This is significant because Alphabet has long ignored investors’ pleas to report Google Cloud...
Intel acquired Habana Labs seven weeks ago for $2 billion to bolster its position in the highly...
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On today's Tech Bytes episode, sponsor Forward Networks talks about how it creates a real-time data model of your network that you can query to verify intent, speed troubleshooting, and check configuration changes. We discuss Forward's Network Query Engine (NQE) and its latest feature, In-App NQE. Andi Voellmy, a member of the technical staff at Forward.
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Today's Network Break reports on Apstra's latest software release for Intent-Based Networking, Cisco rolls out new products including Kubernetes on Hyperflex, VMware layoffs get social media attention, and the United Kingdom lays down the rules for Huawei gear in its telecom networks. We also review financial results for several big tech companies.
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This is the first Oracle cloud expansion of the new year as the company pushes toward its goal of...
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Keeping an eye on how the largest cloud providers choose to invest in hardware is always interesting but it does not often shed much light on how emerging workloads are driving new investments. …
Time in the Sun Coming for Cloud FPGAs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
GSMA Outlines Additional Keynote Speakers, Program and Event Updates
Broadband expansions: There were several news articles this week about broadband deployments, including places in the U.S. that still were lacking access. Masslive.com reports that Princeton, Massachusetts, with a population of more than 3,400, finally has gotten high-speed Internet access. More than 35 towns in the state still lack access. In Princeton, the local pizza place had been popular because it had WiFi service not available in other parts of the town.
New fiber build: Meanwhile, Facebook and non-profit MCNC are planning to deploy a fiber broadband network in five Western North Carolina counties, USNews.com reports. The fiber network will connect, among other sites, schools in four districts, the North Carolina School for the Deaf, five health care sites, four community colleges, and four public safety locations.
Alexa, give me broadband: Nasdaq.com has an article on Amazon’s plans to become an Internet service provider using a satellite system made up of 3,236 satellites. Amazon is asking the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for permission, but some cable companies are opposed, as are SpaceX and OneWeb, which both have their own plans for satellite broadband service.
No faces on Facebook: Even as Facebook plans broadband expansions, it Continue reading
It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.
Unless you’re working for a cloud-only startup, you’ll always have to connect applications running in a public cloud with existing systems or databases running in a more traditional environment, or connect your users to public cloud workloads.
Public cloud providers love stable and robust solutions, and they took the same approach when implementing their legacy connectivity solutions: you could use routed Ethernet connections or IPsec VPN, and run BGP across them, turning the problem into a well-understood routing problem.
Read more ...The measure and mismeasure of fairness: a critical review of fair machine learning, Corbett-Davies & Goel, arXiv 2018
With many thanks to Ben Fried and the ACM Queue editorial board for the paper recommendation.
We’ve visited the topic of fairness in the context of machine learning several times on The Morning Paper (see e.g. [1]1, [2]2, [3]3, [4]4). I’m still picking up new insights every time I revisit the topic though, and today’s paper choice is no exception.
In 1911 Russell & Whitehead published Principia Mathematica, with the goal of providing a solid foundation for all of mathematics. In 1931 Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem shattered the dream, showing that for any consistent axiomatic system there will always be theorems that cannot be proven within the system. In case you’re wondering where on earth I’m going with this… it’s a very stretched analogy I’ve been playing with in my mind. One premise of many models of fairness in machine learning is that you can measure (‘prove’) fairness of a machine learning model from within the system – i.e. from properties of the Continue reading