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10 GitHub Repositories to Master Data Engineering

KDnuggets

Learn data engineering through free courses, tutorials, books, tools, guides, roadmaps, practice exercises, projects, and other resources.

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Announcing Mosaic AI Vector Search General Availability in Databricks

databricks

Following the announcement we made around a suite of tools for Retrieval Augmented Generation, today we are thrilled to announce the general availability.

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A Guide to Working with SQLite Databases in Python

KDnuggets

Get started with SQLIte databases in Python using the built-in sqlite3 module.

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Do More with Less: Copilot+ PCs – Powerful, Efficient, and AI-powered

Analytics Vidhya

Microsoft announced a new generation of Windows PCs called Copilot+ PCs on May 20, 2024 at the Microsoft Event. These PCs boast superior performance, long battery life, and powerful built-in AI features, marking a significant leap in PC technology. Satya Nadella announced that major manufacturers like Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, HP, Acer, and Asus will offer […] The post Do More with Less: Copilot+ PCs – Powerful, Efficient, and AI-powered appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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How to Fine-Tune BERT for Sentiment Analysis with Hugging Face Transformers

KDnuggets

Find out how to fine-tune BERT for sentiment analysis with Hugging Face Transformers. No unnecessary nonsense, just what you need.

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Agentic AI Demystified: The Ultimate Guide to Autonomous Agents

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undergone significant advancements over recent years. Initially limited to automating basic, repetitive tasks, traditional AI has grown to be an invaluable part of every industry. Although they enhance efficiency and productivity, conventional AI systems cannot handle complex decision-making and intricate workflows.

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Guide on Integrating Azure Services for Enhanced Data Management & Analysis

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Within the ever-evolving cloud computing scene, Microsoft Azure stands out as a strong stage that provides a wide range of administrations that disentangle applications’ advancement, arrangement, and administration. From new businesses to expansive endeavors, engineers leverage Azure to upgrade their applications with the control of cloud innovation and manufactured insights.

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Be Part of The AI Con USA 2024 with a Free Virtual Pass

KDnuggets

The countdown is on, it’s only 2 weeks until AI Con USA.

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All About AI-powered Jupyter notebooks with JupyterAI

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Generative AI has been at the forefront of recent advancements in artificial intelligence. It has become a part of every major sector, from tech and healthcare to finance and entertainment, and continues transforming our work. It has enabled us to create high-quality content and perform complex tasks in minutes. Now, imagine a world where […] The post All About AI-powered Jupyter notebooks with JupyterAI appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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New Research from Elastic Finds Conversational Search Could Yield Staggering Productivity Returns

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New research by Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch®, found nearly all (99%) global IT decision makers, regardless of region or industry, recognize GenAI's transformative potential to influence change within their organizations. However, early adoption continues to be slowed by chaotic data estates, search challenges, and fears around privacy and security, regulation, and internal skills gaps.

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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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LSTMs Got an Upgrade? xLSTM is Here to Challenge the Status Quo

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction For years, a type of neural network called the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) was the workhorse model for handling sequence data like text. Introduced back in the 1990s, LSTMs were good at remembering long-range patterns, avoiding a technical issue called the “vanishing gradient” that hampered earlier recurrent networks. This made LSTMs incredibly valuable for […] The post LSTMs Got an Upgrade?

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Cookiecutter Data Science V2

DrivenData Labs

The original Cookiecutter Data Science (CCDS) was published over 8 years ago. The goal was, as the tagline states “a logical, reasonably standardized but flexible project structure for data science.” That version , now affectionately called V1, has been a workhorse for a long time, and got the job done for many projects while being mostly unchanged.

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Python 3.12 – New Features and Improvements

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Python 3.12 introduces a host of new features and enhancements that significantly augment the language’s usability, performance, and developer experience. From a refined type parameter syntax to improvements in error messages and enhancements across various modules, Python 3.12 strengthens its position as a versatile and powerful programming language.

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Nutanix Cements Enterprise AI Foundations With GPT-In-A-Box 2.0

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

This decade’s AI has been as chaotic as it has been inspirational, i.e. organizations have to think about the infrastructure, the front-end and the data layer in between.

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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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Multimodal Chatbot with Text and Audio Using GPT 4o

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Since the release of GPT models by OpenAI, such as GPT 4o, the landscape of Natural Language Processing has been changed entirely and moved to a new notion called Generative AI. Large Language Models are at the core of it, which can understand complex human queries and generate relevant answers to them. The next […] The post Multimodal Chatbot with Text and Audio Using GPT 4o appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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What is responsible AI? 5 core principles to building AI responsibly

Data Science Dojo

Generative AI represents a significant leap forward in the field of artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional AI, which is programmed to respond to specific inputs with predetermined outputs, generative AI can create new content indistinguishable from that produced by humans. It utilizes machine learning models trained on vast amounts of data to generate a diverse array of outputs, ranging from text to images and beyond.

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GenAI Roadmap for Enterprises

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction With businesses evolving rapidly, companies are looking for new ways or approaches to gain a competitive edge and achieve efficiency and their customer’s rising expectations. It is no longer a secret that emerging technology such as GenAI (Generative Artificial Intelligence) may revolutionize customer service and interaction, content creation, decision-making, creativity, and other organizational activities. […] The post GenAI Roadmap for Enterprises appeared first on An

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What is responsible AI? 6 core principles to building AI responsibly

Data Science Dojo

Generative AI represents a significant leap forward in the field of artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional AI, which is programmed to respond to specific inputs with predetermined outputs, generative AI can create new content indistinguishable from that produced by humans. It utilizes machine learning models trained on vast amounts of data to generate a diverse array of outputs, ranging from text to images and beyond.

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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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Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash

Hacker News

Amber The Programming Language

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Cleaning Code Bloat For Greener Software

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

Recognizing that code bloat exists is the first step towards a healthier software lifestyle and a greener cleaner use of cloud-native technology services overall.

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Windows Copilot Runtime

Hacker News

I am excited to be back at Build with the developer community this year.

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Visualize This (2nd ed.): A real book that’s almost here

FlowingData

Visualize This is a real book now! The official publication date is May 29, but you might get it early if you order now , depending on where and when you order it. The publication process is interesting, because you write and write and make lots of charts over many months. There’s editing and revision. It’s on your mind constantly. Then there’s a gap when your part is done and your publisher (for me, Wiley) takes over.

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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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Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI's Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her

Hacker News

Last week, the company released a chatbot with an option that sounded like the actress, who provided the voice of an A.I. system in the movie “Her.

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How 20 Minutes empowers journalists and boosts audience engagement with generative AI on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

This post is co-written with Aurélien Capdecomme and Bertrand d’Aure from 20 Minutes. With 19 million monthly readers, 20 Minutes is a major player in the French media landscape. The media organization delivers useful, relevant, and accessible information to an audience that consists primarily of young and active urban readers. Every month, nearly 8.3 million 25–49-year-olds choose 20 Minutes to stay informed.

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Sam Altman Is Full of S**t

Hacker News

Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook autopsy. Don’t worry, that’s still coming, but given the recent drama between Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Scarlett Johansson, I felt the need to write something.

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Create a multimodal assistant with advanced RAG and Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) models have emerged as a promising approach to enhance the capabilities of language models by incorporating external knowledge from large text corpora. However, despite their impressive performance in various natural language processing tasks, RAG models still face several limitations that need to be addressed. Naive RAG models face limitations such as missing content, reasoning mismatch, and challenges in handling multimodal data.

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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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Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model

Hacker News

We have identified how millions of concepts are represented inside Claude Sonnet, one of our deployed large language models. This is the first ever detailed look inside a modern, production-grade large language model.

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5 tips to ensure your cloud databases are compliant, secure and private

Dataconomy

Data has never been more precious as a resource, making data security more crucial than ever before. Data protection regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA keep proliferating, and the threat of cyber-attacks is only increasing, with vectors that include state-sponsored cyber-warfare “soldiers” and Ransomware as a Service (RaaS). Developers, data privacy officers, and IT security teams are under pressure to make sure that cloud databases are not only functional and efficient, but also comply w

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AI Needs Enormous Computing Power. Could Light-Based Chips Help?

Hacker News

Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles.

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On Efficient and Statistical Quality Estimation for Data Annotation

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Annotated data is an essential ingredient to train, evaluate, compare and productionalize machine learning models. It is therefore imperative that annotations are of high quality. For their creation, good quality management and thereby reliable quality estimates are needed. Then, if quality is insufficient during the annotation process, rectifying measures can be taken to improve 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?