📌 Summer Must-Reads: The Data Science Edition

🗂 Category: THE VARIABLE

🕒 Date: 2025-07-17 | ⏱️ Read time: 4 min read

Cool off with some engaging, enlightening reads.

📌 Your 1M+ Context Window LLM Is Less Powerful Than You Think

🗂 Category: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

🕒 Date: 2025-07-17 | ⏱️ Read time: 9 min read

Why working memory is a more important bottleneck than raw context window size

📌 Midyear 2025 AI Reflection

🗂 Category: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-07-16 | ⏱️ Read time: 7 min read

Impressions on agentic AI progress and the AI-2027 Jobocalypse scenario

📌 Exploring Prompt Learning: Using English Feedback to Optimize LLM Systems

🗂 Category: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

🕒 Date: 2025-07-16 | ⏱️ Read time: 11 min read

Prompt learning presents a compelling approach for continuous improvement of AI applications

📌 How to Overlay a Heatmap on a Real Map with Python

🗂 Category: DATA VISUALIZATION

🕒 Date: 2025-07-16 | ⏱️ Read time: 9 min read

Visualizing historical tornado trends

📌 3 Steps to Context Engineering a Crystal-Clear Project

🗂 Category: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-07-16 | ⏱️ Read time: 7 min read

Learn three easy steps for gaining an intelligent picture for any project by using the…

📌 The Power of Building from Scratch

🗂 Category: AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS

🕒 Date: 2025-07-16 | ⏱️ Read time: 5 min read

Mauro Di Pietro discusses building AI agents with open-source tools, bridging theory and practice, and…

📌 Do You Really Need a Foundation Model?

🗂 Category: MACHINE LEARNING

🕒 Date: 2025-07-16 | ⏱️ Read time: 10 min read

LLM or custom model: how should you choose the right solution?

📌 How Metrics (and LLMs) Can Trick You: A Field Guide to Paradoxes

🗂 Category: DATA SCIENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-07-15 | ⏱️ Read time: 8 min read

When numbers lie — and your metrics mislead you

📌 How to Ensure Reliability in LLM Applications

🗂 Category: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

🕒 Date: 2025-07-15 | ⏱️ Read time: 7 min read

Learn how to make your LLM applications more robust

📌 Deploy a Streamlit App to AWS

🗂 Category: DATA SCIENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-07-15 | ⏱️ Read time: 16 min read

Using the Elastic Beanstalk service

📌 From Equal Weights to Smart Weights: OTPO’s Approach to Better LLM Alignment

🗂 Category: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

🕒 Date: 2025-07-15 | ⏱️ Read time: 7 min read

Using optimal transport to weight what matters most In LLM-generated responses

📌 Automating Deep Learning: A Gentle Introduction to AutoKeras and Keras Tuner

🗂 Category: DATA SCIENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-07-15 | ⏱️ Read time: 4 min read

How to save time and boost your models with these two approachable AutoML libraries.

📌 The Future of AI Agent Communication with ACP

🗂 Category: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-07-15 | ⏱️ Read time: 17 min read

A practical guide to connecting and coordinating multiple AI agents.

📌 Accuracy Is Dead: Calibration, Discrimination, and Other Metrics You Actually Need

🗂 Category: DATA SCIENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-07-14 | ⏱️ Read time: 7 min read

A deep dive into advanced evaluation for data scientists

📌 Topic Model Labelling with LLMs

🗂 Category: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

🕒 Date: 2025-07-14 | ⏱️ Read time: 6 min read

Python tutorial for reproducible labeling of cutting-edge topic models with GPT4-o-mini.

📌 There and Back Again: An AI Career Journey

🗂 Category: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-07-14 | ⏱️ Read time: 7 min read

A full circle moment 30 years in the making

📌 Dynamic Inventory Optimization with Censored Demand

🗂 Category: DATA SCIENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-07-14 | ⏱️ Read time: 20 min read

A sequential decision framework with Bayesian learning

📌 Simple Guide to Multi-Armed Bandits: A Key Concept Before Reinforcement Learning

🗂 Category: REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

🕒 Date: 2025-07-14 | ⏱️ Read time: 12 min read

How AI learns to make better decisions and why you should care about exploration vs.…

📌 CLIP Model Overview :  Unlocking the Power of Multimodal AI

🗂 Category: MACHINE LEARNING

🕒 Date: 2025-07-14 | ⏱️ Read time: 7 min read

The magic behind multimodal models unlocked through contrastive learning

📌 Tracking Drill-Through Actions on Power BI Report Titles

🗂 Category: POWER BI

🕒 Date: 2025-07-14 | ⏱️ Read time: 6 min read

When you have a drill-through page that can be called from multiple pages, it could…