Analytics Vidhya

JULY 25, 2024

Introduction In the not-so-distant past, the idea of having a personal AI assistant felt like something out of a sci-fi movie. Picture a tech-savvy inventor named Alex, who dreamed of having a smart companion to answer questions and provide insights, without relying on the cloud or third-party servers. With advancements in small language models (SLMs), […] The post How to Build Your Personal AI Assistant with Huggingface SmolLM?

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insideBIGDATA

JULY 25, 2024

Despite growing interest and enthusiasm for Generative AI (GenAI), significant challenges are emerging that threaten the success of GenAI projects, according to a co-sponsored research report from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501).

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Analytics Vidhya

JULY 25, 2024

Introduction Try to think of yourself as a student entering the first day at a new school. You are learning with enthusiasm but there are so many things which are new to you and this easily leads to the mistakes. The AI same is somewhat like that for a beginner – the world is interesting […] The post Avoid These 5 Common Mistakes in AI that Every Novice Makes appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

JULY 25, 2024

Learn how to navigate and manage your filesystem with Python's built-in pathlib module.

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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

JULY 25, 2024

Introduction Artificial intelligence has recently seen a surge of interest in AI agents – autonomous software entities capable of perceiving their environment, making decisions, and taking action to achieve specific objectives. These agents often incorporate more advanced planning, reasoning, and adaptation capabilities than traditional reinforcement learning models.

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Machine Learning Mastery

JULY 25, 2024

AutoML is a tool designed for both technical and non-technical experts. It simplifies the process of training machine learning models. All you have to do is provide it with the dataset, and in return, it will provide you with the best-performing model for your use case. You don’t have to code for long hours or […] The post Introduction to AutoML: Automating Machine Learning Workflows appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.

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KDnuggets

JULY 25, 2024

Learn how to handling the time-zone and timestamps in Pandas with Python.

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Analytics Vidhya

JULY 25, 2024

Introduction Imagine you are conducting a study to determine whether a new drug effectively reduces blood pressure. You administer the drug to a group of patients and compare their results to a control group receiving a placebo. You analyze the data and conclude that the new drug significantly reduces blood pressure when, in reality, it […] The post What’s the Difference Between Type I and Type II Errors ?

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Hacker News

JULY 25, 2024

Southwest is under pressure to drum up revenue from an oversupplied U.S. market and an activist investor.

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Analytics Vidhya

JULY 25, 2024

Introduction Vector databases are specialized databases that store data as high-dimensional vectors. These vectors serve as mathematical representations of features or attributes, with dimensions ranging from tens to thousands based on the complexity of the data. They are designed to manage high-dimensional data that traditional Database Management Systems (DBMS) struggle to handle effectively.

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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

JULY 25, 2024

Vast new holdings of grain, natural gas and oil suggest trouble ahead

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Analytics Vidhya

JULY 25, 2024

Introduction Imagine that you are about to produce a Python package that has the potential to completely transform the way developers and data analysts assess their models. The trip begins with a straightforward concept: a flexible RAG evaluation tool that can manage a variety of metrics and edge circumstances. You’ll go from initializing your package […] The post How to Build a RAG Evaluator Python Package with Poetry?

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Hacker News

JULY 25, 2024

Keys were labeled "DO NOT TRUST." Nearly 500 device models use them anyway.

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Analytics Vidhya

JULY 25, 2024

Introduction Imagine waking up to the smell of smoke, heart racing as you ensure your family’s safety. Early detection is crucial, and “Flame Guardian,” a deep learning-powered fire detection system, aims to make a life-saving difference. This article guides you through creating this technology using CNNs and TensorFlow, from data gathering and augmentation to model […] The post Flame Guardian: Developing a Deep Learning-Based Fire Detection System appeared first on Analy

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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

JULY 25, 2024

A big boost to the open-source community and an inspiration to other public sectors!

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Analytics Vidhya

JULY 25, 2024

In this session of Leading with Data, we have the honor of hosting Dr. Geetha Manjunath, the Founder and CEO of Niramai Analytix. With a distinguished career spanning over 25 years, Dr. Geetha has made significant strides in the field of artificial intelligence and healthcare. Holding a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science and […] The post From Tech Innovator to Healthcare Pioneer: Dr.

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Hacker News

JULY 25, 2024

Smartphones are trust blockers for parents

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Machine Learning Research at Apple

JULY 25, 2024

This paper was accepted at the NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Workshop at NeurIPS 2024 We introduce DataComp for Language Models (DCLM), a testbed for controlled dataset experiments with the goal of improving language models. As part of DCLM, we provide a standardized corpus of 240T tokens extracted from Common Crawl, effective pretraining recipes based on the OpenLM framework, and a broad suite of 53 downstream evaluations.

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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

JULY 25, 2024

The nation’s Supreme Court ruled governments could act to limit “visual pollution” and citizens could “opt out of unwanted advertising.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

JULY 25, 2024

As conversational artificial intelligence (AI) agents gain traction across industries, providing reliability and consistency is crucial for delivering seamless and trustworthy user experiences. However, the dynamic and conversational nature of these interactions makes traditional testing and evaluation methods challenging. Conversational AI agents also encompass multiple layers, from Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to function-calling mechanisms that interact with external knowledge sources

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Hacker News

JULY 25, 2024

Would your rather observe an eclipse through a pair of new Ray-Bans, or a used Shade 12 welding helmet? Undoubtably the Aviators are more fashionable, but the permanent retinal damage sucks. Fetch the trusty welding helmet. We’ve made a number of security choices when building Canary that have held us in pretty good stead.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 25, 2024

Mastering data governance in a multi-cloud environment is key! Delve into best practices for seamless integration, compliance, and data quality management.

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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

JULY 25, 2024

It’s like an emergency FaceTime.

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DeepMind

JULY 25, 2024

Breakthrough models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve advanced reasoning problems in mathematics

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Hacker News

JULY 25, 2024

Even unstimulating coffee has stimulating chemistry.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant that helps enterprises unlock the value of their data and knowledge. With Amazon Q, you can quickly find answers to questions, generate summaries and content, and complete tasks by using the information and expertise stored across your company’s various data sources and enterprise systems.

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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

JULY 25, 2024

For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way we build cars. While no one has succeeded, arguably the man that came closest to becoming “the Henry Ford of homebuilding” was William Levitt, with his company Levitt and Sons. Levitt is most famous for building “Levittowns,” developments of thousands of homes built rapidly in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s.

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Towards AI

JULY 25, 2024

Last Updated on July 26, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Louis-François Bouchard Originally published on Towards AI. 10 (+1) questions managers and leaders should know about Llama 3.1 Note: this post was written by 3 ML & AI engineers behind the High Learning Rate newsletter. Good morning everyone! As you probably already know, earlier this week, Meta released Llama 3.1, marking a significant milestone in AI, notably for its open-source nature and impressive capabilities (it is the first-e

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Hacker News

JULY 25, 2024

A critical flaw in some versions of Docker Engine can be exploited to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances. A vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-41110 (CVSS score of 10.0), in certain versions of Docker Engine can allow an attacker to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances. “An attacker could exploit a bypass using an API request with Content-Length set to 0, causing the Docker daemon to forward the request without the body to the Aut

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Towards AI

JULY 25, 2024

Last Updated on July 26, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Lorenzo Zarantonello Originally published on Towards AI. Built-in AI will allow websites to run various AI tasks on-device — Google built-in AI concept for the browser. AI models are getting bigger and better by the day. Asking what the “best” frontier AI model is is akin to asking what the best vehicle is.

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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?