My Top Picks: 5 Free NLP Courses I’d Recommend for 2025
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JANUARY 16, 2025
Want to become an NLP pro by 2025? Check out these top free courses and learn from experts whove shaped the future of language models.
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Why Small Language Models Make Business Sense
Towards AI
JANUARY 16, 2025
Author(s): Paul Ferguson, Ph.D. Originally published on Towards AI. Image generated by Gemini AI Small Language Models are changing the way businesses implement AI by providing solutions that operate efficiently using standard hardware. Despite the attention given to massive AI models, these compact alternatives demonstrate that in the real world, smaller often means smarter, faster, and more cost-effective.
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David Lynch, Visionary Director of 'Twin Peaks' and 'Blue Velvet,' Dies at 78
Hacker News
JANUARY 16, 2025
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
Unlocking the Advantages of Semantic Chunking to Supercharge Your RAG Models
Towards AI
JANUARY 16, 2025
Author(s): Aditya Baser Originally published on Towards AI. 1. Introduction 1.1. What is chunking, and why do we need it? The intuition behind chunking and how it helps in the retrieval of information Imagine you are searching for a specific piece of information in a vast library. If the books are arranged haphazardly some with irrelevant sections bound together and others with critical pages scattered across volumes youd spend a frustrating amount of time flipping through unrelated content.
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
GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories
Hacker News
JANUARY 16, 2025
Linux arm64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories (Public Preview)
Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact
JANUARY 16, 2025
Rapid development and deployment of powerful generative AI models comes with environmental consequences, including increased electricity demand and
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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide
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Best Laptop For Data Science
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Author(s): Egor Howell Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Whats the best laptop and does it even matter? Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash I always get asked whats the best laptop for data science? Now, to be honest, it doesnt really matter, and the best laptop is the one you have; it shouldnt be a barrier to learning data science.
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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing
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Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to 'Kiss'
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