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Don’t Manage Your Python Environments, Just Use Docker Containers

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Python environment management can sometimes give you that awful feeling in the pit of your stomach. So don't do it: just use Docker containers.

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Bluwhale Secures $100M for Web3 Layer across L1 and L2 Blockchains 

insideBIGDATA

SAN FRANCISCO Jan. 28, 2025Bluwhale, an AI Web3 start-up, today announces that it has topped its funding to $100 million. This includes its Seed/Series A round as well as a $75 million token purchase commitment, grants, and node sale proceeds.

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The Role of AI in Shaping the Future of Work

KDnuggets

Rather than fearing AI, we should see it as a tool that complements human skills, helping professionals focus on high-value work and enhancing job roles.

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Empowering Personalized Banking Experiences

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At Zafin , our mission is to help banks modernize their core infrastructure to deliver exceptional, personalized experiences to their customers. To determine.

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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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How to Evaluate LLMs

KDnuggets

Evaluation methodologies, metrics, and best practices for different language tasks, explained.

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Parameters vs FLOPs: Scaling Laws for Optimal Sparsity for Mixture-of-Experts Language Models

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Scaling the capacity of language models has consistently proven to be a reliable approach for improving performance and unlocking new capabilities. Capacity can be primarily defined by two dimensions: the number of model parameters and the compute per example. While scaling typically involves increasing both, the precise interplay between these factors and their combined contribution to overall capacity remains not fully understood.

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Creating Powerful Ensemble Models with PyCaret

Machine Learning Mastery

In this article, we will explore how to create ensemble models with PyCaret.

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Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data

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Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAIs technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, according to people familiar with the matter.

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DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses Nvidia's industry-standard CUDA, uses assembly-like PTX programming instead

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DeepSeek used PTX ISA to fine-tune its AI model training.

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Black Swan's Taleb Says Nvidia Rout Is Hint of What's Coming

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The Black Swan author Nassim Taleb is warning that Mondays brutal selloff in Nvidia Corp. is just a taste of whats in store for investors who blindly piled into Wall Streets AI-driven stock rally.

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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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How China’s DeepSeek Outsmarted America

Flipboard

AI startup developed a top system by relying on inexperienced engineers and a loophole in U.S. export controls SINGAPORETake a team of young Chinese engineers, hired by a boss with disdain for experience.

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Departing the New York Times

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I left to stay true to my byline

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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

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Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

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It's official: Research has found that libraries make everything better

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Science has backed up what many of us have long been saying: the library rocks. A study from the New York Public Library surveyed 1,974 users on how the library makes them feel and how it affects their lives, and the results are overwhelmingly positive.

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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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DeepSeek Chief’s Journey From Math Geek to Global Disruptor

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Chinese engineer Liang Wenfeng built the AI company after founding a successful hedge fund Some call him Chinas Sam Altman. Others compare him to Jim Simons, the pioneer of quantitative investing.

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Parkinsons patient "feels cured" with new adaptive deep brain stimulation device

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Kevin Hill, who has a computer in his chest linked to a brain implant, says he has his life back.

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New glowing molecule, invented by AI, would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature, scientists say

Flipboard

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature — if nature were capable of producing such a thing.

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Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN

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The ABC analysed 29 million stolen codes to help you avoid using an insecure one.

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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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Apple researchers reveal the secret sauce behind DeepSeek AI

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The AI model that shook the world is part of a broad trend to squeeze more out of chips using what's called sparsity.

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Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod

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A Berkeley AI Research team led by PhD candidate Jiayi Pan has achieved what many thought impossible: reproducing DeepSeek R1-Zero's key technologies for less than the cost of a dinner for two.

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Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believes About A.I.

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A new A.I. model, released by a scrappy Chinese upstart, has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress.

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Has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture

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This Gradient Updates issue goes over the major changes that went into DeepSeeks most recent model.

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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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Why everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek

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It took about a month for the finance world to start freaking out about DeepSeek, but when it did, it took more than half a trillion dollars or one entire Stargate off Nvidias market cap. It wasnt just Nvidia, either: Tesla, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft tanked.

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Boom's XB-1 becomes first civil aircraft to go supersonic

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Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California's Mojave desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break

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Chinese-made DeepSeek AI model records extensive online user data, stores it in China-based servers

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From personal information to hardware specifications to even how you type, DeepSeek says it’s collecting swathes of data from its online users.

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1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek

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DeepSeek-R1 is a blockbuster open-source model that is now at the top of the U.S. App Store.

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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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California’s AG Tells AI Companies Practically Everything They’re Doing Might Be Illegal

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According to a recent legal memo, Silicon Valley's hottest business may be entirely based around criminal activity.

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Machine learning and nano-3D printing produce nano-architected materials

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Research led by Professor Tobin Filleter (MIE) could benefit industries from automotive to aerospace

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Jack Dorsey is back with Goose, a new, ultra simple open source AI agent building platform from his startup Block

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The bird-themed social network Twitters identity may have been X-ed out by new owner Elon Musk, but that isnt stopped one of its co-founders, Jack Dorsey, from taking on new bird names for a new project.

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IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star

Hacker News

The Instituto de Astrofsica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of HD 20794, a nearby Sun-like star. This discovery, the result of over two decades of observations, opens a window to future studies of Earth-like planetary atmospheres.

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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.