NANOSENSOR CAN ALERT A SMARTPHONE WHEN PLANTS ARE STRESSED
MIT engineers have developed a way to closely track how plants respond to stresses such as injury, infection, and light damage, using sensors made of carbon nanotubes. These sensors can be embedded in plant leaves, where they report on hydrogen peroxide signaling waves. Plants use hydrogen peroxide to communicate within their leaves, sending out a distress signal that stimulates leaf cells to produce compounds that will help them repair damage or fend off predators such as insects.
Read moreSTATE OF THE MACHINE LEARNING AND AI INDUSTRY
From 2012 to 2018, blue-chip technology companies implemented custom-built ML platforms for internal use (i.e., Facebook’s FBLearning, Uber’s Michelangelo, Twitter’s Cortex, AirBnB’s BigHead), many of these platforms are primarily based on open-source packages and have been deeply tailored for the specific use cases of their respective companies. Since then, the industry has seen a strong evolution of Enterprise-grade ML platform solutions, including those from incumbent vendors (e.g., Amazon Sagemaker, Microsoft Azure ML, Google Cloud ML, etc.
Read moreYOUR GUIDE TO NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)
This extensive post covers NLP use cases, basic examples, Tokenization, Stop Words Removal, Stemming, Lemmatization, Topic Modeling, the future of NLP, and more. Everything we express (either verbally or in written) carries huge amounts of information. The topic we choose, our tone, our selection of words, everything adds some type of information that can be interpreted and value extracted from it. In theory, we can understand and even predict human behaviour using that information.
Read moreINTRODUCING THE PLATO RESEARCH DIALOGUE SYSTEM: A FLEXIBLE CONVERSATIONAL AI PLATFORM
The Plato Research Dialogue System enables experts and non-experts alike to quickly build, train, and deploy conversational AI agents. Intelligent conversational agents have evolved significantly over the past few decades, from keyword-spotting interactive voice response (IVR) systems to the cross-platform intelligent personal assistants that are becoming an integral part of daily life. Along with this growth comes the need for intuitive, flexible, and comprehensive research and development platforms that can act as open testbeds to help evaluate new algorithms, quickly prototype, and reliably deploy conversational agents.
Read moreEXTRACTIVE TEXT SUMMARIZATION USING GLOVE VECTORS
Text summarization is one of famous NLP application which had been researched a lot and still at its nascent stage compared to manual summarization. In simple terms, the objective is to condense unstructured text of an article into a summary automatically. There are two types of summarization techniques. For summarizing the reviews, we may want to pick highly positive and negative sentences as summary. Another approach could be picking only the sentences which contains some object/entity (Company name, person, dates, location etc).
Read moreTEXT CLASSIFICATION: BEST PRACTICES FOR REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS
Most text classification examples that you see on the Web or in books focus on demonstrating techniques. This will help you build a pseudo usable prototype. If you want to take your classifier to the next level and use it within a product or service workflow, then there are things you need to do from day one to make this a reality. I’ve seen classifiers failing miserably and being replaced with off the shelf solutions because they don’t work in practice.
Read moreATTACK MATRIX FOR KUBERNETES
While Kubernetes has many advantages, it also brings new security challenges. Kubernetes, the most popular container orchestration system and one of the fastest-growing projects in the history of open source, becomes a significant part of many companies’ compute stack. The flexibility and scalability of containers encourage many developers to move their workloads to Kubernetes. While Kubernetes has many advantages, it also brings new security challenges that should be considered. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the various security risks that exist in containerized environments, and specifically in Kubernetes.
Read moreWANTED: PEOPLE WHO KNOW A HALF CENTURY-OLD COMPUTER LANGUAGE SO STATES CAN PROCESS UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS
On top of ventilators, face masks and health care workers, you can now add COBOL programmers to the list of what several states urgently need as they battle the coronavirus pandemic. In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy has put out a call for volunteers who know how to code the decades-old computer programming language called COBOL because many of the state’s systems still run on older mainframes. In Kansas, Gov.
Read moreCONTROLLING OUTBOUND TRAFFIC FROM KUBERNETES
We recently finished a major networking project which let us control internal traffic in our platform. And we’ve been thinking about how we can add similar security to network traffic leaving our platform. At Monzo, the Security Team’s highest priority is to keep your money and data safe. And to achieve this, we’re always adding and refining security controls across our banking platform. Late last year, we wrapped up a major networking project which let us control internal traffic in our platform (read about it here).
Read moreMOVING FROM RECAPTCHA TO HCAPTCHA
We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google’s reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. Since this change potentially impacts all Cloudflare customers, we wanted to walk through the rationale in more detail. We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google’s reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. We’re excited about this change because it helps address a privacy concern inherent to relying on a Google service that we’ve had for some time and also gives us more flexibility to customize the CAPTCHAs we show.
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