During World War II, Abraham Wald who was a statistician at Columbia University arrived at a very counterintuitive solution. He was tasked by the military to determine where to place armor on airplanes to increase their chances of surviving the…
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Microsoft Finds Underwater Data Centers Practical
Underwater data centers are a go, Microsoft said Monday, a couple months after its researchers pulled their experimental sealed capsule of a data center out of the ocean off the shores of Orkney Islands, in Scotland, where it had been…
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Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably
Earlier this summer, marine specialists reeled up a shipping-container-size datacenter coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemones from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The retrieval launched the final phase of a years-long effort that proved the concept of underwater…
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Microsoft AI tool enables ‘extremely large’ models with a trillion parameters
Microsoft Corp. has released a new version of its open-source DeepSpeed tool that it says will enable the creation of deep learning models with a trillion parameters, more than five times as many as in the world’s current largest model.
DeepSpeed: Extreme-scale model training for everyone
| DeepSpeed Team, Rangan Majumder, and Junhua Wang
In February, we announced DeepSpeed, an open-source deep learning training optimization library, and ZeRO (Zero Redundancy Optimizer), a novel memory optimization technology in the library, which vastly advances large model training by improving scale, speed, cost, and usability. DeepSpeed has…
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Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs
Microsoft today released an updated version of its DeepSpeed library that introduces a new approach to training AI models containing trillions of parameters, the variables internal to the model that inform its predictions. The company claims the technique, dubbed 3D…
Stop making assumptions about language: How user research can support better language choices
Customers interpret visual and textual cues in the user interface to understand and use tools. But how often are those tools built through researching the language customers know and use? This article explores how to stop making assumptions about word…
Podcast: Making cryptography accessible, efficient and scalable. With Dr. Divya Gupta and Dr. Rahul Sharma
Ensuring security and privacy of data, both personal and institutional, is of paramount importance in today’s world where data itself is a highly precious commodity. Cryptography is a complex and specialized subject that not many people are familiar with, and…
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Daman and Microsoft collaborate to introduce Health Bot to fight COVID-19
Daman, the UAE’s leading national health insurance company has collaborated with Microsoft to deploy the Daman Health Bot, an AI powered tool that will assist patients to conduct self-assessment on COVID-19 symptoms and guide them to the appropriate level of…