Gilbane Advisor: Semantic hierarchy, DBOS, taxonomies, browsers
This week we feature articles from Daniel Tunkelang, and Mike Stonebraker.
Additional reading comes from Shritama Saha, Jordana Cepelewicz, Michael Nuñez, and Apple, Google, Microsoft & Mozilla.
News comes from Brightcove, Apache Software Foundation, Deepgram, and Foxit.
All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index
Opinion / Analysis…
Hierarchy is Hard!
“Semantic hierarchy is a foundational concept in language understanding. Hyponyms and hypernyms are at the heart of relationships among words, categories, and query intents. But developing and maintaining hierarchical taxonomies is challenging in general, and especially so for queries. Still, this is a challenge that is worth pursuing, since it offers the potential of a more principled, intuitive way to manage precision-recall tradeoffs.”
Daniel Tunkelang does a nice job explaining and setting expectations with easy examples in (4 min).
https://dtunkelang.medium.com/hierarchy-is-hard-a683793cc9c3
Introducing DBOS Cloud: transactional serverless computing on a cloud-native OS
Many of you will be familiar with Mike Stonebraker from Ingres, Postgres, Informix, VoltDB, or a number of other database products. He has been working with Matei Zaharia (Stark and Databricks) and teams at MIT and Stanford on DBOS (a database operating system), and they have just released a cloud version. Stonebraker explains why we need it. (4 min)
https://www.dbos.dev/blog/announcing-dbos
More Reading
- Andrew Ng unveils free course on knowledge graphs for RAG via AIM
- Always nice to hear when the big browser vendors agree… Announcing Speedometer 3.0: A shared browser benchmark for web application via BrowserBench
- Apple researchers achieve breakthroughs in multimodal AI as company ramps up investments. Lot’s of related announcements coming up. via VentureBeat
- How to build an origami computer via Quanta Magazine
Content technology news…
Brightcove announces web-based video editing tool
The in-platform editing functionality to ease the video content creation process for teams who want to publish high-quality videos quickly.
https://www.brightcove.com/en/company/press/brightcove-launches-web-based-video-editor/
Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Wicket v10
The open source Java framework enables developers to create feature rich websites and applications quickly while also using less code.
https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-software-foundation-announces-apache-wicket-v10
Deepgram launches Aura, a text-to-speech API for real-time, conversational voice AI agents
Developers can build conversational voice AI agents that interact with customers, employees in a natural and engaging way.
https://deepgram.com/learn/aura-text-to-speech-tts-api-voice-ai-agents-launch
Foxit PDF Editor Suite expands AI capabilities
Smart PDF Commands is a new Foxit PDF Editor feature designed to streamline document processing workflows with 80+ pre-defined actions.
https://www.foxit.com/company/press/9004.html
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Originally published at https://gilbane.com on March 20, 2024.
