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It’s been over a year since PSD2, or European Union’s Payment Services Directive 2, was first released to the open public. This directive, considered by many voices in the banking industry to be the most significant regulation in Europe to affect the banking sector in the last few decades, continues to stir up controversies. However, in practice, its impact has…
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Introduction Over the course of 18 years in the Functional Verification field, I’ve been asked many times what it is that we actually do. Are our desks draped in wires, cables, and measurement devices? Are we testers? What exactly are we testing? What is verification? In a world dominated by software and applications, comparatively little attention is given to the…
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From the series: A practical approach between myth and reality In the previous article, we presented two ways of categorizing conversational agents — more widely known as chatbots — along with their advantages, limitations, and use case scenarios. In the current post, we are focused on emphasizing how chatbots infer knowledge from human conversations through a basic rule-based system, machine learning, and…
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Over the past few years, we’ve seen amazing improvements in machine learning applied to natural languages. New applications have emerged, and some of them are likely to change how humans communicate with each other and with their computers. In our previous blog post, we described how machines learn to “understand” and use natural language. Here is a shortlist of some of the…
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