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The Future of AI for Sales Is Diverse and Distributed
3+ hour, 11+ min ago (1260+ words) True creativity and innovation will come from human-agent collaboration. One human, millions of agents. Weeks later, Google and Accel's Atoms accelerator reviewed roughly 4, 000 AI startup applications and rejected about 70% of them as shallow wrappers. The startups that made the cut…...
Why AI Is Training on Its Own Garbage (and How to Fix It)
22+ hour, 41+ min ago (927+ words) Deep web data is the gold we can't touch, yet If you have been interested in AI for a while, you are probably an LLM/Agent/Chat user, but have you ever asked yourself how these tools will be trained…...
Grounding Your LLM: A Practical Guide to RAG for Enterprise Knowledge Bases
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (1707+ words) A clear mental model and a practical foundation you can build on There is a moment every AI engineer knows well. You have just shipped a proof of concept. The demo went brilliantly. The LLM answered questions fluently, synthesised information…...
Democratizing Marketing Mix Models (MMM) with Open Source and Gen AI
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (627+ words) A practical system design combining open-source Bayesian MMM and Gen AI for transparent, vendor independent marketing analytics insights. This open-source workflow has several benefits: For the purpose of this showcase, I have used the open-source model Mistral 7 B, sourced locally…...
Context Engineering for AI'Agents: A Deep Dive
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (1449+ words) How to optimize context, a precious finite resource for AI'agents We talk a lot about better models, larger context windows, and more capable agents. But most real-world failures don't come from model capability'they come from how context is constructed, passed,…...
The Arithmetic of Productivity Boosts: Why Does a "40% Increase in Productivity" Never Actually Work?
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (880+ words) Why does grand productivity promises never actually deliver? Is every product just bad, or is there something else hiding in the numbers? Throughout my work as a consultant and manager in the data sphere, I've sat through my fair share…...
Behavior is the New Credential
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (913+ words) Cybersecurity in the age of AI We are living through a paradigm shift in how we prove we are who we say we are online. Instead of asking What do you know? (password, PIN, mother's maiden name) or What do…...
A Data Scientist's Take on the $599 Mac Book Neo
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (1460+ words) Why it doesn't fit my workflow but still makes sense for beginners When Apple dropped the $599 Mac Book Neo last month, I did what any data scientist pretending to be financially responsible would do. I opened six browser tabs, watched…...
Building Robust Credit Scoring Models with Python
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (1635+ words) A Practical Guide to Measuring Relationships between Variables for Feature Selection in a Credit Scoring. Thank you for your feedback and interest in my previous article. Since several readers asked how to replicate the analysis, I decided to share the…...
Building a Python Workflow That Catches Bugs Before Production
5+ day, 11+ min ago (1661+ words) Using modern tooling to identify defects earlier in the software lifecycle. Python is one of those languages that can make you feel productive almost immediately. That is a big part of why it's so popular. Moving from idea to working…...