KNNs & K-Means: The Superior Alternative to Clustering & Classification.
Author(s): Surya Maddula Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Let’s discuss two popular ML algorithms, KNNs and K-Means. Stick around; I’ll make this densely packed. P.S. I’m trying out a new …
TAI #115: LLM Adoption Taking Off? OpenAI API Use Up 2x in 5 Weeks, LLama at 350m Downloads.
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, we saw several new LLMs released, including an upgrade to Cohere’s Command R and new Qwen2 models. Outside of LLMs, we also …
Encoding Categorical Data: A Step-by-Step Guide
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine you’re baking a cake, but instead of sugar, flour, and eggs, you have words like “vanilla,” “chocolate,” and “strawberry” on your …
#38 Back to Basics — RAG, Transformers, ML Optimization, and LLM Evaluation.
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, the community and I are answering some recurring questions about RAG, coding assistants, transformers, machine learning, and more. You will also find fun collaboration opportunities and …
Generative AI Certification Test: Our New Launch With Activeloop
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Towards AI, together with our partners at Activeloop and Intel Disruptor Initiative, was one of the first organizations to pioneer high-quality, production-oriented GenAI courses, namely our marquee LangChain & Vector Databases in …
TAI #114: Two Paths to Small LMs? Synthetic Data (Phi 3.5) vs Pruning & Distillation (Llama-3.1-Minitron)
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This was a week for small language models (SLMs) with significant releases from Microsoft and NVIDIA. These new models highlight the growing trend towards …
The Curse of Dimensionality: Why More Isn’t Always Better in Machine Learning
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. In the world of machine learning, you’re often knee-deep in datasets. These datasets could be anything — a collection of housing prices, …
Building Your First Machine Learning Model with Linear Regression Using Ordinary Least Square
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. Let’s deep dive into the math and code it up from scratch This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Suppose you’re on the hunt for a new apartment in …
Querying AI and Cloud Trends: Azure and OpenAI Growth Slows, Amazon Growth Peaked in June
Author(s): Jonathan Bennion Originally published on Towards AI. Cutting through the AI hype to query actual developer usage (as new repos, so with presumptions) for prioritization of safety tools and partnerships. TLDR (with caveats noted below): Public AI repos now appear as …
Why scikit-learn isn’t the Best for Visualizing Decision Trees: Meet dtreeviz
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. Fall in Love with Decision Trees with dtreeviz’s Visualization This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Decision Trees, also known as CART (Classification and Regression Trees), are undoubtedly one …
Simplifying LLM Development: Treat It Like Regular ML
Author(s): Ori Abramovsky Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Daniel K Cheung on Unsplash Large Language Models (LLMs) are the latest buzz, often seen as both exciting and intimidating. Many data scientists I’ve spoken with agree that LLMs represent the …
The Data Science Mentor
Author(s): Alessandro Romano Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Susan Q Yin on Unsplash We all had a mentor. Sometimes, it is a parent or just someone who dropped …
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Python: 3 Powerful Projects You Need to Know
Author(s): Davide Nardini Originally published on Towards AI. Unlock the power of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Python with this comprehensive guide! This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Created with Bing AI Have You Ever Heard …
Attention is all you need: How Transformer Architecture in NLP started.
Author(s): Surya Maddula Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Original Paper: Attention is all you need. AI-Generated Image This was THE paper that introduced Transformer Architecture to NLP. This transformative concept …
Why are Data Scientists Afraid to Use Test Driven Development?
Author(s): Lazar Gugleta Originally published on Towards AI. Software engineering should be one of the primary skills of Data Scientists. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Programming differs from Software Engineering and especially Data Science, but …
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