The history of computing is repeating in an echo, except replace computers that do precise arithmetic on bytes with computers that do statistical arithmetic on tokens.
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Mustafa Suleyman Book Launch Event at Waterstones Piccadilly
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Going head-to-head with @mustafasuleyman in @WaterstonesPicc
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OpenAI Chunking Strategy for RAG Implementation Details
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I'm begging you @OpenAIDevs
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Fine-tuning Strategy: Sequential Layer Training Approach
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Has anyone tried fine-tuning half of the layers in one run, and then the other half in another? cc @teknium @winglian @erhartford
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Snowflake Arctic Embed Open Source Models Launch
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Snowflake Arctic Embed Yesterday @SnowflakeDB shipped their open source Arctic family of embedding models. You can use them with our @huggingface Embeddings connector to use these exceptionally performant models locally. Python docs: https://
python.langchain.com/docs/integrati
ons/providers/snowflake/#embedding-models
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Benchmarks vs Real-World AI Efficacy: Narrow Metrics Matter Less
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Or, yes, better data matters. But we always have to remember that 'better' is being assessed via narrow benchmarks that DO NOT speak to efficacy or impact in the "real world"
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RAG Fundamentals Tutorial Free on FreeCodeCamp
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RAG From Scratch on FreeCodeCamp We recently released a playlist of videos that explain RAG fundamentals and highlights over a dozen advanced RAG papers / methods. This tutorial is now free on @freeCodeCamp
! Thanks @beaucarnes and team. Video: https://
youtube.com/watch?v=sVcwVQ
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SAS Innovate: AI Analytics and Data Insights Event
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Warming up for #SASInnovate. Follow @SASsoftware to gain more insights. #ai #analytics #data #sasvisionary pic.twitter.com/1kB7RcnCm9
— Helen Yu (@YuHelenYu) 17 avril 2024Warming up for #SASInnovate. Follow
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AI Mentorship Boosts Small Business Profits by 15 Percent
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I would love to see more work on AI as advisor to humans, rather than AI just doing work. This controlled study in Kenya found top small business entrepreneurs got a stunning 15% boost in profits when given an AI mentor, but low performers struggled with mentorship & did worse.
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Implementing Transform and Inverse Transform Methods for PCA
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Now define the "transform" method that transforms the input data into a lower-dimensional representation using the calculated eigenvectors. Finally the "inverse_transform" method to reconstructs the reduced data back to the original space using eigenvectors and mean.