TensorFlow nightly pip packages are about to change

Julia Schmidt -
Starting 16 August 2019 (yup, that’s this Friday), the team behind numerical computation library TensorFlow will stop updating 1.x tf-nightly pip packages....
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AWS bumps Lake Formation to GA, previews new PowerShell tools

Julia Schmidt -
AWS Lake Formation, a service to build, secure, and manage data lakes on AWS, is now generally available in US East (N....
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AWS introduces PartiQL to tear down walls between SQL and NoSQL

Julia Schmidt -
AWS open-sourced its PartiQL query language to provide a way to query data across formats and services. The project...
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Databricks starts adding delete, update, merge capabilities to Delta Lake

Julia Schmidt -
Version 0.3 of Databricks' open source project Delta Lake is now available to download, adding some APIs to the storage layer introduced...
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Elastic adds ML magic to its SIEM, bumps stack up to 7.3

Julia Schmidt -
Elastic has released version 7.3 of its portfolio stack, pushing some features into general availability while improving or extending others.
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Cloudera lets data science teams BYoIDEs and ups security in workbench update

Julia Schmidt -
Collaborative data science platform Cloudera Data Science Workbench is offering users ways of integrating their editor of choice in the now available...
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MLfLow highlights logging and tracking in v1.1

Joe Fay -
MLflow has hit 1.1 with fleshed out logging and tracking features, and experimental support for running projects on Kubernetes.
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Do you want rules with that? Data sharing is caring à la Microsoft AI

Julia Schmidt -
Microsoft has drafted three agreements regarding the sharing and using of data for the AI community to give feedback on.
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TensorFlow Addons SIG keeps the tf.contrib spirit alive

Julia Schmidt -
Extensions to the TensorFlow ecosystem have found a new, well-structured home in the TensorFlow Addons repository, with a number of maintainers making...
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OpenAI to shift AGI effort onto Azure, after $1bn investment from Microsoft

Joe Fay -
Microsoft has agreed to pour $1bn into OpenAI, doubling the amount of cash the non-profit research company turned partly profit-making entity has...
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What’s the point: Search UI, TensorFlow, Go, LinkedIn, and ML.NET

Julia Schmidt -
Elastic’s Search UI library for integrating search capabilities to websites and web apps has reached version 1.0, thus becoming ready for use...
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Microsoft’s Bing team reshape Google’s BERT in their own Azure-powered image

Joe Fay -
Researchers’ at Microsoft’s Bing organisation have open sourced a brace of recipes for pre-training and fine-tuning BERT, the NLP model which Google...
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Databricks Runtime 5.5 previews Instance Pools

Julia Schmidt -
Databricks, the company behind open source project Apache Spark, has given its Runtime a good old polishing, buffing the version number up...
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Huskarl aims at becoming the TensorFlow for Reinforcement Learning

Julia Schmidt -
TensorFlow users interested in Reinforcement Learning (better known as the thing that made AlphaGo win at Go) might want to take a...
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Big Blue opens up hub for machine learning datasets

Joe Fay -
IBM has launched a repository of datasets for training which data scientists can pick and mix to train their deep learning and...
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Microsoft kills off SQL Server 2008, waves customers onto Azure

Joe Fay -
Microsoft finally pulls the plug on SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 today, while simultaneously teasing new services to tempt the remaining...
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