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Qlik meets user needs with realistic approach to generative AI – TechTarget
While some vendors fed the hype, Qlik took a pragmatic approach to generative AI. The business analytics vendor considered its existing capabilities when generative AI surged in popularity following OpenAI's release of ChatGPT in late 2022. It considered its customers' needs
Exploring RAG Applications Across Languages: Conversing with the Mishnah – Towards Data Science
15 min read Im excited to share my journey of building a unique Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application for interacting with rabbinic texts in this post.
Principal Foundation and EVERFI from Blackbaud Reach 26,000 U.S. Students with Growing National Data Science … – PR Newswire
DataSetGo, a first-of-its-kind digital curriculum, is opening doors to data science careers at more than 400 schools, with $50,000 in recent awards to those who show promise in the field DES MOINES, Iowa, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Principal Foundation, a global nonprofit organization committed to helping people and communities build financially secure futures, and EVERFI from Blackbaud, the leader in powering social impact through education, announce the second and biggest year of DataSetGo, a first-of-its-kind interactive digital curriculum that teaches high school students the fundamentals of data science and its value in daily life, the workforce, and the world. Since its inception in 2022, DataSetGo has reached over 26,000 high school students in over 400 schools throughout the U.S. In the 2023-2024 academic year, the program reached over 17,000 new students and 200 additional schools across ten states, including New York, Texas, and California
The One Billion Row Challenge in Julia | by Vikas Negi | Jun, 2024 – Towards Data Science
A recent release of Julia such as 1.10 is recommended. For those wanting to use a notebook, the repository shared above also contains a Pluto file, for which Pluto.jl needs to be installed. The input data file for the challenge is unique for everyone and needs to be generated using this Python script.
Hridesh Rajan named new dean of Tulane University School of Science and Engineering – Tulane University
June 03, 2024 12:00 PM | Hridesh Rajan, Kingland professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, has been named the new dean of Tulane University's School of Science and Engineering. A distinguished scholar and innovative leader, Hridesh brings an impressive breadth of knowledge and experience to this vital role
Understanding You Only Cache Once | by Matthew Gunton | Jun, 2024 – Towards Data Science
To understand the changes made here, we first need to discuss the Key-Value Cache. Inside of the transformer we have 3 vectors that are critical for attention to work key, value, and query. From a high level, attention is how we pass along critical information about the previous tokens to the current token so that it can predict the next token
Effective Strategies for Managing ML Initiatives | by Anna Via | Jun, 2024 – Towards Data Science
Embracing uncertainty, right people, and learning from the data Picture by Cottonbro, on Pexels This blog post is an updated version of part of a conference talk I gave at GOTO Amsterdam last year.
Neo4j Announces Collaboration with Snowflake for Advanced AI Insights & Predictive Analytics USA – English – PR Newswire
Neo4j knowledge graphs, graph algorithms, and ML tools are fully integrated within Snowflake - with zero ETL & requiring no specialist graph expertise SAN FRANCISCO, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Graph database and analytics leader Neo4j today announced at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024, a partnership with Snowflake to bring its fully integrated native graph data science solution within Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
Linear Attention Is All You Need. Self-attention at a fraction of the | by Sam Maddrell-Mander | Jun, 2024 – Towards Data Science
This is the kind of thing anyone whos spent much time working with transformers and self-attention will have heard a hundred times. Its both absolutely true, weve all experienced this as you try to increase the context size of your model everything suddenly comes to a grinding halt
10 Essential DevOps Tools Every Beginner Should Learn – KDnuggets
DevOps (Development Operations) and MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) are almost the same and share a wide variety of tools. As a DevOps engineer, you will deploy, maintain, and monitor applications, whereas as an MLOps engineer, you deploy, manage, and motor manufacturing models into production