December, 2024

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2024’s Biggest Moments in AI

KDnuggets

2024 has been yet another groundbreaking year for AI, with major breakthroughs, industry shifts, and ethical challenges shaping its future. Let's uncover together the key moments that defined AI this year about to finalize.

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7 Projects to Master Data Engineering

KDnuggets

Learn to build, run, and manage data engineering pipelines both locally and in the cloud using popular tools.

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NetApp’s 2024 Data Complexity Report Reveals AI’s Make or Break Year Ahead

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NetApp(NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, released its second annualData Complexity Report, which examines how global organizations are navigating the increasing complexity of managing their data for AI.

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10 Python Libraries Every Developer Should Know

KDnuggets

In this article, we’ll go over Python libraries for tasks like logging, unit testing, data handling, and more — each with features that can simplify your application development.

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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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The Name That Broke ChatGPT: Who is David Mayer?

Cassie Kozyrkov

AI, privacy, human bias, prompting, the future of content, and how to hack a chatbot Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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AI in Construction: Tackling Fragmented Data with Intelligent Solutions

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In this contributed article, Omar Zhandarbekuly, co-founder at Surfaice.pro, explores how AI particularly knowledge graphs, generative AI, and agentic AIcan bridge these gaps, transforming construction processes into streamlined, intelligent standalone systems.

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Data Augmentation: A Comprehensive Guide

Data Science Dojo

Let’s suppose youre training a machine learning model to detect diseases from X-rays. Your dataset contains only 1,000 imagesa number too small to capture the diversity of real-world cases. Limited data often leads to underperforming models that overfit and fail to generalize well. It seems like an obstacle – until you discover data augmentation.

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Top 13 AI Conferences to Attend in 2025

Data Science Dojo

In the ever-evolving world of data science , staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Attending AI conferences is one of the best ways to gain insights into the latest trends, network with industry leaders, and enhance your skills. As we look forward to 2025, several AI conferences promise to deliver cutting-edge knowledge and unparalleled networking opportunities.

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Andrej Karpathy Praises DeepSeek V3’s Frontier LLM, Trained on a $6M Budget

Analytics Vidhya

Last year, the DeepSeek LLM made waves with its impressive 67 billion parameters, meticulously trained on an expansive dataset of 2 trillion tokens in English and Chinese comprehension. Setting new benchmarks for research collaboration, DeepSeek ingrained the AI community by open-sourcing both its 7B/67B Base and Chat models. Now, what if I tell you there […] The post Andrej Karpathy Praises DeepSeek V3s Frontier LLM, Trained on a $6M Budget appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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How to Implement Image Captioning with Vision Transformer (ViT) and Hugging Face Transformers

KDnuggets

A beginners guide to getting started with image captioning models with HuggingFace.

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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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Crusoe Closes $600M in Series D Round at $2.8 Billion Valuation to Power AI

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Crusoe, the vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, announced it has closed a $600 million Series D funding round. The investment was led by Founders Fund, with participation from new and existing investors, including Fidelity, Long Journey Ventures, Mubadala, NVIDIA, Ribbit Capital, and Valor Equity Partners.

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Secure External Access to Unity Catalog Assets via Open APIs

databricks

We're excited to announce the Public Preview of credential vending for Unity Catalogs open APIs, allowing external clients to securely access Unity Catalog.

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Accelerating LLM Inference on NVIDIA GPUs with ReDrafter

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Accelerating LLM inference is an important ML research problem, as auto-regressive token generation is computationally expensive and relatively slow, and improving inference efficiency can reduce latency for users. In addition to ongoing efforts to accelerate inference on Apple silicon, we have recently made significant progress in accelerating LLM inference for the NVIDIA GPUs widely used for production applications across the industry.

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What is Overparameterization in LLMs? From Overfitting Myths to Power Laws!

Data Science Dojo

What is similar between a child learning to speak and an LLM learning the human language? They both learn from examples and available information to understand and communicate. For instance, if a child hears the word ‘apple’ while holding one, they slowly associate the word with the object. Repetition and context will refine their understanding over time, enabling them to use the word correctly.

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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 Future For Software In 2025

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

Aside from the definable world of software code and its evolutionary path, well also spend more time next year on developer, user and all-stakeholder wellbeing.

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Job Hunting in 2025: What You Need to Know

KDnuggets

This is a quick shortlist to make sure youre ticking off the essentials for your job hunt in 2025.

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KNIME Releases AI Companion to Drive Smarter Collaboration with AI

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KNIME, the open source data analytics and AI company, announced the launch of its AI companion K-AI to all users. With K-AI, users can co-create powerful data workflows with AI. K-AI will answer questions, make recommendations, and extend or build whole data workflows based on user prompts.

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Strategic Priorities for Data and AI Leaders in 2025

databricks

AI remains at the forefront of every business leaders plans for 2025. Overall, 70% of businesses continue to believe AI is critical to.

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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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Marco-o1: Redefining LLMs with Advanced Reasoning

Analytics Vidhya

Generative AI has often faced criticism for its inability to reason effectively, particularly in scenarios requiring precise and deterministic outputs. Barely predicting the next token has proven to be very tough when the next token has to be as exact as being a single option. For instance, writing an essay can take a thousand forms and […] The post Marco-o1: Redefining LLMs with Advanced Reasoning appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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ARMADA: Augmented Reality for Robot Manipulation and Robot-Free Data Acquisition

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Teleoperation for robot imitation learning is bottlenecked by hardware availability. Can high-quality robot data be collected without a physical robot? We present a system for augmenting Apple Vision Pro with real-time virtual robot feedback. By providing users with an intuitive understanding of how their actions translate to robot motions, we enable the collection of natural barehanded human data that is compatible with the limitations of physical robot hardware.

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Red Hat Details Vision For AI, Casts Foundations In Granite

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI is a foundation model platform for developing, testing and running generative artificial intelligence models for enterprise applications.

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How to Use Docker for Local Development Environments

KDnuggets

Using Docker for local development brings stability, flexibility, and ease of management of the environment. No matter what operating system you're using. Learn how to use Docker on Windows, Linux, and macOS to simplify your development setup, from creating your first container to managing complex environments with Docker Compose.

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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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Capital One Survey Around AI Readiness

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A new Capital Onesurvey"AI readiness survey: Are companies ready for AI adoption?" found that 87% of business leaders see their data ecosystem as ready to build and deploy AI at scale, yet 70% of technical practitioners spend hours daily fixing data issues.

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Streamline AI Agent Evaluation with New Synthetic Data Capabilities

databricks

Our customers continue to shift from monolithic prompts with general-purpose models to specialized agent systems to achieve the quality needed to drive ROI.

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Corrective RAG (CRAG) in Action

Analytics Vidhya

Retrieval-Augmented Generation is a technique that enhances the capabilities of large language models by integrating information retrieval processes into their operation. This approach allows LLMs to pull in relevant data from external knowledge bases, ensuring that the responses generated are more accurate, up-to-date, and contextually relevant. Corrective RAG (CRAG) is an advanced strategy within the […] The post Corrective RAG (CRAG) in Action appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Strategic Linear Contextual Bandits

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Motivated by the phenomenon of strategic agents gaming a recommendation system to maximize the number of times they are recommended to users, we study a strategic variant of the linear contextual bandit problem, where the arms strategically misreport privately observed contexts to the learner. % under strategic context manipulation. We treat the algorithm design problem as one of emph{mechanism design} under uncertainty and propose the Optimistic Grim Trigger Mechanism (OptGTM) that minimizes re

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Pinecone Spruces Up AI Knowledge Platform

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

As an AI infrastructure company that now provides a platform for inference, retrieval and knowledge base management, Pinecone says it is setting a new standard.

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15 Useful Python One-Liners for String Manipulation

KDnuggets

In this article, we'll explore 15 Python one-liners that make string manipulation not just efficient but also fun.

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Tuskira Emerges from Stealth with $28.5M to Launch AI-Powered Unified Threat Defense Platform

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Tuskira, a pioneering threat defense platform leveraging an AI-powered security mesh, has launched out of stealth mode with $28.5 million in funding. The round was led by Intel Capital and SYN Ventures, with participation from Sorenson Capital, Rain Capital, Wipro Ventures, and other key industry leaders.

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Introducing Git Support for Queries in Databricks

databricks

Were excited to announce the Public Preview of Query Git integration as part of the new SQL Editor. Git support for queries.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.