AI: What the Heck is “Context Engineering”…
Author(s): Charles Thayer Originally published on Towards AI. tl;dr Context Engineering =~ Agent-tools-use + RAG (+ memory++) Prompt Engineer is to LLMs as Context Engineering is to Agents What does this mean practically for AI software engineers Background This year, so far, …
The Hidden Pitfalls of Elasticsearch Terms Aggregation (and How to Fix Them)
Author(s): Rafay Qayyum Originally published on Towards AI. 1. Introduction Elasticsearch’s terms aggregation is commonly used for faceted search, top-N lists, and grouping data by field values, much like GROUP BY in SQL. It’s powerful and fast, but has several hidden limitations. …
BLIP-2 : How Transformers Learn to ‘See’ and Understand Images
Author(s): Arnavbhatt Originally published on Towards AI. This is a step-by-step walkthrough of how an image moves through BLIP-2: from raw pixels → frozen Vision Transformer (ViT) → Q-Former → final query representations that get fed into a language model. You’ll understand …
Lights, Camera, Algorithm: I Gave 3 AI Tools the Same Input and Got 3 Different Films
Author(s): Sophia Banton Originally published on Towards AI. Among GenAI tools, nothing is more fascinating for AI enthusiasts and those who are warming up to AI than AI video generation. While image generation is impressive, video models turn ideas into animated reality, …
The Whole Story of MDP in RL
Author(s): Rem E Originally published on Towards AI. I’ve mentioned MDP (Markov Decision Process) several times, and it frequently appears in RL. But what exactly is an MDP, and why is it so important in RL? We’ll explore that together in this …
Cracking The AI Challenge: Evidence From The Academy
Author(s): Dor Meir Originally published on Towards AI. MODELING MADE SIMPLE Image by the author. When I joined my recent company, almost five years ago, my boss told me that an AI project is like a puzzle: “Each project presents a challenge, …
How AI is Transforming Programming: A Developer’s Guide to Enhanced Workflows
Author(s): Michalzarnecki Originally published on Towards AI. This article gives overview of AI-based tools and techniques that support programmers work and explains how to leverage artificial intelligence to boost your productivity across every stage of the software development lifecycle. if you are …
Pipelines to Prompts: Getting started with Databricks and AWS
Author(s): Devi Originally published on Towards AI. A Beginner’s Guide to Building GenAI Applications from Raw Data Using Databricks and AWS As with my other blogs, we start with the theory, practice, and wrap up with some lessons learnt. NAVIGATION: Why Data …
How I Built AI Agents That Actually Help Evaluate Private Companies
Author(s): Jitesh Prasad Gurav Originally published on Towards AI. Why I Started This Journey As someone who's spent years working with private company evaluations, I've always been frustrated by the same recurring problems. No matter how smart the analysts or how much …
How Are LLMs Trained: For Engineers
Author(s): Harsh Chandekar Originally published on Towards AI. In late 2022, ChatGPT burst onto the scene, igniting a global frenzy around artificial intelligence. This remarkable success, however, brought to light a significant challenge: the immense computational demands of large language models (LLMs) …
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