have effectively used contextual information, such as mobility, communication and mobile phone usage patterns for quantifying individuals’ mood and wellbeing. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of neural network models for predicting users’ level of stress by using the location information collected by smartphones. We characterize the mobility patterns of individuals using the GPS metricspresentedintheliteratureandemploythesemetricsasinputtothenetwork. We evaluate our approach on the open-source StudentLife dataset. Moreover, we discuss the challenges and trade-offs involved in building machine learning models for digital mental health and highlight potential future work in this direction.
La Hipertensión, es una de las mayores enfermedades que sufren los Hispanohablantes en el planeta . Es grato poder colocar este documento al público y haber podido hacer parte del equipo , ojalá sirvan a muchos las implementaciones. idioma más hablado según el foro Económico mundial - Me refiero al español ó castellano según sea -
segundo idioma y haber podido hacer parte de este equipo. Genuinamente, espero que se curen la mayor cantidad de personas con . Espero genuinamente puedan hacer algúna donación a este esfuerzo grupal. Espero Compartamos este "Paper" así como compartimos memes - En el sentido literal de la significancia-
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To thrive in the 21st century, students need more than traditional academic learning. They must be adept at collaboration, communication and problem-solving, which are some of the skills developed through social and emotional learning (SEL). Coupled with mastery of traditional skills, social and emotional proficiency will equip students to succeed in the swiftly evolving digital economy. In 2015, the World Economic Forum published a report that focused on the pressing issue of the 21st-century skills gap and ways to address it through technology (New Vision for Education: Unlocking the Potential of Technology). In that report, we defined a set of 16 crucial proficiencies for education in the 21st century. Those skills include six “foundational literacies”, such as literacy, numeracy and scientific literacy, and 10 skills that we labelled either “competencies” or “character qualities”. Competencies are the means by which students approach complex challenges; they include collaboration, communication and critical thinking and problem-solving. Character qualities are the ways in which students approach their changing environment; they include curiosity, adaptability and social and cultural awareness (see Exhibit 1).
In our current report, New Vision for Education: Fostering Social and Emotional Learning through Technology, we follow up on our 2015 report by exploring how these competencies and character qualities do more than simply deepen 21st-century skills. Together, they lie at the heart of SEL and are every bit as important as the foundational skills required for traditional academic learning. Although many stakeholders have defined SEL more narrowly, we believe the definition of SEL is evolving. We define SEL broadly to encompass the 10 competencies and character qualities.1 As is the case with traditional academic learning, technology can be invaluable at enabling SEL.
La expresión “futuro del trabajo” es actualmente uno de los conceptos más populares en las búsquedas en Google. Los numerosos avances tecnológicos de los últimos tiempos están modificando rápidamente la frontera entre las actividades realizadas por los seres humanos y las ejecutadas por las máquinas, lo cual está transformando el mundo del trabajo. Existe un creciente número de estudios e iniciativas que se están llevando a cabo con el objeto de analizar qué significan estos cambios en nuestro trabajo, en nuestros ingresos, en el futuro de nuestros hijos, en nuestras empresas y en nuestros gobiernos. Estos análisis se conducen principalmente desde la óptica de las economías avanzadas, y mucho menos desde la perspectiva de las economías en desarrollo y emergentes. Sin embargo, las diferencias en materia de difusión tecnológica, de estructuras económicas y demográficas, de niveles de educación y patrones
migratorios inciden de manera significativa en la manera en que estos cambios pueden afectar a los países en desarrollo y emergentes. Este estudio, El futuro del trabajo: perspectivas regionales, se centra en las repercusiones probables de estas tendencias en las economías en desarrollo y emergentes de África; Asia; Europa del Este, Asia Central y el Mediterráneo Sur y Oriental, y América Latina y el Caribe. Se trata de un esfuerzo mancomunado de los cuatro principales bancos regionales de desarrollo: el African Development Bank Group, el Asian Development Bank, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y el European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. En el estudio se destacan las oportunidades que los cambios en la dinámica del trabajo podrían crear en nuestras regiones. El progreso tecnológico permitiría a los países con los que trabajamos crecer y alcanzar rápidamente mejores niveles de vida que en el pasado
Superada la Guerra Fría, el orden mundial dirigido por Estados Unidos se ve cuestionado por China y Rusia, dos potencias revisionistas que están acercando sus alineamientos estratégicos. China está en camino de convertirse en la mayor economía del mundo y en una potencia militar formidable a la que irrita la hegemonía de Estados Unidos. Parece que China, más que derrocar el orden mundial establecido, busca remodelarlo, especialmente en Asia, con la instauración de un orden sinocéntrico en el que todos los países del área asiática ponganlos intereses chinos por delante de los suyos propios. Está por ver si China tendrá las capacidades para conseguirlo, evitando el conflicto con Estados Unidos.
The increasing use of electronic forms of communication presents
new opportunities in the study of mental health, including the
ability to investigate the manifestations of psychiatric diseases un-
obtrusively and in the setting of patients’ daily lives. A pilot study to
explore the possible connections between bipolar affective disorder
and mobile phone usage was conducted. In this study, participants
were provided a mobile phone to use as their primary phone. This
phone was loaded with a custom keyboard that collected metadata
consisting of keypress entry time and accelerometer movement.
Individual character data with the exceptions of the backspace key
and space bar were not collected due to privacy concerns. We pro-
pose an end-to-end deep architecture based on late fusion, named
DeepMood, to model the multi-view metadata for the prediction
of mood scores. Experimental results show that 90.31% prediction
accuracy on the depression score can be achieved based on session-
level mobile phone typing dynamics which is typically less than
one minute. It demonstrates the feasibility of using mobile phone
metadata to infer mood disturbance and severity
Defin
ing artificial intelligence is no easy matter. Since the mid
-
20th century when it
was first
recognized
as a specific field of research, AI has always been envisioned as
an evolving boundary, rather than a settled research field. Fundamentally, it refers
to
a programme whose ambitious objective is to understand and reproduce human
cognition; creating cognitive processes comparable to those found in human beings.
Therefore, we are naturally dealing with a wide scope here, both in terms of the
technical proced
ures that can be employed and the various disciplines that can be
called upon: mathematics, information technology, cognitive sciences, etc. There is
a great variety of approaches when it comes to AI: ontological, reinforcement
learning, adversarial learni
ng and neural networks, to name just a few. Most of them
have been known for decades and many of the algorithms used today were
developed in the ’60s and ’70s.
Since the 1956 Dartmouth conference, artificial intelligence has alternated between
periods of
great enthusiasm and disillusionment, impressive progress and frustrating
failures. Yet, it has relentlessly pushed back the limits of what was only thought to
be achievable by human beings. Along the way, AI research has achieved significant
successes: o
utperforming human beings in complex games (chess, Go),
understanding natural language, etc. It has also played a critical role in the history
of mathematics and information technology. Consider how many softwares that we
now take for granted once represen
ted a major breakthrough in AI: chess game
apps, online translation programmes, etc
In this paper, we propose an Attentional Generative Ad-
versarial Network (AttnGAN) that allows attention-driven,
multi-stage refinement for fine-grained text-to-image gener-
ation. With a novel attentional generative network, the At-
tnGAN can synthesize fine-grained details at different sub-
regions of the image by paying attentions to the relevant
words in the natural language description. In addition, a
deep attentional multimodal similarity model is proposed to
compute a fine-grained image-text matching loss for train-
ing the generator. The proposed AttnGAN significantly out-
performs the previous state of the art, boosting the best re-
ported inception score by 14.14% on the CUB dataset and
170.25% on the more challenging COCO dataset. A de-
tailed analysis is also performed by visualizing the atten-
tion layers of the AttnGAN. It for the first time shows that
the layered attentional GAN is able to automatically select
the condition at the word level for generating different parts
of the image
The Hamilton Project • Brookings i
Seven Facts on Noncognitive Skills
from Education to the Labor Market
Introduction
Cognitive skills—that is, math and reading skills that are measured by standardized tests—are generally
understood to be of critical importance in the labor market. Most people find it intuitive and indeed
unsurprising that cognitive skills, as measured by standardized tests, are important for students’ later-life
outcomes. For example, earnings tend to be higher for those with higher levels of cognitive skills. What is
less well understood—and is the focus of these economic facts—is that noncognitive skills are also integral to
educational performance and labor-market outcomes.
Due in large part to research pioneered in economics by Nobel laureate James J. Heckman, there is a robust and
growing body of evidence that noncognitive skills function similarly to cognitive skills, strongly improving
labor-market outcomes. These noncognitive skills—often referred to in the economics literature as soft skills and
elsewhere as social, emotional, and behavioral skills—include qualities like perseverance, conscientiousness,
and self-control, as well as social skills and leadership ability (Duckworth and Yeager 2015). The value of these
qualities in the labor market has increased over time as the mix of jobs has shifted toward positions requiring
noncognitive skills. Evidence suggests that the labor-market payoffs to noncognitive skills have been increasing
over time and the payoffs are particularly strong for individuals who possess both cognitive and noncognitive
skills (Deming 2015; Weinberger 2014).
Although we draw a conceptual distinction between noncognitive skills and cognitive skills, it is not possible to
disentangle these concepts fully. All noncognitive skills involve cognition, and some portion of performance on
cognitive tasks is made possible by noncognitive skills. For the purposes of this document, the term “cognitive
skills” encompasses intelligence; the ability to process, learn, think, and reason; and substantive knowledge
as reflected in indicators of academic achievement. Since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, education
policy has focused on accountability policies aimed at improving cognitive skills and closing test score gaps
across groups. These policies have been largely successful, particularly for math achievement (Dee and Jacob
2011; Wong, Cook, and Steiner 2009) and among students most exposed to accountability pressure (Neal and
Schanzenbach 2010). What has received less attention in policy debates is the importance of noncognitive skills.
Despite significant recent advances in the field of face
recognition [10, 14, 15, 17], implementing face verification
and recognition efficiently at scale presents serious chal-
lenges to current approaches. In this paper we present a
system, called FaceNet, that directly learns a mapping from
face images to a compact Euclidean space where distances
directly correspond to a measure of face similarity. Once
this space has been produced, tasks such as face recogni-
tion, verification and clustering can be easily implemented
using standard techniques with FaceNet embeddings as fea-
ture vectors.
Our method uses a deep convolutional network trained
to directly optimize the embedding itself, rather than an in-
termediate bottleneck layer as in previous deep learning
approaches. To train, we use triplets of roughly aligned
matching / non-matching face patches generated using a
novel online triplet mining method. The benefit of our
approach is much greater representational efficiency: we
achieve state-of-the-art face recognition performance using
only 128-bytes per face.
On the widely used Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW)
dataset, our system achieves a new record accuracy of
99.63%
. On YouTube Faces DB it achieves
95.12%
. Our
system cuts the error rate in comparison to the best pub-
lished result [15] by 30% on both datasets.
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Machine learning and optimization techniques for electrical drives.pptx
Microsoft AI Platform Whitepaper
1. MICROSOFT AI PLATFORM
Build Intelligent Software
With the Azure platform and productivity services, you can create the next generation of applications
that span an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge powered by AI.
Use a comprehensive set of flexible AI Services for any scenario, enterprise-grade AI Infra- structure
that run AI workloads anywhere at scale, and modern AI Tools for developers and data scientists to
create AI solutions easily and with the maximum productivity.
This paper provides a technical overview of Microsoft AI platform to help developers get a jumpstart to
build innovative applications that augment human abilities and experiences.
Artificial Intelligence
productivity for every
developer and every
scenario
3. 3 Microsoft AI platform - Build Intelligent Software | September 2017
“AI is going to disrupt every single business app – whether an
industry vertical like banking, retail and health care, or a horizontal
business process like sales, marketing and customer support.”
- Harry Shum, Microsoft Executive VP, AI and Research
Introduction
Vast amounts of data, faster processing power, and increas-
ingly smarter algorithms are powering artificial intelligence
(AI) applications and associated use cases across consumer,
finance, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation & logistics,
and government sectors around the world - enabling smarter
& intelligent applications to speak, listen, and make decisions
in unprecedented ways. As AI technologies and deployments
sweep through virtually every industry, a wide range of use
cases are beginning to illustrate the potential business oppor-
tunities, and inspire changes to existing business processes
leading to newer business models.
Microsoft AI platform - Overview
The Microsoft AI platform offers a comprehensive set of flexible
AI Services, enterprise-grade AI Infrastructure and modern
AI Tools for developers and data scientists to create applica-
tions of the future.
AI platform consists of 3 core areas:
AI Services: Developers can rapidly consume high-lev-
el “finished” services that accelerate development of AI
solutions. Compose intelligent applications, customized
to your organization’s availability, security, and compli-
ance requirements.
AI Infrastructure: Services and tools backed by a best-
of-breed infrastructure with enterprise grade security,
availability, compliance, and manageability. Harness the
power of infinite scale infrastructure and integrated AI
services.
AI Tools: Leverage a set of comprehensive tools and
frameworks to build, deploy, and operationalize AI
products and services at scale. Use the extensive set of
supported tools and IDEs of your choice and harness the
intelligence with massive datasets through deep learning
frameworks of your choice.
Benefits of AI platform
The Microsoft AI platform offers finished AI services for
rapid development, and provides data science tools to
innovate and operationalize AI products and services at
scale
Easily customize your own models for unique use
cases with easy-to-use customizable web services
Rapidly compose intelligent applications with extensive
APIs, customized to your enterprise’s security, compli-
ance, availability, and SLA requirements
Build immersive applications easily with intelligent fea-
tures – such as emotion and sentiment detection, vision
and speech recognition, language understanding, knowl-
edge, and search – into your app, across devices such as
iOS, Android, and Windows
Leverage extensive deep learning frameworks of your
choice - including Cognitive Toolkit, Caffe2, TensorFlow,
Chainer, MxNet, Torch, Scikit-learn, and more
Explore the extensive choice of IDE and data science
tools – Azure ML Studio, Visual Studio, Azure ML
Workbench, Jupyter Notebooks, PyCharm, or Juno
Deploy your solutions on infrastructure that can virtu-
ally scale infinitely – all with enterprise grade security,
compliance, availability, manageability including dev-ops
capabilities such as Continuous Integration/Continuous
Delivery (CI/CD) support for AI
Create new immersive and integrated experiences -
reach your users at scale. Easily build and deploy across
channels including Facebook Messenger, Cortana, Slack,
Skype, and Bing.
4. 4 Microsoft AI platform - Build Intelligent Software | September 2017
AI platform stack
Microsoft AI platform stack offers a rich set of interoperable
services, APIs, libraries, frameworks and tools that developers
can leverage to build smart applications.
AI Services
Compose intelligent applications, customized to your organi-
zation’s availability, security, and compliance requirements with
a comprehensive set of flexible cloud AI Services.
Accelerate the development of AI solutions with high-level
services. Use your preferred approach adapted to the scenario
you are targeting with maximum productivity and reliability.
Cognitive Services: Use AI to solve business problems.
Infuse your apps, websites, and bots with intelligent
algorithms to see, hear, speak, and understand natural
methods of communication.
Bot Framework: Accelerate development for conversa-
tional AI. Integrate seamlessly with Cortana, Office 365,
Slack, Facebook Messenger, and more.
Azure Machine Learning: Model AI algorithms and
experiment with ease, and customize based on your
requirements
Cognitive Services
Microsoft Cognitive Services expands on Microsoft’s evolving
portfolio of machine learning APIs and enables developers to
easily add intelligent features into their applications.
Cognitive Services are a set of APIs, SDKs, and services avail-
able to developers to make their applications more intelligent,
engaging, and discoverable and they let you build apps
with powerful algorithms to see, hear, speak, understand, and
interpret our needs using natural methods of communication,
with just a few lines of code. Leverage customizable web
services such as Custom Vision Service that can be trained to
recognize specific content in imagery. Easily add intelligent
features – such as emotion and sentiment detection, vision and
speech recognition, language understanding, knowledge, and
search – into your app, across devices such as iOS, Android,
and Windows, keep improving, and are easy to set up.
Cognitive Services consist of the following services:
Vision: State-of-the-art image processing algorithms
help you moderate content automatically and build more
personalized apps by returning smart insights
Speech: Process spoken language in your applications
Language: Allow your apps to process natural language,
evaluate sentiment and topics, and learn how to recog-
nize what users want
Knowledge: Map complex information and data in-or-
der to solve tasks such as intelligent recommendations
and semantic search
Search: Make your apps, webpages, and other
experiences smarter and more engaging with the Bing
Search APIs
Bot Framework
Think of a bot as an app that users interact with in a conver-
sational way. Bots can communicate conversationally with text,
cards, or speech. The Bot Framework enables you to build bots
that support different types of interactions with users.
TRAINED SERVICES
AI SERVICES
CONVERSATIONAL AI
AI TOOLS
CUSTOM SERVICES
Cognitive Services Bot Framework Azure Machine Learning
Azure Azure VS Code Tools Azure
ML Studio ML Workbench for AI Notebooks
AI INFRASTRUCTURE
AI ON DATA AI COMPUTE DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORKS
Data Lake SQL Server Cosmos DB Spark DSVM Batch AI ACS
Cognitive
Toolkit TensorFlow Caffe 2
5. 5 Microsoft AI platform - Build Intelligent Software | September 2017
Bot web service
You can design conversations in your bot to be freeform. Your
bot can also have more guided interactions where it provides
the user choices or actions. The conversation can use simple
text strings or increasingly complex, rich cards that contain text,
images, and action buttons. You can add natural language
interactions, which let your users interact with your bots in a
natural and expressive way.
A bot may be as simple as basic pattern matching with a
response, or it may be a sophisticated weaving of artificial intel-
ligence techniques with complex conversational state tracking
and integration to existing business services.
The Microsoft Bot Framework makes it easy for you to create
new experiences and reach your users at scale. Easily build and
deploy across channels including Facebook Messenger, Corta-
na, Slack, Skype, and Bing.
You can build your bot with the Bot Builder SDK using C# or
Node.js, or use the Azure Bot Service (currently in preview).
Add artificial intelligence to your bot with Cognitive Services.
When you are ready to share your bot with the world, deploy
it to a cloud service such as Microsoft Azure.
The Bot Framework is a platform for building, connecting, test-
ing, and deploying powerful and intelligent bots. With support
for .NET, Node.js, and REST, you can get the Bot Builder SDK
and quickly start building bots with the Bot Framework. In ad-
dition, you can take advantage of Microsoft Cognitive Services
to add smart features like natural language understanding,
image recognition, speech, and more.
The Azure Bot Service provides an integrated environment
purpose-built for bot development. You can write a bot,
connect, test, deploy, and manage it from your web browser
with no separate editor or source control required. For simple
bots, you may not need to write code at all. It is powered by
Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure Functions, which means
that your bot will run in a server-less environment on Azure
that will scale based upon demand.
Azure Machine Learning
Azure Machine Learning is a cloud predictive analytics service
that makes it possible to quickly create and deploy predictive
models as analytics solutions. The Machine Learning service is
cloud-based, provides compute resource and memory
flexibility, and eliminates setup and installation concerns
because you can work through your web browser on any
Internet-connected PC.
Your bot code goes here Bot ConnectorService
BotBuilder
SDK
+Microsoft Cognitive Services
Language
Extraction
...
Bot Framework: Think of a bot as
an app that users interact with in a
conversational way. Bots can commu-
nicate conversationally with text, cards,
or speech. The Bot Framework enables
you to build bots that support different
types of interactions with users.
Web Chat
Email
Facebook
GroupMe
Kik
Skype
Slack
Telegram
Twilio (SMS)
Direct Line...
...
Message input
<>output
State
Management
APISDKcalls
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Data Collection
andmanagement
ML Studio Web Services Embedded
ML Model
Azure Machine Learning service helps build, deploy and
manage applications at scale. It helps boost productivity with
agile development and enables you to begin building now with
the tools and platforms you know.
Machine learning is considered a subcategory of artificial in-
telligence (AI). Forecasts or predictions from machine learning
can make apps and devices smarter. For instance, you could
build recommendation services - when you shop online, ma-
chine learning helps recommend other products you might like
based on what you’ve purchased.
You can work from a ready-to-use library of algorithms, use
them to create models on an internet-connected PC, and
deploy your predictive solution quickly. Start from ready-to-use
examples and solutions in the Cortana Intelligence Gallery.
Leverage the set of finished AI services to build immersive ap-
plications that use state of the art image processing with Deep
Neural Networks (DNN) and explore the power of Natural
Language Processing (NLP) capabilities for speech recogni-
tion. Use the extensive set of AI Tools supported to build rich
immersive experiences.
AI Infrastructure
Leverage the power of virtually infinite scale AI infrastructure
and integrated AI services.
AI Compute
Flexible compute services from virtually infinite scale to
the edge
Spark on HDInsight: Leverage Apache Spark in the
cloud for mission critical deployments
Data Science VM: Use friction-free data science envi-
ronment that contains popular tools for data exploration,
modeling and development activities
Batch AI Training: Experience unlimited elastic scale-out
deep learning. Perform massively parallel scale-out
GPU enabled AI development.
Azure Container Service: Deploy AI models with flexi-
bility of containers and scale them out automatically with
Kubernetes. Turn your AI models into web services using
Docker containers. Auto scale and manage with
Kubernetes.
Data Science VM (DSVM)
The Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM) is a
powerful data science development environment that enables
you to perform various data exploration and modeling tasks.
The environment comes already built and bundled with several
popular data analytics tools that make it easy to get started
quickly with your analysis for On-premises, Cloud, or hybrid
deployments.
You can use languages like R and Python to do your data
analytics right on the DSVM. You can also leverage Jupyter
Notebook that provides a powerful browser-based “IDE” for
data exploration and modeling. You can use Python 2, Python
3 or R (both Open Source and the Microsoft R Server) in a
Jupyter Notebook.
The DSVM works closely with many Azure services and can
read and process data that is already stored on Azure, in Azure
SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, or in
Azure Cosmos DB. It can also leverage other analytics tools
such as Azure Machine Learning and Azure Data Factory.
AI on data
AI enable your data platform
Data Lake: Run data transformations and AI on peta-
byte-scale
SQL Server 2017: Use R, python, and native machine
learning in an industry leading SQL DB
Cosmos DB: Integrate AI with a globally distributed
multi-model DB storage
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AI Tools
AI platform consists of comprehensive and productive tooling
for AI coding and management. It enables developers to
harness intelligence with massive datasets through tools and
deep learning frameworks of your choice.
Coding and Management tools
AI platform provides a rich set of tools to simplify development:
Azure Machine Learning Studio: Serverless collabora-
tive drag-and-drop tool for graphical machine learning
development
Azure Machine Learning Workbench: Visual AI
powered data wrangling, experimentation, and lifecycle
management
Visual Studio Code Tools for AI: Build, debug, test, and
deploy AI with Visual Studio Code on Windows and Mac
Azure Notebooks: Organize your datasets and Jupyter
Notebooks in a centralized library for Data Science and
Analysis
Aside from this, the platform supports several popular Open
Source tools such as Jupyter Notebooks, PyCharm, and more.
Azure ML Studio
Azure Machine Learning Studio gives you an interactive, visual
workspace to easily build, test, and iterate on a predictive
analysis model. You drag-and-drop datasets and analysis
modules onto an interactive canvas, connecting them together
to form an experiment, which you run in Machine Learning
Studio. To iterate on your model design, you edit the exper-
iment, save a copy if desired, and run it again. When you’re
ready, you can convert your training experiment to a predictive
experiment, and then publish it as a web service so that your
model can be accessed by others.
Azure ML does more than just deploy a model - It automat-
ically sets up the model to work with Azure’s load balancing
technology. This lets the model grow to handle cloud burst
scenarios, scaling up to meet with use demands and shrinking
when demand falls.
Azure ML studio also offers several standard templates - A
machine learning template demonstrates the standard industry
practices and common building blocks in building a machine
learning solution for a specific domain, starting from data
preparation, data processing, feature engineering, model
training to model deployment.
Experiments, Modules,
and Datasets
ML Studio
.arff .OData
.csv .tsv ... Write scored data
Write models
Read BLOB, Table, or Text Data
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The goal of the templates is to enable data scientists to
quickly build and deploy custom machine learning solutions
with Azure Machine Learning platform, and increase their
productivity with a higher starting point. The template includes
a collection of pre-configured Azure ML modules, as well as
custom R scripts in the Execute R Script modules, to enable an
end-to-end solution.
Azure ML Workbench
Workbench is visual AI powered data wrangling, experimen-
tation, and lifecycle management tool. Tie it all together with
Azure ML Workbench, that enables built-in data preparation
that learns your data preparation steps as you perform them.
Project management, run history, and notebook integration
unleashes your productivity. Leverage the best open source
frameworks such as TensorFlow, Cognitive Toolkit, Spark ML,
Scikit-learn, and more.
VS Code Tools for AI
Build Deep Learning models easier, with Azure Machine
Learning services built right in! Use Visual Studio Code Tools
for AI to build, debug, test, and deploy AI on Windows and
Mac for a seamless developer experience across desktop,
cloud and edge. Develop deep learning models and call
services straight from your favorite IDE.
Azure Notebooks
Leverage Azure Notebooks to organize your datasets and
Jupyter Notebooks – all in one centralized location for your
Data Science and Analysis. For instance, leverage Azure Note-
books to run negative matrix factorization (NMF) over large
datasets easily and identify topics of interest on Twitter feeds.
Deep Learning Frameworks
AI platform stack supports an extensive array of deep
learning frameworks – including Cognitive Toolkit, Caffe2,
TensorFlow, Chainer, MxNet, Torch, Scikit-learn, and more.
Deep learning is impacting everything from healthcare to
transportation to manufacturing, and more. Companies are
turning to deep learning to solve hard problems, like image
classification, speech recognition, object recognition, andma-
chine translation.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are extraordinarily versatile
artificial intelligence models that have achieved widespreaduse
over the last five years. These neural networks excel at auto-
mated feature creation and processing of complex datatypes
like images, audio, and free-form text. Common business use
cases for DNNs include:
Determining whether an uploaded video, audio, or text
file contains inappropriate content
Inferring a user ’s intent from their spoken or typed input
Identifying objects or persons in a still image
Translating speech or text between languages or
modalities
Unfortunately, DNNs are also among the most time - and
resource-intensive machine learning models. Whereas a
trained linear regression model results can typically score input
in negligible time, applying a DNN to a single file of interest
may take hundreds or thousands of milliseconds -- a process-
ing rate insufficient for some business needs.
To overcome the time complexity, DNNs can be applied in
parallel – using a scalable fashion with Spark clusters. AI plat-
form provides rich support for parallelism with Spark clusters.
Leverage DNNs created with Cognitive Toolkit or TensorFlow,
operationalized on Spark with Azure Data Lake as the store.
Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK)
Cognitive Toolkit will enable enterprise-ready, production-
grade AI by allowing users to create, train, and evaluate their
own neural networks that can then scale efficiently across
multiple GPUs and multiple machines on massive data sets.
Cognitive Toolkit is a framework for describing learning
machines. Although intended for neural networks, the
learning machines are arbitrary in that the logic of the machine
is described by a series of computational steps in a
Computational Network.
CNTK can be included as a library in your Python, C#, or C++
programs. Additionally, you can use the CNTK model
evaluation functionality from your Java program. With support
for Keras, users will now benefit from the performance of CNTK
without any changes to their existing Keras recipes.
Computational Network defines the function to be learned as a
directed graph where each leaf node consists of an input value
or parameter, and each non-leaf node represents a matrix or
tensor operation upon its children. The beauty of Cognitive
Toolkit is that once a computational network has been
described, all the computation required to learn the network
parameters are taken care of automatically. There is no need to
derive gradients analytically or to code the interactions
between variables forbackpropagation.
9. Conclusion
Compose intelligent applications, customized to your organization’s availability, security, and compliance requirements with Mic-
rosoft AI platform. With the Azure platform and productivity services, you can create the next generation of applications that span
an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge powered by AI.
Use a comprehensive set of flexible AI Services for any scenario, enterprise-grade AI Infrastructure that run AI workloads any-
where at scale, and modern AI Tools for developers and data scientists to create AI solutions easily and with the maximum
productivity.
For more information and to learn more, refer to online training resources for AI Platform:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/training/learning-paths/azure-ai-developer
References
1. Microsoft Azure Notebooks:https://notebooks.azure.com/
2. Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/
3. Azure Machine Learning Studio: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/
4. Azure Machine Learning Workbench: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/overview-of-ml/
5. TensorFlow: https://www.tensorflow.org/
6. MxNet:https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/
7. Caffe2: https://caffe2.ai/
8. PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/
9. Juno: http://junolab.org/
10. Keras: https://keras.io/
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