7 Key Terms Every Machine Learning Beginner Should Know

Image by Editor | Midjourney & Canva If you’re new to machine learning, understanding basic terms is crucial. Knowing key terms can help you understand the basics better. Here are 7 essential terms every beginner should know. These terms will give you a solid foundation to build your machine learning knowledge. 1. Algorithm An algorithm is a set of rules a computer uses to solve a problem. It finds patterns in data and makes predictions. There are several types of […]

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Quiz: Python’s Built-in Exceptions: A Walkthrough With Examples

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 19 QuestionsBy Leodanis Pozo Ramos Share Or copy the link: Copied! Happy Pythoning! In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the most commonly used built-in exceptions in Python. Exception handling is a core topic in Python. Knowing how to use some of the most common built-in exceptions can help you to debug your code and handle your own exceptions. Good luck! The quiz contains 19 questions    

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7 Free Resource to Master LLMs

Image by Editor | Midjourney Large Language Models (LLMs) are a hot topic right now, and everyone is getting involved in this new trend. Companies are searching for LLM engineers who can develop and implement AI solutions to optimize their workflow and reduce costs through automation, customer service, recommendations, issue resolution, and debugging. Instead of worrying that AI will take your job, why not upskill and join the race? In this blog, we will provide a review of free courses, […]

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How to Write an Installable Django App

In the Django framework, a project refers to the collection of configuration files and code for a particular website. Django groups business logic into what it calls apps, which are the modules of the Django framework. There’s plenty of documentation on how to structure your projects and the apps within them, but when it comes time to package an installable Django app, information is harder to find. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to take an app out of a […]

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Top 9 Vector Databases You Should Know

Introduction In recent times, Vector Databases have gained quite a popularity, especially after the arrival of the RAG architecture to work efficiently with LLMs. The concept of vector databases is not new, however, as they were already used in recommendation engines, personalization, Ad targeting, etc. Vector databases are used to save, index, and retrieve complex data like text, images, or other unstructured formats in vectors. The vectors are mathematical representations of data in a high-dimensional space enabling high-quality similarity and […]

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What’s Your Story: Emre Kiciman

In this episode, I’m talking with Emre Kiciman, the senior principal research manager leading the AI for Industry research team at Microsoft Research Redmond. After completing a PhD in systems and networking in 2005, Emre began his career with Microsoft Research in the same area, studying reliability in large-scale internet services. Exposure to social data inspired him to refocus his research pursuits: his recent work in causal analysis—including DoWhy, a Python library for causal inference—is helping to connect the whats […]

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Research Focus: Week of July 29, 2024

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. NEW RESEARCH Scalable Differentiable Causal Discovery in the Presence of Latent Confounders with Skeleton Posterior Differentiable causal discovery has made significant advancements in the learning of directed acyclic graphs. However, its application to real-world datasets remains restricted due to the ubiquity of latent confounders and the requirement to learn maximal ancestral  

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Abstracts: July 29, 2024

LI LYNA ZHANG: Thank you for having me. HUIZINGA: So let’s start with a brief overview of your paper. Tell us about the issue your research addresses and why it matters. ZHANG: OK, so this paper is about how to effectively extend the context window of large language models beyond 2 million tokens. Why this is important? Because enabling longer input contexts can improve LLM capabilities. Right now, some LLMs can only handle a limited context window of 4K tokens, […]

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Quiz: Python Basics: Lists and Tuples

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 6 QuestionsBy Martin Breuss Share Or copy the link: Copied! Happy Pythoning! In Python Basics: Lists and Tuples, you’ve met two new and important data structures: Both of these data types are sequences, meaning they are objects that contain other objects in a certain order. They each have some important distinguishing properties and come with their own set of methods for interacting with objects of each type. In this quiz, youll    

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Quiz: Getting Started With Testing in Python

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 19 QuestionsBy Martin Breuss Share Or copy the link: Copied! Happy Pythoning! In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of testing your Python code. Testing in Python is a huge topic and can come with a lot of complexity, but it doesn’t need to be hard. You can get started creating simple tests for your application in a few easy steps and then build on it from there. With this quiz, you    

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