September was a big month for science and technology! NASA’s Dart probe smashed into an asteroid (on purpose), Nobel Prizes were awarded, Apple announced new products, and kettles now come with Wi-Fi ☕ This was a big month for Segna. We’re really excited to share the latest. 🔗 Shareable, no-code importers Share your data…

We’re back with Segna’s Product Update email blast where we share a few exciting product updates from the last couple of weeks! We hope you love these updates just as much as we do. As always, please ping our team if we can help with anything at all 😊 📃Docs Docs Docs We’ve…

Welcome to Segna’s first Product Update email blast where we’re sharing a few exciting product updates from the last couple of weeks! A pre-built file importer — that’s completely customizable We’ve re-hauled our prebuilt file importer so that you can customize what configuration you want to expose to your users just by passing in the configuration steps of…

What we’ve been reading A deep look into 13 data scientist roles and their responsibilities KDnuggets KDnuggets divides the job of a data scientist into 13 discrete roles and responsibilities that encapsulate tasks ranging from finding areas of the company’s business that could benefit from the collection, analysis, and understanding of data to deciding what strategic…

What we’ve been reading Scientists are sequencing the genome of every complex species on Earth Singularity Hub The Earth Biogenome Project is a global consortium that aims to sequence the genomes of all complex life on Earth in 10 years. The project will involve sequencing 1.8 million described species across plants, animals, fungi, and eukaryotes. Launched…

What we’ve been reading AI that understands speech by looking as well as hearing Meta AI Meta AI is working on a new conversation AI system, AV-HuBERT (Audio-Visual Hidden Unit BERT), that, like humans, can understand speech better by using both ears and eyes. AI systems currently used in applications, such as smart speakers or tools…

What we’ve been reading Cow noses are the fingerprint unlocking facial recognition technology for the livestock industry ABC News Researchers at the University of New England have discovered that the muzzle (nose) of a cow can be used to visually identify it with AI. Each cow’s muzzle contains a unique pattern, allowing the AI model to…

What we’ve been reading AI reveals that the Sahara actually has 1.8 billion trees and shrubs Freethink AI analysis of satellite images has revealed that the Western Sahara contains an estimated 1.8 billion trees and shrubs. This is notable as “trees outside of forested areas are usually not included in climate models, and we know very…

What we recommend reading AI 2041 Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan Provocative and utterly original. Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI in ten short stories. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of…