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🔥 Positron IDE – a game-changer for data science projects!

🔥 Positron IDE – a game-changer for data science projects!

🦾Plus: 🍓 OpenAI unveils new model called 'o1'

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Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…

In today's edition:

🔍How to Test Machine Learning Systems
🔧SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL
🖼️Denoising: A Powerful Building-Block for Imaging, Inverse Problems, ML
🗣️ Mark Zuckerberg talks about AI
🖼️ Mistral debuts Pixtral-12B multimodal AI model
🤖 OpenAI raising $6.5 billion
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Turn Text into Custom Landing Pages
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Anatomy of a MapReduce Job

In a typical Anatomy of MapReduce job, input files are read from the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Data is usually compressed to reduce file sizes. After decompression, serialized bytes are transformed into Java objects before being passed to a user-defined map() function. Conversely, output records are serialized, compressed, and eventually pushed back to HDFS.

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How to Test Machine Learning Systems

Testing machine learning is hard because it’s probabilistic by nature, and must account for diverse data and dynamic real-world conditions…You should start with a basic CI pipeline. Focus on the most valuable tests for your use case: Syntax Testing, Data Creation Testing, Model Creation Testing, E2E Testing, and Artifact Testing

SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL

Inspired by a pattern that works well in other modern data languages, we added piped data flow syntax to SQL. The results are transformative - SQL becomes a flexible language that’s easier to learn, use and extend, while still leveraging the existing SQL ecosystem and existing userbase.

Denoising: A Powerful Building-Block for Imaging, Inverse Problems, and Machine Learning

Denoising, the process of reducing random fluctuations in a signal to emphasize essential patterns, has been a fundamental problem of interest since the dawn of modern scientific inquiry. Recent denoising techniques, particularly in imaging, have achieved remarkable success, nearing theoretical limits by some measures.

Positron IDE - A new IDE for data science

Positron is a clone of Visual Studio Code (VScode), but tweaks for data science. I think this was a smart move by Posit’s team. VScode is a great IDE, and it’s free, open-source, and cross-platform, and it has so many developers on board already, and has an extensive library of extensions. Many of these extensions are also available to Positron, which is a huge advantage!

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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

ell (GitHub Repo)

ell is a lightweight functional prompt engineering framework that treats prompts as programs instead of strings. It supports rich type coercion for multimodal inputs and outputs.

Spin (GitHub Repo)

Spin is a bash utility that improves the Docker experience. It can replicate any environment on any machine and centralize infrastructure from a single configuration file.

AI Gateway (GitHub Repo)

AI Gateway is an interface between apps and hosted large language models. It streamlines API requests to LLM providers using a unified API.

AI News:

OpenAI unveils new model called o1

OpenAI has officially released ‘o1’ (internally known as Project Strawberry/Q*), its first AI model with advanced 'reasoning' capabilities now integrated into ChatGPT for Premium and Teams users.

The details:

o1 uses reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought processing to "think" before responding, mimicking human problem-solving.
It outperforms expert humans on PhD-level science questions and ranks in the 89th percentile for competitive programming.
The model also solved 83% of International Mathematics Olympiad qualifying exam problems, compared to GPT-4o's 13%.
Two versions available: o1-preview and o1-mini — which by the time of this newsletter publishing — has been rolled out to all ChatGPT Premium and Teams users.

Mark Zuckerberg talks about AI

At a recent live podcast event, Mark Zuckerberg discussed the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse in Meta’s strategy, reflecting on how he has kept his company ahead in Silicon Valley. Speaking to a crowd of over 6,000 tech enthusiasts, Zuckerberg highlighted the challenges of building Meta's empire and its evolution over the past two decades, with AI at the forefront of this transformation.

🖼️ Mistral debuts Pixtral-12B multimodal AI model

Mistral has introduced Pixtral-12B, a new open-source AI model capable of processing both images and text. This multimodal breakthrough is set to enhance image comprehension and text processing.

Google’s AI-generated podcasts feature

Google has introduced an experimental feature in its NotebookLM app that turns research into AI-generated podcasts, featuring two AI "hosts" who summarize and discuss the material. This feature builds on NotebookLM’s existing capabilities, which use Google’s Gemini AI model to help summarize notes and research

OpenAI raising $6.5 billion

OpenAI is in discussions to raise $6.5 billion in new funding at a valuation of $150 billion, significantly higher than its previous $86 billion valuation earlier this year, making it one of the world's most valuable startups. In addition to equity funding, OpenAI is negotiating a $5 billion revolving credit facility from banks.

AI Tutorial

How to Turn Text into Custom Landing Pages

Transforming your ideas into visually appealing landing pages has never been easier, thanks to Figma and its powerful Musho plug-in. Here's how:

Log in to your Figma account or create a new one if you haven't already.
Launch a fresh design file and navigate to the plug-ins area.
In the search bar, type "Musho" and select the plug-in when it appears.
Choose your preferred output style (options include landing page, social media content, or experimental mode).
Input your text prompt and initiate the plug-in.
Watch as Musho generates a tailored landing page based on your input.

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