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How to Automate Google Sheets?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Google Sheets is one of the most popular and widely used alternatives to Excel. Its collaborative environment offers features such as real-time editing, and version control, and its tight integration with Google Suite which allows you to call Google Sheets in Google Docs, helps to bring the best of the Google workspace. You can […] The post How to Automate Google Sheets?

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Top 5 Machine Learning APIs Practitioners Should Know

KDnuggets

Learn about machine learning APIs for datasets, models, web applications, free GPUs, and text, audio, and image generation.

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What’s new with Databricks SQL

databricks

We are excited to share the latest new features and performance improvements that make Databricks SQL simpler, faster and lower cost than ever.

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How to Import Data in R

KDnuggets

To import data in R, you need to choose the appropriate method based on the data format.

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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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Active Archive Alliance Releases Special Report on Active Archives and AI

insideBIGDATA

The Active Archive Alliance today released a special report, “How Active Archives Support Modern AI Strategies.” New artificial intelligence (AI) workflows are creating massive and persistent volumes of data that necessitate long-term retention and protection. Active archives help make AI workflow data easily accessible, searchable and retrievable on whatever storage platform or media it resides.

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How To Trace Memory Allocation in Python

KDnuggets

This tutorial is an introduction to tracing memory allocation in Python using the built-in tracemalloc module.

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Vizard.ai makes it easy to turn long videos into clips

Dataconomy

Vizard.ai, a new AI-powered tool, offers an easy solution to a common problem. Let’s say you’re a YouTuber and you have long, long videos. But you don’t have time to extract content to YouTube Short. That’s where Vizard.ai comes in. It extracts short snippets from your long videos, creates subtitles, creates content, and even adapts to the format of the platform you’re uploading to.

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Simplified, faster development with new capabilities in Databricks VS Code Extension

databricks

We are excited to announce a set of enhanced capabilities for the Databricks Visual Studio Code Extension: Easily set up your projects built.

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Do Animals Know That They Will Die?

Hacker News

An existential mystery

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Enhancing LLMs with Structured Outputs and Function Calling

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Suppose you are interacting with a friend who is knowledgeable but at times lacks concrete/informed responses or when he/she does not respond fluently when faced with complicated questions. What we are doing here is similar to the prospects that currently exist with Large Language Models. They are very helpful, although their quality and relevance […] The post Enhancing LLMs with Structured Outputs and Function Calling appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to 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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Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules

Hacker News

Europe's top court on Tuesday ruled against Apple in the tech giant's 10-year court battle over its tax affairs in Ireland.

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Retrieval-Augmented Correction of Named Entity Speech Recognition Errors

Machine Learning Research at Apple

In recent years, end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have proven themselves remarkably accurate and performant, but these systems still have a significant error rate for entity names which appear infrequently in their training data. In parallel to the rise of end-to-end ASR systems, large language models (LLMs) have proven to be a versatile tool for various natural language processing (NLP) tasks.

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Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)

Hacker News

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Ad Astro, Astronomer ‘Launches’ Data Orchestration Observability Cloud

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

There is such a high degree of inherent movement within the data universe, so an entire sub-sector of the IT industry has developed to oversee its management.

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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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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

Hacker News

The wealth of India had been a legend in the Mediterranean since the fourth century BC, enhanced by Alexander the Great.

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Why space startups need manufacturing management software for superior performance

Dataconomy

For those who work in the space world, you’ll know only too well about the growing demands for precision and reliability. This goes for every aspect of production. To meet such challenges, space startups are turning to specialist software to keep on top of things. These tools offer a wealth of benefits. From enhancing precision required in spacecraft production to elevating efficiency across the board.

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A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time

Hacker News

Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU cores by optimizing one function and announce trie-hard, the open source crate that we created to do it.

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Making unrefined vs. refined avocado oil, illustrated

FlowingData

For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor and Aaron Steckelberg show the contrast between making unrefined avocado oil, which is more natural, and refined avocado oil, which is more processed. The former is more like pressing a bunch of avocados, whereas the latter is, well, more involved and uses unnatural ingredients. Mostly, I am here for the anthropomorphized seeds, but now I also wonder where the rest of my cooking oils come from.

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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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Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript

Hacker News

(with thanks to René Zandbergen, Ray Clemens, Roger Easton, Claire Bowern, Bill Endres, and the curatorial and conservation staff at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library) I have some exciting news for all of you Voynich fans! But first, some background about multispectral imaging.

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TAI #116; Rise of the Protein Foundation Model; Comparing AlphaProteo, Chai-1, HelixFold3, and AlphaFold-3.

Towards AI

Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie There were plenty of LLM developments again this week, including a new Agent coding product from Replit, an Enterprise LLM platform with a 500k Claude context window at Anthropic, a new Deepseek 2.5 model, and a $1bn seed fundraising by Ilya Sutskever for his new startup.

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Chai-1 Defeats AlphaFold 3

Hacker News

Building AI foundation models to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules, the fundamental building blocks of life.

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Genomics England uses Amazon SageMaker to predict cancer subtypes and patient survival from multi-modal data

AWS Machine Learning Blog

This post is co-written with Francisco Azuaje from Genomics England. Genomics England analyzes sequenced genomes for The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom, and then equips researchers to use data to advance biological research. As part of its goal to help people live longer, healthier lives, Genomics England is interested in facilitating more accurate identification of cancer subtypes and severity, using machine learning (ML).

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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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Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks

Hacker News

FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders' choices.

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How to perform Speaker Diarization in Python

AssemblyAI

Understanding who is speaking when in a given audio recording is critical in extracting useful information from audio recordings and providing valuable end-user experiences. Speaker diarization is a technique used to obtain this information. It works by partitioning an audio file into homogeneous segments, or "utterances", according to speaker identity.

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Jerry Neumann: Resignation Letter

Hacker News

I am no longer investing in new companies.

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The AI Blues

O'Reilly Media

A recent article in Computerworld argued that the output from generative AI systems, like GPT and Gemini, isn’t as good as it used to be. It isn’t the first time I’ve heard this complaint, though I don’t know how widely held that opinion is. But I wonder: is it correct? And why? I think a few things are happening in the AI world. First, developers of AI systems are trying to improve the output of their systems.

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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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Arvo Pärt's Journey

Hacker News

An excerpt from Between Two Sounds, a graphic novel Illustrating the life of world-famous composer Arvo Pärt.

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Location-Driven Retail Insights to Help Navigate Holiday Shopping Shifts

Precisely

As the holiday season approaches, the retail landscape is poised for a significant shift. For retailers, this period is about more than just managing the influx of shoppers; it is about seizing the opportunity to meet customers’ needs and exceed their expectations. With analysis from PlaceIQ’s audiences for the 2024 holiday season, retailers can strategically position themselves to enhance customer engagement and loyalty during the most crucial shopping window of the year.

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Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives

Hacker News

By Steve Harvey. Iron Mountain sounds the alarm: Aging tracks created through an all-digital workflow aren't guaranteed to play back.

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Learn How to Make and Use Pivot Table in Excel

Pickl AI

Summary: Pivot tables in Excel are powerful tools for summarising and analysing large datasets. By arranging data in a tabular format, pivot tables allow users to quickly identify patterns, trends, and relationships within the data. With just a few clicks, pivot tables enable users to generate reports, perform calculations, and gain valuable insights, making Data Analysis more efficient and effective.

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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.