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How ML can change for rare events The post Using Transformers to Forecast Incredibly Rare Solar Flares appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Large language models are no longer just about scale. In 2026, the most important LLM research is focused on making models safer, more controllable, and more useful as real-world agents. From persuasion risk and harmful-content mechanisms to tool-calling, temporal reasoning, and agent privacy, these...

"Should we process our data in batches or in real-time?" It's not batch vs. stream: it's "when does the answer matter?" The post Batch or Stream? The Eternal Data Processing Dilemma appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Learn how to build a vector search engine from scratch in Python with embeddings, similarity scoring, and basic retrieval logic.

Using Claude Code in large projects can lead to skyrocketing token costs. A 2025 Stanford study reveals developers waste thousands of tokens daily, draining budgets as unchecked context limits pile up. By setting strict boundaries from the outset, teams can reduce costs without compromising code qua...

The architecture behind a portable knowledge layer and the automation that keeps it alive. The post Give Your AI Unlimited Updated Context appeared first on Towards Data Science.

AI technology is leapfrogging, yet that doesn’t mean we always want a revolutionary feature out of it. What most users would want more of are simple capabilities within AI that can help with their everyday tasks, whether in the office, at home, or anywhere else. On those lines, OpenAI may have just ...

A detailed Abacus AI review covering ChatLLM, Abacus AI Agent, Claw, automation, app building, image and video generation, pricing, pros, cons, and who should use it.

Stop shifting elements in lists! Discover why collections.deque is the secret to high-performance sliding windows, thread-safe queues, and efficient data streams in your next Python project. The post Beyond Lists: Using Python Deque for Real-Time Sliding Windows appeared first on Towards Data Scienc...

Learn how to connect Claude Code to Discord locally, pair your account, control access, and keep the bot running reliably.

A physicist's approach to building production-grade agents The post Why I Don’t Trust LLMs to Decide When the Weather Changed appeared first on Towards Data Science.

What you see is rarely what you get with flashy dashboards and data storytelling The post Deconstruct Any Metric with a Few Simple ‘What’ Questions appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Improve Claude Code performance by having it validate its own work The post How to Make Claude Code Validate its own Work appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Fine-tuning LLMs has become much easier because of open-source tools. You no longer need to build the full training stack from scratch. Whether you want low-VRAM training, LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF, DPO, multi-GPU scaling, or a simple UI, there is likely a library that fits your workflow. Here are the best ...

A practical guide to understanding AI agent design, ReAct workflows, and when to scale from a single agent to a multi-agent system. The post Single Agent vs Multi-Agent: When to Build a Multi-Agent System appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Building a knowledge base for AI models isn’t a one-time task but an iterative process of refinement. The post How to Build an Efficient Knowledge Base for AI Models appeared first on Towards Data Science.

How to turn an interview-style SQL query into a production-ready, testable, version-controlled workflow.

Learn how to build, test, deploy, and monitor your first FastAPI Cloud app, a simple live gold and silver dashboard.

Solving multiplayer games with function approximation The post Playing Connect Four with Deep Q-Learning appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Claude Code token costs usually come from bloated context, not just long prompts. These 7 practical tactics help reduce waste without hurting quality.

A review of the Cross-Stage Partial Network paper  —  and a from-scratch PyTorch implementation The post CSPNet Paper Walkthrough: Just Better, No Tradeoffs appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Why reasoning models dramatically increase token usage, latency, and infrastructure costs in production systems The post Inference Scaling (Test-Time Compute): Why Reasoning Models Raise Your Compute Bill appeared first on Towards Data Science.

What people actually look for when hiring juniors that stand out. The post How to Get Hired in the AI Era appeared first on Towards Data Science.

A data quality case study from English local elections on categorical normalisation, metric validation, and why raw labels should never define analytical groups. The post Churn Without Fragmentation: How a Party-Label Bug Reversed My Headline Finding appeared first on Towards Data Science.