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Data Sovereignty in the AI Era

insideBIGDATA

In this contributed article, Yoram Novick, President and CEO of Zadara, discusses how enterprises are in search of and implementing their own AI powered clouds, and the benefits and challenges they face in the effort to keep their data available and secure.

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How to Build and Train a Transformer Model from Scratch with Hugging Face Transformers

KDnuggets

A step-to-step guide to navigate you through training your own transformer-based language model.

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STUDY: AI Adoption Spends Jump Among Enterprises as Eliminating Data Privacy Concerns Remains a Foremost Opportunity for Driving Long-Term Growth and ROI

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Searce, a modern technology consulting firm that empowers businesses to be future-ready, released its State of AI 2024 report. Polling 300 C-suite and senior technology executives – including Chief AI Officers, Chief Data & Analytics Officers, Chief Transformation Officers, and Chief Digital Officers – from organizations across the US and UK with at least $500 million in revenue, the report examines some of the biggest trends, successes and challenges facing businesses in their decision-mak

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5 Tips for Using Regular Expressions in Data Cleaning

KDnuggets

Learn how to use regular expressions in Python for data cleaning.

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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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TrOCR and ZhEn Latex OCR: A Comparison of Image-to-Text and Latex Models

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Diving into the world of AI models, language models and other software that can be applied in real tasks like virtual assistance and content creation are very popular. However, there is still a lot to explore with image-to-text models. Optimal Character Recognition (OCR) is the foundation of building vast encoder-decoder models. So, when you […] The post TrOCR and ZhEn Latex OCR: A Comparison of Image-to-Text and Latex Models appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Cost-effective, incremental ETL with serverless compute for Delta Live Tables pipelines

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We recently announced the general availability of serverless compute for Notebooks, Workflows, and Delta Live Tables (DLT) pipelines. Today, we'd like to explain.

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How to become a data scientist – Key concepts to master data science

Data Science Dojo

Want to know how to become a Data scientist? Use data to uncover patterns, trends, and insights that can help businesses make better decisions. Imagine you’re trying to figure out why your favorite coffee shop is always busy on Tuesdays. A data scientist could analyze sales data, customer surveys, and social media trends to determine the reason.

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Self Hosting RAG Applications On Edge Devices with Langchain and Ollama–Part II

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In the second part of our series on building a RAG application on a Raspberry Pi, we’ll expand on the foundation we laid in the first part, where we created and tested the core pipeline. In the first part, we created the core pipeline and tested it to ensure everything worked as expected. Now, […] The post Self Hosting RAG Applications On Edge Devices with Langchain and Ollama–Part II appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Hugging Face Model Hub and Community

Machine Learning Mastery

Hugging Face has significantly contributed to the breakthrough of machine learning application technology, especially in the NLP field. They could contribute a lot because Hugging Face focuses on building a platform for the community to easily access models, tools, and datasets to the public. That’s why Hugging Face has become a place to contribute to […] The post Everything You Need to Know About the Hugging Face Model Hub and Community appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.

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How to Handle Outliers in Dataset with Pandas

KDnuggets

Dealing with outliers is crucial in data preprocessing. This guide covers multiple ways to handle outliers along with their pros and cons.

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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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Cursor AI: Why You Should Try it Once?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction After Andrej Karpathy’s viral tweet, “English has become the new programming language, ” here is another trending tweet on X saying, “ Future be like Tab Tab Tab.” You might be wondering what reference he is talking about! Is some tool coming, or is this just a playful nod to how we interact with code today?

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Broadcom Cements VMware Cloud Foundation

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

VMware Cloud Foundation 9 is an IT service that exposes easy-to-consume infrastructure services for developers to deploy without friction.

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NVIDIA and Global Partners Launch NIM Agent Blueprints for Enterprises to Make Their Own AI

insideBIGDATA

NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA NIM(tm) Agent Blueprints, a catalog of pretrained, customizable AI workflows that equip millions of enterprise developers with a full suite of software for building and deploying generative AI applications for canonical use cases, such as customer service avatars, retrieval-augmented generation and drug discovery virtual screening.

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How to become a data scientist – Key concepts to master data science

Data Science Dojo

Data scientists use data to uncover patterns, trends, and insights that can help businesses make better decisions. Imagine you’re trying to figure out why your favorite coffee shop is always busy on Tuesdays. A data scientist could analyze sales data, customer surveys, and social media trends to determine the reason. They might find that it’s because of a popular deal or event on Tuesdays.

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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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Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines

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Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines

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Getting started with cross-region inference in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

With the advent of generative AI solutions , a paradigm shift is underway across industries, driven by organizations embracing foundation models to unlock unprecedented opportunities. Amazon Bedrock has emerged as the preferred choice for numerous customers seeking to innovate and launch generative AI applications, leading to an exponential surge in demand for model inference capabilities.

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U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news

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Teaching with DrivenData Competitions

DrivenData Labs

Machine learning competitions offer rich opportunities for learning and teaching. Competitions provide an experiential learning environment, featuring a motivating problem, a clear objective, access to all necessary materials and tools, and iterative feedback. As a result, we often see competitions used by instructors to build and demonstrate applied data skills.

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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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Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

Hacker News

Our immune systems evolved for a different world (that didn’t involve 100,000 global flights per day).

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Copilot+ PC Roundup: Stellar Performance, Great Battery Life

MoorInsights for Forbes

First-wave Copilot+ PC laptops from HP, Lenovo and Microsoft built to compete with the Apple MacBook Air deliver great user experience and spectacular battery life.

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Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People

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Air Quality Stripes

FlowingData

In a riff on Climate Stripes , which shows global temperature change as a color-coded barcode chart , Air Quality Stripes uses a similar encoding to show pollution concentration from 1850 through 2021.

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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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Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages, soaring prices despite normal crops?

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TOKYO -- Shortages of rice have recently been seen across Japan, and the price of the staple food is soaring.

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Generative AI Certification Test: Our New Launch With Activeloop

Towards AI

Last Updated on September 2, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Towards AI, together with our partners at Activeloop and Intel Disruptor Initiative, was one of the first organizations to pioneer high-quality, production-oriented GenAI courses, namely our marquee LangChain & Vector Databases in Production, Training & Fine-Tuning LLMs, as well as Retrieval Augmented Generation for Production with LlamaIndex and LangChain courses.

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Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor anticipating their demolition of false columns

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Work on foyer reveals John Sainsbury’s note buried in extension to London’s National Gallery

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TAI #114: Two Paths to Small LMs? Synthetic Data (Phi 3.5) vs Pruning & Distillation (Llama-3.1-Minitron)

Towards AI

Last Updated on September 2, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This was a week for small language models (SLMs) with significant releases from Microsoft and NVIDIA. These new models highlight the growing trend towards creating efficient yet powerful AI that can be deployed in resource-constrained environments without compromising performance.

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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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Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

Hacker News

A next-generation COVID-19 mucosal vaccine is set to be a gamechanger not only when delivering the vaccine itself, but also for people who are needle-phobic.

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The future of AI in the moving industry: How data-driven technologies are revolutionizing moving industry

Dataconomy

In the rapidly evolving world of logistics , artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly crucial role in transforming how businesses operate. The moving industry, a sector traditionally reliant on manual labor and paper-based processes, is now experiencing a wave of innovation driven by data and AI technologies. This shift promises to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer experiences.

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New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’

Hacker News

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States and Asia during any future armed conflict with China.

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AMD: The David to NVIDIA’s Goliath in the AI Chip Arena?

Dataconomy

The semiconductor industry is witnessing a fascinating rivalry as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) challenges NVIDIA’s dominance in the AI accelerator market. With its Instinct MI300X, AMD is poised to disrupt the status quo, offering a cost-effective and powerful alternative to NVIDIA’s H100. The surge in demand for AI chips, driven by the explosive growth in AI adoption and data center expansion, further intensifies this competition.

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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?