TDS Newsletter: December Must-Reads on GraphRAG, Data Contracts, and More
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3 Questions: How AI could optimize the power grid
Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging electricity usage of data centers that…
Zcash devs unveil ‘cashZ’ wallet after exiting Electric Coin Co
Employees who left the Electric Coin Company en masse on Wednesday are launching a new Zcash wallet, citing the need…
Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather
Every autumn, as the Northern Hemisphere moves toward winter, Judah Cohen starts to piece together a complex atmospheric puzzle. Cohen,…
Zcash governance in turmoil: How low can ZEC price go?
Zcash’s technical and fundamental catalysts raise the odds of ZEC price declining to as low as $200 in the coming…
Beyond Prompting: The Power of Context Engineering
Using ACE to create self-improving LLM workflows and structured playbooks The post Beyond Prompting: The Power of Context Engineering appeared…
Retrieval for Time-Series: How Looking Back Improves Forecasts
Why Retrieval Helps in Time Series Forecasting We all know how it goes: Time-series data is tricky. Traditional forecasting models…
How to Improve the Performance of Visual Anomaly Detection Models
Apply the best methods from academia to get the most out of practical applications The post How to Improve the…
Faster Is Not Always Better: Choosing the Right PostgreSQL Insert Strategy in Python (+Benchmarks)
PostgreSQL is fast. Whether your Python code can or should keep up depends on context. This article compares and benchmarks…
XRP ETFs notch first outflows as nearly $600M exits Bitcoin, Ether funds
XRP ETFs logged their first net outflow day since launch, breaking a multi-week inflow streak after more than $1 billion…
Memecoin social buzz grows as traders return to risk assets
Memecoins fell 65% over 2025 as risk-taking behavior dropped among traders, but the tokens are seeing gains as positive sentiment…
Solana’s stablecoin market cap surges by $900M in 24 hours
Stablecoins are emerging as critical infrastructure across both decentralized and traditional financial applications worldwide.
Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work Launches at MIT
The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work officially launched on Nov. 3,…
HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows
How approximate vector search silently degrades Recall—and what to do about It The post HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG…
2025 crypto bear market was ‘repricing’ year for institutional capital: Analyst
DeFi and smart contract-tied cryptocurrencies fell by over 66% during 2025, but analysts are pointing to maturing digital asset valuations…
I Evaluated Half a Million Credit Records with Federated Learning. Here’s What I Found
Why privacy breaks fairness at small scale—and how collaboration fixes both without sharing a single record The post I Evaluated…
Yollo AI Chatbot Features and Pricing Model
Yolo AI presents itself as an option for users who value conversational freedom and timely responses over heavily scripted interaction.…
Probabilistic Multi-Variant Reasoning: Turning Fluent LLM Answers Into Weighted Options
Human-guided AI collaboration The post Probabilistic Multi-Variant Reasoning: Turning Fluent LLM Answers Into Weighted Options appeared first on Towards Data…
4 reasons XRP has just been called the ‘hottest crypto trade’ of 2026
XRP is having an explosive start to the year, driven by strong ETF inflows, bullish sentiment, and declining exchange reserves.
ETH price taps $3.3K: Here’s what must happen for another 20% rally
ETH’s price chart shows a confirmed double bottom pattern with a $3,900 price target. Here are the necessary factors to…
Measuring What Matters with NeMo Agent Toolkit
A practical guide to observability, evaluations, and model comparisons The post Measuring What Matters with NeMo Agent Toolkit appeared first on…
XRP price ‘starting to respond’ to gold’s multiyear 180% boom: Analyst
XRP mirrors gold’s past breakout pattern, fueling speculation of an $8–$10 rally in 2026 if the fractal continues to play…
The Best Data Scientists Are Always Learning
Part 2: Avoiding burnout, learning strategies and the superpower of solitude The post The Best Data Scientists Are Always Learning…
Telegram revenue jumps to $870M in H1 2025; $2B full-year target: FT
Telegram’s H1 2025 revenue climbed 65% to $870 million, while Toncoin write-downs and $500 million in frozen bonds have added…
How to Optimize Your AI Coding Agent Context
Make your coding agents more efficient The post How to Optimize Your AI Coding Agent Context appeared first on Towards…
Flipped Image Generator Review: Features and Pricing Explained
Flipped is built for those who view AI image generation as an open, user-led experience rather than a refined design…
GliNER2: Extracting Structured Information from Text
From unstructured text to structured Knowledge Graphs The post GliNER2: Extracting Structured Information from Text appeared first on Towards Data Science.
MIT scientists investigate memorization risk in the age of clinical AI
What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and most widely known medical…
Using design to interpret the past and envision the future
Some of designer C Jacob Payne’s projects present new, futuristic products — such as zero-gravity footwear for astronauts, and electronic-embedded…
Feature Detection, Part 3: Harris Corner Detection
Finding the most informative points in images The post Feature Detection, Part 3: Harris Corner Detection appeared first on Towards…
Three bullish XRP charts to watch as price gains over 18% in 2026
XRP price gained in the first five days of 2026 as chart breakouts and steady ETF inflows produced targets near…
Stop Blaming the Data: A Better Way to Handle Covariance Shift
Instead of using shift as an excuse for poor performance, use Inverse Probability Weighting to estimate how your model should…
YOLOv1 Loss Function Walkthrough: Regression for All
An explanation of how YOLOv1 measures the correctness of its object detection and classification predictions The post YOLOv1 Loss Function…
TRUMP, ONDO, BGB, HYPE, lead $5.5B in token unlocks in January
January’s unlock calendar is heavily concentrated, with four major projects accounting for more than one-third of all tokens set to…
Memecoins rip into 2026 with 23% market cap pump
Memecoin transaction volume has also spiked, jumping from $2.2 billion to $8.7 billion, a 300% increase.
Altcoins hold ‘crucial’ support, set for ‘big leg’ up, says analyst
The altcoin market is set to rally, based on technical analysis showing altcoins trading above critical support levels formed in…
Prompt Engineering vs RAG for Editing Resumes
Running a code-free comparison in Azure The post Prompt Engineering vs RAG for Editing Resumes appeared first on Towards Data…
Sweetr Chatbot Access, Pricing, and Feature Overview
When users begin interacting with the AI models in Sweetr, the exchange tends to function as a continuous conversation rather…
How to Filter for Dates, Including or Excluding Future Dates, in Semantic Models
It is common to have either planning data or the previous year’s data displayed beyond today’s date. But future data…
Optimizing Data Transfer in AI/ML Workloads
A deep dive on data transfer bottlenecks, their identification, and their resolution with the help of NVIDIA Nsight™ Systems The post…
RushChat Chatbot Features and Pricing Model
RushChat operates as an AI chatbot intended for fluid conversation, without the tight controls and formulaic responses seen in most…
How to Keep MCPs Useful in Agentic Pipelines
Check the tools your LLM uses before replacing it with just a more powerful model The post How to Keep…
BitMine stakes $259M more ETH, pushing validator entry queue near 1M Ether
Ethereum’s validator entry queue has climbed toward 1 million ETH, with an estimated wait time of nearly 17 days for…
Drift Detection in Robust Machine Learning Systems
A prerequisite for long-term success of machine learning systems The post Drift Detection in Robust Machine Learning Systems appeared first…
PEPE, BONK post double-digit gains: Are memecoins back?
Memecoins added $3 billion in market cap in one day, led by PEPE’s 23% surge and the buzz around the…
Off-Beat Careers That Are the Future Of Data
The unconventional career paths you need to explore The post Off-Beat Careers That Are the Future Of Data appeared first…
DeFi pioneer coughs up $50K after making a pretty bad bet on Ether
Ethereum OG Kain Warwick, the founder of Infinex and Synthetix, missed the mark by about $20,000.
EDA in Public (Part 3): RFM Analysis for Customer Segmentation in Pandas
How to build, score, and interpret RFM segments step by step The post EDA in Public (Part 3): RFM Analysis for…
The XRP Army got everything except $5 price: Will 2026 deliver?
XRP scored every major win in 2025 with the SEC case resolved and spot ETFs launched, yet the price crashed…
Deep Reinforcement Learning: The Actor-Critic Method
Robot friends collaborate to learn to fly a drone The post Deep Reinforcement Learning: The Actor-Critic Method appeared first on…