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.
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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…
A Step-by-Step Guide to Build a Graph Learning System for a Movie Recommender
Built with PyTorch Geometric and using MovieLens DataSet Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Anomaly detection in streaming time series data with online learning using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
Time series data is a distinct category that incorporates time as a fundamental element in its structure. In a time…
Iranian missiles to Russia change Ukraine debate – Lammy
On a visit to Kyiv, the UK foreign secretary said said the UK would provide £600m in aid to Ukraine.
Market Basket Analysis Using High Utility Itemset Mining
Finding high-value patterns in transactions In this post, I will give an alternative to popular techniques in market basket analysis…
Enabling complex generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock Agents
In June, I started a series of posts that highlight the key factors that are driving customers to choose Amazon…
Consumer prices rose 0.2% in August as annual inflation rate hits lowest since early 2021
The consumer price index was expected to increase 0.2% in August and 2.6% from a year ago.
Are Virtual Friends Replacing Human Interaction?
In a world where social media is king and face-to-face conversations are increasingly rare, a new trend is sweeping the…
CEO of property firm Damac expresses concerns over ‘expensive’ Dubai
Increasing demand for property, especially in the luxury space, is boosting prices not just of homes but of everything else…
Commerzbank shares jump 18% after Unicredit buys 4.5% stake from the German government
Commerzbank shares jumped on market open on Wednesday, after Italian bank UniCredit acquired a 4.5% stake in the Frankfurt-based lender…
Deep Learning for Crop Yield Prediction (Pt.1 — Model)
Boost Crop Yield and Optimize Irrigation: A Deep Learning Approach to Multivariate Analysis Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Who won the US presidential debate?
Trump couldn’t resist Harris’s personal digs at the debate which threw him off message, writes Anthony Zurcher.
Taylor Swift endorses ‘warrior’ Kamala Harris for president
The pop star says on Instagram the country can accomplish more if “we are led by calm and not chaos”.
Harris says Trump ‘sold us out on China’: Highlights from the presidential debate on trade and tariffs
Trump defended his recent vow to increase trade duties, including blanket tariffs of 10% or 20% and additional tariffs of…
Asia-Pacific markets slip as U.S. debate unravels, investors digest South Korea unemployment data
Traders in Asia parsed the Reuters Tankan business sentiment survey from Japan and South Korea unemployment data.
US election polls: Who is ahead – Harris or Trump?
An in-depth look at the polls and what they can and can’t tell us about who will win the White…
European businesses in China reach a ‘tipping point’ on whether to invest more
European businesses in China have grown so discouraged that Beijing must act if the companies are to invest further, the…
Genomics England uses Amazon SageMaker to predict cancer subtypes and patient survival from multi-modal data
This post is co-written with Francisco Azuaje from Genomics England. Genomics England analyzes sequenced genomes for The National Health Service…
Automate Video Chaptering with LLMs and TF-IDF
Transform raw transcripts into well-structured documents Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash Video chaptering is the task of segmenting a video…
How to Create a Powerful AI Email Search for Gmail with RAG
Learn how you can develop an application to search emails using RAG Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Two key inflation reports this week will help decide the size of the Fed’s interest rate cut
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will first release the consumer price index Wednesday and then the producer price index Thursday,…
UK halts all Iran flights as allies step up sanctions
The sanctions come as Western officials say Iran has supplied missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine.
XPER: Unveiling the Driving Forces of Predictive Performance
A new method for decomposing your favorite performance metrics Photo by Sira Anamwong on 123RF Co-authored with S. Hué, C. Hurlin,…
Volkswagen scraps a slew of labor agreements as standoff with unions intensifies
German automotive giant Volkswagen on Tuesday said it was scrapping a slew of labor agreements.
Can AI agents do your day-to-day tasks on apps?
Benchmarking Coding Agents in a World of Apps and People Imagine a world where AI agents can act as your personal…
Goldman Sachs ChatGPT mistake causes AI market panic
A flawed report by Goldman Sachs analyst Peter Oppenheimer may have been behind the significant negative sentiment for AI shares…
AI Predicts the Date of Your Death: How Accurate Is It?
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, one of the latest, most controversial claims is that AI can…
Apple loses EU court battle over 13 billion euro tax bill in Ireland
Europe’s top court on Tuesday ruled against Apple in the tech giant’s 10-year court battle over its tax affairs in…
Linear Programming Optimization: The Simplex Method
Part 3: The algorithm under the hood Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Open-Source Data Observability with Elementary — From Zero to Hero (Part 2)
Open-Source Data Observability with Elementary — From Zero to Hero (Part 2) The guide to take your dbt tests to the next level…
Car giants are being forced to confront some hard truths over the EV transition
European car giants are struggling to come to terms with a perfect storm of challenges on the path to full…
Logistic Regression, Explained: A Visual Guide with Code Examples for Beginners
CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM Finding the perfect weights to fit the data in While some probabilistic-based machine learning models (like Naive Bayes) make…