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Using SQL with Python: SQLAlchemy and Pandas

KDnuggets

A simple tutorial on how to connect to databases, execute SQL queries, and analyze and visualize data.

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Mosaic AI: Build and deploy production-quality Compound AI Systems

databricks

Over the last year, we have seen a surge of commercial and open-source foundation models showing strong reasoning abilities on general knowledge tasks.

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5 Free University Courses to Learn Coding for Data Science

KDnuggets

Learn programming for free from top-tier universities like Harvard and MIT.

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What’s New with Databricks Unity Catalog at Data + AI Summit 2024

databricks

In an era marked by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and an explosion of data and Gen AI tools, enterprises face fragmented data.

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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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Comparative Analysis of LangChain and LlamaIndex

KDnuggets

A detailed comparative analysis of the differences between LangChain and LlamaIndex for building and working with LLM applications.

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How FactSet Implemented an Enterprise Generative AI Platform with Databricks and MLflow

databricks

“FactSet’s mission is to empower clients to make data-driven decisions and supercharge their workflows and productivity. To deliver AI-driven solutions across our entire.

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5 Free Datasets to Start Your Machine Learning Projects

Machine Learning Mastery

After completing a course and mastering the essentials of machine learning, it is time to start building machine learning models using real-world datasets. While accessing most real-world datasets can be expensive, platforms like Kaggle offer access to the latest datasets for free on a wide variety of machine learning tasks. In this blog, we will […] The post 5 Free Datasets to Start Your Machine Learning Projects appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.

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How to Build NLP Applications with Hugging Face?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Hugging Face (HF) is a pioneering AI platform enabling ML community collaboration on models, datasets, and applications. This article will delve into Hugging Face’s capabilities for building NLP applications, covering key services such as models, datasets, and open-source libraries. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, Hugging Face offers versatile tools to […] The post How to Build NLP Applications with Hugging Face?

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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Databricks Data Team Awards

databricks

The annual Data Team Awards showcase how different data teams from across the globe are delivering solutions to some of the world’s most.

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Qwen2: Alibaba Cloud’s Open-Source LLM

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Many new companies are popping up and releasing new open source Large Language Models in the coming years. As time progresses, these models are becoming closer and closer to the paid closed-source models. These companies are releasing these models in various sizes and making sure to keep their licenses so that anyone can use […] The post Qwen2: Alibaba Cloud’s Open-Source LLM appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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“The” Midjourney model personalization guide

Dataconomy

Midjourney model personalization is now live, offering you a more tailored image generation experience by teaching the AI your preferences. How does Midjourney model personalization work? This Midjourney model personalization feature allows you to adjust the algorithm to match your personal tastes, reducing biases from its training data. Here’s how it works: Understanding prompts : When you write a prompt, there are many details that remain implicit.

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Line Plot with Seaborn

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction For creating eye-catching and educational statistics visuals, Seaborn provides a high-level interface. Seaborn makes it simple to build and modify line plots, which are helpful for displaying data trends over time. This tutorial goes over how to set up your environment, make both simple and personalized line plots, and customize your plots with different […] The post Line Plot with Seaborn appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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The oldest ecosystems on Earth

Hacker News

What they teach us about resilience.

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Build a custom UI for Amazon Q Business

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon Q is a new generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant designed for work that can be tailored to your business. Amazon Q can help you get fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, solve problems, generate content, and take actions using the data and expertise found in your company’s information repositories and enterprise systems.

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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 Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas

Hacker News

The most advanced users of Microsoft Excel are analysts, actuaries, and accountants, and each year, they meet to compete in Vegas at the Microsoft Excel World Championship.

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Scalable intelligent document processing using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

In today’s data-driven business landscape, the ability to efficiently extract and process information from a wide range of documents is crucial for informed decision-making and maintaining a competitive edge. However, traditional document processing workflows often involve complex and time-consuming manual tasks, hindering productivity and scalability.

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Can LLMs invent better ways to train LLMs?

Hacker News

Can LLMs invent better ways to train LLMs?

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Use weather data to improve forecasts with Amazon SageMaker Canvas

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Photo by Zbynek Burival on Unsplash Time series forecasting is a specific machine learning (ML) discipline that enables organizations to make informed planning decisions. The main idea is to supply historic data to an ML algorithm that can identify patterns from the past and then use those patterns to estimate likely values about unseen periods in the future.

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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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VRChat is Laying Off 30% of Team

Hacker News

Below is the full text of an email sent to our team today. Aside from removing some email addresses and formatting, there are no redactions or edits. To: All VRChat Employees Personal and Company Emails From: Graham Gaylor, CEO Subject: Important Announcement - Company Update - June 2024 Hi everyone, Today, I have some very hard and sad news to share.

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Visualize This on storytelling with data

FlowingData

I talked to Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic about my early motivations, FD origins, the new book, how I work, and data things. Listen to the episode here. Cole, who runs storytelling with data , came around not long after FD. Although she has a team now, I count Cole as one of the few long-term, independent visualization folks. It was fun to finally get to chat.

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Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000

Hacker News

The 39-year-old man, who was "confused and upset" after being fired, deleted 180 virtual servers from NCS' computer system.

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Occupation and Salary Rankings, Each Decade Since 1970

FlowingData

Job types changed over the years, because there were these things called computers that created occupations and shifted others. How did income change for different jobs, relative to everyone else? Use this chart to see how occupations ranked over the decades.

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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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Uncensor Any LLM with Abliteration

Hacker News

A Blog post by Maxime Labonne on Hugging Face

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Mapping hurricane winds with avocado of uncertainty

FlowingData

Stamen, whose design breakdowns I always appreciate, discusses why they took a different route to to show the uncertainty of wind speeds : Wind speed probability data shows you the likelihood of sustained wind speeds that denote a category 1 hurricane (74+ mph). The way the data appears on a map is through concentric polygons that denote progressively less likely areas to experience a category 1 hurricane.

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Hybrid working from home improves retention without damaging performance

Hacker News

Working from home has become standard for employees with a university degree. The most common scheme, which has been adopted by around 100 million employees in Europe and North America, is a hybrid schedule, in which individuals spend a mix of days at home and at work each week1,2. However, the effects of hybrid working on employees and firms have been debated, and some executives argue that it damages productivity, innovation and career development3–5.

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Top Important LLMs Papers for the Week from 03/06 to 09/06

Towards AI

Last Updated on June 13, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Youssef Hosni Originally published on Towards AI. Stay Updated with Recent Large Language Models Research Large language models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly in recent years. As new generations of models are developed, researchers and engineers need to stay informed on the latest progress. This article summarizes some of the most important LLM papers published during the First Week of June 2024.

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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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Boeing Starliner Stuck on Space Station as More Leaks Discovered

Hacker News

Bpoeing has discovered five different helium leaks on its Starliner spacecraft while docked to the International Space Station.

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Mixing up mocktails

SAS Software

Mocktails are drinks that have all the flavor of traditional cocktails minus the alcohol. Whether you’re the designated driver, a non-drinker, looking to improve your health or simply seeking a refreshing sip, mocktails offer an elevated alternative for more conscious consumption. History of Mocktails In the 1800s, the temperance movement [.] The post Mixing up mocktails appeared first on SAS Blogs.

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Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27

Hacker News

Welcome to Elixir, a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications

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Midjourney Improves the Website Tools for Generating!

Towards AI

Last Updated on June 13, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): PromptDervish Originally published on Towards AI. Zooming and panning your generated images just got easier on the website. Midjourney has modified the web interface to make zooming, panning, and repainting easier and reduce the number of buttons on the lightbox. The lightbox page appears when you click on an image to open it larger, showing you all the buttons to alter it.

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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?