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Blockchain+AI(Series 1)

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Do you know why people are crazy about blockchain? Unless you are hiding under the rock, I am sure you had heard of Bitcoins and Blockchains. After all, they are, trending and the media’s favorites topic these days the buzzword of the year. Even people who have never mined a cryptocurrency or understand how it works, are talking about it. I recently attended an industry seminar where the concept of blockchain was explained. At the end of the session, walking out of the lecture room I heard one of the attendees say to a colleague "I'm still not sure what exactly Blockchain is...". Many of us know that Blockchain is a topic that is hot at the moment. It's a topic that is disruptive. It's a topic that is accelerating but imagines if someone asked you can you explain to them how it really works?".  I guess there are thousands out there who feel the same. And when that happens, there comes a time to write something to which everyone can point the other lost...

Big Data + Artificial Intelligence(Series 1)

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HOW BIG DATA IS SOLVING AI’S PROBLEM? We generate an enormous amount of data daily by searching on websites, watching online videos etc. These data are needed to be handled for better performance in the future. Lots of websites, apps, self-driving cars, robots are made to implement them we need Learning Algorithms. To Train Learning Algorithms, We Need Data.   Web Provides a huge amount of data, but these are unstructured data.  BIG DATA extracted from the web, are used to train the algorithms.  These Data are highly useful and with increasing amount of data, we need a way to utilize this amount of data in a smart way. We can see some good results and improvements in sentiment analysis and stock market prediction. Do you know what is BIG DATA? Today’s ultra-connected world generate massive volumes of data at ever-accelerating rates. As a result, big data analytics has become a powerful tool for businesses looking to leverage mountains of valua...