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With the top of the yr just some weeks away, neither our authors nor our readers are exhibiting any indicators of slowing down.
We’re thrilled to have revealed a few of our strongest articles of the yr up to now month: sensible guides on LLM workflows and sources on career growth, Python-focused tutorials, and deep dives on lately launched instruments, amongst different standout subjects. Learn on to meet up with (or revisit) November’s most-read tales.
Graph RAG vs SQL RAG
Which database paradigm delivers extra correct and insightful outcomes? Reinhard Sellmair units out to evaluate the efficiency of two sorts of RAG methods by pitting GraphRAG and SQL RAG in opposition to one another, utilizing the identical dataset and questions.
LLM-Powered Time-Collection Evaluation
Within the second a part of Sara Nobrega’s standard collection, we be taught concerning the prompts we’d like for superior mannequin growth (assume ARIMA and LSTM).
The best way to Construct Machine Studying Tasks That Assist You Get Employed
Not all ML portfolios are created equal. Egor Howell shares time-tested insights on what works — and what doesn’t.
Different November Highlights
Don’t miss our different high reads from the previous month, tackling NumPy, Multimodal RAG, marimo notebooks, and lots of different subjects — each evergreen and leading edge.
NumPy for Absolute Newbies: A Venture-Based mostly Strategy to Knowledge Evaluation, by Ibrahim Salami
Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) By means of Excel, by Angela Shi
Run Python As much as 150× Sooner with C, by Thomas Reid
The best way to Construct an Over-Engineered Retrieval System, by Ida Silfverskiöld
Constructing a Multimodal RAG That Responds with Textual content, Photographs, and Tables from Sources, by Partha Sarkar
Why I’m Making the Change to marimo Notebooks, by Parul Pandey
Your Subsequent ‘Giant’ Language Mannequin Would possibly Not Be Giant After All, by Moulik Gupta
In Case You Missed It: Our Newest Creator Q&As
We love sharing our authors’ experience, profession insights, and views on the current developments on this planet of information science and AI. Listed here are our most up-to-date Author Spotlights.
- “Techniques pondering helps me put the massive image entrance and middle”
Shuai Guo on deep analysis brokers, analytical AI vs LLM-based brokers, and methods pondering.
- “The success of an AI product depends upon how intuitively customers can work together with its capabilities”
Janna Lipenkova on AI technique, AI merchandise, and the way area information can change all the form of an AI answer.
Meet Our New Authors
We hope you are taking the time to discover the wonderful work from the most recent cohort of TDS contributors:
- Jure Leskovec, a Stanford professor of pc science and entrepreneur, explains why LLMs aren’t a one-size-fits-all answer for firms.
- Sherin Sunny, a senior engineer at Walmart, walked us by the creation of a pc imaginative and prescient venture geared toward detecting leaves.
- Manuel Franco de la Peña launched us to ShaTS, a novel Shapley-based explainability methodology particularly designed for time-series fashions, which he co-created.
We love publishing articles from new authors, so for those who’ve lately written an attention-grabbing venture walkthrough, tutorial, or theoretical reflection on any of our core subjects, why not share it with us?
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