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Mississippi Burning is one my favorite films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Burning
Re: on Monday January 13, 2025 @06:59PM (#42691326)
alternative link: http://archive.today/PJIHr
Re:DataChain: DBT for Unstructured Data on Monday November 04, 2024 @08:29PM (#42047826)
How does this relate to https://github.com/lancedb/lance
Alignment is hard: "If the LLM has finite probability of exhibiting negative behavior, there exists a prompt for which the LLM will exhibit negative behavior with probability 1." Source: Fundamental Limitations of Alignment in LLMs https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11082
Creators of the data quality tool for computer vision, fastdup, continue to improve on their free release https://github.com/visual-layer/fastdup

Here's a short video of some recent results for LAION 400M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlRCm29Upu4

Re:Airflow's Problem on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:13PM (#32322316)
Recent perspectives from the creators of Prefect, Dagster, Flyte, and Orchest => https://gradientflow.com/summer-of-orchestation/
Re:Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pandas on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:46AM (#20985242)
If you need to scale out or speedup pandas, there's Modin https://modin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (which uses Ray from)
Re:Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology (2014) on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:38PM (#19148386)
Gunnar Carlsson will be teaching a related tutorial ("Using topological data analysis to understand, build, and improve neural networks") on April 16th in New York City https://conferences.oreilly.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-n...
Re:Building an AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras on Friday January 26, 2018 @11:30PM (#16244872)
RISE Lab's Ray platform (now includes RLlib) is another option https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/introducing-rllib-a-composable...
Re:PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python on Monday January 23, 2017 @09:59PM (#13468459)
Chainer's Define-by-run apporach is also described here https://www.oreilly.com/learning/complex-neural-networks-mad...
A few months ago Mikio Braun wrote a great post on this topic (the need for data scientists with strong software development skills) https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/what-is-hardcore-data-science-...

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