Mon.Nov 11, 2024

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Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for 2025

Dataconomy

Large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools for generating text, but they are limited by the data they were initially trained on. This means they might struggle to provide specific answers related to unique business processes unless they are further adapted. Fine-tuning is a process used to adapt pre-trained models like Llama, Mistral, or Phi to specialized tasks without the enormous resource demands of training from scratch.

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Why Auto-Tiering is Essential for AI Solutions: Optimizing Data Storage from Training to Long-Term Archiving 

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In this contributed article, Gal Naor, Co-Founder and CEO of Storone, explores why auto-tiering is essential for AI solutions in terms of data storage. By embracing auto-tiering, AI-driven organizations can ensure they meet both the demands of today’s data-intensive environments and the challenges of tomorrow.

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A Guide to Flax: Building Efficient Neural Networks with JAX

Analytics Vidhya

Flax is an advanced neural network library built on top of JAX, aimed at giving researchers and developers a flexible, high-performance toolset for building complex machine learning models. Flax’s seamless integration with JAX enables automatic differentiation, Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation, and support for hardware accelerators, making it ideal for both experimental research and production.

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OpenAI and rivals seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations

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A dozen AI scientists, researchers and investors told Reuters they believe that these techniques, which are behind OpenAI's recently released o1 model, could reshape the AI arms race, and have implications for the types of resources that AI companies have an insatiable demand for, from energy to types of chips. But now, some of the most prominent AI scientists are speaking out on the limitations of this “bigger is better” philosophy.

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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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Scaling Smart: Accelerating Large Language Model Pre-training with Small Model Initialization

Machine Learning Research at Apple

This paper was accepted at the Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP) Workshop at NeurIPS 2024. The pre-training phase of language models often begins with randomly initialized parameters. With the current trends in scaling models, training their large number of parameters can be extremely slow and costly. In contrast, small language models are less expensive to train, but they often cannot achieve the accuracy of large models.

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How to Learn AI the Lazy Way

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Embrace your inner lazy learner and focus on being efficient with your time and energy.

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Top 10 Marketplace Questions, Answered

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Databricks Marketplace is an open marketplace for data, analytics, and AI, powered by the open-source Delta Sharing standard. Since the release of Databricks.

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Building an Interactive Chatbot For Pre-Existing Questions with LLM Integration to Chat with multiple CSV Files

Towards AI

Author(s): Ganesh Bajaj Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Streamlit UI-Image Illustrated by Author There are multiple types of Chatbots: Rule Based ChatbotRAG Based ChatbotHybrid Chatbot This article covers how to create a chatbot using streamlit that answers questions using a pre-existing question-answer dataset along with an LLM integration to a csv file.

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Ask a Data Ethicist: What Happens to Your Data When a Company Goes Bankrupt?

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The recent meltdown of 23andme and what might become of their DNA database got me thinking about this question: What happens to your data when a company goes bankrupt? To say the past year has been a tough one for 23andme is an understatement. This latest turn of events, which involves infighting between management and […] The post Ask a Data Ethicist: What Happens to Your Data When a Company Goes Bankrupt?

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Exploring DNA Classification with Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Machine Learning

Towards AI

Last Updated on November 11, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. Unlocking insights into DNA sequences using machine learning and bioinformatics techniques. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. DNA is often described as the blueprint of life, encoding the genetic instructions for every living organism.

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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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Encore AI shopping assistant might change how you shop

Dataconomy

Encore, the AI-powered shopping assistant, is breaking down barriers in the world of thrift shopping by bringing hundreds of secondhand markets under one roof. Co-founded by former Apple engineer Alex Ruber and ex-Twitter/Asana engineer Parth Chopra, this search tool stems from a shared love for thrifting and a clear goal: make finding pre-loved treasures online easier and quicker.

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AI Agents

Towards AI

Author(s): Heidar (Amir) Pirzadeh Originally published on Towards AI. Today, AI agents are at the forefront of innovation across major companies. Imagine you’ve been tasked with transforming an existing SaaS business to be powered by AI agents. Don’t worry — I’m here to help you! But why should you trust me, well, I began working on AI agents eight years ago, long before they became a buzzword.

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Interested in Learning How to Code?

KDnuggets

Continue reading to learn about some beginner-friendly courses to kickstart your coding career.

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Introducing PROC SIMSYSTEM in SAS Viya

SAS Software

When the SAS Global Forum 2020 conference was cancelled by the global COVID-19 pandemic, I felt sorry for the customers and colleagues who had spent months preparing their presentations. One presentation I especially wanted to attend was by Bucky Ransdell and Randy Tobias: "Introducing PROC SIMSYSTEM for Systematic Nonnormal Simulation". [.] The post Introducing PROC SIMSYSTEM in SAS Viya appeared first on SAS Blogs.

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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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How to Implement a Basic Reranking System in RAG

KDnuggets

A practical guide to easily implement a reranker capable of putting together multiple document scoring criteria in RAG systems

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New elliptic curve breaks 18-year-old record

Hacker News

Two mathematicians have renewed a debate about the fundamental nature of some of math’s most important equations.

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Research: How Gen AI Is Already Impacting the Labor Market

Flipboard

A study of over 1 million job listings posted before and after the introduction of major gen AI tools reveals the effect they’re having on gig workers.

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Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

Hacker News

There are now more than 14.5 million users total on the platform.

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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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Google DeepMind releases code behind its most advanced protein prediction program

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Better late than never: Google DeepMind has today released the computer code underlying its latest AI protein prediction software to an eager …

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The transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades

Hacker News

The GIMP team finally announced that the long-awaited release of GIMP 3.

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How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

Flipboard

During my first semester as a computer science graduate student at Princeton, I took COS 402: Artificial Intelligence.

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TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA

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Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

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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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Google DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold 3, ushering in a new era for drug discovery and molecular biology

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Google DeepMind has unexpectedly released the source code and model weights of AlphaFold 3 for academic use, marking a significant advance that could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development.

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Every Arthouse Buff You Know Is Pirating Films

Hacker News

As streaming services delete their own films and DVDs of classics go out of print, some of cinema’s most interesting movies are illegal to watch. Should you do it?

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Brazilian fintech Tako emerges from stealth with sizable seed round led by a16z and Ribbit Capital

Flipboard

Running payroll is hard in any country, but perhaps especially so in Brazil thanks to consistently changing laws and extremely influential unions that make it significantly harder to get it right. Fernando Gadotti struggled with this as the co-founder of DogHero, LatAm’s version of Rover.

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Horse – The Organized Browser

Hacker News

The new browser that replaces tabs with Trails®, so you can actually get work done!

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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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A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Algorithm for Your Problem: From Regression to Neural Networks

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This article explains, through clear guidelines, how to choose the right machine learning (ML) algorithm or model for different types of real-world and business problems.

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The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed

Hacker News

Related: Book Review: On the Edge: The Gamblers

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The 6 Most Powerful AI Marketing Trends That Will Transform Your Business In 2025

Flipboard

The quiet hum of AI servers is rapidly drowning out the traditional drumbeat of marketing departments worldwide. As we venture deeper into 2025, this technological revolution isn't just changing how we market – it's fundamentally transforming what marketing means.

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ERP rollout at Europe's largest local council slammed

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Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation

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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?