We Were Wrong About GPUs

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Jazz OTD: Though unreleased for a couple of years after its February 15, 1964 recording, Lee Morgan's "Search for a New Land" is widely…

Jazz OTD: The subtitle of "Friends and Neighbors" is potentially a bit misleading, as the February 14, 1970 performance by Ornette Coleman…

Early start for Jazz OTD: Pianist Freddie Redd composed the soundtrack for and acted in Jack Gelber's play "The Connection," recording the…

Jazz OTD: Trumpeter Johnny Coles penned this tune, recorded as part of pianist Horace Parlan’s sextet (w/Booker Ervin, Grant Green, Butch…

How to Implement Early Stopping in PyCaret

This article explains early stopping and how to use it in PyCaret for classification.

Datacenter Anatomy Part 2 – Cooling Systems

Cluster deployments are an order of magnitude larger in scale with Gigawatt-scale datacenters coming online at full capacity much faster than most believe. As such, there are considerable desi…

Datacenter Anatomy Part 1: Electrical Systems

Meta Datacenter Scrapped, Vertiv, Schneider Electric, Eaton, Legrand, Delta, Datacenter Bill Of Materials By Component, Transformers, Switchgear, Redundancy, UPS, OCP Busbar, Generators, Substation…

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The Concise Guide to Homoscedasticity

Homoscedasticity stands as one of those statistical terms that can seem unnecessarily complex at first glance.

How Will the Trump Tariffs Affect Construction?

Earlier this month the Trump administration announced hefty 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports, along with an additional 10% tariffs on Chinese imports.

Text Preprocessing and Feature Engineering with spaCy

In this article, we’ll focus on how to prepare text data for machine learning and statistical modeling using spaCy.

The Hunt for Malaysia's Elusive Wildlife Trafficker - bellingcat

After a decade of elusive wildlife trafficking, we traced one anonymous dealer to a house in Malaysia, all thanks to a customer complaint.

The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It

In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia

Passion into Profit: Guide to Affiliate Marketing as a Side Hustle

Turn your passion into profit! Learn step-by-step how to start affiliate marketing as a successful side hustle.

Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture | Quanta Magazine

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

10 Little-Known Python Libraries That Will Make You Feel Like a Data Wizard - KDnuggets

In this article, I will introduce you to 10 little-known Python libraries every data scientist should know.

How to Deploy R Models

This article will discuss simple ways to deploy and manage R models.

America Doesn’t Just Have a Housing Crisis. It Has a Moving Crisis.

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

Advanced Magnet Manufacturing Begins in the United States

MP Materials begins manufacturing rare earth magnets, including Neodymium magnets, in the U.S. This marks a significant step for the domestic production of permanent magnets, crucial for industries like EVs and defense. Despite challenges, this move aims to reduce reliance on…

Living In A Lucid Dream | NOEMA

Recent research on lucid dreams suggests that consciousness exists along a spectrum between sleep and waking, between hallucination and revelation, between dreamworlds and reality.

When Louis Armstrong Conquered Chicago

Grammy-winner Ricky Riccardi tells the story of a milestone moment in American music in this extract from his new book

SWOT Analysis

A SWOT analysis helps teams understand how well a product, service, or organization is positioned in the market to serve its customers.

Six ways to send a message to your representatives

Let politicians know what you want.

Mathematical Symbols’ Wild History Explained

A mathematician has uncovered the stories behind the symbols used in math

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Eric teaches and publishes in the areas of Internet Law, Intellectual Property and Advertising & Marketing Law.

Opinion | A.I. Is Coming for Hank Azaria’s ‘Simpsons’ Voices

Soon enough, artificial intelligence may be able to recreate the sounds — but there will be something missing.

Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis

Uncover deeper insights beyond ZIP codes with geospatial analysis. Explore the limitations of ZIP codes and discover alternatives for spatial understanding.

Time Series Decomposition: Extracting Seasonal, Trend, and Residual Components

Still, the exact application, challenges and shortcuts related to this technique are relatively unknown, and that’s what this article seeks to change.

sqlite-s3vfs

Neat open source project on the GitHub organisation for the UK government's Department for Business and Trade: a "Python virtual filesystem for SQLite to read from and write to S3." …

Using pip to install a Large Language Model that’s under 100MB

I just released llm-smollm2, a new plugin for LLM that bundles a quantized copy of the SmolLM2-135M-Instruct LLM inside of the Python package. This means you can now pip install …

50+ Projects to Learn Data Analysis | Aman Kharwal

In this article, I'll take you through a list of 50+ Data Analysis Projects you should try to learn Data Analysis.

My Quest to Find the Owner of a Mysterious WWII Japanese Sword

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a traditional katana my grandfather had brought home from Japan in 1945. Years later, I decided it was time to find the heirloom’s rightful owner.

How to scan a full commit history to detect sensitive secrets

Use GitLab Secret Detection to scan a repository's commit history, including branches. View results within the GitLab UI with just a few lines of code added to a pipeline file.

The Long Quest for Artificial Blood

One of the most valuable substances in the world has never been replicated. Are we close?

A Pinch of Salt Boosts Aluminum Batteries

This sustainable, solid-state electrolyte design outlives lithium-ion batteries

The Concise Guide to Statistical Power

Statistical power might be the most frequently misunderstood concept in research design. While many researchers know they "need" it, few truly understand

You’re charging your phone wrong. It’s not your fault.

Lithium-ion battery technology is imperfect, but it’s not going anywhere.

Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly

Curiosity Snacks: How to Redirect Your Impulse to Know

Curiosity snacks are small, intentional nudges that guide our impulsive curiosity toward learning, creativity, and meaningful discovery rather than mindless scrolling.

A Practical Guide to Survival Analysis

Survival analysis consists of statistical methods that help us understand and predict how long it takes for an event to occur.

Bash One-Liners for Quick Data Transformations

Here are 10 powerful one-liners that can help you quickly accomplish essential data tasks.

Understanding Reasoning LLMs

In this article, I will describe the four main approaches to building reasoning models, or how we can enhance LLMs with reasoning capabilities. I hope this p...

How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords: The Art of Traditional Sword Making from Start to Finish

We made sand think: this phrase is used from time to time to evoke the particular technological wonders of our age, especially since artificial intelligence seems to be back on the slate of possibilities.

My approach to running a link blog

I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” …

The United States Frequency Allocation Chart

This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s most crucial – and invisible – national assets: the radio spectrum.

Support Vector Machines: A Progression of Algorithms

MMC, SVC, SVM: What’s the difference?

If I wanted to close my eyes and put on a live album that would whisk me away to New Orleans for a live concert of the finest jazz ever put…

I have a pretty killer audio setup that would require Porsche money to improve. I want to be transported to a jazz hall by a live album that is so…

5 AI Agent Frameworks Compared - KDnuggets

Check out this comparison of 5 AI frameworks to determine which you should choose.

(WIP) A Little Bit of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

The Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback Book