Recent Posts by Justin Blau

Medical professionals are tasked with making heavy life or death decisions as a core function of their job. When emergency situations related to the heart occur, they often have only moments to diagnose a patient before action is required. Seven million Americans per year rush to the emergency room with chest pain, putting immense pressure on our doctors. HEARTio on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Full diagnostics for the origin of chest pain can take anywhere on the order of hours...

Issac Asimov, pivotal science-fiction author 1939–1992, imagined a world intimately integrated with artificial intelligence in I, Robot. While current AI implementations have a long way to go before they reach the level of sophistication in the novel, they do influence our daily, digital lives. Out of billions of different algorithms in the world, people colloquially refer to AI recommendation engines when they talk about “the algorithm.” These AI systems are ubiquitous...

One of the first “hello world” challenges in computer vision is creating an image classification system. While interesting, the use cases for such a solution are limited, because many practical image and video sources contain multiple objects. Classifying an image as containing a person when trying to analyze Times Square in New York City, for example, has limited practical use. More interesting is counting the number of people in Times Square at any given moment. The...

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are both frequent and game-changing, which makes the spot for the ‘best’ model in any given discipline highly competitive. However, often the best-performing algorithms are published in a way that anyone can implement, train, and utilize the algorithm for their specific use case. Meet BERT Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) is a deep learning model for language that has been making waves in the Natural...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is making available a system featuring NVIDIA’s Ampere architecture, the next generation of data center computing hardware. The A100 shape has been tuned to give the best possible performance and adds to a growing list of performance systems that provide on-premises performance in the cloud. A New and Improved Offering Continuing the line of bare metal offerings, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides access to infrastructure without virtualization....

Accessing GPU-enabled workstations can present challenges for data scientists in their day-to-day work. If an organization provides laptops with GPUs, maintenance costs can be higher, and the hardware might be comparatively underpowered for the workloads that need to be run during development. Desktop workstations are another option, but they aren’t as convenient, portable, or available wherever the data scientist needs to work. To provide data scientists with the power they...

Accessing GPU-enabled workstations can present some challenges for data scientists in their day-to-day work. If an organization decides to provide laptops with GPUs, it can result in higher costs for maintenance and the hardware may be comparatively under-powered for the workloads that need to be run during development. Desktop workstations are another option, but they are not as convenient, portable, or available wherever the data scientist needs to work. To provide data...