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5 Free MIT Courses to Learn Math for Data Science

KDnuggets

Learning math is super important for data science. Check out these free courses from MIT to learn linear algebra, statistics, and more.

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Here’s How You Can Fine-tune Llama 2 with Unsloth  

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Training and fine-tuning language models can be complex, especially when aiming for efficiency and effectiveness. One effective approach involves using parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques like low-rank adaptation (LoRA) combined with instruction fine-tuning. This article outlines the key steps and considerations to fine-tune LlaMa 2 large language model using this methodology.

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Pandora’s Box or Lockbox? The Top 3 Barriers to Implementing Generative AI

insideBIGDATA

In this contributed article, Shayde Christian, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Cloudera, discusses issues surrounding the barriers organizations face when it comes to implementing GenAI and how to navigate them.

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Building a Product Discovery API with Gemini Vision Pro, LlamaIndex & FastAPI

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction The rapid expansion of the Generative AI model capabilities enables us to develop many businesses around GenAI. Today’s model not only generates text data but also, with the powerful multi-modal model like GPT-4, Gemini can leverage image data to generate information. This capability has huge potential in the business world such as you can […] The post Building a Product Discovery API with Gemini Vision Pro, LlamaIndex & FastAPI appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.

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Exploring Google’s Latest AI Tools: A Beginner’s Guide

KDnuggets

Check out this beginner's guide to take advantage of Google’s AI tools.

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30 Exciting New Features by Canva

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Canva, a leader in digital content creation, recently held its annual Canva Create 2024 event in Los Angeles. At the event, the company unveiled a suite of innovative features and tools designed to enhance productivity and collaboration across various teams. These updates are set to revolutionize how organizations create and manage visual content.

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Tech Titan Aamod Sathe on AI, Startups, and the Future of Data

Analytics Vidhya

In our recent Leading with Data session, we were thrilled to welcome Aamod Sathe, a data science and analytics leader with nearly two decades of experience. Aamod currently leads the analytics team for MetaWorks under Reality Labs at Meta, where he is helping to build the metaverse and the future of work. With a strong […] The post Tech Titan Aamod Sathe on AI, Startups, and the Future of Data appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Social Impact Using Data and AI: Revealing the 2024 Finalists for the Data For Good Award

databricks

The annual Data Team Awards celebrate the critical contributions of data teams to various sectors, spotlighting their role in driving progress and positive.

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Say Goodbye to Print(): Use Logging Module for Effective Debugging

KDnuggets

Improve your debugging skills with Python's built-in logging module

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How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

Hacker News

Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.

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Building Your BI Strategy: How to Choose a Solution That Scales and Delivers

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Why Software Is Not Like Lightbulbs

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

On the one hand, our applications are getting smarter through their enrichment from artificial intelligence, through their ability to perform more autonomously as a re.

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First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids

Hacker News

A Swiss biocomputing startup has launched an online platform that provides remote access to 16 human brain organoids. FinalSpark’s Neuroplatform is claimed to be the world’s first online platform delivering access to biological neurons in vitro.

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Affine-based Deformable Attention and Selective Fusion for Semi-dense Matching

Machine Learning Research at Apple

This paper was accepted at the Image Matching: Local Features & Beyond workshop at CVPR 2024. Identifying robust and accurate correspondences across images is a fundamental problem in computer vision that enables various downstream tasks. Recent semi-dense matching methods emphasize the effectiveness of fusing relevant cross-view information through Transformer.

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T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4B deal

Hacker News

U.S. Cellular shares soared Tuesday after T-Mobile announced it will acquire most of the company in a deal worth $4.4 billion. It plans to use the wireless company to improve coverage in rural areas.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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Why is YouTube skipping videos to the end?

Dataconomy

In an unexpected twist, YouTube skipping videos to the end has become the latest hurdle for users relying on adblockers. This phenomenon, which has surfaced in recent months, disrupts video playback by abruptly jumping to the video’s conclusion. While some suspect this is YouTube’s tactic to push users towards its Premium service, others argue it might be an unintended glitch in the adblockers themselves.

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API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

Hacker News

Instead of redirecting API calls from HTTP to HTTPS, make the failure visible by either returning a clear HTTP error response or disabling the HTTP interface altogether. Unfortunately, many well-known API providers do not currently do so.

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When feelings of nostalgia peak

FlowingData

YouGov surveyed 2,000 adults asking them when was the best and worst decades for things like movies, fashion, and the economy. For the Washington Post’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam noted that there wasn’t so much a strong lean towards a certain decade as there was a tendency towards people’s age. I think people just want to go back to a time when there was less to worry about and more freedom, which was late childhood and early teens for most.

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The Biggest Bookstore. 10 years after closing, it has a grip on readers

Hacker News

Having everything available at your browsing fingertips felt like a brick-and-mortar Amazon in Toronto, but with smiling staff whose knowledge elevated the experience.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Data protection strategy: Key components and best practices

IBM Journey to AI blog

Virtually every organization recognizes the power of data to enhance customer and employee experiences and drive better business decisions. Yet, as data becomes more valuable, it’s also becoming harder to protect. Companies continue to create more attack surfaces with hybrid models, scattering critical data across cloud, third-party and on-premises locations, while threat actors constantly devise new and creative ways to exploit vulnerabilities.

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Using Parquet's Bloom Filters

Hacker News

In this article, we explore when and how to use Bloom filters in Parquet, their impact on written Parquet files, and measure their effectiveness when dealing with large quantities of high-cardinality data.

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Filter profanity from audio files using Node.js

AssemblyAI

With the explosion of audio and video content available online, it is hard to ensure this content does not include swear words and other profanity. With profanity detection AI models, developers can automatically filter out offensive language at scale. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Node.js to filter profanity from audio files. By the end of this guide, you'll be equipped to implement this functionality in just a few lines of code, enhancing both user experience and conten

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Microsoft, Beihang release MoRA, an efficient LLM fine-tuning technique

Hacker News

MoRA is a new LLM fine-tuning technique that solves some of the problems of other parameter-efficient techniques such as LoRA.

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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Is AI Improving Fairness in the Lending Industry?

Smart Data Collective

Dive into the role of AI in promoting fairness within the lending sector and its transformative effects.

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An Air Quality Model That Is Evolving with the Times

Hacker News

The pioneering Sulfur Transport and Deposition Model, initially designed to simulate atmospheric sulfur, continues to find new applications and value in environmental science and policymaking.

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The Rising Tide of Women’s NCAA Basketball: A Boom for Retailers

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The Growing Allure of Women’s NCAA Basketball Each March, the fervor around NCAA basketball reaches a fever pitch, drawing massive TV audiences and creating a flurry of commercial opportunities. This excitement amplifies when standout players and top teams make their way into the final rounds. The burgeoning interest in the women’s division presents unique opportunities for retailers to engage with an enthusiastic and expanding fan base.

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Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

Hacker News

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to engage in a mobile ecosystemoutside of the watchful eye of the Big Tech giants and gatekeepers? A systemthat.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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How Bonito helps fine-tune specialized LLMs faster than ever

Snorkel AI

Fine-tuning large language models for specialized domains and tasks demands a lot of time and cost—and often requires a lot of manual human labeling. That’s why I and my fellow students and advisors at Brown developed Bonito: we wanted to make this process faster, cheaper, and easier. Bonito converts unannotated text from specialized domains into synthetic instruction-tuning datasets.

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USB disk as /dev/sda on a not-rooted smartphone using Termux, QEMU, Alpine Linux

Hacker News

Reading and writing a USB drive connected to a Linux server using Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, and QEMU on a smartphone that is not rooted - note-after-note-2024-may-19-termux-usbredirect-qemu.

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phData Achieves Elite Partner Status with Coalesce

phData

We are proud to announce that phData has achieved Elite Partner Status with Coalesce , a leader in data transformation technology. As an Elite Partner, phData has demonstrated exceptional proficiency and success in leveraging Coalesce’s data transformation platform to drive impactful business. In other words, we’ve accomplished some incredible things together for our mutual clients and have taken our partnership to the next level.

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Orcas are still smashing up boats – and we've worked out why

Hacker News

For four years now, orcas have been ramming and sinking luxury yachts in European waters, and scientists have struggled to work out just why these smart, social animals had learnt this destructive new trick. But, sadly, it's not their anticapitalist 'eat the rich' agenda, nor is it to do with territory and aggression. The truth is, well, it's child's play.

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.