June 29, 2024

An overview of selected map topics and algorithms Bryan R. Vallejo · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · Jun 6, 2024 — Image by the Author. Collage of selected self-authored maps. Introduction As many of you know, the 30-Day Map Challenge is a social media event where people passionate about maps create a topic-based design for 30 days in November. You can find more information about it on the official

A Straightforward Guide on How NLP Tasks Generalize to Computer Vision Essam Wisam · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 1 day ago — Nearly all natural language processing tasks which range from language modeling and masked word prediction to translation and question-answering were revolutionized as the transformer architecture made its debute in 2017. It didn’t take more than 2–3 years for transformers to also excel in computer vision tasks.

Between quantization-aware training and post-training quantization Benjamin Marie · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 11 hours ago — Generated with DALL-E There are many quantization methods to reduce the size of large language models (LLM). Recently, better low-bit quantization methods have been proposed. For instance, AQLM achieves 2-bit quantization while preserving most of the model’s accuracy.

How data engineering is practiced today and why we should redefine it Bernd Wessely · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 1 day ago — What is the Problem with Data Engineering Today? If you search for a clear definition of what data engineering actually is, you’ll get so many different proposals that it leaves you with more questions than answers. But as I want to explain what needs to