The Scaling Laws have formed the basis for the development efforts of the various companies building Foundation Models. Simplistically put, the models get better with model size, dataset size, and the amount of compute used for training, and by and large, this has held across all the FMs. After the astonishingly rapid development in the... Continue Reading →
#73: The Value of Data
In enterprise data circles, it is a well-known statistic that less than 30% of companies claim to have been successful in becoming a data driven organization. What is not so easy is to figure out why companies have such a hard time getting actionable insights from data – in my experience consulting with many companies,... Continue Reading →
#72: Software 2.0 in the Enterprise
In 2020, Gartner identified Composability as a key factor to be resilient and agile in an uncertain and rapidly changing environment. Fast forward to 2022 and as most companies are bracing down an economic slowdown, it is becoming important for CIOs and IT leaders to accelerate the adoption of technologies that help business functions to:... Continue Reading →
#71 Dealing with Uncertainty: Vast and fast data
You would have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the nervous uncertainty that has gripped the world today. And inevitably, this uncertainty has spilled over into the business world. Companies, big and small, are increasingly nervous about making bets into the future and even more so, trying their best not to... Continue Reading →
#70: Time as a fundamental feature
Last week, I got into a discussion on Forecasting with a friend. He works with operational data flowing from server farms and in his line of work, he is interested in use-cases that go beyond the standard use-cases like load forecasting, what-if scenario analysis for failures to more nuanced (yet critical from an SLA point... Continue Reading →