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- Resilience and Vibrancy: The 2020 Data & AI Landscape
That’s right, the most used landscape picture got an update! - Why most analytics efforts fail
A step by step process to fix the root causes of most event analytics mistakes - The notebook you’ll love to use
Deepnote is a new kind of data science notebook. Jupyter-compatible with real-time collaboration and easy deployment. - CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster than Python and R
Yes, fread was used for R. - Less scatterbrained scatterplots
Large datasets are difficult to depict as scatterplots — but that may change with a new CSAIL project for creating interactive visualizations. - Inside the strange new world of being a deepfake actor
There’s an art to being a performer whose face will never be seen. - Reddit’s Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street
Professional investors turn to Reddit, Twitter to track retail - NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality. - Machine Learning Engineering (free book)
“If you intend to use machine learning to solve business problems at scale, I’m delighted you got your hands on this book.” - ML Engineer Guide: Feature Store vs Data Warehouse
The feature store is a data warehouse of features for machine learning (ML). - Gradient Boosted Decision Trees
From zero to gradient boosted decision trees - AI Training Method Exceeds GPT-3 Performance with 99.9% Fewer Parameters
“A team of scientists at LMU Munich have developed Pattern-Exploiting Training (PET), a deep-learning training technique for natural language processing (NLP) models. Using PET, the team trained a Transformer NLP model with 223M parameters that out-performed the 175B-parameter GPT-3 by over 3 percentage points on the SuperGLUE benchmark.” - Awful AI
Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI – hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society - Plausible: Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative
Plausible Analytics is a 100% open source web analytics tool. - Web Neural Network API
ANNs in the browser. - Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device To Act Like a Neuron
Analog computing with neuron-like devices could efficiently solve problems traditional computers struggle with - Fourier Filtering
An older idea which goes underutilized for image feature engineering. - modelstore
modelstore is a Python library that allows you to version, export, and save a machine learning models to your filesystem or a cloud storage provider (AWS or GCP).
