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Innovations in Analytics: Elevating Data Quality with GenAI

Towards AI

Last Updated on October 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Jonas Dieckmann Originally published on Towards AI. Data analytics has become a key driver of commercial success in recent years. The ability to turn large data sets into actionable insights can mean the difference between a successful campaign and missed opportunities. However, data quality is still a major challenge: if the data that is fed into a model lacks quality/consistency, the resulting output will also be of low quality.

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Survey Finds Over Half of AI Startup Founders Are Using Four Or More Foundational Models

insideBIGDATA

Costanoa Ventures, a boutique early-stage B2B venture capital firm, released findings from a survey of founders building in the AI space, "Building an AI-Native Startup," offering a snapshot of the AI-native startup ecosystem. The survey includes insights into how founders building in AI approach hiring AI talent, the tools they use, and the challenges that keep them up at night.

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When to Go Out and When to Stay In: RAG vs. Fine-tuning

KDnuggets

This article presents a comprehensive discussion of when to choose which approach for your LLM and potential hybrid solutions.

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On Device Llama 3.1 with Core ML

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Many app developers are interested in building on device experiences that integrate increasingly capable large language models (LLMs). Running these models locally on Apple silicon enables developers to leverage the capabilities of the user's device for cost-effective inference, without sending data to and from third party servers, which also helps protect user privacy.

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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 Fine-Tune T5 for Question Answering Tasks with Hugging Face Transformers

KDnuggets

Fine-tuning the T5 model for question answering tasks is simple with Hugging Face Transformers: provide the model with questions and context, and it will learn to generate the correct answers.

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10 Python One-Liners That Will Boost Your Data Science Workflow

Machine Learning Mastery

Python is the most popular data science programming language, as it’s versatile and has a lot of support from the community. With so much usage, there are many ways to improve our data science workflow that you might not know.

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Free Data and AI Courses with 365 Data Science—Unlimited Access until Nov 21

Machine Learning Mastery

Sponsored Content From November 1st to November 21st, 2024 (8:00 am UTC), 365 Data Science offers free access to its comprehensive learning platform. This is.

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DeepL to Debut NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 Systems in Europe

insideBIGDATA

The purchase — the biggest yet for DeepL — is among first NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 systems and will fuel DeepL’s industry-leading Language AI platform DeepL, a leading global Language AI company, today announced it will be among the first to commercially deploy the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 systems.

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Claude for Desktop

Hacker News

Download Claude for your desktop or mobile device.

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I just tested Google vs ChatGPT search — and I’m shocked by the results

Flipboard

With OpenAI’s new real-time search feature, ChatGPT is positioning itself as a competitor to traditional search engines like Google.

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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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Elite School Will Offer a Day Off for Students Distressed by Election

Hacker News

Attendance on Wednesday, or whatever day the results are announced, is optional for high school students at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City, families were told.

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Fashion models step aside as AI glam bots join them in ads: ‘It’s about faster content creation’

Flipboard

Meet the faces of the future.

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Bayesian Yacht Sinking

Hacker News

A Times investigation has found that an unusually tall mast, and the design changes it required, made a superyacht owned by a British tech mogul vulnerable to capsizing.

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7 Gartner trends for CIOs to watch in 2025 and beyond

Flipboard

The analyst firm used this year's trends list to spotlight the role of AI in the enterprise, especially as vendors change how AI agents are delivered.

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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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Microsoft just delayed Recall again

Hacker News

Microsoft needs more time to work on Recall.

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Automatically Research Anybody with ChatGPT and Perplexity

Flipboard

AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, combined with automation software Make, to research individuals efficiently.

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Sugar Rationing Lowered Diabetes and Hypertension in British Children

Hacker News

British data shows that children conceived and born during a period of sugar rationing were less likely to develop diabetes or high blood pressure later in life.

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Create a generative AI–powered custom Google Chat application using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

AWS offers powerful generative AI services , including Amazon Bedrock , which allows organizations to create tailored use cases such as AI chat-based assistants that give answers based on knowledge contained in the customers’ documents, and much more. Many businesses want to integrate these cutting-edge AI capabilities with their existing collaboration tools, such as Google Chat, to enhance productivity and decision-making processes.

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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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Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk

Hacker News

This is the government's strongest stance yet on software security, which puts manufacturers on notice: fix dangerous coding practices or risk being labeled as negligent.

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7 best transcript summarizers powered by AI

AssemblyAI

The transition to online communication—from sales calls to internal meetings to educational coursework—has created significant opportunities for new AI-powered tools and platforms that help individuals fully use all this digital data.  One predominant AI feature that has risen in popularity is AI-powered transcript summarizers. In addition to providing an immediate transcript of a virtual meeting or lecture (using AI speech-to-text ), AI transcript summarizers can summarize th

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A Week of Failing to Pay with Bitcoin in El Salvador

Hacker News

When President Nayib Bukele promised that bitcoin would be accepted everywhere in El Salvador, it seemed like a glimpse into the future—a world where

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Snapdragon Summit Showcases Qualcomm’s Vision Of AI-First Experiences

MoorInsights for Forbes

At its showcase event in Hawaii, Qualcomm focused on its new wireless networking platform, Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC and AI functions in edge, automotive and other settings.

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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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Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software

Hacker News

By Artur Cygan Fuzzing—one of the most successful techniques for finding security bugs, consistently featured in articles and industry conferences—has become so popular that you may think most important software has already been extensively fuzzed. But that’s not always the case.

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Halloween Candy Ratings by Cost and Love

FlowingData

This is very important. How did your favorite candy rate? The old FiveThirtyEight ran a head-to-head between Halloween candies years ago. I used the data for the above, which should be taken very seriously.

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The Varieties of Mystical Experience

Hacker News

Simon Critchley seeks to say the unsayable – Elvia Wilk

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Accelerate custom labeling workflows in Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth without using AWS Lambda

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth enables the creation of high-quality, large-scale training datasets, essential for fine-tuning across a wide range of applications, including large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. By integrating human annotators with machine learning, SageMaker Ground Truth significantly reduces the cost and time required for data labeling.

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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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Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

Hacker News

“The goal is to complete the password updates by this evening,” government says.

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Stock Prices: Predictable Patterns or Pure Chance?

Towards AI

Author(s): Shenggang Li Originally published on Towards AI. Statistical Analysis of Stock Market Trends Across Bull and Bear Phases, Uncovering When and How Market Conditions Shape Predictability This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Helena Hertz on Unsplash Are stock prices truly random, or do hidden patterns surface under certain conditions?

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Sorry, Gas Companies – Parody Isn't Infringement (Even If It Creeps You Out)

Hacker News

Activism comes in many forms. You might hold a rally, write to Congress, or fly a blimp over the NSA. Or you might use a darkly hilarious parody to make your point, like our client Modest Proposals recently did. Modest Proposals is an activist collective that uses parody and culture jamming to.

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Uniform flair on the rise in NBA basketball games

FlowingData

In NBA basketball, the home team used to almost always wear a white uniform and the away team would wear a non-white uniform that matched one of their team colors. Now it’s kind of all over the place. I assume it’s because Nike wanted to sell more jerseys. For The Pudding, Tyler Machado quantified the shift by manually counting uniform usage during the 2013-14 season and comparing it against data from last season collected via NBA LockerVision.

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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.