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What a ride it’s been! I’ve hunted down a virtual reality professorin the UK, visited a French billionaire’s free programming school in Paris, discussed ethical engineering in the bowels of a former East German radio company, met the developers of the GraalVM polyglot compiler in Zurich, and watched GE engineers tinker with digital twinsin Detroit.
From the November 2021 Oracle Developer Newsletter: I still remember the day I heard an executive at Oracle mention “the race to the bottom of the brain stem” at our annual machine learning summit. Her point was that while so much AI is driving addictive consumer experiences (as described by The Center for Humane Technology), its …
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Downtown Los Angeles is the sunny backdrop for my third KubeCon. True to form, the attendees are diverse, collaborative, emotionally intelligent, and in unrelenting demand. The scale of systems running on open source projects emerging from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation—starting with Kubernetes—is massive. There are talks about everything from career burnout to creating serverless systems that optimize machine learning workloads so you spend less on GPU instances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCUX8l1lJlo For the last 15 years, there’s been an enterprise Linux distro that has helped to keep users secure from zero day defects such as Heartbleed, Meltdown and Spectre, as well as introducing innovations like KSplice. Now it’s back in the spotlight thanks to controversy around IBM's decision to declare end of life for CentOS. …
Originally published on the Oracle blog By: Alexa Morales The machine learning expertise at Oracle isn’t concentrated in a single department or R&D effort, it’s dispersed all over the world. That was made clear recently when more than 250 of the company’s experts spent three days together at Oracle headquarters for a machine-learning summit. It …
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In this episode of OracleNext you'll hear from Alexa Morales, a technology journalist with over 18 years of experience covering developer communities and technologies. Her recent Forbes article "GraalVM 1.0 Gives Developers a Speedy Polyglot Runtime—And Helps Twitter Save Money" offers insight into a technology that's driving significant developer excitement and which is already delivering big benefits to companies such as Twitter.
Just as job seekers around the turn of the century managed to succeed in industries shaken up by the internet and the emerging World Wide Web, today’s college grads shouldn’t be too apprehensive about what automation will do to the finance discipline.
Many researchers believe conversational AI will soon be developers' first priority, surpassing cloud-native and mobile-first projects in importance. Chatbots—built on a foundation of containerized microservices and connecting to back-end systems via API—are not only an easy way to break into conversational UIs, they’re an onramp to building and training artificial intelligence.
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