BDNW Issue -82

#82 - Dec  5, 2023  News, articles on Big Data, AI, Data Science, ML, Cloud, IoT.

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In today's edition:

• 🚀 10 AI Tools for Data Scientists in 2024

• AI Reducing Human Error in Data Analytics

• Online MongoDB migration

• 🦾Building a faster hash table for high performance SQL joins

• AI for SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP: A deep dive

• ⛔OpenAI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 

• Give ChatGPT (fake) money to improve performance

• 🤨 OpenAI buys $51M of AI chips from Sam Altman?

• 🛑 Google postpones launch of GPT-4 rival Gemini

• 🤯 A.I. Tools and News 

• 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

A Redis replacement for heavy data workloads.

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The AI Advantage: Reducing Human Error in Data Analytics

The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) heralds a transformative era for data analytics, mitigating human errors that can mar accuracy and reliability. This article explores how AI is revolutionizing data analytics, addressing issues in various stages:

Top 3 Priorities for CXOs in Shaping Their Data and AI Strategy

The value of data is undeniable and constantly growing, and a successful Data Strategy should be the number 1 priority for CXOs invested in their company’s growth. Find the most important focus areas and how Data and AI companies can improve your game.

10 AI Tools for Data Scientists in 2024

Explore groundbreaking AI advancements reshaping data science. Uncover the top 10 essential AI tools every data scientist should be acquainted with in this insightful article.


The 500 Highest Paying Companies for Software Engineers (GitHub Repo)

This repository contains a very rough list of 500 companies that tend to pay a relatively high amount for software engineering-related roles. The data is based on median software engineering total compensation as it appears on levels.fyi. The analysis is not meant to be serious and it skips over many important steps.

10 Trends of Business Intelligence to Facilitate Data Analytics and Decision Making

In this article, we delve into the top 10 trends in Business Intelligence that enrich data analytics and drive sound decision making to businesses in various domains. From augmented analytics and AI-driven insights to the rise of data storytelling and cloud-based BI solutions, these trends are paving the way for more informed and agile organizations.

Online MongoDB migration

To perform the migration of all databases we needed a tool for transfering all the data and keeping consistency between old and new databases. That’s how mongo-migration-stream project was born.

Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs): The Flexible Twin of KMeans.

KMeans is an unsupervised clustering algorithm that groups data based on distances. It is widely recognized for its simplicity and effectiveness as a clustering algorithm.

Using LLMs to implement normal functions within a program.

LLMs have seen a huge surge of popularity with ChatGPT by going from prompt to text for various use cases. But what's really exciting is that they are also extremely useful as ways to implement normal functions within a program. This is what I call LLM As A Function.

How Container Networking Works - Building a Linux Bridge Network From Scratch

Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes networking starts with the basics - learn how to create and interconnect network namespaces using standard Linux tools.

Building a faster hash table for high performance SQL joins

In this article, we'll tell you why hash tables are important to databases, how QuestDB's FastMap works and why it speeds up SQL execution.

Artificial Intelligence for SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP: A deep dive

In this blog adapted from the podcast “Artificial Intelligence (AI) for SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP: A deep dive”, Terry Penner and Jürgen Butsmann discuss the AI priorities, practical applications, and key use cases for SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP.



🤖 AI News:

🤨OpenAI buys $51M of AI chips from Sam Altman?

OpenAI has agreed to purchase $51M worth of brain-inspired chips developed by the startup Rain (a startup in which CEO Sam Altman has also personally invested over $1M USD).

Amazon Finally released Titan image generator

You read that right, Amazon is joining the ranks of other big techs in finally releasing its own image generator. Kyle reports that the Titan Image Generator is now available in preview for AWS customers and can create new images when given a text description or customize existing images

🛑Google postpones launch of GPT-4 rival Gemini

Google just delayed the rollout of its multimodal ChatGPT competitor Gemini until January — after identifying deficiencies in handling non-English languages.

Programmer finds tipping ChatGPT money improves performance

👀 US Navy, UK, Australia Will Test AI System to Help Crews Track Chinese Submarines in the Pacific

🔮 What does the future hold for generative AI?

🤝 Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO

🤨 Meta’s AI chief doesn’t think AI super intelligence is coming anytime soon, and is skeptical on quantum computing

💢OpenAI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 following leadership chaos

💥‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza

🔐How Googlers cracked an SF rival's tech model with a single word

🖼️Google Pixel 8 has AI-enhanced photography

A Redis replacement for heavy data workloads.

Dragonfly is a drop-in Redis® replacement with significant performance and scalability advantages. Dragonfly is designed to power data-intensive, low-latency applications. Applications built on Dragonfly deliver incredibly fast user experiences while reducing both costs and complexity.

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🤖 AI Ethics: 

🏛️ White House closed-door AI meeting: recap

Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders discussed the potential and risks of AI in a closed-door meeting with U.S. senators. Musk expressed concerns about AI's potential threat to humanity, while Gates highlighted its potential to address world hunger.

 Data Tools

GQL - Git Query Language (GitHub Repo)

GQL is a query language with a syntax similar to SQL. It executes queries on .git files without the need to create database files or convert the files into any other format. Keywords in GQL are case-insensitive, similar to SQL.

SQLSync (GitHub Repo)

SQLSync is a collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite designed to synchronize web application state between users, devices, and the edge. It features eventually consistent SQLite, optimistic reads and writes, reactive query subscriptions, real-time collaboration, and more. A live demo is available.

unsloth (GitHub Repo)

unsloth provides 80% faster and 50% less memory local QLoRA finetuning without any change in hardware.
rags
Build ChatGPT over your data, all with natural language.

Pororoca
A HTTP inspection tool with support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Alternative to Postman.

path-to-senior-engineer-handbook
All the resources you need to get to Senior Engineer and beyond.

Sqids
Sqids is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers. These IDs are short, can be generated from a custom alphabet and are guaranteed to be collision-free. 

semantic-kernel
Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly and easily into your apps.

llamafile
llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file.


Tuesday Gift 🎁

Automated Machine Learning: Methods, Systems, Challenges

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