#Data Streaming

[dromologue]

Stream processing has existed for decades. The adoption grows with open source frameworks like Apache Kafka and Flink in combination with fully managed cloud services. This blog post explores the past, present and future of stream processing, including the relation of machine learning and GenAI, streaming databases, and the integration between data streaming and data lakes with Apache Iceberg. The post The Past, Present and Future of Stream Processing appeared first on Kai Waehner.

[chinemagazine]

Alibaba Cloud et Confluent renforcent leur partenariat pour accélérer la puissance du data streaming

Alibaba Cloud et Confluent, Inc. ont annoncé un partenariat stratégique pluriannuel qui élargit l'étendue à destination des clients d'Asie.

Alibaba Cloud, la branche data intelligence et technologie numérique d’Alibaba Group et Confluent, Inc., la plateforme de data streaming, ont annoncé un partenariat stratégique pluriannuel qui élargit l’étendue et la portée des solutions disponibles pour les clients en Asie. Ce partenariat renforcé s’étendra de la Chine continentale à d’autres marchés de la région, notamment Hong Kong,…

[fruitfulchaos]

GO BURN CD'S. GO FILL PHYSICAL DISCS. PIRATE EVERYTHING. DOWNLOAD BOOKS, MUSIC, GAMES, SHOWS, FILMS. SAVE SNAPSHOTS ON WAYBACK. FUCK THE MEDIA COMPANIES. STREAMING ISN'T FOREVER. PURCHASE ISN'T OWNERSHIP. FORGE THE OWNERSHIP WITH YOUR OWN HANDS. MAKE MEDIA YOUR BITCH. STAY VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

[lungthief]

based on a joke from last night’s @savedatateam aai1 stream, i present: the rise and fall of a miles edgeworth midwest princess. a look behind the scenes:

[probablyasocialecologist]

Amazon’s recent decision to stop allowing people to download copies of their Kindle e-books to a computer has vindicated some of my longstanding beliefs about digital media. Specifically, that it doesn’t exist and you don’t own it unless you can copy and access it without being connected to the internet. The recent move by the megacorp and its shiny-headed billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos is another large brick in the digital wall that tech companies have been building for years to separate consumers from the things they buy—or from their perspective, obtain “licenses” to. Starting Wednesday, Kindle users will no longer be able to download purchased books to a computer, where they can more easily be freed of DRM restrictions and copied to e-reader devices via USB. You can still send ebooks to other devices over WiFi for now, but the message the company is sending is one tech companies have been telegraphing for years: You don’t “own” anything digital, even if you paid us for it. The Kindle terms of service now say this, explicitly. “Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you,” meaning you don’t “buy a book,” you obtain a “digital content license.”

[...]

Amazon is far from alone in this long-running trend towards eliminating digital ownership. For many people, digital distribution and streaming services have already practically ended the concept of owning and controlling your own media files. Spotify is now almost synonymous with music for some younger generations, having strip-mined the music industry from both ends by demonetizing more than 60% of the artists on its platform and pushing algorithmic slop while­ simultaneously raising subscription fees.  Of course, surrendering this control means being at the complete mercy of Amazon and other platforms to determine what we can watch, read, and listen to—and we’ve already seen that these services frequently remove content for all sorts of reasons. Last October, one year after the Israeli military began its campaign of genocide in Gaza, Netflix removed “Palestinian Stories,” a collection of 19 films featuring Palestinian filmmakers and characters, saying it declined to renew its distribution license. Amazon also once famously deleted copies of 1984 off of people’s Kindles. Fearing piracy, many software companies have moved from the days of “Don’t Copy That Floppy” to the cloud-based software-as-a-service model, which requires an internet connection and charges users monthly subscription fees to use apps like Photoshop. No matter how you look at it, digital platforms have put us on a path to losing control of any media that we can’t physically touch. How did we get here? 

28 February 2025

[mint-mango]

he’s immune to criticism your honor

[chainsawctopus]

The princess slayyyyyed

Drew all the different princesses @savedatateam got so far on their first stream! I am once again asking you to go support them right now they're great guys please I swear

[ilikedetectives]

I love how Emma encouraged Dev to go for Minthara romance scene in Act 1 during Dev's stream, and both of their reactions when the explicit scene played out should be framed in a museum. "I'm worth it love" to "Oh my God!!" in the span of a few mins.

Meanwhile Dev's face turns RED in less than a min lol

[earlykatgetsthesparrow]

@itspetrovichworld u want this? (I'll tag Chara later)

[jcmarchi]

NVIDIA’s GTC in Four Headlines

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NVIDIA’s GTC in Four Headlines

Impressive AI hardware innovations and interesting software moves.

Created Using DALL-E

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Edge 381: We start a new series about autonomous agents! We introdice the main concepts in agents and review the AGENTS framework from ETH Zurich. Additionally, we provide an overview of BabyAGI.

Edge 382: We review PromptBreeder, Google Deemind’s self-improving prompt technique.

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📝 Editorial: NVIDIA’s GTC in Four Headlines

I tried to resist making this weekend’s editorial about NVIDIA because I think you might have been inundated with headlines from the GTC conference. Unable to resist, I instead decided to present the four most impactful announcements in terms of ambition and market impact. If I have to summarize two key takeaways from NVIDIA���s AI announcements this week, they would be these:

NVIDIA is not only outgrowing but also out-innovating everyone else in AI compute hardware by a large margin.

NVIDIA’s software ambitions should be taken seriously.

To put that in context, here are four key announcements from this week’s GTC:

Blackwell GPU Series: NVIDIA unveiled the Blackwell B200 GPU, optimized for trillion-parameter models. The chip can improve LLM inference by up to 30x, which is quite remarkable.

NIM Microservices: My favorite announcement of GTC was the NIM platform, which delivers models optimized for inference and packaged as containers. NIM speeds up inference by using the Triton Inference Server, TensorRT, and TensorRT-LLM.

Project GR00T: I think the coolest and most ambitious announcement was Project GR00T, which focuses on developing foundation models for humanoid robots. The stack is based on multimodal models for video, audio, and language.

Distribution: An overlooked announcement during GTC was the impressive list of strategic alliances with top software companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Dell, Oracle, and many others. NVIDIA is simply everywhere.

There were many additional announcements at GTC, but the aforementioned four are incredibly impactful. NVIDIA’s AI hardware dominance is unquestionable, but it’s quickly making inroads in the software space.

🔎 ML Research

Chronos

Amazon Science published a paper introducing Chronos, a family of pretrained foundation models for time series forecasting. Chronos models time-series data using the same techniques used by LLMs —> Read more.

Moirai

Salesforce Research also got into time series forecasting with foundation models with the publication of a paper detailing Moirai. The new model follows the paradigm of a universal forecasting model that can issues predictions across many domains and time scales —> Read more.

TacticAI

Google DeepMind published a paper detailing TacticAI, a model that can provide technical insights in football( soccer) plays, particularly corner kicks. The model uses geometric deep learning by generating possible reflections of a game situation including the player’s relationships —> Read more.

RAFT

Researcers from UC Berkely published a paper introducing retrieval-augmented fine-tuning(RAFT), a training technique that improves the ability of models to answer questions based on external data. Given a question, RAFT ignores the documents that are not relevant to formulagte the answer leading to more accurate outputs —> Read more.

Evolutionary Optimization and FM Model Merging

Researchers from Sakana AI published a paper that uses evolutionary optimization to merge foundation models. The technique attempts to harness the collective intelligence of different models to create more powerful foundation models —> Read more.

SceneScript

Meta AI Research published a paper detailing SceneScript, a method for reconstructing layouts of physical spaces. The technique can have profound implications in augmented reality scenarios that merge physical and virtual spaces —> Read more.

🤖 Cool AI Tech Releases

NVIDIA NIM

NVIDIA announced NIM, its cloud microservices endpoints for pretrained foundation models —> Read more.

Grok

Elon Musk’s xAI open sourced a version of its marque model Grok —> Read more.

Stable Video 3D

Stability AI released Stable Video 3D, an improved model that can generate 3D objects from text descriptions —> Read more.

🛠 Real World ML

AI Training Logging at Meta

Meta discusses Logarithm, their solution for AI training logging —> Read more.

GNNs at Pinterest

Pinterest details their use of graph neural networks(GNNs) for content understanding —> Read more.

RL at Lyft

Lyft discusses the architecture powering their internal reinforcement learning workloads —> Read more.

Cloud Monitoring at Microsoft

Microsoft discusses the AI used to monitor its Azure cloud services —> Read more.

📡AI Radar

NVIDIA unveiled plenty of AI hardware and software innovations at its GTC conference.

Reddit had a strong IPO debut fueled by AI data demands.

Apple is reportedly in conversations with Google to power IPhone AI features using Gemini.

On a surprising move, Microsoft hired Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and part of his team to lead its Copilot efforts.

After loosing several key people, Inflection announced a pivot into AI for business.

NVIDIA announced a series of AI partnerships with the world’s largest tech companies.

Databricks announced the acquisition of Lilac to improves its unstructure data preparation and analysis capabilities.

Astera Labs shares popped 70% in its IPO pushed by the demand of its AI data transfer features.

Roblox introduced new AI features for Avatar creation and texturing.

Anthropic, AWS and Accenture announced a strategic alliance to bring generative AI to enterprises.

ServiceNow released a new version of its Now platform for AI workflow automation.

Amazon and Snowflake announced a partnership to modernize data streaming pipelines.

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[ironworked]

Given the reasons behind 911's move from FOX to ABC (x, x), its ratings and viewers for this season so far, the currently developing spin-off, its year to year evolution, 911 vs its timeslot rivals and other ABC shows (shown below), and this ranking of this year's broadcast shows so far

911 year-to-year evolution:

vs ABC shows (this season):

vs timeslot rivals:

...

[rhapsoddity]

What is VSAU!Martyns 'power's? I didn't even know you had a desgin for him :○

He can hop into a pocket dimension with whatever he has on him at the time! He reappear ls exactly where he disappeared, as long as it's unobstructed. If it is, he's stuck in his pocket dimension until he can

It's useful to dodge punches by wholeass disappearing for the impact. Once he got caught in a building collapse and was trapped in there for three days, though he had his groceries so he didn't starve,, he was just super bored tho

[recursive360]

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[chaos0pikachu]

"why is 4mins getting a second season? who asked for this"

y'all hating b/c 4mins is that bitch, Megan Thee Stallion Yuki Chiba in Mumashi, fries dipped in a chocolate milkshake, Cher in Clueless

and like, also one of VIU's top performing shows on the platform but saying 4mins was having a hot girl summer is funnier so

[mattoidmeerkat]

Sometimes self-care is not watching a show that used to bring you happiness and joy but turned into a constant source of frustration, disappointment, and anger.

[bartholomewtheant]

I got feelings about rats smp lore!!!!!

Just got done with the Hamrat stream and my god, the switch from "is this happening or is it a play" the chaos, trolley problem, people getting accused, Ren mumbling about not being a captain

And the sudden switch to martyn's personal lore in the end, how this has all gotten a little bit too real.