Supervised learning explained
Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that includes algorithms for automatically creating models from data. At a high level, there are four kinds of machine learning: supervised...
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Despite the success of supervised machine learning and deep learning, there’s a school of thought that says that unsupervised learning has even greater potential. The learning of a supervised learning...
View ArticleAutomated machine learning or AutoML explained
The two biggest barriers to the use of machine learning (both classical machine learning and deep learning) are skills and computing resources. You can solve the second problem by throwing money at...
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In his 2017 Amazon shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos wrote something interesting about Alexa, Amazon’s voice-driven intelligent assistant: In the U.S., U.K., and Germany, we’ve improved Alexa’s spoken...
View ArticleWhat is SQL? The first language of data analysis
Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying data in relational databases, though with proprietary extensions among the products. The ease and ubiquity of SQL...
View ArticleDeep learning vs. machine learning: Understand the differences
Machine learning and deep learning are both forms of artificial intelligence. You can also say, correctly, that deep learning is a specific kind of machine learning. Both machine learning and deep...
View ArticleHow to choose the right database for your application
Picking the “right” database can often be critical to the success of an application. Rather than taking the advice of vendors or using a database because you already happen to have it, it’s useful to...
View ArticleInfoWorld’s 2020 Technology of the Year Award winners
InfoWorld’s 2020 Technology of the Year Award winnersImage by IDGAre you digitally transformed yet? If “digital transformation” means anything, it means taking advantage of the latest innovations in...
View ArticleWhat is Deno? A ‘better’ Node.js
If you like Node.js but not its package manager npm, or you want a more secure JavaScript runtime environment than Node.js, you might find the new open source project Deno of interest (the word Deno...
View ArticleWhat is Jenkins? The CI server explained
Jenkins offers a simple way to set up a continuous integration or continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment for almost any combination of languages and source code repositories using pipelines, as well...
View ArticleWhat is Kotlin? The Java alternative explained
Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed “pragmatic” programming language initially designed for the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and Android that combines object-oriented and...
View ArticleWhat is Node.js? The JavaScript runtime explained
Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for web servers. Keeping the latency low and the throughput high while scaling up and out is not easy. Node.js is a JavaScript...
View ArticleThe best free data science courses during quarantine
If you are locked down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, you just might have some extra time on your hands. Binging Netflix is all well and good, but perhaps you are getting tired of that and you would...
View ArticleThe best free programming courses during quarantine
Want to learn to program? These excellent free introductory courses from Codecademy and Coursera will have you coding in no time(Insider Story)
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