Overcoming Outliers with ROBPCA

Principal components analysis is a variance decomposition technique that is frequently used for dimensionality reduction. A thorough guide to PCA is available here. In essence, each principal…

Gradio: Beyond the Interface

When using Gradio for the first time, you’ll likely end up using the Interface method to display your GUI. The reason for this is the simplicity it offers and if your page layouts are uncomplicated…

Practical Computer Simulations for Product Analysts

In the first part of this series, we've discussed the basic ideas of computer simulations and how you can leverage them to answer "what-if" questions. It's impossible to talk about simulations…

Jamba: The New Hybrid Transformer/Mamba

The transformer neural architecture is state-of-the-art. It scales very well, i.e., the larger models learn better, and is efficient to train thanks to the parallel computation of the attention.

Explaining complex models to business stakeholders

Business stakeholders are starting to recognise the value machine learning models bring to their operations, gaining a deeper understanding of their benefits and drawbacks. Simultaneously, there’s a…

This AI newsletter is all you need #97

Our focus this week was on real-world testing and fine-tuning of LLama-3 and Phi-3, as well as some exciting progress in medical AI. We have been monitoring resounding positive feedback on LLama-3…

Enhancing Direct Answer Accuracy in RAG Setup with Self-Retrieval Mechanisms

Enhancing Direct Answer Accuracy in RAG Setup with Self-Retrieval Mechanisms. Leveraging the power of LLMs to significantly enhance the quality of document context retrieved for direct answer generation in your RAG….

Advanced SQL for Data Analysis —Part 1: Subqueries and CTE

As query complexity increases, there is a growing need to keep the code organized, modular, and readable. Therefore, it is important to know techniques to maintain code organization. This skill will…

Unboxing Loss Functions in YOLOv8

YOLO has long been one of the first go-to models for object detection tasks. It’s fast and accurate. Besides, the API is concise and easy to work on. The lines of code required to run a training or…

How to Implement and Test Phi3: Microsoft’s Powerful New Large Language Model

This article discusses the newly released Phi3 large language model from Microsoft, an LLM capable of performing various tasks with a uniquely large context window relative to the model’s size. I…