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MARCH 16, 2024

Introduction Spreadsheets are essential tools for data analysis, but complex formulas can hold you back. That’s where Claude for Sheets, a revolutionary AI add-on from Anthropic, comes in. Ask questions directly in your spreadsheet and get insightful answers using natural language. Claude simplifies complex tasks and opens spreadsheets to a wider range of users, transforming […] The post How to Use Claude in Google Sheets appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, explores the origins of NumPy and SciPy with their creator, Dr. Travis Oliphant. Dr. Oliphant shares his journey from personal need to global impact, the challenges overcome, and the future of these essential Python libraries in scientific computing and data science.

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GnuCOBOL "has reached an industrial maturity and can compete with proprietary offers in all environments," boasted contributor Fabrice Le Fessant, in a FOSDEM talk.

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As the influential startup incubator downsizes—and navigates political pushback—managing director Michael Seibel is taking a new role to spend more time working with founders.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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MARCH 16, 2024

In the process of working on calm, a minimal from-scratch fast CUDA implementation of transformer-based language model inference, a critical consideration was establishing the speed of light for the inference process, and measuring the progress relative to that speed of light. In this post we’ll cover this theoretical limit and its implications.

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MARCH 16, 2024

In the struggle to combat pollution and fight climate change, a growing number of scientists are beginning to look to one of nature’s oldest biotechnologies: fungi

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MARCH 16, 2024

Ashwin Deshmukh built a reputation as a nightlife impresario by burning close friends, new acquaintances, big corporations, local bars and even his subletter.

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MARCH 16, 2024

As recently discussed on The Carbon Copy with Brian Janous, utilities are seeing major forecasted demand growth for the first time in decades, and almost entirely from data centers.

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MARCH 16, 2024

A staggering 12.6 million domains on TLDs controlled by Freenom (.tk,cf and.gq) have been shut down and no longer resolve, leading to a significant reduc.

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MARCH 16, 2024

People who frequently try to impress or persuade others with misleading exaggerations and distortions are themselves more likely to be fooled by impressive-sounding misinformation, new research from the University of Waterloo shows. The researchers found that people who frequently engage in “persuasive b *g” were actually quite poor at identifying it.

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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MARCH 16, 2024

Industry pros sweat the possibility that many digital files will eventually become unusable — an archival tragedy reminiscent of the celluloid era.

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MARCH 16, 2024

The bar exam will no longer be required to become a lawyer in Washington, the state Supreme Court ruled in a pair of orders Friday.

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MARCH 16, 2024

PiggyVest co-founder Odunayo Eweniyi says fintech products aren’t necessarily replicable in other African countries.

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MARCH 16, 2024

A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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MARCH 16, 2024

Just two weeks after the law went into effect, Seattleites had to contend with $26 coffees and $32 sandwiches.

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MARCH 16, 2024

We found this device in our school. Does anyone know what this can do exactly, and how it could work? We managed to input values into the bit storage on the top, but nothing more. Can we calculate.

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MARCH 16, 2024

The landscape of software development has witnessed a paradigm shift with the advent of AI-powered assistants, exemplified by GitHub Copilot. However, existing solutions are not leveraging all the potential capabilities available in an IDE such as building, testing, executing code, git operations, etc. Therefore, they are constrained by their limited capabilities, primarily focusing on suggesting code snippets and file manipulation within a chat-based interface.

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MARCH 16, 2024

LLMs are trained to block harmful responses. Old-school images can override those rules.

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Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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MARCH 16, 2024

AI Accelerator Beachfront Considerations, Memory Pooling Negatives, Custom Silicon Adoption

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MARCH 16, 2024

We tend to think of delusions as factually inaccurate. However, we don’t often consider how, by invalidating them, we also undermine the agency of those who hold them. This is a mistake, argues philosopher Lisa Bortolotti. If we examine the content of our delusions against the environment which influenced them, they reveal the very ways humans engage in active meaning-making, the ultimate mark of human agency.

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The local authority - and others - had accused the tech giant of misleading shareholders.

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MARCH 16, 2024

The accuracy of Mozilla Location Service (MLS) has steadily declined. With no plans to restart the stumbler program or increase investments to MLS we have made the decision to retire the service. In 2013, Mozilla launched MLS as an open.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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MARCH 16, 2024

After spending a lot of time with language models, I have come to the conclusion that tokenization in general is insane and it is a miracle that language models learn anything at all. To drill down into one specific example of silliness which has been bothering me recently, let’s look.

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MARCH 16, 2024

Some of my thoughts on my mental health during my journey in Open Source

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MARCH 16, 2024

An early performance comparison of the M3 and Snapdragon X Elite shows that Qualcomm’s claims were right, to some extent

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Resulting cycle of rushed repairs and recriminations did wonders for the IT/user relationship

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Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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MARCH 16, 2024

Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!

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Subpoenas for more information were reportedly sent last year.

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MARCH 16, 2024

In the 1990s, computers were magic and we were wizards. Want proof? I offer below, Larry Wall’s foreword to Learning Perl from 1993. It greatly inspired a very young me who wandered into a book shop, picked up an odd book with llama on the cover and a seemingly misspelled title.

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MARCH 16, 2024

When software is hard not precisely because of it but because of the tools we are using

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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