Towards AI

JANUARY 19, 2025

Author(s): Suraj Jha Originally published on Towards AI. How I Finally Conquered Data Scaling: Learn from My Real-World Experience This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Image By Author Scaling is one of the fundamental steps in data preprocessing. It becomes a must when we are especially working with a dataset that is going to work as an input for machine learning models.

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The next wave of artificial intelligence won't just generate text, images, code and videos it will make autonomous decisions and pursue goals. As remarkable as tools like ChatGPT are, they represent just the beginning of AI's true potential.

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Imperial, Oxford, and Cambridge produce world-class engineers. Yet post-graduation, their trajectory is an economic tragedy - and a hidden arbitrage opportunity.

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Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people.

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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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The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication.

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Seven years and seven months ago, Google changed the world with the Transformer architecture, which lies at the heart of generative AI applications like OpenAIs ChatGPT.

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AI agents and blockchain converge in the Metropolis protocol, which enables autonomous, decentralized ecosystems.

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Hot on the heels of Bambu Lab's announcement that it would be locking down all network access to its X1-series 3D printers with new firmware, the X.509 certificate and private key from the Bambu Conne.

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Students used to copy-paste from Wikipedia. Now they copy-paste from Gen AI tools. How do we teach students in an age where AI outperforms humans at analyzing data, generating arguments, and solving problems? We should be teaching them critical thinking.

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How surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe. For a whilein the '80s, '90s, and early 2000sit felt like nerds were [.

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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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AI is now even coming for scientists' jobs according to this latest report, with PhD-grade AI agents reportedly set for an imminent unveiling.

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A collection of shorter posts by LessWrong user meemi

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OpenAIs o3 benchmark controversy is starting to look like a Theranos momentclaiming record-breaking performance on EpochAIs FrontierMath benchmark

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Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.

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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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Humor is emerging as a revealing lens for understanding bias within artificial intelligence systems.

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The Lenovo ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition being showed off at CES 2025 lacks the iconic TrackPoint nub in a nod to a new, modern design that includes Lenovo AI Now.

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AI technology is everywhere, from phones to drive-through ordering systems. Given that companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple are putting AI into everything, it's good to stay up to date on all the latest terminology.

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Watch 24 hours of an American day, and the invisible crisis hiding in plain sight

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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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Ive been a longtime ChatGPT Plus user and talk to the AI chatbot regularly.

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Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.

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For neurodivergent children, traditional educational methods often fall short of addressing their unique needs.

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The new NHDplus High Resolution layer provides a detailed view of the rivers, lakes, and other waterbodies of the United States.

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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

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The tech world is bracing for the release of Ph.D.

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New analysis finds single year of wildfire emissions is close to double emissions reductions achieved over 16 years

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Cognitive offloading with AI boosts performance but may hinder deeper learning.

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Let's make a tiny, standalone CA! We'll use a Raspberry Pi 4, YubiKey 5 NFC, and Infinite Noise TRNG.

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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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Cognitive offloading with AI boosts performance but may hinder deeper learning.

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Certain tasks, and their complexity, change how impactful an interruption is. Research also discovers a disconnect between perception and physiological data.

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Agentic AI is the next big development in the world of artificial intelligence. Here's what is and how it might shape how our world works in the future.

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Dissecting various compression algorithms.

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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?