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Top 10 Data Science Alternative Career Paths

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Data science’s abilities are so versatile that they open up various job alternatives. Quite independently of whether your focus is on business analysis, product management, or ethical issues, there is always a job that one would be eager to do and can do well. Thus, in the rapidly developing field of data science, such […] The post Top 10 Data Science Alternative Career Paths appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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A.I. Needs Copper. It Just Helped to Find Millions of Tons of It in Zambia.

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The deposit, in Zambia, could make billions for Silicon Valley, provide minerals for the energy transition and help the United States in its rivalry with China.

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A Direct Algorithm for Multi-Gyroscope Infield Calibration

Machine Learning Research at Apple

In this paper, we address the problem of estimating the rotational extrinsics, as well as the scale factors of two gyroscopes rigidly mounted on the same device. In particular, we formulate the problem as a least-squares minimization and introduce a direct algorithm that computes the estimated quantities without any iterations, hence avoiding local minima and improving efficiency.

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Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and how few people it employs

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Small company, huge influence.

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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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Whispering Experts: Toxicity Mitigation in Pre-trained Language Models by Dampening Expert Neurons

Machine Learning Research at Apple

An important issue with Large Language Models (LLMs) is their undesired ability to generate toxic language. In this work, we show that the neurons responsible for toxicity can be determined by their power to discriminate toxic sentences, and that toxic language can be mitigated by reducing their activation levels proportionally to this power. We propose AUROC adaptation (AURA), an intervention that can be applied to any pre-trained LLM to mitigate toxicity.

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California Grid Breezes Through Heatwave with Batteries

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[link] No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler is more clean energy, especially solar, and above all, battery storage, now equivalent to 5 very large nuclear power plants.

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"Superhuman" Go AIs still have trouble defending against these simple exploits

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Plugging up "worst-case" algorithmic holes is proving more difficult than expected.

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On the Minimal Degree Bias in Generalization on the Unseen for non-Boolean Functions

Machine Learning Research at Apple

We investigate the out-of-domain generalization of random feature (RF) models and Transformers. We first prove that in the ‘generalization on the unseen (GOTU)’ setting, where training data is fully seen in some part of the domain but testing is made on another part, and for RF models in the small feature regime, the convergence takes place to interpolators of minimal degree as in the Boolean case (Abbe et al., 2023).

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How annual pre-pay creates an infinite marketing budget

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Dozens of founders have used this technique to transform the cash-flow of their businesses. Now it's your turn.

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CodeAct: Your LLM Agent Acts Better when Generating Code

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Large Language Model (LLM) agents, capable of performing a broad range of actions, such as invoking tools and controlling robots, show great potential in tackling real-world challenges. LLM agents are typically prompted to produce actions by generating JSON or text in a pre-defined format, which is usually limited by constrained action space (e.g., the scope of pre-defined tools) and restricted flexibility (e.g., inability to compose multiple tools).

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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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Can ChatGPT do data science?

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We conducted two studies to understand the challenges faced by data scientists as they use ChatGPT.

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Discovering Different Types of Keys in Database Management Systems

Pickl AI

Summary: This blog explores the different types of keys in DBMS, including Primary, Unique, Foreign, Composite, and Super Keys. It highlights their unique functionalities and applications, emphasising their roles in maintaining data integrity and facilitating efficient data retrieval in database design and management. Introduction In Database Management Systems (DBMS), keys are pivotal in maintaining data integrity and facilitating efficient data retrieval.

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Building the Bell System

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If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T would be anywhere near the top. It’s large, but not notably so: it came in 32nd in the 2024 Fortune 500 ranking, just above Comcast and below Verizon. Its offerings are not unique: it’s just one of many companies providing phone, internet, and other communication services.

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How to Know When It's Time to Go

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I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore.

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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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Book Review: The Family That Couldn't Sleep

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Finalist #4 in the Book Review Contest

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About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills (2022)

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About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education. This means more than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 (54%) read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.

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Building and scaling Notion's data lake

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How Notion build and grew our data lake to keep up with rapid growth

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Working with stacked branches in Git is easier with –update-refs

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In this post I discuss how to use the new Git rebasing feature, --update-refs, and how it makes working with stacked branches/PRs easier.

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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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Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser

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The semiconductor laser, invented more than 60 years ago, is the foundation of many of today’s technologies including barcode scanners, fiber-optic communications, medical imaging, and remote controls. The tiny, versatile device is now an IEEE Milestone. The possibilities of laser technology had set the scientific world alight in 1960, when the laser, long described in theory, was first demonstrated.

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Human history in the long run: It was mostly pretty bad

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It was mostly pretty bad, but Happy 4th of July!

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Vacuum Forming Keyboards – The Outcome

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Vacuum forming keyboards - the outcome - retrohax.net Some time ago, I started a vacuum-forming project. I've already described in.

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The only tourist in Moldova

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Moldova is the perfect antidote to a world where tourists are increasingly shunned, taxed and pushed through sterile resorts

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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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AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records

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A security researcher who assisted with the deal says he believes the only copy of the complete dataset of call and text records of “nearly all” AT&T customers has been wiped—but some risks may remain.

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Z80 CPU Microprocessor Instant Reference Card (1981) [pdf]

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Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch

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My personal blog about things I find interesting. Hit me up!

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OpenAI whistleblowers ask SEC to investigate alleged restrictive NDAs

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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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Scientists propose glacier geoengineering to avoid sea level rise

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Show HN: I made a TUI for kafka (kaskade)

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kaskade is a text user interface for kafka, which allows you to interact and consume topics from your terminal in style!

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The Experience of Deploying Next.js Apps on Cloudflare

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I recently went through the process of deploying various small Next.js applications to Cloudflare. As part of working on a new command called "neonctl create-app", we built a way to automatically deploy Next.js full-stack apps (i.e., Next.

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Grind – An epic first person shooter for Amiga 500 gets another playable tease

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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?