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Vision Language Models: Introducing the new tiny VLM Moondream 2

Data Science Dojo

While language models in generative AI focus on textual data, vision language models (VLMs) bridge the gap between textual and visual data. Before we explore Moondream 2, let’s understand VLMs better. Understanding vision language models VLMs combine computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP), enabling them to understand and connect visual information with textual data.

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10 GitHub Repositories to Master Python

KDnuggets

Learn Python through tutorials, blogs, books, project work, and exercises. Access all of it on GitHub for free and join a supportive open-source community.

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Elon Musk Predicts AI will be Smarter than Humans by Next Year

Analytics Vidhya

Elon Musk has been making headlines again! During a recent interview on X Spaces (his platform for discussing all things space and beyond), the he dropped a prediction about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Musk claims AGI could be surpassing human intelligence within the next two years! Master of Making Bold Statements Musk has a history […] The post Elon Musk Predicts AI will be Smarter than Humans by Next Year appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Bringing MegaBlocks to Databricks

databricks

At Databricks, we’re committed to building the most efficient and performant training tools for large-scale AI models. With the recent release of DBRX.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, we’ll explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, we’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in decision-making, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation. Attendees will leave with practical tools and actionable insights, motivated to embrace AI and leverage its potential in their work. 🦸 🏢 Key objectives:

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How effective data backup strategies can combat cyber threats?

Dataconomy

Backing up data involves making duplicates of information to safeguard it from loss or harm, encompassing various forms like documents, images, audio files, videos, and databases. Undoubtedly, emphasizing the significance of dependable backups is crucial; they safeguard irreplaceable data and mitigate substantial downtime stemming from cyber threats or unforeseen calamities.

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7 Steps to Mastering Data Engineering

KDnuggets

The only data engineering roadmap you need for an introduction to concepts, tools, and techniques to collect, store, transform, analyze, and model data.

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House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program

Hacker News

US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend the Section 702 spy program. It passed without an amendment that would have required the FBI to obtain a warrant to access Americans' information.

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Visualize This, Second Edition: Updating a Visualization Guide for My Past Self

FlowingData

A decade and a half ago, I wrote the first edition of Visualize This as a how-to guide to my past self. It was for someone who was familiar with visualization but was stuck on the part where it’s time to make and design charts with your own data. What tools should you use? How do you use them? How do you get from rough sketch to finished graphic?

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5 Free SQL Courses for Data Science Beginners

KDnuggets

Are you looking to make a career in data science? Start by learning SQL with these free courses.

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Building an End-to-End Machine Learning Project to Reduce Delays in Aggressive Cancer Care.

Towards AI

Author(s): Juliusnyambok Originally published on Towards AI. Building an End-to-End Machine Learning Project to Reduce Delays in Aggressive Cancer Care. After years of battling over control of the TV (sparked by my sister’s questionable obsession with true crime), my sister, the brilliant pharmacist Miss Nyambok Cynthia, and I decided to put our eternal sibling rivalry to good use.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

Hacker News

Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that they may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks. The company said it sent the alerts to individuals in 92 nations at 12 p.m. Pacific Time Wednesday.

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Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports custom prompts for the RetrieveAndGenerate API and configuration of the maximum number of retrieved results

AWS Machine Learning Blog

With Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock , you can securely connect foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock to your company data for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Access to additional data helps the model generate more relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses without retraining the FMs. In this post, we discuss two new features of Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock specific to the RetrieveAndGenerate API: configuring the maximum number of results and creating custom prompts wi

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5 Free Resources to Master Your Data Science Job Search

KDnuggets

Learn how to use various data science platforms to secure your first job.

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Deploy MLflow Server on Amazon EC2 Instance

Towards AI

Last Updated on April 11, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): ronilpatil Originally published on Towards AI. Image by Author Hi folks! Ready to take your model deployment game to the next level? Let’s dive into setting up an MLflow Server on an EC2 instance! I’ll explain the steps to configure Amazon S3 bucket to store the artifacts, Amazon RDS (Postgres & Mysql) to store metadata, and EC2 instance to host the mlflow server.

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Entity Resolution: Your Guide to Deciding Whether to Build It or Buy It

Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.

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Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome

Hacker News

Introduction Symptomatic Long COVID affects 10-30% of the COVID-19-infected population depending on what symptoms are measured. (1-3) Organ damage might affect over 50% of post-COVID-19 individuals (4-6) and perhaps more in adolescents and children. (7) As COVID-19 continues to transmit across the world, the consequences of the pandemic are becoming clearer.

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Airbnb occupancy along the eclipse path

FlowingData

Maybe you heard there’s a total eclipse happening today. AirDNA mapped Airbnb occupancy rates over the week. There might be a pattern. The anticipation of the solar eclipse has transformed an otherwise ordinary Monday into a lucrative opportunity for STR hosts located within the path of totality. As of March 25th, occupancy rates for April 7th have soared to an impressive 88% across all listings.

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Exploring the OpenAI API with Python

KDnuggets

Let’s learn all the useful services from the OpenAI.

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Discover The Top 10 Most Used OpenAI GPTs

Towards AI

Last Updated on April 9, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Ahmed Fessi Originally published on Towards AI. In November 2023, almost one year after ChatGPT 3 was released, OpenAI announced GPTs, allowing users to create and publish their own conversational chatbots, customized as per their instructions, and have them available in the OpenAI marketplace.

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The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar

Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.

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Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 per Minute to Build AI Model

Hacker News

Adobe Inc. has begun to procure videos to build its artificial intelligence text-to-video generator, trying to catch up to competitors after OpenAI demonstrated a similar technology.

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Merging top-down and bottom-up planning approaches

IBM Journey to AI blog

This blog series discusses the complex tasks energy utility companies face as they shift to holistic grid asset management to manage through the energy transition. The first post of this series addressed the challenges of the energy transition with holistic grid asset management. The second post in this series addressed the integrated asset management platform and data exchange that unite business disciplines in different domains in one network.

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This Startup Wants To Be OpenAI Of Stem Cell Therapy, Targets $250B Market

Gil Press for Forbes

Somite.ai aims to improve the lives of millions of people by leveraging AI to produce human tissue for cell therapies.

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Are LLMs Only Good for Chat-Based Solutions? Exploring Beyond Language Tasks

Towards AI

Last Updated on April 11, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Andy Spezzatti Originally published on Towards AI. Beyond Words: LLMs Enhance Data Analysis from Genomics to StrategySource: Image by Nicole Herero on Unsplash Over the past two years, Large Language Models (LLMs) including ChatGPT, Antropic, and Mistral have transformed our engagement with technology.

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Demystifying DAPs: A Practical Guide to Digital Adoption Success

Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal

Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) are revolutionizing the way organizations interact with and optimize their software applications. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, DAPs have become essential tools for enhancing user engagement and software efficiency. This session is your guide into the robust world of DAPs, exploring their origins, evolution, and the current trends shaping their development.

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Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers

Hacker News

On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com , which until very recently rendered as fedex.com in tweets.

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The future of application delivery starts with modernization

IBM Journey to AI blog

IDC estimates that 750 million cloud native will be built by 2025. Where and how these applications are deployed will impact time to market and value realization. The reality is that application landscapes are complex, and they challenge enterprises to maintain and modernize existing infrastructure, while delivering new cloud-native features. Three in four executives reported disparate systems in their organizations and that a lack of skills, resources and common operational practices challenge

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Ages of the People We Choose to Live With and Marry

FlowingData

In our earlier years, we tend to date and marry others who are around our age. However, this is not true for everyone. Variation kicks in when you look at the later years, consider multiple marriages, divorce, separation, and opposite-sex versus same-sex relationships. This chart breaks it all down.

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The Controversy of AI Greeting Cards

Towards AI

Last Updated on April 11, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): GaryGeo Originally published on Towards AI. Today I am taking a slight detour from my usual data analysis, to indulge one of my favorite hobbies — crafting personalized greeting cards, now with a significant boost from Artificial Intelligence. My fascination with creating unique holiday, anniversary, and birthday cards for my family has evolved from handwritten notes to stylized photos to graphic designs.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Ukraine Is the First “Hackers’ War”

Hacker News

Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. This improvisation is most conspicuous in the ceaselessly evolving struggle between weaponized drones and electronic warfare, a cornerstone of this war. Weaponized civilian first-person-view (FPV) drones began dramatically reshaping the landscape of the war in the summer of 2023.

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2023 ACM Turing Prize awarded to Avi Wigderson

Hacker News

Avi Wigderson is the recipient of the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award for foundational contributions to the theory of computation, including reshaping our understanding of the role of randomness in computation, and for decades of intellectual leadership in theoretical computer science.

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The Collapse of Small Press Distribution

Hacker News

Last week, Diane Goettel was on vacation in Florida when she saw an alarming email on her phone. After 55 years, Small Press Distribution (SPD)—one of the last remaining independent book distributors in the US—was shutting down immediately, with no advance notice or transitional support.

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The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island

Hacker News

By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation’s history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding its already outsize role in preserving the digital world for posterity.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr