Educated at St Pauls School, London and Cambridge University, José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, where he has also served as Dean of Liberal Arts and Associate Provost for Strategic Planning. Since his first book, The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (MIT Press 1998) he has been working on interdiscipinary aspects of self-representation and self-consciousness, most recently in Understanding "I": Language and Thought (OUP, 2017) and The Bodily Self: Selected Essays (MIT Press, 2018). He also works on rationality and reasoning, where he has published Decision Theory and Rationality (OUP, 2009). He is currently writing a book of framing and rationality, and also preparing the third edition of his textbook Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind, both for Cambridge University Press. His work has appeared in seven languages and he is one of the 100 most cited philosophers on Google scholar.

AWS customers are relying on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to design, develop, and manage their cloud infrastructure. IaC ensures that customer infrastructure and services are consistent, scalable, and reproducible, while being able to follow best practices in the area of development operations (DevOps). One possible approach to manage AWS infrastructure and services with IaC is Terraform, which allows developers to organize their infrastructure in reusable code modules. This aspect is increasingly gaining importance in the area of machine learning (ML). Developing and managing ML pipelines, including training and inference with Terraform as IaC, lets you easily scale for multiple ML use cases or Regions without having to develop the infrastructure from scratch.

In 2021, fashion companies invested between 1.6 and 1.8 percent of their revenues in technology. By 2030, that figure is expected to rise to between 3.0 and 3.5 percent. Behind the predicted increase is a conviction among many that technology could create a competitive edge--in customer-facing activities, where companies have mostly focused to date, and, more increasingly, in operations. Technologies such as robotics, advanced analytics, and in-store applications may help streamline processes and support sustainability, as well as create an exceptional customer experience (exhibit). This report is a collaborative effort by Imran Amed, Anita Balchandani, Achim Berg, Holger Harreis, Manuel Hurtado, Saga af Petersens, Roger Roberts, and Carlos Sanchez Altable, representing views from the Apparel, Fashion & Luxury Practice.

A visit to DMart or Reliance Retail in India on any given day would make one think about Black Friday sales. The limited manpower in stores often falls short to tend to the swarm of shoppers in Indian retail stores. To solve the issue, Scribble Data strives to provide automated and customised solutions for retail businesses to tend to the demand and needs of every customer that walks in through their door. The startup offers retail chains real-time inventory management, identifies customer shopping trends, and provides personalised recommendations. Scribble Data helps businesses build machine learning (ML) applications for making their daily operations hassle free and for creating more market-worthy ML features.

Luis Vera believes the third time is the charm. The self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur admits that his vision for digitizing retail was a decade or two early when he started his journey in the 90s. Through a pair of startups -- Prospect and SCOPIX -- he tried a variety of methods to help capture store inventory, including placings cameras on shelves and a ceiling-based system where one ran on tracks. He was, effectively, attempting to compete with Amazon well before Amazon was, well, Amazon -- at least in any meaningful sense. Computer vision, machine learning and the like have caught up a lot since then, of course.

Wayfair held its first annual Way Day sale back in 2018 on the heels of Amazon's Prime Day event, and it's back yet again. Similarly to Prime Day, Way Day deals are exclusively available for a very limited time. Unlike Prime Day, no membership is required to shop Way Day deals. It's important to check prices before placing an order. We've done that work and listed some of the best Way Day deals below, but you can check out the entire event here.

Rajiv Malhotra was trained initially as a Physicist, and then as a Computer Scientist specializing in AI in the 1970s. After a successful corporate career in the US, he became an entrepreneur and founded and ran several IT companies in 20 countries. Since the early 1990s, as the founder of his non-profit Infinity Foundation (Princeton, USA), he has been researching civilizations and their engagement with technology from a historical, social sciences and mind sciences perspective. He has authored several best-selling books. Infinity Foundation has also published a 14-volume series on the History of Indian Science & Technology.

Identifying paraphrased text has business value in many use cases. For example, by identifying sentence paraphrases, a text summarization system could remove redundant information. Another application is to identify plagiarized documents. In this post, we fine-tune a Hugging Face transformer on Amazon SageMaker to identify paraphrased sentence pairs in a few steps. A truly robust model can identify paraphrased text when the language used may be completely different, and also identify differences when the language used has high lexical overlap.

You could think of it as a rebirth. Or maybe it's one of those COVID-era glow-ups that had people emerging from isolation with straighter teeth and cuter clothes. Whatever you want to call it, Edible Arrangements is in the middle of a major transformation. A few years ago, the company that introduced the world to bouquets of skewered fruit was in freefall. Now, after a bunch of new product launches, one hired-and-fired CEO, and a pandemic, the company is boasting record-setting sales numbers and a renewed sense of self. It's even changed its name: The new Edible sells desserts and doodads of all kinds--not just fruit--and aims to be, as the CEO put it, "the Domino's of gifting." But like most extreme makeovers, Edible's has its detractors, specifically within its own ranks.

In the current era of digitization and globalization, when technology is undoubtedly causing disruption to almost every other industry sector, the online commerce segment is, of course, no exception. The pandemic-led dramatic shift in consumer behavior and market dynamics and thus the accelerated focus towards'online-first' and'digital-first' shopping experiences have added fuel to usher in a better future for the new-age commerce ecosystem, wherein multiple latest and emerging technologies are already playing, or are bound to play a pivotal role, in the times to come. Probably one of the biggest technological frontiers that have been contributing majorly in the recent past vis-à-vis positively reshaping e-commerce and online shopping is Artificial Intelligence AI. In particular, AI has been proven to be a boon in creating best-in-class, tailored, and customized shopping experiences on a plethora of online shopping, e-commerce, and m-commerce marketplaces for today's consumers. With the optimal use of AI and allied technologies, e-tailers or digital sellers are nowadays able to regularly and consistently learn, track and analyze their customers' online behaviors, and parallelly able to use the predictive analytics powered by AI to near-accurately forecast their future purchase decisions – which in turn is leading to increased repeat buys and customer loyalty over a period of time.