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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

They integrate with Slack, Microsoft Messenger, and other chat programs where they read the language you use, then turn on when you type in a trigger phrase. That’s why critics say these programs are always listening; if they weren’t, they’d never know when you need them. Apply the technology to voice and the pool gets even larger.

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Solar power nonprofit goes digital to bring installation instruction to underserved communities

GeekWire

This fall, the nonprofit launched a partnership with an instructor at Lake Washington Institute of Technology and the Northwest Indian College to pilot a virtual solar photovoltaic training program. The nonprofit has produced its virtual introductory course, and is developing five more units that go into greater depth.

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Q&A with Fred Hutch’s new chief data officer on building a data ecosystem at an institutional scale

GeekWire

He develops tools to help understand massive-scale genomic and biomedical data and has helped generate online learning programs that have enrolled more than 8 million people. Leek: People who take massive online open courses are already well educated, like master’s level people trying to change careers.

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Here’s why so many video game developers are suddenly abandoning the Unity engine

GeekWire

(Unity image) In the wake of a controversial policy change by game engine developer Unity , dozens of small independent video game studios have announced they’ll abandon the engine and/or have called upon Unity to reverse course. 1, 2024, it would change the terms by which it licenses its engine. As an example, Vancouver, B.C.’s

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How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day

The Verge

She uses her iPhone and consumer software to make her videos, and I’ve got to say, she has one of the healthiest relationships with the social platforms of maybe any creator I’ve ever talked to: she thinks of them purely as marketing channels for the video courses she sells elsewhere. I have Google Sheets courses as well.

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5 hidden costs of working with alt data

CIO Business Intelligence

Typically, this data comes from the exhaust of other business processes such as social media activity, satellite imagery, location tracking data, credit card transactions, and web scraping. . Difficulties may arise around licensing, intellectual property laws and data protection regulations. . Ascertaining data ownership.

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal on vaccine equity, misinformation, preparing for the next pandemic

GeekWire

Other countries like Germany put in place automatic stabilizers so that when an emergency happens, whether it’s a health emergency or an economic emergency, the government automatically kicked in levels of funding and social safety net support services and health services and other things that people would need. “The U.S.