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8 Popular Tools for RAG Applications

Analytics Vidhya

In today’s AI landscape, the ability to integrate external knowledge into models, beyond the data they were initially trained on, has become a game-changer. This advancement is driven by Retrieval Augmented Generation, in short RAG. RAG allows AI systems to dynamically access and utilize external information. Various tools have emerged to simplify both the integration […] The post 8 Popular Tools for RAG Applications appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Model Selection and Experimentation Automation with LLMs

KDnuggets

Automate the machine learning modelling important step with LLMs.

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Leveraging Transfer Learning in Computer Vision for Quick Wins

Machine Learning Mastery

Computer vision (CV) is a field where machines learn to “see” and understand images or videos. It helps machines recognize objects, faces, and even actions in photos or videos. For example, CV is used in self-driving cars to detect road signs and people, or in medical scans to spot diseases.

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10 Useful Python One-Liners for Data Cleaning

KDnuggets

Here are some useful Python one-liners for common data cleaning tasks.

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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?

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DataStax Expands Astra DB Extension for GitHub Copilot to Support Its AI PaaS, Empowering Developers to Build and Deploy GenAI Applications With Ease

insideBIGDATA

DataStax, a leading AI platform, today announced the enhancement of its GitHub Copilot extension with its cutting-edge AI Platform-as-a-Service (AI PaaS) solution.

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Fine-Tuning GPT-4o

KDnuggets

Learn how to enhance GPT-4o performance for legal text clarification on your old laptop with just a few lines of code.

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Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels

Hacker News

At Prisma, we believe that deploying a database should be as simple as adding a new page in Notion. Today, we are excited to share the first milestone towards this vision: Prisma Postgres® gives developers an always-on database with pay-as-you-go pricing, thanks to our unique architecture design.

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Automate Amazon Bedrock batch inference: Building a scalable and efficient pipeline

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI.

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Teri Garr, Star of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' Dies at 79

Hacker News

Teri Garr, the actress and singer who brought her buoyant personality to 'Young Frankenstein' and was Oscar-nominated for 'Tootsie,' has died at 79.

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Empower your generative AI application with a comprehensive custom observability solution

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Recently, we’ve been witnessing the rapid development and evolution of generative AI applications, with observability and evaluation emerging as critical aspects for developers, data scientists, and stakeholders. Observability refers to the ability to understand the internal state and behavior of a system by analyzing its outputs, logs, and metrics.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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New documentary reveals that 21,000 workers have died working on Saudi Vision 2030, which includes NEOM, since construction began

Hacker News

A new documentary, Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia, has revealed the total amount of worker deaths related to Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Vision 2030, a multitrillion dollar program which includes The post New documentary reveals that 21,000 workers have died working on Saudi Vision 2030, which includes NEOM, since construction began appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Towards Cross-Cultural Machine Translation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Translating text that contains entity names is a challenging task, as cultural-related references can vary significantly across languages. These variations may also be caused by transcreation, an adaptation process that entails more than transliteration and word-for-word translation.

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PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident

Hacker News

The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

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Decoding Emotions: Sentiment Analysis with BERT

Towards AI

Last Updated on October 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. Dive into the world of NLP and learn how to analyze emotions in text with a few lines of code! This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine you’re at a bustling party, surrounded by a crowd with conversations buzzing all around.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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The Unlikely Inventor of the Automatic Rice Cooker

Hacker News

“Cover, bring to a boil, then reduce heat. Simmer for 20 minutes.” These directions seem simple enough, and yet I have messed up many, many pots of rice over the years. My sympathies to anyone who’s ever had to boil rice on a stovetop, cook it in a clay pot over a kerosene or charcoal burner, or prepare it in a cast-iron cauldron. All hail the 1955 invention of the automatic rice cooker!

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Build a video insights and summarization engine using generative AI with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Professionals in a wide variety of industries have adopted digital video conferencing tools as part of their regular meetings with suppliers, colleagues, and customers. These meetings often involve exchanging information and discussing actions that one or more parties must take after the session. The traditional way to make sure information and actions aren’t forgotten is to take notes during the session; a manual and tedious process that can be error-prone, particularly in a high-activity or hi

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New Mac Mini with M4

Hacker News

Apple today unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips, and redesigned around Apple silicon so it’s even smaller.

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Automate document processing with Amazon Bedrock Prompt Flows (preview)

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Enterprises in industries like manufacturing, finance, and healthcare are inundated with a constant flow of documents—from financial reports and contracts to patient records and supply chain documents. Historically, processing and extracting insights from these unstructured data sources has been a manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. However, the rise of intelligent document processing (IDP), which uses the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to automate the ex

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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AI Flame Graphs

Hacker News

AI Flame Graphs

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Early voting turnout

FlowingData

Early voting isn’t coming in as hot as in 2020, but there are still a lot. For the Washington Post, Alyssa Fowers and Hannah Recht are using estimates from Associated Press to keep a running tally nationally and by state. There are 46.4 million early votes as of October 28.

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NASA's oldest active astronaut is also one of the most curious humans

Hacker News

“We made the mistake of peeking out the Cupola windows.

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The Rise of AI Scams

Towards AI

Last Updated on October 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Derrick Mwiti Originally published on Towards AI. Discover the biggest AI scams of 2024 This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Zanyar Ibrahim on Unsplash Some AI companies promised the future of AI, but instead delivered scams. And people lost millions.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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15 Billion Miles Away, NASA's Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence

Hacker News

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a fault protection system prompted the spacecraft to turn off a transmitter. Engineers at JPL are investigating the incident, facing the challenge of managing commands and data over a 15 billion-mile distance.

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Governing the ML lifecycle at scale: Centralized observability with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Machine Learning Blog

This post is part of an ongoing series on governing the machine learning (ML) lifecycle at scale. To start from the beginning, refer to Governing the ML lifecycle at scale, Part 1: A framework for architecting ML workloads using Amazon SageMaker. A multi-account strategy is essential not only for improving governance but also for enhancing security and control over the resources that support your organization’s business.

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Iceberg A-68: The story of how a mega-berg transformed the ocean

Hacker News

The world's largest icebergs break off the Antarctic ice sheet. As they drift and melt in the Southern Ocean, they create a unique environment around them.

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The State of AI Report 2024

Towards AI

Last Updated on October 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Derrick Mwiti Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by julien Tromeur on Unsplash The “State of AI Report 2024” just dropped. Here are the biggest highlights. Let’s start with the most exciting part: research. AI has seen incredible developments across multiple fields.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Meta's AI Abundance

Hacker News

Meta is well-positioned to the biggest beneficiary of AI and the largest company in the world.

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T-Mobile Outlines Its Next Big Steps At Capital Markets Day

MoorInsights for Forbes

The carrier revisited its recent successes and explained its plans for fiber, FWA, 5G network expansion, T-Priority for first responders and especially AI.

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Vector databases are the wrong abstraction

Hacker News

Today’s vector databases disconnect embeddings from their source data. We should treat embeddings more like database indexes—here’s how.

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Data-Driven Tips to Choose the Perfect Gamer Laptop

Smart Data Collective

Data scientists may want to consider using gaming laptops, since they are powerful enough to do major calculations.

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Introducing CDEs to Your Enterprise

Explore how enterprises can enhance developer productivity and onboarding by adopting self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). This whitepaper highlights the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based development over traditional setups, demonstrating how large teams can leverage economies of scale to boost efficiency and developer satisfaction.