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Stop wrestling with text in Excel: These 8 tools are game-changers

Fix "fake" numbers, strip hidden web spaces, and join text professionally using Excel's built-in legacy and modern tools.
InfoWorld

Why your next microservices should be streaming SQL-driven

Built-in functions, UDFs, materialized results, and integrations with ML and AI models make streaming SQL a compelling choice ...

Google research points to a post-query future for search intent

Google signals search’s next phase: small multimodal models on devices infer intent from behavior before a query is ever ...
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How to use the REDUCE function in Microsoft Excel

Macros are powerful, but they don't work on the web or mobile. I’ve switched to the native REDUCE function for my complex ...
GitHub

Rapid fuzzy string matching in C++ using the Levenshtein Distance

RapidFuzz is a fast string matching library for Python and C++, which is using the string similarity calculations from FuzzyWuzzy. However, there are two aspects that set RapidFuzz apart from ...
GitHub

A High-Level Quickbase Python API Client & Model Generator

Quickbase-Client is a library for interacting with Quickbase applications through their RESTful JSON API (https://developer.quickbase.com/). It has features to ...
IEEE

Hypersphere Embedding and Additive Margin for Query-by-example Keyword Spotting

Abstract: Query-by-example (QbE) keyword spotting is convenient for users to define their own keywords, so it is useful in device control. However, conventional regular softmax, which is commonly used ...
IEEE

Query-by-Example Speech Search using Mamba and Random Offset Mixed Padding

Abstract: State-of-the-art approaches to Query-by-Example speech search are usually based on acoustic word embedding (AWE), representing variable-length speech segments with fixed-dimensional vectors ...