watching Jeffrey Wang as a live stream guest with Reid Havens, and one of the dozen wonderful things that Jeffrey shared with the audience was the list of optimizations that the DAX engine performs when creating an optimal query plan for our measures. And, the one that caught my attention was regarding the so-called “Sparse measures”: …
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Image by Author | Canva Everyone and their dogs are trying to enter the tech industry, whether by learning to program, entering product management, or some other direction. I am pretty new to the tech industry, with only 5 years of experience, but as I speak to more individuals, some are worried about getting …
Today we are excited to share updates across the board to our Gemini 2.5 model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro is generally available and stable (no changes from the 06-05 preview) Gemini 2.5 Flash is generally available and stable (no changes from the 05-20 preview, see pricing updates below) Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now available in …
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There is no way around it. Every soccer fan has had countless, passionate discussions about which teams were going to win the upcoming matches. To back their guesses, most fans ramble about the players, the coaches, and a myriad of factors from the time of the year to the quality of the field. A few …
Sponsored Content Google Cloud Introduction Enterprises manage a mix of structured data in organized tables and a growing volume of unstructured data like images, audio, and documents. Analyzing these diverse data types together is traditionally complex, as they often require separate tools. Unstructured media typically requires exports to specialized services …
Research Published 12 June 2025 Authors Weather Lab team We’re launching Weather Lab, featuring our experimental cyclone predictions, and we’re partnering with the U.S. National Hurricane Center to support their forecasts and warnings this cyclone season. Tropical cyclones are extremely dangerous, endangering lives and devastating communities in their wake. And in the past 50 years, …
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and medium companies achieve success in building Data and ML platforms, building AI platforms is now profoundly challenging. This post discusses three key reasons why you should be cautious about building AI platforms and proposes my thoughts on promising directions instead. Disclaimer: It is based on personal views and does not apply to cloud providers …
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Image by Author Claude Opus 4 is Anthropic’s most advanced and powerful AI model to date, setting a new benchmark for coding, reasoning, and long-running tasks. It can autonomously handle complex, multi-hour tasks, maintaining focus and delivering exceptional results over thousands of steps. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use Claude Opus …
Today, Eliza McNitt’s short film, “ANCESTRA,” premieres at the Tribeca Festival. It’s the story of a mother, and what happens when her child is born with a hole in its heart. Inspired by the dramatic events of McNitt’s own birth, the film portrays a mother’s love as a cosmic, life-saving force. This is the first …
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of activity in the AI world over the last few weeks, a recent important announcement by Streamlit that it now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) login authentication almost passed me by. User authorisation and verification can be a crucial consideration for data scientists, machine learning engineers, and others involved in creating dashboards, machine learning proofs of …
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