All Blog Posts Tagged 'big' (4)

Devoxx Poland

The Devoxx Poland call for papers closed!

 es 3/31/16. Why should you submit your abstract? Devoxx Poland occurs in beautiful Krakow. June 22-24 are the dates. That's the most desirable time to be in central Europe. It's a global conference so you'll meet people from all over the world.

There were over 2000 participants last year. The…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 30, 2016 at 7:30am — No Comments

BIG DATA ONLINE TRAINING for Student Developers!

Oracle Academy’s free program offers learning resources and technologies for individual students:

 

BIG DATA ONLINE TRAINING

 

The objective of trainings, developed by Dan McClary, the product manager of “Oracle Academy Big Data Science…

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Added by Michael Levin on November 13, 2015 at 6:05pm — No Comments

movie recommendations with Spark machine learning

Tutorial on Apache Spark, movie recommendations with machine learning 

This post discusses building a recommendation model from movie ratings using an iterative algorithm and parallel processing with Apache Spark MLlib.

https://dzone.com/links/parallel-and-iterative-processing-for-machine-lear.html

Added by Carol McDonald on August 4, 2015 at 11:15am — No Comments

An Inside Look at the Components of a Recommendation Engine

Recommendation engines help narrow your choices to those that best meet your particular needs.  In this post, we’re going to take a closer look at how all the different components of a recommendation engine work together. We’re going to use collaborative filtering on movie ratings data to recommend movies. The key components are a collaborative filtering algorithm in Apache Mahout to build and train a machine learning model,…

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Added by Carol McDonald on April 13, 2015 at 9:14am — 1 Comment

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Researchers Attempt to Uncover the Origins of Creativity in Diffusion Models

In a recent paper, Stanford researchers Mason Kamb and Surya Ganguli proposed a mechanism that could underlie the creativity of diffusion models. The mathematical model they developed suggests that this creativity is a deterministic consequence of how those models use the denoising process to generate images.

By Sergio De Simone

Atlassian's 4 Million PostgreSQL Database Migration: When Standard Cloud Strategies Fail

Atlassian recently migrated 4 million Jira databases to Amazon Aurora, intending to reduce costs and improve the reliability of its Jira Cloud platform. Due to the large number of files involved and the constraints of managed services, the team developed a custom tool to orchestrate the process, as traditional cloud migration strategies were not viable.

By Renato Losio

LM Studio 0.3.17 Adds Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support for Tool-Integrated LLMs

LM Studio has released version 0.3.17, introducing support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — a step forward in enabling language models to access external tools and data sources. Originally developed by Anthropic, MCP defines a standardized interface for connecting LLMs to services such as GitHub, Notion, or Stripe, enabling more powerful, contextual reasoning.

By Robert Krzaczyński

Grafana Tempo 2.8 Released: Major TraceQL Enhancements and Memory Optimizations

Grafana released Tempo 2.8 on June 12, 2025, introducing substantial memory optimizations and expanded functionality in its trace query language, TraceQL. This update is part of an ongoing effort to make distributed tracing more performant and accessible within observability stacks.

By Craig Risi

Gemma 3n Introduces Novel Techniques for Enhanced Mobile AI Inference

Launched in early preview last May, Gemma 3n is now officially available. It targets mobile-first, on-device AI applications, using new techniques designed to increase efficiency and improve performance, such as per-layer embeddings and transformer nesting.

By Sergio De Simone

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