What Really Makes Cars Pollute? A Data Science Deep Dive into CO₂ Emissions
Author(s): Sai Bhargav Rallapalli Originally published on Towards AI. How I built a 98.8% accurate prediction model — and discovered that the “cleanest” fuel is hiding a dirty secret When the Global Automotive Council wants to reduce vehicle emissions, where do they …
Training GPT-2 From Scratch on a GTX1050
Author(s): malrsapps Originally published on Towards AI. Training GPT-2 From Scratch on a GTX1050 This project started with curiosity rather than a clear plan. I wanted to understand how language models were actually trained and whether it was possible to build and …
Principal Component Analysis (PCA): Theory, Mathematics, and Applications
Author(s): Praveen Bhavani Originally published on Towards AI. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the most widely used techniques for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction. PCA transforms correlated variables into a smaller set of uncorrelated variables called principal components, while preserving …
Build a Zero-Cost Web Automation Pipeline With OpenRouter, OpenClaw, and MediaUse
Author(s): yooiken Originally published on Towards AI. Build a Zero-Cost Web Automation Pipeline With OpenRouter, OpenClaw, and MediaUse I have become less interested in whether a cheap model can “browse the web” and more interested in whether it can run a boring …
I Gave Qwen3.7-Plus a Screenshot and It Found the Exact Pixel to Click for $0.40
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. I Gave Qwen3.7-Plus a Screenshot and It Found the Exact Pixel to Click for $0.40 I uploaded a messy AWS console screenshot and asked one question: which pixel do I …
Beyond the Prompt: Why Autonomous AI Agents Are Replacing the Chatbot
Author(s): Suchit Majumdar Originally published on Towards AI. Beyond the Prompt: Why Autonomous AI Agents Are Replacing the Chatbot In May 2025, Sebastian Siemiatkowski — the same Klarna CEO who fifteen months earlier had told the world that one OpenAI-powered assistant was …
Moonshot Cracked Claude Code’s Playbook with an MIT Terminal Agent and a $0.60 Model
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. Why this matters right now A Chinese lab just shipped a terminal coding agent that does almost everything Claude Code does, released the entire thing under the MIT license, and …
Connections, Roles, and Warehouses: Getting CoCo Desktop Production-Ready from Day One
Author(s): Satish Kumar Originally published on Towards AI. Connections, Roles, and Warehouses: Getting CoCo Desktop Production-Ready from Day One Snowflake COCO Desktop| Part 1 of 8 There’s a moment every data engineer hits when first opening Snowflake’s CoCo Desktop: the welcome screen …
My First $5,000 Month Writing About AI Engineering on Medium
Author(s): Anubhav Originally published on Towards AI. My First $5,000 Month Writing About AI Engineering on Medium In May, my Medium earnings crossed $5,000 from writing about AI engineering. A month earlier, the same account had done 10.9K views. Two months earlier, …
Google Shrank Gemma 4 by 72% and Unsloth Fixed the 4-Bit Bug Nobody Else Caught on One 4090, and 4-Bit Shouldn’t Be This Good
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. Google Shrank Gemma 4 by 72% and Unsloth Fixed the 4-Bit Bug Nobody Else Caught on One 4090, and 4-Bit Shouldn't Be This Good A 26-billion-parameter model has no business …
LangChain Explained: Understanding Models, Prompts, Chains, Memory, Indexes, and Agents
Author(s): Atul Kumar Originally published on Towards AI. LangChain Explained: Understanding Models, Prompts, Chains, Memory, Indexes, and Agents Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT, Gemini, and Claude have made it easier than ever to build intelligent applications. However, developing production-ready AI …
TOON: Beyond JSON for LLMs
Author(s): Sourav Ghosh Originally published on Towards AI. Is JSON Finally Getting a Token-Efficient Alternative for LLMs? For years, JSON has been the default language for APIs, integrations, configuration files, event payloads, and all other types of application-to-application communications. It is an …
How to Master Claude Cowork: 10 Techniques You Need to Know
Author(s): Neyzis Originally published on Towards AI. How to Master Claude Cowork: 10 Techniques You Need to Know When you upgrade to a paid plan, Claude gives you three distinct tabs. Chat is the standard in-app back-and-forth with no access to your …
Two LLMs, One GPU, and a Smart Router: Building an Agentic Stack on Kubernetes
Author(s): Renjith Ravindranathan Originally published on Towards AI. A walkthrough of vLLM, the Semantic Router, and Agentgateway — with all the bits the docs leave out. I’ve been obsessed with one question lately: can I run a real, production-shaped agentic stack on …
The Best AI Agent Predicts Future World Events at 25% Accuracy.
Author(s): Dr Swarneendu AI Originally published on Towards AI. FutureSim replays real-world news events in chronological order and asks agents to predict what happens next. The Brier skill score for most agents is negative. Negative means worse than a coin flip. Every …