Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Introduction Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is one of the latest technologies in AI and it is revolutionizing how organizations use their data to build smart AI solutions. But where should you start? Fortunately, there are excellent books available to guide you on this journey. To help you, in this article, we’ll focus on the six best […] The post Top 6 Books on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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insideBIGDATA

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Dataiku, the Universal AI Platform, today announced the launch of its LLM Guard Services suite that is designed to advance enterprise GenAI deployments at scale from proof-of-concept to full production without compromising cost, quality, or safety.

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Data Science Dojo

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The demand for computer science professionals is experiencing significant growth worldwide. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , the outlook for information technology and computer science jobs is projected to grow by 15 percent between 2021 and 2031, a rate much faster than the average for all occupations. This surge is driven by the increasing reliance on technology in various sectors, including healthcare, finance, education, and entertainment, making computer science skills more cri

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Have you ever wondered how you can easily create command-line applications in Python? Gather yourself up because that is what I am going to cover today.

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Introduction As the need for efficient software development continues, artificial intelligence becomes a valuable colleague for programmers. AI-powered coding assistants are changing the game by making it easier for developers to write, debug, and optimize their code like pair programmers. In this article, we’ll learn how to build an AI pair programmer using CrewAI agents to […] The post How to Build an AI Pair Programmer with CrewAI?

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insideBIGDATA

OCTOBER 4, 2024

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, announced the latest release of MicroStrategy ONE, the fully cloud-native AI/BI platform that’s trusted by the world’s leading brands to solve their toughest data challenges.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Google’s growing focus on sustainable energy may soon incorporate nuclear power as a key resource for fueling its AI data centers, as hinted by CEO Sundar Pichai in a recent interview. The tech giant is actively exploring energy options that can support the immense demands of its operations while aligning with its ambitious environmental objectives.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Introduction We are going to look into the recently released multimodal large language model NVLM 1.0 by NVIDIA. These models achieve state-of-the-art results on vision-language tasks, even rivalling the leading proprietary models and open-access models (Llama 3-V 405B and InternVL 2). NVLM 1.0 shows improved text-only performance over its LLM backbone after multimodal training.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The first rescue was of two women who were stranded high up on a mountain.

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IBM Data Science in Practice

OCTOBER 4, 2024

If you’ve dabbled in data replication with CDC (Change Data Capture), you know the basics — capturing changes and keeping data synchronized. But beneath the surface lies a feature that doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves: Shared Scrape. Think of it as the backstage manager, silently ensuring that all your data subscriptions work in perfect harmony.

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Almost a year after a fake clip of a high school principal went viral, the impact on an American town lingers.

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Towards AI

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Last Updated on October 5, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Julius Nyerere Nyambok Originally published on Towards AI. Historically, cloud infrastructure management involved manual configuration on web consoles or command line interfaces. This approach was prone to human errors, inconsistencies, and maintaining version controls. The growing complexity of cloud environments and the demand for faster, more reliable, and reproducible infrastructure management practices highlighted the need for a m

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Today, Waymo and Hyundai Motor Company announced they have entered into a multi-year, strategic partnership.

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Towards AI

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Author(s): Md Monsur ali Originally published on Towards AI. Explore a Variety of Techniques to Enhance Language Model Efficiency: Character, Semantic, Contextual, and Multimodal Approaches This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. 👨🏾‍💻 GitHub ⭐️ | 👔LinkedIn |📝 Medium Photo by Author When working with large language models (LLMs), one of the most overlooked but vital strategies is text splitting.

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Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

A New Jersey couple sued Uber after a crash left them severely injured. An appeals court ruled that they had agreed to settle disputes out of court when they used the Uber Eats app.

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In their ongoing series on fentanyl in the United States, Reuters illustrates the journey of fentanyl precursors hidden among billions of everyday shipments. The volume of boxes, despite various layers of security, makes it impossible to intercept all illicit materials. There are charts blended with the illustrations that you might miss if you’re just casually browsing, such as the treemap made of boxes shown above.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Apple's Depth Pro AI model sets a new standard in 3D depth estimation, offering high-resolution, real-time depth mapping from a single image without camera metadata—transforming industries like AR, autonomous vehicles, and more.

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Towards AI

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Last Updated on October 5, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Jonathan Bennion Originally published on Towards AI. A 2023 dataset that balanced occupational bias distribution in one dataset may have decreased racial bias (unintentionally), but increased gender and age biases compared to a vanilla Alpaca baseline. TLDR: Reducing a single human bias dimension from an instruction set used for finetuning language models can possibly cause unintended deltas in other biases.

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Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The employees accepted a severance package offered to those who disagreed with Matt Mullenweg's direction of WordPress and his fight with WP Engine.

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Towards AI

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Last Updated on October 5, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Ori Cohen Originally published on Towards AI. The easy way. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Knowledge extraction from diverse sources, author. Knowledge extraction from documents using LLMs (Large Language Models) has become increasingly important in our data-driven world.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

One is a React framework focused on simplicity that lets you target both web and native at once with a single Vite plugin.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 4, 2024

SAP Clean Core is great for AI software developers trying to create powerful machine learning programs.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The speed of light is much faster, and the energy in ordinary objects far greater, than what daily life accustoms us to. Why?

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In a follow-up to the 2020 project , Moritz Stefaner and Google Trends show geographic and temporal search patterns for this election year in Waves of Interest. This site presents Google Trends data on a curated set of political topics, comprising the currently most searched political concepts in the United States, topics from Pew Research Center’s election surveys, as well as a few manual additions to account for emerging issues.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

New research shows how toxic chemicals hitch a ride with seabirds flying from southern latitudes to the Arctic.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Introduction In the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a powerful tool. It enhances model responses by combining retrieval and generation capabilities. This innovative approach enables AI to pull in relevant external information. As a result, it generates meaningful and contextually aware responses.

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Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Instead of doom-scrolling through my phone in the morning, I built an alternative with a Raspberry Pi, a dot matrix printer, and some PHP.

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Towards AI

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Last Updated on October 5, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine you’re part of a group trying to make an important decision. Some members have more experience in certain areas, while others may excel in different aspects. By combining everyone’s opinions, you’ll probably make a better decision than relying on a single person’s judgment.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Civ VII wants 32 GB of RAM for a 4K60 gaming experience at Ultra settings.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In the generative AI era, agents that simulate human actions and behaviors are emerging as a powerful tool for enterprises to create production-ready applications. Agents can interact with users, perform tasks, and exhibit decision-making abilities, mimicking humanlike intelligence. By combining agents with foundation models (FMs) from the Amazon Titan in Amazon Bedrock family, customers can develop multimodal, complex applications that enable the agent to understand and generate natural languag

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Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?