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If you’re still using a standard chatbot for your AI work, you’re missing a lot of features. And I mean a lot! AI Studio is the workshop offered by Google, designed for those who want to prototype, build, and deploy without needing a PhD in computer science. Whether you’re writing for an email, crea...

Learn how to get the most out of Claude Cowork The post How to Maximize Claude Cowork appeared first on Towards Data Science.

If you are looking to optimize your creative and productivity workflows, here are the five features in NotebookLM that matter most right now.

Inside disaggregated LLM inference — the architecture shift behind 2-4x cost reduction that most ML teams haven't adopted yet. The post Prefill Is Compute-Bound. Decode Is Memory-Bound. Why Your GPU Shouldn’t Do Both. appeared first on Towards Data Science.

It’s not about audio and video anymore The post From Pixels to DNA: Why the Future of Compression Is About Every Kind of Data appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Computer Vision remains one of the most commercially valuable areas in AI. Powering applications from autonomous driving to medical imaging and generative systems. But breaking into the field requires more than just theory! A strong portfolio of practical projects is what sets you apart. This guide ...

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Discover five simple VS Code extensions that boost your everyday productivity without AI.

What to use, when to use it, and what to ignore? The post A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Quantum SDK appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Everyone says they're "collaborating" with AI. Most are just giving orders and accepting whatever comes back.

In an age of constrained compute, learn how to optimize GPU efficiency through understanding architecture, bottlenecks, and fixes ranging from simple PyTorch commands to custom kernels. The post A Guide to Understanding GPUs and Maximizing GPU Utilization appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Learn seven Docker Compose templates for CMS, web apps, databases, Python backends, streaming, automation, and local AI development.

Generate high-quality, minimal SVG plots by fitting Bézier curves with an ODF algorithm. The post How To Produce Ultra-Compact Vector Graphic Plots With Orthogonal Distance Fitting appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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Learn how to apply coding agents to all tasks on your computer The post How to Apply Claude Code to Non-technical Tasks appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Google, my favourite tech firm for reasons exactly as this one, has done it once again. It has got the worldwide community of developers supercharged with one new product. This one is called Gemma 4. What’s the hype? Well, a completely open-source model that competes with AI models 20 times its size...

What has changed in the past five years in the role and importance of generalists in data teams The post Range Over Depth: A Reflection on the Role of the Data Generalist appeared first on Towards Data Science.

These five books are the ones worth your time in 2026 if you are building systems where models don't just respond, they act.

Language models (LMs), at their core, are text-in and text-out systems.

Master method chaining, assign(), and pipe() to write cleaner, testable, production-ready Pandas code The post Write Pandas Like a Pro With Method Chaining Pipelines appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Most ReAct-style agents are silently wasting their retry budget on errors that can never succeed. In a 200-task benchmark, 90.8% of retries were spent on hallucinated tool calls — not model mistakes, but architectural flaws. This article shows why prompt tuning won’t fix it, and the three structural...

Z.ai is out with its next-generation flagship AI model and has named it GLM-5.1. With its combination of extensive model size, operational efficiency, and superior reasoning functions, the model represents a major step forward in large language models. The system improves upon previous GLM models by...

AI coding assistants need a persistent memory layer to overcome the statelessness of LLMs and improve code quality by systematically providing context across sessions. The post Why Every AI Coding Assistant Needs a Memory Layer appeared first on Towards Data Science.

We fitted the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve to 555,000 real fraud transactions and got R² = −0.31 — worse than a flat line. This result explains why calendar-based retraining fails in production and introduces a practical shock-detection approach that works in real systems. The post Why MLOps Retraini...