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Encode multi-lingual text properties in Amazon Neptune to train predictive models

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For more details about the solution, see the GitHub repo. We recommend using the text encoders on your graph data to meet your requirements. You can just choose an encoder name and set some encoder attributes, while keeping the GNN model unchanged. Jiani Zhang is an applied scientist of AWS AI Research and Education (AIRE). She works on solving real-world applications using machine learning algorithms, especially natural language and graph related problems.


Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play: Foster, David: 9781492041948: Amazon.com: Books

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This book covers the key techniques that have dominated the generative modeling landscape in recent years and have allowed us to make impressive progress in creative tasks. As well as covering core generative modeling theory, we will be building full working examples of some of the key models from the literature and walking through the codebase for each, step by step. Throughout the book, you will find short, allegorical stories that help explain the mechanics of some of the models we will be building. I believe that one of the best ways to teach a new abstract theory is to first convert it into something that isn't quite so abstract, such as a story, before diving into the technical explanation. The individual steps of the theory are clearer within this context because they involve people, actions, and emotions, all of which are well understood, rather than abstract constructs such as neural networks, backpropagation, and loss functions.


53 Best Prime Day Deals Still Going Strong (2022): Phones, Laptops, Espresso Machines

WIRED

After a full 48 hours, the second Amazon Prime Day 2022 is officially over. We hope you were able to find useful discounts among the Kindles, Echo Dots, Stasher bags, LifeStraws, and other great deals we found sifting through Amazon. If you missed out, fear not, a few great deals remain--at least for now. Below are the best remaining deals not just at Amazon, but at other retailers like Best Buy and Walmart too. Special offer for Gear readers: Get a 1-year subscription to WIRED for $5 ($25 off). This includes unlimited access to WIRED.com and our print magazine (if you'd like). Subscriptions help fund the work we do every day. If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission.


Text and Patterns: For Effective Chain of Thought, It Takes Two to Tango

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The past decade has witnessed dramatic gains in natural language processing and an unprecedented scaling of large language models. These developments have been accelerated by the advent of few-shot techniques such as chain of thought (CoT) prompting. Specifically, CoT pushes the performance of large language models in a few-shot setup by augmenting the prompts with intermediate steps. Despite impressive results across various tasks, the reasons behind their success have not been explored. This work uses counterfactual prompting to develop a deeper understanding of CoT-based few-shot prompting mechanisms in large language models. We first systematically identify and define the key components of a prompt: symbols, patterns, and text. Then, we devise and conduct an exhaustive set of experiments across four different tasks, by querying the model with counterfactual prompts where only one of these components is altered. Our experiments across three models (PaLM, GPT-3, and CODEX) reveal several surprising findings and brings into question the conventional wisdom around few-shot prompting. First, the presence of factual patterns in a prompt is practically immaterial to the success of CoT. Second, our results conclude that the primary role of intermediate steps may not be to facilitate learning how to solve a task. The intermediate steps are rather a beacon for the model to realize what symbols to replicate in the output to form a factual answer. Further, text imbues patterns with commonsense knowledge and meaning. Our empirical and qualitative analysis reveals that a symbiotic relationship between text and patterns explains the success of few-shot prompting: text helps extract commonsense from the question to help patterns, and patterns enforce task understanding and direct text generation.


22 Best Deals From Walmart's Rollbacks & More Rival Prime Day Sale (2022)

WIRED

Walmart has a surprise Rollbacks & More sale event that seeks to dethrone Amazon from its own Prime Day sales event. We've got some of the best deals on home, home theater, and audio equipment--even ones you won't find on Amazon. Check'em out below, and shop Best Buy's Flash Sale if you're looking for more Amazon alternative deals. The WIRED Gear team tests products year-round. We sorted through hundreds of thousands of deals by hand to make these picks.


The 20 best Amazon Prime Early Access Sale tech deals

Daily Mail - Science & tech

SHOPPING: Products featured in this article are independently selected by our shopping writers. If you make a purchase using links on this page, MailOnline will earn an affiliate commission. Amazon has you covered in their Prime Early Access Sale with fantastic offers on smart TVs, popular earbuds, laptops, iPhones, and so much more. Ending midnight tonight, electronic lovers can enjoy up to ยฃ200 off tons of devices, including eero Wi-Fi systems, Apple iPhones, eufy robot vacuums and Echo Buds - but hurry, you don't want to miss out, at these low prices, items are selling out fast. You'll need a Prime membership to get access to these impressive savings, so if you don't already have one, you can sign up for a free 30-day trial here.


23 Best Prime Day Deals on Amazon Devices (2022): Early Access Sale

WIRED

With Amazon's Prime Early Access Sale, you can take advantage of great sales on everything from Echo smart displays, Kindles, Fire tablets, and more, during the two-day event--saving you money and allowing you to get ahead on some shopping. We've rounded up all the great deals on WIRED-approved gadgets below. The WIRED Gear team tests products year-round. We sorted through hundreds of thousands of deals by hand to make these picks. Crossed-out products are out of stock or no longer discounted .


Insite AI raises $19M to help consumer brands figure out their in-store strategies

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Insite AI, a platform for consumer packaged goods companies that uses AI to provide recommendations on how to price, distribute and promote their products in physical stores, today launched out of stealth with $19 million in Series A capital from NewRoad Capital and M12, Microsoft's corporate venture arm. Co-founder Shaveer Mirpuri says that the funding will be put toward customer onboarding, building a team of industry experts to help shape product initiatives and an expanded feature set. Mirpuri and Jonathan Reid co-launched Insite with the belief there was a large addressable market for brick-and-mortar sales revenue growth management software. It's true retailers -- and by extension, brands -- face considerable challenges in this area, particularly as the economy takes a precipitous turn. According to NPD, more than 80% of U.S. consumers said in May that they'd rein in product spending within the next three to six months.


Unsupervised Learning Algorithms: Celebi, M. Emre, Aydin, Kemal: 9783319242095: Amazon.com: Books

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The contributors discuss how with the proliferation of massive amounts of unlabeled data, unsupervised learning algorithms, which can automatically discover interesting and useful patterns in such data, have gained popularity among researchers and practitioners. The authors outline how these algorithms have found numerous applications including pattern recognition, market basket analysis, web mining, social network analysis, information retrieval, recommender systems, market research, intrusion detection, and fraud detection. They present how the difficulty of developing theoretically sound approaches that are amenable to objective evaluation have resulted in the proposal of numerous unsupervised learning algorithms over the past half-century. The intended audience includes researchers and practitioners who are increasingly using unsupervised learning algorithms to analyze their data. Topics of interest include anomaly detection, clustering, feature extraction, and applications of unsupervised learning.


The best TV and home entertainment deals we found for October Prime Day

Engadget

If you're ready to upgrade your living room setup before the cold, winter months arrive, Amazon's Prime Early Access Sale has a bunch of deals you should consider. It's not often that most people upgrade their TVs, but this sales event has a number of good discounts on TV sets of all sizes from brands including LG, Samsung, Sony and others. For those that are already happy with their tube, Amazon has also discounted a bunch of home theater gadgets include streaming devices, soundbars and more, so you can upgrade your setup in a different way. Here are the best TV and home entertainment deals we found for this October Prime Day. The latest Apple TV 4K has dropped to $109. While on the expensive side, it's a set-top box that Apple lovers will appreciate.