Data Elixir - Issue 458

Embeddings deep dive. Project Silica. RTutor. Internships for 2024. Deep learning course. Hypeparameter tuning. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

ISSUE 458 · October 24, 2023   Trends Sealed in glass This may be Microsoft's most important contribution to tech so far. Project Silica’s coaster-size glass plates can store terrabytes of data for thousands of years. The plates can be burned, boiled, dropped, scoured, and microwaved and still, the data will persist, unscathed. Cool project! Microsoft | Unlocked   What will an AI revolution in medicine look like? Five years ago, the renowned AI expert, Geoffrey Hinton, proclaimed that machine learning tools would soon displace radiologists. So far, that hasn't happened and probably won't anytime soon. This article takes a look at the landscape of AI tooling, the challenges, and what's next now. Nature | Mariana Lenharo   Sponsored Link Learning to learn learning-rate schedules Amazon researchers are developing algorithms that can learn to schedule by harnessing data from past experiments. In a sequence of recent papers, they describe three phases of their research.       Reach Data Elixir readers by sponsoring an issue. Click here for details.   Posts & Tutorials Embeddings: What they are and why they matter Great introduction to embeddings, which are important in LLMs and, of course, vector databases. This is easy to follow and manages to go deep without getting into a lot of jargon. Includes a recent presentation at PyBay, code snippets, and lots of resources along the way. Simon Willison   Joining CSV Data Without SQL You've got csv data. You want to run sophisticated queries against it. Does that mean you need to turn it into SQL tables first? This post shows how to approach the problem using the open-source tool, Zed.  Brim Data | Phil Rzewski   Interactive Linear Model Hypeparameter Tuning This set of interactive dashboards lets you explore the use of a hyperparameter to tune linear machine learning models. The hyperparameter controls the degree of fit to the data, known as model regularization. This notebook visualizes both ridge and LASSO regression. There's a lot of great work in this repo. Look around! Python Numerical Demos | Michael J. Pyrcz   30-Day Map Challenge 🌎 Whether you're a GIS expert or have never made a map before, if you're interested in making maps with data, you're sure to learn something useful during this annual challenge. If you just want to follow along, maps are published using the hashtag #30DayMapChallenge. #30DayMapChallenge   Tools & Code RTutor This project has evolved a lot since being mentioned in Data Elixir in January. RTutor uses ChatGPT to translate natural language into R code, which is then executed. You can upload a data file and then request an analysis, just like asking a real person. It can also be run locally and the latest version uses GPT-4 and ggplot2 as defaults. RTutor   Resources Deep Learning Course Awesome deep learning course by François Fleuret at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. The course is a thorough introduction to deep-learning, with examples in the PyTorch framework. Everything is freely available, including handouts, slides, and recordings. François Fleuret   2024 Internship Opportunities in Engineering & Data Great collection of internship announcements for 2024. This list covers a wide variety of organizations, such as Dropbox, NASA, Adobe, Nike, NVDIA, Pinecone, Tesla, and many more. Includes hourly pay and links to application info, typical interview questions, and Glassdoor ratings Diversify Tech     How did you like this issue of Data Elixir? 👎    1     2     3     4     5   👍       Was this email forwarded to you?  Sign up here >>     Data Elixir, LLC P.O. Box 21255 Boulder, CO 80308 Data Elixir® is curated and maintained by Lon Riesberg. If you have questions or suggestions, just reply back to this email. Unsubscribe