📌 Parquet File Format – Everything You Need to Know!

🗂 Category: DATA ENGINEERING

🕒 Date: 2025-05-14 | ⏱️ Read time: 9 min read

New data flavors require new ways for storing it! Learn everything you need to know…

📌 Survival Analysis When No One Dies: A Value-Based Approach

🗂 Category: STATISTICS

🕒 Date: 2025-05-13 | ⏱️ Read time: 11 min read

A generalized version of Kaplan-Meier allows to model a continuous value (like money) instead of…

📌 Get Started with Rust: Installation and Your First CLI Tool – A Beginner’s Guide

🗂 Category: PROGRAMMING

🕒 Date: 2025-05-13 | ⏱️ Read time: 8 min read

From setup to your first command line application — step by step

📌 Non-Parametric Density Estimation: Theory and Applications

🗂 Category: STATISTICS

🕒 Date: 2025-05-13 | ⏱️ Read time: 26 min read

A theoretical and practical introduction to non-parametric density estimation.

📌 Rethinking the Environmental Costs of Training AI — Why We Should Look Beyond Hardware

🗂 Category: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-05-13 | ⏱️ Read time: 19 min read

A statistical analysis of what drives energy, water, and carbon consumption in AI training —…

📌 TDS Authors Can Now Receive Payments Via Stripe

🗂 Category: WRITING

🕒 Date: 2025-05-13 | ⏱️ Read time: 2 min read

The Author Payment Program just became a lot more streamlined

📌 Empowering LLMs to Think Deeper by Erasing Thoughts

🗂 Category: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

🕒 Date: 2025-05-12 | ⏱️ Read time: 11 min read

Introduction Recent large language models (LLMs) — such as OpenAI’s o1/o3, DeepSeek’s R1 and Anthropic’s…

📌 How I Finally Understood MCP — and Got It Working in Real Life

🗂 Category: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

🕒 Date: 2025-05-12 | ⏱️ Read time: 28 min read

The guide I needed when I had no idea why anyone would build an MCP…

📌 The Westworld Blunder

🗂 Category: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-05-12 | ⏱️ Read time: 16 min read

Giving artificial minds the appearance of suffering without the awareness that it’s just a performance…

📌 Pause Your ML Pipelines for Human Review Using AWS Step Functions + Slack

🗂 Category: MACHINE LEARNING

🕒 Date: 2025-05-12 | ⏱️ Read time: 7 min read

Build trust into your machine learning pipelines by inserting fast, secure human checks.

📌 Running Python Programs in Your Browser

🗂 Category: PROGRAMMING

🕒 Date: 2025-05-12 | ⏱️ Read time: 17 min read

Using Pyodide and Webassembly

📌 Will You Spot the Leaks? A Data Science Challenge

🗂 Category: DATA SCIENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-05-12 | ⏱️ Read time: 8 min read

When models fly too high: A perilous journey through data leakage

📌 The Art of the Phillips Curve

🗂 Category: ECONOMICS

🕒 Date: 2025-05-12 | ⏱️ Read time: 17 min read

The subjective details holding together one of economics’ favourite models

📌 What My GPT Stylist Taught Me About Prompting Better

🗂 Category: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

🕒 Date: 2025-05-09 | ⏱️ Read time: 14 min read

Inside the Strange Behavior of LLMs

📌 Log Link vs Log Transformation in R — The Difference that Misleads Your Entire Data Analysis

🗂 Category: DATA SCIENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-05-09 | ⏱️ Read time: 9 min read

Although normal distributions are the most commonly used, a lot of real-world data unfortunately is…

📌 A Review of AccentFold: One of the Most Important Papers on African ASR

🗂 Category: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-05-09 | ⏱️ Read time: 12 min read

AccentFold tackles a specific issue many of us can relate to: current ASR systems just…

📌 Time Series Forecasting Made Simple (Part 2): Customizing Baseline Models

🗂 Category: DATA SCIENCE

🕒 Date: 2025-05-09 | ⏱️ Read time: 18 min read

From simple averages to blended strategies, this part builds a foundation for better forecasting models.

📌 How Not to Write an MCP Server

🗂 Category: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

🕒 Date: 2025-05-09 | ⏱️ Read time: 13 min read

Five hard lessons learned from my first attempt at leveraging the new MCP technology, a…

📌 Clustering Eating Behaviors in Time: A Machine Learning Approach to Preventive Health

🗂 Category: MACHINE LEARNING

🕒 Date: 2025-05-08 | ⏱️ Read time: 18 min read

How understanding the timing of meals using machine learning can support preventive healthcare

📌 Model Compression: Make Your Machine Learning Models Lighter and Faster

🗂 Category: MACHINE LEARNING

🕒 Date: 2025-05-08 | ⏱️ Read time: 13 min read

A deep dive into pruning, quantization, distillation, and other techniques to make your neural networks…