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🦾Plus: 📈“Godmother of AI” builds $1bn startup in 4 months

July 18, 2024

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In today's edition:

🔍Surprises with Rust's as (and Python division)
📚10 GitHub Repositories to Master Data Science
🔍Taxonomy for Data Transformations in AI Systems
🧠 Hugging Face introduced SmolLM
💬 Salesforce announced Einstein Service Agent
📈“Godmother of AI” builds $1bn startup in 4 months
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Cloud Applications: The Role of Big Data in Modern Development

Think about Big Data as the fuel for cloud applications to run smarter and faster. It allows for real-time data processing, which is crucial in today’s fast-paced world. Have you ever wondered how online retailers show you what you need?

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Surprises with Rust's as (and Python division)

The article discusses the challenges and potential risks of using Rust's as keyword for type casting, particularly for programmers coming from higher-level languages. It recommends using TryFrom instead of as for safer type conversions, as it allows for explicit error handling and prevents unexpected behavior when dealing with numeric types.

10 GitHub Repositories to Master Data Science

Learning data science through courses or YouTube videos can become monotonous as it often involves passive consumption of information. You are not getting your hands dirty, experimenting, or actually building anything.

The Taxonomy for Data Transformations in AI Systems

This article introduces a taxonomy for data transformations in AI applications that is fundamental for any AI system that wants to reuse feature data in more than one model.

JavaScript, Node.js, and Apache Kafka for Full-Stack Data Streaming

This blog post explores open-source JavaScript clients for Apache Kafka and discusses the trade-offs and limitations of JavaScript Kafka producers and consumers compared to stream processing technologies such as Kafka Streams or Apache Flink.

👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

Korvus
Korvus is a search SDK that unifies the entire RAG pipeline in a single database query. Built on top of Postgres with bindings for Python, JavaScript, Rust and C.

fusion
A hobby OS implemented in Nim.

QuickFunctions
Compete to write the fastest function implementations!

gpu.cpp
A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computation using WebGPU.

Mazeppa
A modern supercompiler for call-by-value functional languages.

AI News:

📈“Godmother of AI” builds $1bn startup in 4 months

When the “Godmother of AI” shares her vision for a new startup, it’s no wonder investors would sit up and pay attention. Fei-Fei Li, the co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, became a pioneer in the field after developing an influential visual recognition database called ImageNet. Now, she’s back with a mysterious project called World Labs, which will build new models based around spatial awareness

Hugging Face introduced SmolLM - blazingly fast and remarkably powerful

Hugging Face introduced SmolLM, a family of high-performing small language models with 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters — which outperform competitors in their size categories across benchmarks.

🎨Microsoft’s AI Designer app goes mobile

Microsoft just announced its AI-powered Designer is out of preview and now available worldwide, bringing advanced image generation, editing, and design capabilities to users on mobile and Windows platforms.

Salesforce announced Einstein Service Agent

Salesforce today announced Einstein Service Agent, an AI-powered autonomous customer service chatbot that leverages LLMs and company data to understand context, take action on issues, and provide personalized responses.

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