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Statistical Methods for Evaluating LLM Performance

Machine Learning Mastery

In this article, we explore statistical methods for evaluating LLM performance, an essential step to guarantee stability and effectiveness.

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How to Secure Docker Containers with Best Practices

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Learn how to protect your Docker containers from vulnerabilities and security threats by following these best practices.

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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

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Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

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No one knows what the hell an AI agent is

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Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said agents will join the workforce this year. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that agents will replace certain knowledge work.

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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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'Once in a Century' Proof Settles Math's Kakeya Conjecture

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The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three dimensions illuminates a whole crop of related problems.

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Forecast for weaker weather service: Americans will die, businesses will lose billions

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An invisible river of information flows through our daily lives, powering American commerce and keeping all of us safe in our homes, offices, and on

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Was Sam Altman Right About the Job Market?

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Tech companies are unleashing AI products that do much more than answer questions. The automated future just lurched a few steps closer.

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Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs

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I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I'm sharing how I did it, along with the full source code.

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AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a ‘vibe coder’ to write his own damn code

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As businesses race to replace humans with AI agents, coding assistant Cursor may have given us a peek at the attitude bots could bring to work, too. Cursor reportedly told a user going by the name janswist that he should write the code himself instead of relying on Cursor to do it for him.

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How ProPublica Uses AI in Its Investigations

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When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify woke themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.

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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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Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a 'diminished skill for independent problem-solving' and at least one AI model seems to agree

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'Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities.

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Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised

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Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-fileshas been compromised with a payload that appears to attempt to dump secrets, impacting thousands of CI pipelines.

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People find AI more compassionate than mental health experts, study finds. What could this mean for future counseling?

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People find AI more compassionate and understanding than human mental health experts, a new study shows. Even when participants knew that they were talking to a human or AI, the third-party assessors rated AI responses higher.

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Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

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When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all.

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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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OpenAI and Google ask the government to let them train AI on content they don’t own

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OpenAI argues it needs access to avoid forfeiting the lead in AI to China. OpenAI and Google are pushing the US government to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted material.

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Pressure grows to hold secret Apple data privacy hearing in public

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Civil liberties campaigners have joined US politicians and the BBC in saying Friday's hearing should not be secret.

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China's Manus AI 'agent' could be our 1st glimpse at artificial general intelligence

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Chinese startup Butterfly Effect has unveiled what it claims is the first general AI agent capable of acting autonomously.

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In S3 simplicity is table stakes

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From simple object storage to sophisticated table management, builders have always shaped S3's evolution. Andy Warfield discusses why making complex systems simple remains our north star at AWS.

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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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Column | 1 in 4 programming jobs have vanished. What happened?

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A big jump in unemployment for programmers since 2022 may be the first sign that artificial intelligence is taking human jobs. More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen.

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The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh

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Sorry, you can only get drugs when there's a drug shortage.

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AI Search Engines Invent Sources for ~60% of Queries, Study Finds

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Even when chatbots are provided direct quotes from real stories and asked for more information, they will often lie.

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New York Times shut down Tor Onion service

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Updated: March 4, 2025

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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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Anthropic’s plan to win the AI race

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Why CPO Mike Krieger thinks Anthropic can win without beating ChatGPT. Anthropic is one of the worlds leading AI model providers, especially in areas like coding. But its AI assistant, Claude, is nowhere near as popular as OpenAIs ChatGPT.

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A look at Firefox forks

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OpenAI’s strategic gambit: The Agents SDK and why it changes everything for enterprise AI

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OpenAI reshaped the enterprise AI landscape Tuesday with the release of its comprehensive agent-building platform a package combining a revamped Responses API, powerful built-in tools and an open-source Agents SDK.

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The End of YC

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When engineers lose their edge.

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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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How Can You Use AI to Start a Side Hustle? These Are the 10 Best-Paying Ones Right Now.

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With the right tools, it's easier than ever to make extra money outside of your 9-5. More than half (52%) of U.S.

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I outsourced my memory to an AI pin and all I got was fanfiction

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Never have I ever been this gaslit by a wearable.

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Coding AI tells developer to write it himself

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The algorithms fueling AI models aren't sentient and don't get tired or annoyed.

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The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment

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Your grandpa probably really did walk 5 miles to school in a foot of snow. A look at the changing numbers for how American students get to school.

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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.