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Oracle offers price-performance boost with Exadata X11M update

The new version of Oracle’s Exadata platform, X11M, is now generally available, and promises improved performance on generative AI tasks such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for the same price as the old version. Exadata is Oracle’s hardware and software platform for running Oracle Database workloads on premises or in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. The…

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Building generative AI applications is too hard, developers say

When everyone touts the benefits of generative artificial intelligence, telling the world how much easier it will make all of our lives, many developers who actually have to build those miracle apps are of a different opinion, according to a new survey sponsored by IBM. The survey gathered input from more than 1,000 enterprise developers…

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Why the C programming language still rules

The C programming language has been alive and kicking since 1972, and it still reigns as one of the essential building blocks of our software-studded world. But what about the dozens of newer languages that have emerged over the last few decades? Some were explicitly designed to challenge C’s dominance, while others chip away at…

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Intro to Ktor: The HTTP server for Kotlin

Kotlin is a modern general-purpose language that brings together object-oriented and functional programming power in a sleek syntax. Ktor is the official HTTP server for Kotlin, leveraging Kotlin’s expressiveness for building endpoints and other server-side necessities. Setting up Ktor Recently, I wrote an introduction to Express.js in a two-part series that starts from the basics…

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The Role of Reinforcement Learning in Enhancing LLM Performance

Large language models (LLMs) are the backbone of modern natural language processing. They predict words, craft sentences, and mimic human language at scale. But underneath their polished outputs lies a limitation: They only replicate patterns seen in their given or training data. What happens when we want LLMs to go beyond this – when they…

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Oracle Touts Performance Boost with Exadata X11M

Oracle today unveiled the Exadata X11M, the latest in its line of high-performance appliances for AI, analytics, and OLTP workloads. The company says the X11M will give customers substantial speedups across the board at the same starting price as the Exadata appliance it replaces. Based on the latest generation AMD EPYC processors and Oracle Database…

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5 ways data teams must lead in AI-driven organizations

Generative AI has inspired a surge of interest in using data to improve the accuracy of business decisions. Business managers, data analysts, and citizen data scientists can now use prompts instead of SQL queries to ask questions, interact with large language models rather than dashboards, and scan ML-generated recommendations instead of exploring data for insights….

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Agentic AI: The top challenges and how to overcome them

As generative AI continues to surge in popularity, we are already seeing it evolve into the next generation of machine-learning-driven technology: agentic AI. With agentic AI, we are not just prompting models and receiving an answer in a simple one-step process. The AI is engaging in complex multi-step processes, often interacting with different systems to…

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