In today's edition:

• 🚀In-database Machine Learning is Future of Data Analytics

• 🔍Data Quality: Why Big Data Needs to Be Its Best Self

• 🌐How to use PostgreSQL for (military) geoanalytics tasks

• 🔧Verba: Building an Open Source, Modular RAG Application

• 🧠Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent For Data Science

• 💻GitHub's AI tool can automatically fix code

• 🔥Elon Musk companies are gobbling up Nvidia hardware

• 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools

• 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

In-database Machine Learning is the Future of Data Analytics

In-database machine learning is where data analytics is headed and it’s making a huge difference in our ability to provide truly predictive analytics and make data actionable at the time we receive it.

AI brews beer and your big ideas

What’s your biggest business challenge? Don’t worry about wording it perfectly or describing it just right. Brain dump your description into AE Studio’s new tool and AI will help you solve that work puzzle.

Describe your challenge in three quick questions. Then AI churns out solutions customized to you.

AE Studio exists to solve business problems. They build great products and create custom software, AI and BCI solutions. And they once brewed beer by training AI to instruct a brewmeister and then to market the result. The beer sold out – true story.

Beyond beer, AE Studio’s data scientists, designers and developers have done even more impressive things working 1:1 with founders and executives. They’re a great match for leaders wanting to incorporate AI and just generally deliver outstanding products built with the latest tools and tech.

If you’re done guessing how to solve work problems or have a crazy idea in your back pocket to test out, ask AI Ideas by AE Studio for free solutions, right now.

Data Quality: Why Big Data Needs to Be Its Best Self

Big data is big enough that, yes, it still warrants the occasional media story or captivating infographic. But, increasingly, our collective attention needs to focus far more on the quality—not quantity—of data.

How to use PostgreSQL for (military) geoanalytics tasks

This is a detailed guide on utilizing PostgreSQL for military geoanalytics tasks, emphasizing the importance of geospatial data processing in military operations. It covers methods for processing geospatial data, finding nearest objects, distance calculations, using geospatial indexes, determining points within polygons, and geospatial aggregation to enhance analytical capabilities in military contexts.

AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development

The paper "AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development" presents an automated approach to AI-driven development, involving a collaborative effort by multiple authors. It explores the advancements in automated development processes driven by artificial intelligence, showcasing a comprehensive study on AutoDev

Verba: Building an Open Source, Modular RAG Application

A popular way to build RAG protos has been to integrate calls to proprietary AI APIs (e.g GPT-4) with RAG components using LangChain or Llamaindex. But this has proven complex, often expensive to maintain, and not always reliable.

Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent For Data Science

Data Interpreter, a solution designed to solve with code that emphasizes three pivotal techniques to augment problem-solving in data science: 1) dynamic planning with hierarchical graph structures for real-time data adaptability;2) tool integration dynamically to enhance code proficiency during execution, enriching the requisite expertise;

🤖 AI News:

Microsoft launches the world's first AI PC

Microsoft's unveiling of the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 introduces a pivotal moment in computing: the advent of the first AI PC.

Elon Musk companies are gobbling up Nvidia hardware even as Tesla aims to build rival supercomputer 

Despite Tesla's efforts to create an AI supercomputer, Elon Musk's companies are investing heavily in Nvidia's technology. This move underscores the tech mogul's ambition in AI development, while highlighting Nvidia's dominant position in the AI hardware market.

Milestone: UN, US pass first AI bill.

The U.N. General Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution to promote the development of AI that is safe, reliable, and focused on human benefits. The White House has welcomed this decision, deeming it a historic move towards fostering the responsible evolution of AI technology.

🧠 Neuralink patient plays chess with mind

Neuralink just live-streamed their first patient using a brain-chip implant to play online chess and other games by mind control alone, in a major milestone for the technology.

🇯🇵 Sakana evolves new AI models

Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI just released three new Japanese-language AI models, created by “breeding“ existing open-source models to produce optimized “offspring”.

🔒 AI Security, an Invisible Threat?

Despite nearly all IT leaders recognizing the importance of securing AI systems, action lags far behind intention. A significant portion, 77%, have encountered AI-related breaches, but only a small fraction have taken steps to defend against these sophisticated threats.

💡AI Learning

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📈 Reddit shares jump by 48% thanks to AI

Reddit’s debut on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) saw its shares going for $50.31—up nearly 48% from its original IPO price—thanks to its trove of data that AI companies are desperate to get their hands on.

 🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

1. AiREPLI, the advanced AI Email Writer designed to streamline your email communication.

2. Recast Studio automatically turns your podcast episode into short video clips & writes show notes, blog posts

3. Notta is an AI-based voice-to-text transcription service that supports 104 languages

4. Sapien- help organizations prepare data for AI training via a consumer game that empowers labellers

5. Kafkai is an AI Writer Assistant that offers a unique and readable content generation solution.

6. Texta is an AI-powered content generation tool that helps users create high-quality, SEO-optimized content with ease.

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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries  

Dropflow (GitHub Repo)

Dropflow is a CSS layout engine with a high-quality text layout implementation capable of displaying many languages. It can generate PDFs or images and render rich wrapped text to a canvas in the browser.

Tortoise (GitHub Repo)

Tortoise is an automated solution designed to meet all Kubernetes resource optimization needs. It shifts optimization responsibility from service owners to platform teams, requiring service owners to configure only a minimal amount of parameters to initiate autoscaling.

DuckDB as the New jq  

DuckDB has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies - it can natively read and parse JSON as a database table.

A.I. Generated Image of the Day

“Greek Gods reading books” for their school library. (source)

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