May 2017 Blog Posts (4)

Add a Caption to an Image

The ability to Interpret image data using software is advancing fast! The two images above are captioned with program generated text. Here's an article that describes concepts and an approach to generate a caption for an image. The code is written in Python and uses TensorFlow. …

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Added by Michael Levin on May 25, 2017 at 8:57am — No Comments

The JHipster Mini Book ::: Free!

This is what I'm reading right now. Here you go! Matt has given us good presentations that are quick and to the point. Super cool! If you decide to pay $19.95 for the printed book, it'll cover about 3 craft pints. The health monitor app Matt made will record one less point. You'll see! Enjoy, and be sure to let Matt know how much you appreciate this free mini…

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Added by Michael Levin on May 18, 2017 at 2:30pm — No Comments

$11 Billion Swapmeet

First of all, relax, I'm not announcing an exclusive executive swapmeet.  The market for used cell phones has ramped up to a whopping $11 billion as of 2016[1].  That's a big number by itself, especially since the market scarcely existed just ten years ago.  By comparison, everything sold in every category by everyone worldwide on Ebay, new or used, was $84 billion total in 2016[2].

Unless you are actually a senior exec and can offer your device, refurbished, to other…

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Added by Ismail Jones on May 15, 2017 at 8:36pm — No Comments

Cross-Platform Mobile Development

Mobile devices prove to be a setback for cross-platform software development, but I hope it will be a minor one.  At present, Android totally dominates the mobile market both in terms of hardware and software volume.  As well, mobile devices are overtaking desktops for overall usage as we speak.  But Linux, as open-source-friendly as it is appears to be getting the rub from Google, so where are we?

As Google continues to grumble about not controlling the world, they're leaking…

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Added by Ismail Jones on May 14, 2017 at 9:24am — No Comments

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Arm Launches AI-Powered Copilot Assistant to Migrate Workflows to Arm Cloud Compute

At the recent GitHub Universe 2025 developer conference, Arm unveiled the Cloud migration assistant custom agent, a tool designed to help developers automate, optimize, and accelerate the migration of their x86 cloud workflows to Arm infrastructure.

By Sergio De Simone

Presentation: WASM in the Enterprise: Secure, Portable, and Ready for Business

Andrea Peruffo explains the power of server-side WebAssembly, especially on the JVM. Using Red Hat's Chicory runtime, he details how to achieve secure sandboxing, fault isolation, and cross-architecture portability without foreign function interfaces. Learn through case studies how WebAssembly solves real-world enterprise problems, including achieving 10x - 40x speedups with AOT compilation.

By Andrea Peruffo

System Initiative Unveils Expansion with Real-Time Multi-Cloud Discovery and Automation

System Initiative recently announced a major set of new capabilities designed to give engineering organizations instant, real-time visibility and AI-driven control across any cloud platform or API.

By Craig Risi

Memori Expands Into a Full-Scale Memory Layer for AI Agents Across SQL and MongoDB

Memori is an innovative, open-source memory system that empowers AI agents with structured, long-term memory using standard databases like SQL and MongoDB. It seamlessly integrates into existing frameworks, enabling efficient data extraction and retrieval without vendor lock-in. Ideal for developers, Memori's modular design ensures reliability and scalability for next-gen intelligent systems.

By Robert Krzaczyński

How Discord Scaled Its ML Platform from Single-GPU Workflows to a Shared Ray Cluster

Discord has detailed how it rebuilt its machine learning platform after hitting the limits of single-GPU training. The changes enabled daily retrains for large models and contributed to a 200% uplift in a key ads ranking metric.

By Matt Foster

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