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In today's edition:

🌟Snowflake launches Cortex Analyst
🤔what is the hardest thing as a machine learning engineer?
📊 Active Statistics - Elevate your data analysis with smarter insights.
📸Google’s upgraded ‘Imagen' 3’ AI image generator
🎥 Runway launches Gen-3 Alpha Turbo
🆕 Hermes 3 is the newest open-source model
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create landing pages from screenshots with Claude
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Best End-to-End Open Source MLOps: Platforms, Frameworks and Tools

Leveraging open-source MLOps tools can significantly enhance this process, providing flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Here, we explore some of the leading open-source MLOps platforms, frameworks, and tools that are empowering developers and data scientists worldwide.

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Java Virtual Threads: a Case Study

Virtual threads are an important advancement in Java concurrent programming, but they do not offer a clear advantage over Open Liberty’s existing autonomic thread pool for running typical cloud-native Java workloads.

The release of JDK 21 brought into general availability a much-publicized new function, Java Virtual Threads. This feature marks a significant leap forward in how Java developers can better handle parallelism in their applications.

Snowflake launches Cortex Analyst, an agentic AI system for accurate data analytics

Snowflake is all set to deploy powerful language models for complex data work. Today, the company announced it is launching Cortex Analyst, an all-new agentic AI system for self-service analytics, in public preview.

what is the hardest thing as a machine learning engineer?

I have just begun my journey into machine learning. For practice, I obtain data from Kaggle.com, but I decided to challenge myself further by collecting data on my own. I discovered that gathering a substantial amount of data is quite challenging. How is data typically collected, and are there any thing harder than that?

Active Statistics

This book provides statistics instructors and students with complete classroom material for a one- or two-semester course on applied regression and causal inference. It is built around 52 stories, 52 class-participation activities, 52 hands-on computer demonstrations, and 52 discussion problems that allow instructors and students to explore in a fun way the real-world complexity of the subject

👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

Nous - TypeScript AI agent platform with Autonomous agents, Software developer agents, AI code review agents and more

Kardinal (GitHub Repo)

Kardinal is a framework for creating lightweight development environments within shared Kubernetes clusters.

AI News:

🤖 Apple plans to launch a $1,000 home robot by 2026

Bloomberg reported that hundreds of engineers are working on a multipurpose “tabletop robot,” which will be infused with Apple Intelligence and an AI-powered Siri. The $1,000 device is expected to be released sometime in 2026 or 2027.

🎥 Runway launches Gen-3 Alpha Turbo

Runway ML has officially released Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, the latest version of the AI video generation model that it claims is 7x faster and half the cost of its predecessor, Gen-3 Alpha.

Google’s upgraded ‘Imagen' 3’ AI image generator is now available

Google’s Imagen 3, a highly improved AI image generator, is now accessible to more users in the US, offering higher-quality image creation with advanced features. The tool allows users to edit specific image sections but includes guardrails against generating public figures and copyrighted characters.

🛒 AI makes Walmart 100x more productive

Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon just reported that the company is using generative AI to increase its productivity, updating 850 million product catalog entries 100 times faster than human-led methods.

🆕 Hermes 3 is the newest open-source model

Nous Research just released Hermes 3, a new open-source model with significant improvements in roleplaying, agentic tasks, function calling, multi-turn chats, and long context coherence.

AI Tutorial

How to create landing pages from screenshots with Claude

Go to Claude AI and log in with your account.
Now make sure you have enabled Claude 3.5 Sonnet and the artifacts feature.
Upload your screenshot and prompt it to generate a similar website for you.

Example Prompt: Generate a website, with the code, that looks like the attached image. [attach image].

Wait a few seconds and you’ll get the first version of your landing page. Download it and open it to see it in full screen.
You can edit it, add images of your choice, and make changes accordingly. You can use the prompt:

Make these changes to it: [insert 1st change] and [insert 2nd change]

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A.I. Generated Image of the Day

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