Pandas is an open source library in Python. Pandas provides functions and tools to allow management of data structures and data analysis. Therefore Pandas library is particularly useful in data science, data engineering and machine learning. The official documentation of the pandas functions is available at: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/index.html. Pydata community is a member of the NumFocus ... Read more
In machine learning, PCA stands for Principal Component Analysis. PCA is used to tackle a known ML problem when a dataset has a large number of features, i.e. high dimensions, also known as the curse of dimensionality. The ML feature engineering engineering techniques available are classified into feature selection and feature extraction techniques. Dimensionality reduction ... Read more
Python is an imperative computer programming language. Python is very versatile and flexible and can accommodate a series of problem solving algorithms in various knowledge domains. One scientific area in which Python excels is Machine Learning and, consequently, Artificial Intelligence. Python code, including libraries of classes and functions, are organized into packages and modules. A ... Read more
QR code QR code (Quick Response code) is a type of two-dimensional (2D) matrix barcode.
In machine learning, regularization is a method by which the ML model cost/error function is changed, to include an extra variable called the regularization hyperparameter. There are two basic types of regularization: L1-norm (lasso regression) and L2-norm (ridge regression). The lasso regularization uses the L1 norm parameter. The lasso regularized cost function is calculated as ... Read more
While AI technologies advance, there are various ethical, legal, security and privacy considerations which must be taken into account. These considerations are commonly referred to as "Responsible AI". Each AI software and hardware vendor classifies responsible AI and AI ethics areas differently. Some example areas which constitute Responsible AI are the following: Explainability and interpretability ... Read more
RMSE is simply the root of the MSE statistical metric. RMSE stands for Root Mean Squared Error. The RMSE is in the same metric scale as the observed parameters, same as the MAE metric. RMSE is a calculation for the standard deviation of residuals. Compared to RMSE, MSE is a calculation of the variance of ... Read more
Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a protocol defined by Microsoft to allow for distributed communication processes running between clients and servers in a network. RPC offloads the networking-related process management and allows developers to focus on application logic development.
SaaS stands for Software As A Service or Security As A Service.
SLAT SLAT (Second Level Address Translation) is also known as nested paging. It is a hardware-assisted virtualization technology which makes it possible to avoid the overhead associated with software-managed shadow page tables. SLAT is implemented by AMD via the Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI) technology as well as by Intel via the Extended Page Table (EPT) ... Read more
Software constitutes the set of computer programming code alongside other utility and dependency files and tools which provide a unified application experience to end users and application programming interface (API) consumers. Software can be created in any computer programming language, markup language or scripting language by using one or more algorithms, and can generally be ... Read more
A standard deviation (or σ) is a statistical metric (measure) of how dispersed the data is in relation to the mean. It if frequently used in machine learning data preparation and in machine learning model training.
In machine learning, standardization is a feature engineering technique by which the dataset features are re-scaled to achieve zero-mean value (μ=0) and unit standard deviation value (σ=1). Each x value in the dataset gets a corresponding x' standardized value, which is calculated as follows. , where μ is the x variable mean and σ is ... Read more
Stratified cross validation is a data validation technique used when splitting the ML dataset into k subsets, of which k-1 subsets are used as training subsets (folds) and one (1) is used as the test subset (fold). This process is repeated k times. Stratified cross validation uses stratified sampling in the dataset, in order to ... Read more
Strong Authentication (SA) Strong authentication assumes the usage of Multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a baseline, but goes beyond that with other authentication means. Strong authentication employs National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) assurance level-2 or assurance level-3. More details about strong authentication can be found at: https://www.yubico.com/resources/glossary/strong-authentication/.
Tensor flow TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning (ML) software library. Tensorflow was originally created by the Google Brain Team in 2015. The main purpose of Tensorflow is building and training neural networks, by using a variety of supported languages, the primary one being Python. To discover the Tensorflow customizable pre-built models, visit its official ... Read more
Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are electronic circuits which are optimized for AI operations and ML tasks. TPUs utilize the TensorFlow protocol logic to align with AI/ML task performance requirements.
Transformer machine learning model A transformer is a deep learning model. Transformer models are mainly used for natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). Transformers are the evolution of RNN models. A recent example of tranformer-type models in artificial intelligence (AI) are the dp-tranformer models developed by Microsoft research. More details can be found ... Read more
Unified communications Unified communications (UC) is a term used to describe the convergence of various communication services such as instant messaging (chat), presence, PSTN and VoIP voice calls as well as audio and video conferencing. Modern UC systems include Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, Zoom and BigBlueButton. The WebRTC protocol is increasingly being used inside the ... Read more
In machine learning (ML), variance is a concept which is related to errors in the model's predictions, as a results of over-sensitivity and high correlation of the machine learning algorithm to the training data. Due to this over-sensitivity, the ML model becomes complex to explain (explainability) and it captures the complexity inside the training data ... Read more
