The Fed has the proof it wants that inflation is slowing, but the next move is still up in the air
A week’s worth of inflation data showed that price pressures have eased substantially.
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Central Europe rushes to shore up flood defences
Storm Boris causes four deaths in Romania and swells rivers in the Czech Republic and Poland.
AI ushers in bew era for strawberry farming, with broader agricultural implications
AI may soon work alongside humans to cultivate the perfect strawberry. Researchers at Western University have developed an AI system…
Four die in Romanian floods as rain lashes Europe
Evacuations are under way in Poland and the highest flood alert is active in 38 locations in the Czech Republic.
Bayesian Linear Regression: A Complete Beginner’s guide
A workflow and code walkthrough for building a Bayesian regression model in STAN Note: Check out my previous article for a…
Tips on How to Manage Large Scale Data Science Projects
Use these tips to maximize the success of your data science project Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Seven Common Causes of Data Leakage in Machine Learning
Key Steps in data preprocessing, feature engineering, and train-test splitting to prevent data leakage Continue reading on Towards Data Science…
China’s retail sales and industrial data miss expectations in August
Growth in the world’s second-largest economy has slowed after a disappointing recovery from Covid-19.
How I Make Time for Everything (Even with a Full-Time Job)
How I am able to do YouTube videos, write blogs, and send out a newsletter every week whilst working full…
No new pledge on Ukraine missiles after Starmer-Biden talks
Ukraine has repeatedly urged the UK and US to let it fire long-range missiles against targets inside Russia.
US imposes new sanctions on Russian state media
Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused the outlet RT of engaging in “global covert activities.”
How Biased is Your Regression Model?
A deep dive into the causes, effects, and remedies for bias in regression models Continue reading on Towards Data Science…
Unlock AWS Cost and Usage insights with generative AI powered by Amazon Bedrock
Managing cloud costs and understanding resource usage can be a daunting task, especially for organizations with complex AWS deployments. AWS…
I Coded a YouTube AI Assistant that Boosted My Productivity
Have you ever found yourself in a position where you needed to sift through a lot of YouTube videos to…
Oracle’s Larry Ellison briefly tops Jeff Bezos to become world’s second-richest person
Oracle is on pace for its best week since 2021, and the rally lifted founder Larry Ellison’s net worth past…
MIDI Files as Training Data
A fundamental difference: MIDI scores vs MIDI performances Before starting any deep learning project with MIDI files, make sure you…
Biden targets Shein, Temu with new rules to curb alleged ‘abuse’ of U.S. trade loophole
Under a new White House rule proposal, Chinese exports subject to U.S. tariffs would no longer be eligible for the…
Bias in AI: How Machine Learning Algorithms Can Perpetuate Discrimination
In a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping our daily lives—from the jobs we apply for to the…
Federal Reserve will opt for slow policy easing as there’s ‘still work to do’ on inflation, Fitch says
Fitch also gave some predictions on Asian central banks, such as the People’s Bank of China and the Bank of…
China raising its retirement age may be unpopular but it’s much needed, analysts say
Economists have long called for an overhaul of the nation’s retirement age laws, currently among the world’s lowest, that was…
UK regulator finds Vodafone and Three merger would lead to price rises, seeks remedies for deal
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the Vodafone and Three U.K. merger would lead to price increases for…
Putin draws new red line on long-range missiles
Vladimir Putin has said Ukraine using the West’s long-range missiles would mean Nato countries “fighting with Russia”.
UK leads resurgence in European office investment
The U.K. is leading a recovery in Europe’s long subdued office real estate market, with overall investment in the sector…
DAI#56 – AI games, music scams, and tech tumbles
Welcome to our weekly roundup of human-crafted AI news. This week, AI made game creation child’s play. An AI music…
GGUF Quantization with Imatrix and K-Quantization to Run LLMs on Your CPU
Fast and accurate GGUF models for your CPU Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Asia-Pacific markets mostly fall, but China set to rebound from near six-year low
Investors will react to August inflation figures out from India, which showed the consumer price index rose 3.65% year on…
Lessons Learned from Developing an Open Source Software
And the unexpected edge they gave me as a data scientist and machine learning engineer Continue reading on Towards Data…
China’s plan to boost consumption by encouraging trade-ins has yet to show results
Several major cities and provinces have only in the last few weeks announced details on how the trade-in program would…
Build a RAG-based QnA application using Llama3 models from SageMaker JumpStart
Organizations generate vast amounts of data that is proprietary to them, and it’s critical to get insights out of the…
Russia can end war now, says Starmer as Putin warns West
The British PM was speaking as he travelled to Washington for talks with US President Joe Biden.
Best prompting practices for using Meta Llama 3 with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Llama 3, Meta’s latest large language model (LLM), has taken the artificial intelligence (AI) world by storm with its impressive…
Donald Trump says no more debates against Kamala Harris
The former president claims that polls show he “clearly won” the debate against his rival earlier this week.
How healthcare payers and plans can empower members with generative AI
In this post, we discuss how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can help health insurance plan members get the information they…
Transformer? Diffusion? Transfusion!
A gentle introduction to the latest multi-modal transfusion model Recently, Meta and Waymo released their latest paper — Transfusion: Predict the Next…
OpenAI debuts the “o1” series, pushing the boundaries of AI reasoning
OpenAI has released new advanced reasoning models dubbed the”o1” series. o1 currently comes in two versions – o1-preview and o1-mini…
Hands-On Imitation Learning: From Behavior Cloning to Multi-Modal Imitation Learning
An overview of the most prominent imitation learning methods with testing on a grid environment Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash…
Scaling Thomson Reuters’ language model research with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology-driven company, has been using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in its professional…
Community Announcement ✨ Insight Media Group, LLC Acquires Towards Data Science Publication
Photo by Daniel Enamorado Towards Data Science Inc. is thrilled to announce that our publication, Towards Data Science (https://towardsdatascience.com), has…
The Data All Around Us: From Sports to Household Management
Feeling inspired to write your first TDS post? We’re always open to contributions from new authors. Every once in a while,…
‘What a perfect world’: First private spacewalk a success
“From here Earth sure looks like a perfect world,” said the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk
UniCredit’s Andrea Orcel plays a bold hand, with Commerzbank in his sights
Speculation is rife over whether UniCredit’s surprise stake build in Commerzbank will lead to a takeover bid of the German…
UN says Israeli strike killed six of its Gaza staff
At least 18 people were reportedly killed in the strike, which Israel says targeted Hamas fighters.
Introducing NumPy, Part 2: Indexing Arrays
Slicing and dicing like a pro Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Investors expecting an aggressive Fed cut are getting too ‘ahead of the curve,’ UBS CEO says
The markets may be getting too ahead of themselves that the U.S. Federal Reserve will pull an aggressive rate cut,…
The “Who Does What” Guide To Enterprise Data Quality
One answer and many best practices for how larger organizations can operationalizing data quality programs for modern data platforms An…
How to Build a Competency Framework for Data Science Teams
For those leading Data Science teams, here are 6 essential competencies that separate juniors from seniors in a robust and…
Former Peruvian leader Alberto Fujimori dies at 86
The ex-president, who was convicted of human rights abuses and corruption, died “after a long battle with cancer”.
Nikkei jumps 3%, leading Asia-Pacific markets higher
The major benchmarks rebounded from intraday lows after a volatile trading session, as investors parsed through the higher-than-expected consumer prices…
Introducing Amazon EKS support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
We are thrilled to introduce Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, a purpose-built infrastructure engineered…
A review of purpose-built accelerators for financial services
Data contains information, and information can be used to predict future behaviors, from the buying habits of customers to securities…