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8 Popular Tools for RAG Applications

Analytics Vidhya

In today’s AI landscape, the ability to integrate external knowledge into models, beyond the data they were initially trained on, has become a game-changer. This advancement is driven by Retrieval Augmented Generation, in short RAG. RAG allows AI systems to dynamically access and utilize external information. Various tools have emerged to simplify both the integration […] The post 8 Popular Tools for RAG Applications appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Model Selection and Experimentation Automation with LLMs

KDnuggets

Automate the machine learning modelling important step with LLMs.

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Automate Amazon Bedrock batch inference: Building a scalable and efficient pipeline

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI.

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10 Useful Python One-Liners for Data Cleaning

KDnuggets

Here are some useful Python one-liners for common data cleaning tasks.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

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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Empower your generative AI application with a comprehensive custom observability solution

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Recently, we’ve been witnessing the rapid development and evolution of generative AI applications, with observability and evaluation emerging as critical aspects for developers, data scientists, and stakeholders. Observability refers to the ability to understand the internal state and behavior of a system by analyzing its outputs, logs, and metrics.

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Fine-Tuning GPT-4o

KDnuggets

Learn how to enhance GPT-4o performance for legal text clarification on your old laptop with just a few lines of code.

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Towards Cross-Cultural Machine Translation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Translating text that contains entity names is a challenging task, as cultural-related references can vary significantly across languages. These variations may also be caused by transcreation, an adaptation process that entails more than transliteration and word-for-word translation.

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Build a video insights and summarization engine using generative AI with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Professionals in a wide variety of industries have adopted digital video conferencing tools as part of their regular meetings with suppliers, colleagues, and customers. These meetings often involve exchanging information and discussing actions that one or more parties must take after the session. The traditional way to make sure information and actions aren’t forgotten is to take notes during the session; a manual and tedious process that can be error-prone, particularly in a high-activity or hi

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DataStax Expands Astra DB Extension for GitHub Copilot to Support Its AI PaaS, Empowering Developers to Build and Deploy GenAI Applications With Ease

insideBIGDATA

DataStax, a leading AI platform, today announced the enhancement of its GitHub Copilot extension with its cutting-edge AI Platform-as-a-Service (AI PaaS) solution.

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Automate document processing with Amazon Bedrock Prompt Flows (preview)

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Enterprises in industries like manufacturing, finance, and healthcare are inundated with a constant flow of documents—from financial reports and contracts to patient records and supply chain documents. Historically, processing and extracting insights from these unstructured data sources has been a manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. However, the rise of intelligent document processing (IDP), which uses the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to automate the ex

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

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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Metronome Checks Box For Usage-Based IT Pricing

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

IT billing helps control software systems and see whether the “only pay for what you need” promise of cloud computing ever really manifests itself in the real world.

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PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident

Hacker News

The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

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5 Data Science Case Studies Worth Your Attention

Pickl AI

Summary: This article delves into five real-world data science case studies that highlight how organisations leverage Data Analytics and Machine Learning to address complex challenges. From healthcare to finance, these examples illustrate the transformative power of data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency. Introduction Data Science has emerged as a transformative force across various industries , leveraging vast amounts of data to drive decision-making and innovation.

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The Unlikely Inventor of the Automatic Rice Cooker

Hacker News

“Cover, bring to a boil, then reduce heat. Simmer for 20 minutes.” These directions seem simple enough, and yet I have messed up many, many pots of rice over the years. My sympathies to anyone who’s ever had to boil rice on a stovetop, cook it in a clay pot over a kerosene or charcoal burner, or prepare it in a cast-iron cauldron. All hail the 1955 invention of the automatic rice cooker!

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

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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The Post-Modern Data Stack: Unleash the Power of Foundational Models

Dataversity

Imagine you are assigned to extract sales insights from your data. Along with troves of corporate financials together with other market trends, you are also given access to hours of audio and video files of actual sales representatives speaking with customers. How do you process this in Spark? Or, consider another scenario where you work […] The post The Post-Modern Data Stack: Unleash the Power of Foundational Models appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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New Mac Mini with M4

Hacker News

Apple today unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips, and redesigned around Apple silicon so it’s even smaller.

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How to Refresh a Single Table in a Power BI Semantic Model

phData

We all know how easy it is to refresh a single table in Power BI Desktop by right-clicking the table and selecting Refresh Data. However, in Power BI Service, we can only refresh the entire semantic model, as there is no out-of-the-box solution for refreshing a single table. Fortunately, this can be achieved using XMLA Endpoints. In this blog, we will explain how to refresh a single table in Power BI Service using XMLA Endpoints.

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Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels

Hacker News

At Prisma, we believe that deploying a database should be as simple as adding a new page in Notion. Today, we are excited to share the first milestone towards this vision: Prisma Postgres® gives developers an always-on database with pay-as-you-go pricing, thanks to our unique architecture design.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

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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From business users to system architects: How generative AI will change the way you work

SAS Software

Generative AI (GenAI) is here to stay – there’s no question about it. A recent SAS survey of 1,600 organizations found that 54% have begun implementing It, and 86% plan to invest in it within the next financial year. As organizations integrate AI into their workflows, a critical question arises: [.

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NASA's oldest active astronaut is also one of the most curious humans

Hacker News

“We made the mistake of peeking out the Cupola windows.

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Decoding Emotions: Sentiment Analysis with BERT

Towards AI

Last Updated on October 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. Dive into the world of NLP and learn how to analyze emotions in text with a few lines of code! This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine you’re at a bustling party, surrounded by a crowd with conversations buzzing all around.

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15 Billion Miles Away, NASA's Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence

Hacker News

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a fault protection system prompted the spacecraft to turn off a transmitter. Engineers at JPL are investigating the incident, facing the challenge of managing commands and data over a 15 billion-mile distance.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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

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Early voting turnout

FlowingData

Early voting isn’t coming in as hot as in 2020, but there are still a lot. For the Washington Post, Alyssa Fowers and Hannah Recht are using estimates from Associated Press to keep a running tally nationally and by state. There are 46.4 million early votes as of October 28.

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Iceberg A-68: The story of how a mega-berg transformed the ocean

Hacker News

The world's largest icebergs break off the Antarctic ice sheet. As they drift and melt in the Southern Ocean, they create a unique environment around them.

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Governing the ML lifecycle at scale: Centralized observability with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Machine Learning Blog

This post is part of an ongoing series on governing the machine learning (ML) lifecycle at scale. To start from the beginning, refer to Governing the ML lifecycle at scale, Part 1: A framework for architecting ML workloads using Amazon SageMaker. A multi-account strategy is essential not only for improving governance but also for enhancing security and control over the resources that support your organization’s business.

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AI Flame Graphs

Hacker News

AI Flame Graphs

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

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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The Rise of AI Scams

Towards AI

Last Updated on October 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Derrick Mwiti Originally published on Towards AI. Discover the biggest AI scams of 2024 This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Zanyar Ibrahim on Unsplash Some AI companies promised the future of AI, but instead delivered scams. And people lost millions.

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Meta's AI Abundance

Hacker News

Meta is well-positioned to the biggest beneficiary of AI and the largest company in the world.

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Data-Driven Tips to Choose the Perfect Gamer Laptop

Smart Data Collective

Data scientists may want to consider using gaming laptops, since they are powerful enough to do major calculations.

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Vector databases are the wrong abstraction

Hacker News

Today’s vector databases disconnect embeddings from their source data. We should treat embeddings more like database indexes—here’s how.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

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?