This (half-) month in Python and elsewhere: Get your feet wet with Pi-thon, er, Python 3.14, in its alpha 2 release! See how standalone Python app executables work with PyInstaller. Use Python’s pattern matching to unlock type-based decision-making superpowers. And Microsoft Azure has a brand-new, super-fast Python code sandboxing service. Top picks for Python readers…
Is it just me, or are we seeing more cloud project failures today than 10 years ago? Logic suggests we improve over time, but the metrics don’t support that assumption. A cloud project 10 years ago typically involved migrating a few test programs and systems. Now, the systems involved are much more complex, with many…
Extracting tangible business benefits from data and analytics projects, including those involving AI, has proven challenging for most enterprises. In 2019, VentureBeat reported that 87% of data and analytics (D&A) projects failed to reach production. In 2022, Gartner found that only 20% of insights derived from analytics translated into business outcomes. Despite various reasons for…
Word that a group of former Google executives plans to build an operating system for AI agents underscores the fact that there is a distinction between what application platforms are doing with agents today and what an AI agent-first OS would entail, said industry analyst Brian Jackson. Jackson, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group,…
Uber no longer offers just rides and deliveries: It’s created a new division hiring out gig workers to help enterprises with some of their AI model development work. Scaled Solutions grew out of the company’s own needs for data annotation, testing, and localization, and is now ready to offer those services to enterprises in retail,…
In the C# programming language, structs or structure types are value types that allow faster access because they are usually stored in the stack. However, although structs reduce memory footprints and eliminate garbage collection overheads, they are not a good choice in high-performance scenarios where memory allocation and deallocation in the stack is critical. In…
Microsoft Ignite 2024 put an end to Microsoft’s dalliance with chatbots. Not because the company is walking away from natural language interfaces, but because it’s taking what it learned with its first Copilots and refocusing on tangible productivity gains from large language models (LLMs). This is not surprising. Although LLM-powered chatbots are an amusing novelty…
Uno Platform has unveiled the Uno Platform Studio, featuring a suite of developer productivity tools including Hot Design, a visual designer for building cross-platform .NET apps. Introduced November 14, the Uno Platform Studio is intended to help developers navigate parts of the development life cycle, from design handoff to building the app. Hot Design, one…
As a marketing strategist with over a decade’s worth of experience, I’ve seen personalization strategies that run the gamut from compelling and persuasive to weak and ineffectual. And the hard […] The post How Intent Data and AI Can Come Together to Produce Better Personalization appeared first on TechTarget.
AWS re:Invent, one the premier events in the cloud industry, serves as a platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce new services, capabilities, and enhancements to its extensive portfolio. The 2024 events kicks off on Monday, December 2, with a live event in Las Vegas and a virtual event as well. As one of…
