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So you may have heard about NFTs in some form or another. You may also have heard of the metaverse (if you haven’t, you will). You may have been scratching your head about what it all means. Having been in the same boat, I decided to spend some time to try to breakdown - mainly as a forcing function to help me understand it, but I figured others may benefit as well. This is a multipart series, where I start with the Metaverse but explore NFTs and the technology that will potentially power the future. ...

In media broadcasting, with a continued focus on moving production to the cloud, the idea of virtual production control rooms are taking root. A production control room is the place were incoming feeds are combined together and the outgoing program is created. Virtualizing this brings several key benefits: ...

Mary Meeker is a venture capitalist whose work focuses primarily on the internet and new technologies. Each year she produces a report about internet trends - both looking back and looking forward. It is always highly anticipated you can check out this year’s here. Below are some of my key takeaways after reading: ...

When you are working with data, especially larger data sets, you will come across parquet files. Parquet is a binary columnar storage format which is efficient for several large data use cases both in terms of compression and speed. ...

Highly recommended reading - How Artifical Intelligence is Reshaping Repression Some points of note: “Around the world, AI systems are showing their potential for abetting repressive regimes and upending the relationship between citizen and state, thereby accelerating a global resurgence of authoritarianism.” AI technology, primarily in the form of facial recognition is being adopted by security forces, driven, in part, with investment from China. Zimbabwe is implementing facial recognition - this is a country that recently carried out large post-election crackdowns. ...

Interesting article - “Will AI end the Art of Lying?” Some points of note: Swarm Intelligence: the concept that more minds are greater than one is being explored with interesting results from an AI perspective ...

I recently passed Exam 70-774 - Performing Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning and thought it may be helpful to provide some guidance on how best to prepare for the exam. ...

What is a Data Lake? A Data Lake is a term that gets thrown around a fair amount, often in conjunction with big data. But what does it really mean? At its core, its a central repository for storing unlimited amounts of data from many different sources that you can bring analytics to bear on top of to gain insights. ...

Blockchain technology is all the rage these days. You hear about it more and more yet what does it really do and how can you use it? ...

In 2015, Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics. Microsoft R was a rebranding of Revolution R. Since the R landscape at Microsoft can be a bit confusing I want to try to lay it out simply. First, Microsoft R Server has been rebranded to Microsoft Machine Learning Server. At the time of writing, ML Server 9.2 was available. So, what are the different ways to use R from Microsoft? ...