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54 votes
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Discord in early talks about IPO
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A Reykjavík building that houses a penis museum and an H&M is also the virtual home to an array of perpetrators of identity theft, ransomware and disinformation
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Microsoft reported to be sharply reducing planned data center investment worldwide
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Myanmar scam compounds that enslave workers apparently use Starlink for net access. US law enforcement says no company response to request for help.
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MIT’s new AI-powered tool accelerates startup ambitions
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Meta admits Instagram Reels featured violence, porn in graphic error
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HP ditches mandatory fifteen-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'
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Meredith Whittaker said Signal intends to exit Sweden should its government amend existing legislation essentially mandating the end of end-to-end encryption
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Automattic hit with class action over WP Engine dispute, accused of anti-competitive tactics
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Planned foreign-owned data centres in Finland will bring minimal economic benefit, according to Jukka Manner, professor of networking technology at Aalto University
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Apple to invest $500 billion in the US in the next four years, build AI server factory (gifted link)
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The birth and glory of Swedish computers
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Norway's 1X is building a humanoid robot – Neo Gamma is a prototype designed for testing in the home environment
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Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says
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Dating app cover-up: How Tinder, Hinge, and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps
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Overwhelmed with the realm of data exploration (datalakes, AI, plus some c-level pressure)
Hi all, I have been tasked with the gargantuan task of understanding and eventually implementing what is effectively turning our database into an all-knowing human. What they want at the base...
Hi all,
I have been tasked with the gargantuan task of understanding and eventually implementing what is effectively turning our database into an all-knowing human.
What they want at the base level is to be able to open up a chat bot or similar and ask "where can I put an ice cream shop in <x region of our portfolio>?" And the result should be able to reason against things like demographics in the area, how many competing ice cream shops are in the area, etc.
They also want it to be able to read into trends in things like rents, business types, etc., among many other "we have the data, we just don't know how to use it" questions.
You may be sitting there saying "hire a data analyst" and I agree with you but the ai bug has bitten c-level and they are convinced our competition has advanced systems that can give this insight into their data with a snap of a finger.
I don't know if this is true but regardless, here I am knee deep in the shit trying to find some kind of solution. My boss thinks we can throw everything into a datalake and connect it to chatgpt and it will just work, but I have my reservations.
We have one large database that is "relational" (it has keys that other tables reference but they rarely have proper foreign keys, this is a corporate accounting software specifically for commercial real estate and was not our design and is 30 years old at this point) and we have a couple of smaller databases for things like brokerage and some other unrelated things.
I'm currently of the opinion that a datalake won't do much for us. Maybe I'm wrong but I think cultivating several views that combine our various tables in a sensible way with sensible naming will help to give AI a somewhat decent chance at being successful.
My first entry point was onelake + powerbi + copilot, but that isn't what they're looking for and it's ridiculously expensive. I then looked at powerbi "q&a" which was closer but still not there. You can do charts and sums and totals etc but you can't ask it introspective questions, it just falls on its face. I don't think it was designed for the type of things my company wants.
I have since pivoted to retrieval augmented generation (rag-ai) with azure openai and I feel like I'm on the right path but I can't get it to work. I'm falling face first through azure and the tutorials that exist are out of date even though they're 3 months old. It's really frustrating to try to navigate azure and fabric and foundry with no prior understanding. Every time I try something I have to create 6 resource group items, permissions left right and center, blob stores, etc, and in the end it just...doesn't work.
I think I'm headed in the right direction. I think I need to make some well formatted views/data warehouses, then transform those into vector matrices which azure's openai foundry can take and reason against in addition to the normal LLM that 4o or o1 mini uses
I tried to do a proof of concept with an exported set of data that I had in a big excel sheet but uploading files as part of your dataset is painful as they get truncated and even if they don't, the vectorizing doesn't seem to work if it's not a PDF or image etc.
I need to understand whether I'm in the right universe and I need to figure out how to get this implemented without spending 10 grand a month on powerbi and datalakes that don't even work the way they want.
Anyone got any advice/condolences for me? I've been beating my head against this for days and I'm just overwhelmed by all the buzz words and over promises and terrible "demos" of someone making a pie chart out of 15 records out of the contoso database and calling it revolutionary introspective conversational AI
I'm just tired 😩
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reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profits
57 votes -
Nokia announces ex-Intel AI and data centre boss Justin Hotard as new CEO – company attempting to venture into artificial intelligence market as 5G sales fall
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What is China’s DeepSeek and why is it freaking out the AI world?
47 votes -
Amazon to close Quebec facilities, insists it's not because of new union
57 votes -
TikTok is coming back online after US President-elect Donald Trump pledged to restore it
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US Supreme Court unanimously backs law banning TikTok if it’s not sold by its Chinese parent company
48 votes -
Read.cv and Posts sold to Perplexity; will be closed soon
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TSMC may have approval to create 2nm chips in the US
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US introduces additional export restrictions on AI-chips
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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the thousands of apps hijacked to spy on your location
65 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta's latest pivot in three-hour Joe Rogan interview
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TikTok says it plans to shut down site for US unless Supreme Court strikes down law forcing it to sell
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Tencent designated as a Chinese military company by US
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Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X
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Amazon’s latest seller squeeze - Amazon changes terms of compensation for lost third party inventory
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Sweden's green industry hopes hit by Northvolt woes – growing calls for increased state support to help Sweden maintain its position in future technologies
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Copyright abuse is getting Luigi Mangione merch removed from the internet – artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims
65 votes -
BuzzFeed sold 'Hot Ones' studio for $82.5 million to consortium including First We Feast's founder, host Sean Evans, Crooked Media, Mythical Entertainment, and Soros Fund Management.
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Chatbots urged teen to self-harm, suggested murdering parents, Texas lawsuit says
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Norwegian payment service Vipps becomes world's first company to launch competing tap-to-pay solution to Apple Pay on iPhone – follows agreement with European regulators
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger forced out by board frustrated with slow progress
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Mozilla begs courts to allow Google search deal for Firefox to continue
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CrowdStrike avoids customer exodus after triggering global IT outage
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Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI from converting to a for-profit corporation
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OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
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Chegg is on its last legs after ChatGPT sent its stock down 99%
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TSMC will stop making 7nm chips for Chinese customers
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Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users
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AI is killing remote work
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The latest in North Korea’s fake IT worker scheme: Extorting the employers
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Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity promote debunked scientific racism in AI search results
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Character.AI faces US lawsuit after teen's suicide
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Arm is cancelling Qualcomm's chip design license
21 votes