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JANUARY 9, 2025

Five years ago, I was a data science beginner learning the ropes. If I could start anew in 2025, here's what I would do.

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Flipboard

JANUARY 6, 2025

AI is merely one facet of a sweeping technological change underway, and companies that fail to recognize the importance of other converging technologies risk being left behind. Two other technologies advanced sensors and biotechnology are less visible, though no less important, and have been quietly advancing. Soon, the convergence of these three technologies is going to underpin a new reality that will shape the future decisions of every leader across industries.

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Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

JANUARY 7, 2025

Bring your own cloud is a deployment model that enables a business to host applications and data in their own cloud accounts with zero access from the cloud vendor.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 6, 2025

Kickstart your data engineering career with an expert guide available on GitHub.

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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?

Data Science Dojo

JANUARY 8, 2025

Evaluating the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) is an important and necessary step in refining it. LLMs are used in solving many different problems ranging from text classification and information extraction. Choosing the correct metrics to measure the performance of an LLM can greatly increase the effectiveness of the model. In this blog, we will explore one such crucial metric the F1 score.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 6, 2025

In the era of AI, chatbots have revolutionized how we interact with technology. Perhaps one of the most impactful uses is in the healthcare industry. Chatbots are able to deliver fast, accurate information, and help individuals more effectively manage their health. In this article, we’ll learn how to develop a medical chatbot using Gemini 2.0, […] The post Building a Medical Chatbot with Gemini 2.0, Flask and Vector Embedding appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 9, 2025

Curious about what LLMs are and want to know about them? Explore the Full Guide Right Here, Right Now!

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JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2021, researchers at MIT and McKinsey teamed up to ask more than 100 companies how they were using AI in their operations and to learn what separated the highest-performing companies from the rest. They conducted a similar survey in 2023 to see what had changed. They found that the gap between leading companies and the rest had widened; that the payback-period for AI investments was much shorter; and that leading companies were better at identifying and implementing use cases that delivered p

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 7, 2025

For me, 2024 has been a year when I was not just using LLMs for content generation but also understanding their internal working. In this quest to learn about LLMs, RAG and more, I discovered the potential of AI Agentsautonomous systems capable of executing tasks and making decisions with minimal human intervention. Going back to […] The post 7 Agentic RAG System Architectures to Build AI Agents appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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databricks

JANUARY 10, 2025

SELECT 'Hello world!' COLLATE UNICODE, 'Zdravo svete!' COLLATE SR, ' , !' COLLATE EL, ', !' COLLATE RU, ', !' COLLATE ZH, 'Bonjour.

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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!

KDnuggets

JANUARY 10, 2025

This guide highlights the importance of container monitoring, key metrics to track, and tools ranging from Docker's built-in commands to comprehensive systems like Prometheus and Grafana.

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Machine Learning Mastery

JANUARY 8, 2025

Introduction Training large language models (LLMs) is an involved process that requires planning, computational resources, and domain expertise. Data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and AI engineers alike can fall into common training or fine-tuning patterns that could compromise a model’s performance or scalability.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. Its changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

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databricks

JANUARY 7, 2025

Aon plc is a leading global firm providing risk, reinsurance, retirement, and health solutions. Focusing on data-driven insights, Aon operates in over 120.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 8, 2025

Element-wise operations are a crucial part of data preprocessing in Pandas. Learn how to perform them with practical examples using the DataFrame.map() function.

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JANUARY 10, 2025

X has become a testing ground for Musks AI ambitions. When Elon Musk launched his own AI startup, xAI, he touted a key advantage over his competitors: access to the vast trove of data from his newly acquired social media platform Twitter.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 10, 2025

A Rest of World analysis shows Starlinks low prices and broad availability are challenging traditional ISPs across Africa.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 7, 2025

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) is an essential technique for customizing LLMs for specific needs, such as adopting a particular writing style or focusing on a specific domain. OpenAI and Google AI Studio are two major platforms offering tools for this purpose, each with distinct features and workflows. In this article, we will examine how […] The post Fine-tuning an LLM to Write Like You on OpenAI Platform vs Google AI Studio appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 7, 2025

Do you want to learn data wrangling with Python on a budget? No worries, there are (at least) five free courses thatll provide you with solid knowledge.

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Flipboard

JANUARY 10, 2025

Microsoft has taken legal action against a group the company claims intentionally developed and used tools to bypass the safety guardrails of its cloud AI products. According to a complaint filed by the company in December in the U.S.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing more than 170 people, stopped working minutes before it exploded on the runway, investigators said Saturday.

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databricks

JANUARY 7, 2025

At Databricks, our automation vision is to automate all aspects of the business, making it better, faster, and cheaper. For the sales teams.

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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.

KDnuggets

JANUARY 8, 2025

This article shows how to use Great Expectations to check data quality in data science projects.

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Flipboard

JANUARY 10, 2025

The world's most powerful supercomputer was officially dedicated in California Thursday, with the CEOs of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and AMD on hand

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Hacker News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.

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insideBIGDATA

JANUARY 7, 2025

Nvidia issued its anticipated raft of news at CES this week, heres an overview of announcements for the HPC-AI sector: Mega Omniverse Blueprint for Industrial Robot Fleet Digital Twins The company said Mega is an omniverse framework for next-gen industrial AI and robot simulation through software-defined testing and optimization of factories and warehouses.

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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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KDnuggets

JANUARY 8, 2025

In this article, Im going to share data science project ideas that will actually help you stand out. These are creative projects that solve problems with data, and Ive included source code and tutorials to help you replicate them.

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Flipboard

JANUARY 10, 2025

But actual autonomous AI weapons systems are much more terrifying.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 9, 2025

This is a cross-post from DEVCORE. The research was first published at Black Hat Europe 2024.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 9, 2025

According to a World Economic Forum survey, 41% of global firms plan to implement workforce reductions by 2030 as a result of advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). The survey indicates a trend toward significant workforce changes as companies look to integrate AI into their strategies between 2025 and 2030. The World Economic Forums Future of Jobs Report reveals that 77% of the surveyed companies intend to retrain and upskill their existing workforce to work alongside AI systems.

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