🤖 Efficient Machine Learning with R

In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

• 🤯Why are ML Compilers so Hard?

• 🤔Creating a LLM-as-a-Judge That Drives Business Results

• 🤖Waymo explores using Google’s Gemini to train its robotaxis

• 🚀 Sam Altman’s Reddit AMA, Dev Day updates

• 👉️ Meta makes a robot hand that can ‘feel‘

• 🤖Robert Downey Jr. To Sue Hollywood AI Deepfakes of Him

• 💡 AI Tutorial:Turn your sales data into actionable insights

• 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

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Why are ML Compilers so Hard?

Even before the first version of TensorFlow was released, the XLA project was integrated as a “domain-specific compiler” for its machine learning graphs. Since then there have been a lot of other compilers aimed at ML problems, like TVM, MLIR, EON, and GLOW.

Creating a LLM-as-a-Judge That Drives Business Results 

A step-by-step guide with my learnings from 30+ AI implementations. I wrote Your AI product needs evals. Many of you asked, “How do I get started with LLM-as-a-judge?” This guide shares what I’ve learned after helping over 30 companies set up their evaluation systems.

PDF Q&A App using ColPali, Modal, and FastHTML

Lately, I’ve been following FastHTML from a distance. As someone who sticks to backend Python development, frontend development has always been a bit foreign to me, but I’m interested in giving it a shot. FastHTML feels like a good way to get started with some basics by building small apps.

Book: Efficient Machine Learning with R

Efficient Machine Learning with R! This is a book about predictive modeling with tidymodels, focused on reducing the time and memory required to train machine learning models without sacrificing predictive performance.

👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

Functional UI Kit (GitHub Repo)

Functional UI Kit is a design system that focuses on accessibility, development experience, and unified designer-developer experience. It uses Figma variables and CSS variables that share the same names, usage, and inheritance structure.

React Strict DOM (GitHub Repo)

React Strict DOM aims to improve and standardize the development of styled React components for web and native.

PGlite (GitHub Repo)

PGlite enables developers to run Postgres in the browser, Node.js, and Bun without any other dependencies

AI News:

Introducing ChatGPT search

OpenAI has launched a ChatGPT-based search service, available on its website and mobile apps, positioning it as a potential competitor to Google’s search dominance. The service, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model, combines conversational responses with real-time data from third-party sources, covering topics like weather, news, sports, and more.

Initially accessible only to ChatGPT Plus and Team users, it will roll out to free users in the coming months.

Waymo explores using Google’s Gemini to train its robotaxis

Waymo, leveraging its ties to Google’s DeepMind, has introduced an innovative autonomous driving model called EMMA, built on Google’s multimodal language model, Gemini. This end-to-end model processes sensor data to help Waymo’s robotaxis navigate and avoid obstacles by predicting future paths.

🚀 Sam Altman’s Reddit AMA, Dev Day updates

OpenAI hosted its first international Dev Day in London this week, showcasing new o1 and real-time voice API capabilities — alongside a revealing Reddit AMA with CEO Sam Altman and other members of the leadership team. 

The details: 

• Demos included the o1-mini model creating a functioning drone control app, utilizing the Realtime API to order pies for the large group, and more. 

• OpenAI slashed prices for its Realtime API, discounting text inputs by 50% and audio by 80%, along with five new voices for speech-to-speech capabilities.

👉️ Meta makes a robot hand that can ‘feel‘

Meta released new tools to improve how robots feel things and use their hands, like the new Digit 360 sensor.They are working with GelSight and Wonik Robotics to make these new sensors and robot hands available for purchase. The new PARTNR benchmark will help test and improve how robots work together with people.

Robert Downey Jr. To Sue Hollywood AI Deepfakes of Him, Now and Even After His Death

RDJ expressed his extreme opposition to generative AI and deepfakes during the interview, saying that he is not permitting anyone or any studio to use his identity for roles. It only shows that Downey Jr. prefers to portray himself physically rather than have AI do it for him.

AI Tutorial

📊 Turn your sales data into actionable insights

The Rundown: Claude’s new Analysis Tool can analyze your sales funnel progression and create interactive visualizations to identify conversion bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Claude AI, go to Feature Preview in settings, and enable the Analysis Tool.

2. Upload your sales funnel CSV and use the analysis prompt: "Please analyze this sales funnel data and provide conversion rates, drop-off points, and optimization areas."

3. Create visualizations with: "Create an interactive funnel visualization showing user numbers, conversion percentages, and stage metrics."

4. Generate recommendations: "Based on the analysis, provide top 3 optimization opportunities with specific actions."

🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

1. podcast.ai, a podcast that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence

2. Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips

3. ✍️ NotesGPT: Convert your voice notes into concise summaries and actionable items effortlessly

4. 😎 Asklegal - A free AI chatbot for legal answers to user inquiries.

5. 📱 Construct - Build personalized apps in seconds.

6. 🟢 Personal AI - An AI platform designed to improve human cognition

7. Magic Dash AI makes visualizing MongoDB analytics easy

8. Alta is a writing assistant for creating "top-tier" content.

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