Companies are reluctant to shift their systems on Oracle databases to competitors like Amazon’s AWS or Microsoft cloud services. Concerns include fear of Oracle finding software license contract violations. Penalty with fees or terminating permission to use software may ensue. Software asset management is a branch of consulting that helps companies negotiate software contracts. In …
Monthly Archives: March 2019
QDNC Issue #13
In-depth look into Spotify’s recommendation engine that I HAVE to come back to for a detailed read. Scientists in US and Russia have managed to return three qubits to their state a fraction of a second earlier, demonstrating time reversal in a quantum computer. Qubits were set to a state of 0, after which order …
QDNC Issue #12
This issue is a couple days in making! I haven’t come across much news that intrigued me. Appen acquires Figure Eight, for a total of up to $300 million. Both companies use crowdsouced labor to annotate data which is then used to in training AI and machine learning models. StyleGAN aims to generate images that …
QDNC Issue #11
Some really great articles this morning! Quantity and quality. But – before that, there has always been a photo close to my heart and it made it to the (e-)papers today! On this set is Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker – in my opinion the Big Three besides Everyone’s Favorite John Coltrane of course. …
QDNC Issue #10
Chimpanzees have their own unique set of local traditions and cultures, but these are slowly eroded with human intervention and observation. In the short amount of years we have studied animals through intervention, we have taken away the diversity of their behavior. Ed Yong writes a great number of articles on this topic which are …
QDNC Issue #9
A quick one today because I’ve been busy, and I haven’t found much news that sparked my interest beyond that of data privacy. DuckDuckGo is an encrypted search engine that doesn’t store your personal information or track you. It also has voice search features and displays search results for no-click answers. Its growth (9 billion …
QDNC Issue #8
GPipe, Google’s open source library to train deep neural networks, aims to increase classification accuracy and training speed. It uses two training techniques: synchronous stochastic gradient descent, an optimization algorithm that updates an AI model’s parameters, and pipeline parallelism, a task execution system where one step’s output is streamed as input to the next step. …
QDNC Issue #7
Startup in China uses gait recognition technology to identify people. Said to be accurate even with disguise and faked limps. Currently it is tested for criminal investigations, but it screams intrusion, especially in CN. Deep learning optimizes based on parameters and weights of a neural network through a stochastic gradient descent (backpropagation) which can be …
QDNC Issue #6
WeWork culls 3% of its workforce for ‘performance-related’ reasons. Although its bonds are trading at a lower offer price year to year, Softbank committed an additional $2 billion earlier this January, bringing its total investments up to $10 billion. SpaceX successfully launches Crew Dragon in an uncrewed flight test. It is the first of SpaceX’s …
QDNC Issue #5
DBS digiPortfolio: a team of portfolio managers curates the portfolio and monitors the market, initiating rebalances where required. This is supplemented by automation of back-testing, rebalancing, monitoring, and display of all trade activities. It aims to attract non-investors and will be implemented end 2019. Developed in partnership with HK based robo-advice startup, Quantifeed. Razer opens …
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