Jacobs notes that the built form of a city is crucial to the life of an urban community, especially the sidewalks. The streets in which people live should be a tight pattern of crossed sidewalks, which allow people to meet, talk, and get to know one another. Such a complex but ultimatel...
It’s become a bit of a ubiquitous and possibly overused term. The term is used to encompass data storage mechanisms that aren’t relational and therefore don’t require using SQL for accessing their data. In his blog post, “Addressing the NoSQL Criticism” (bit.ly/rkphh0), CouchDB ...
Graph analytics is another commonly used term, and it refers specifically to the process of analyzing data in a graph format using data points as nodes and relationships as edges. Graph analytics requires a database that can support graph formats; this could be a dedicated graph database, or ...
The algorithm is the computational part of the project, while the term “model” is a trained algorithm that can be used for real-word use cases. The scope, resources, and goals of machine learning projects will determine the most appropriate path, but most involve a series of steps. 1. ...
The court clerk of AI is a process calledretrieval-augmented generation, or RAG for short. How It Got Named ‘RAG’ Patrick Lewis, lead author of the2020 paper that coined the term, apologized for the unflattering acronym that now describes a growing family of methods across hundreds of paper...
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The need to plan for long and potentially expensive retirements continues to shape the retirement landscape for 2024. In 2024, factors such as inflation and two years of stagnation in the S&P 500 index, despite short-term rallies, have the potential to affect retirement. Inflation, mediocre eq...
Back in 1992, I considered the "metaverse" to be a knockoff of William Gibson's concept of cyberspace. "Cyberspace" was reappropriated, coined as a stand-in term for all of the internet. So, too, has the metaverse. And the term "metaverse" has been aro...
The chartered financial analyst (CFA) exam is a challenging test, with the average long-term passing rate for all three levels at 45%. The pandemic has led to pass rates dropping even further as candidates' study plans and exam preparation have been severely disrupted by exam cancellations and...
The algorithm is the computational part of the project, while the term “model” is a trained algorithm that can be used for real-word use cases. The scope, resources, and goals of machine learning projects will determine the most appropriate path, but most involve a series of steps. 1. ...