You’ve heard the saying “if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life,” right? Well, I hate to say it, but that’s me. I never dreamed that I would wind up in a field that combined all of my interests, but somehow that happened. Through my research at the MIT Media Lab I get to apply my legal and social sciences background to human-robot interaction. Which yes, does mean that I mostly get to play with robots all day.
If someone had told my 15-years-ago self that I’d become a DevOps engineer, I’d have scratched my head and asked them to repeat that. Back then, of course, applications were either maintained on a dedicated server or (sigh!) installed on end-user machines with little control or flexibility. Today, these paradigms are essentially obsolete; cloud computing is ubiquitous and successful.
The term “AI-first” has received its share of attention lately, especially in the boardroom where strategies to gain a competitive advantage are always welcome. But before a company embarks on an AI-first strategy, it pays to understand what it is and how it will transform the organization.
Welcome to the Spring 2022 Edition of the Modern Data Stack Ecosystem. In this article, we’ll provide an in-depth look at the Modern Data Stack (MDS) ecosystem, updated from our Fall 2021 edition. We also highly recommended our article, The Future of the Modern Data Stack, to anyone who is new to the MDS and wants to learn about its history.
At a distance of a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is pushing the edge of data transfer capabilities. The observatory launched Dec. 25 2021 on a mission to look at the early universe, at exoplanets, and at other objects of celestial interest. But first it must pass a rigorous, months-long commissioning period to make sure that the data will get back to Earth properly. Mission managers provided an update Feb.
Data infrastructure is rapidly growing and evolving along with infrastructure for AI/ML, with the latter growing largely independent from the former. An emerging generation of AI/ML tooling emphasizes data-centric versus model-centric approaches to the ML development lifecycle. These tools recognize that data is the foundation for AI and seek to open opportunities for all data professionals to participate by eliminating the unnecessary complexity of traditional model-centric solutions.
For the newest instalment in our series of interviews asking leading technology specialists about their achievements in their field, we’ve welcomed Katie King, CEO of AI in Business, a firm that specializes in AI consultancy and training. With over 30 years of experience, Katie has advised many of the world's leading brands and business leaders, including Virgin, o2, Orange and Accenture.
This guide will show you how to easily add Continual as the AI layer to your modern data stack with Snowflake at the core. The intention is to provide an introduction to using Continual on Snowflake. After completing this tutorial, users are invited to try more advanced examples. We are going to demonstrate connecting Continual to Snowflake, building feature sets and models from data stored in Snowflake, and analyzing and maintaining the predictive model continuously over time.
