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A small adversarial test set that catches the retrieval failures your evaluation set never will The post Break Your Own RAG Pipeline Before Users Do appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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Finding citations, consolidating code, fact-checking and preparing for the defence The post 4 Ways to Use AI on a PhD Thesis appeared first on Towards Data Science.

The AI that makes decisions instead of generating text The post An Introduction to Jev appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Learn how to build a Python AI agent with the OpenAI Agents SDK, using tool calling and function tools to automate multi-step workflows.

How to put a dollar value on your organization's operational data The post Google Offered $10M for a Dying Airline's Data. How Can You Value Yours? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Almost every slow Polars script lacks in terms of one of these two: its expression engine written and executing in Rust across every core at its disposal, and its query optimizer that rewrites your work before any of it runs.

In this second article in our short series on SLM optimization techniques we focus on the reuse of the prompt prefix with a key-value cache.

Putting AI into production now takes more than deploying a model and tracking accuracy. MLOps made traditional ML manageable, while LLMOps added concerns around prompts, retrieval, evaluation, latency, and cost.  AgentOps adds another layer for systems that decide, call tools, and complete multi-ste...

A VRAM budget formula for LLM serving, and three optimization strategies mapped to the traffic patterns that trigger the OOM. The post The KV Cache Tax: Why Inference Servers Run Out of Memory Before Compute appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Learn how to build effective evals for AI agents, from designing clear tasks and choosing the right graders to building reliable eval harnesses and tracking changes over time.

What ordering and not eating a large pizza tells us about ML memory management The post The N Squared Pizza Problem appeared first on Towards Data Science.

How moving randomness outside the computation graph turns noisy gradient estimators into low-variance, differentiable ones The post Reparameterization Tricks: Variance Reduction by Smarter Gradients appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Keep your apps looking professional with Claude Code design skills The post How to Build Consistent Designs with Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science.

How statistical moments connect the mean, the variance, and higher powers of a distribution The post Seizing the Moment: The Hidden Silhouette of Data appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Senior Python practice, watched up close, is mostly surprise reduction. These seven habits surface the surprises before production does.

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash shows how Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, MoE, KV cache compression, CSA2, cheaper prefill, and efficient decoding can make powerful open-source AI models far more efficient to run.

What large operators can teach us about turning alert fatigue into faster, safer service assurance The post Stop Managing Alarms: An Incident-First Blueprint for Telecom AIOps appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Learn how to refactor messy Python code into clean, maintainable functions.

Why AI coding makes software design more important The post Software Design in the Age of AI appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Frequentist confidence intervals and Bayesian credible intervals answer different questions, and confusing them can distort product decisions The post The 95% Illusion: Why Your Confidence Interval Isn't What You Think It Is appeared first on Towards Data Science.

In this article, you will learn how to fine-tune an agentic AI system holistically, covering all four critical dials: training data, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, runtime hyperparameters,...

Clarifying the math behind Anthropic’s representation workspace The post Demystifying Anthropic's J-Space: A Mathematical Primer appeared first on Towards Data Science.

If you’re paying for ChatGPT, Claude, and another AI tool simultaneously, this review is for you. It covers what an AI platform like Abacus AI actually includes, how the credit system works in practice, and whether it genuinely replaces your current stack or just adds to it.