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An intro to recommender systems The post Beyond the Scroll: How Social Media Algorithms Shape Your Reality appeared first on Towards Data Science.

The tension between Legal and IT has always been frustrating but AI is about to make it worse, at scale. The answer is observable compliance: encoding legal intent directly into architecture. The post Lost in Translation: How AI Exposes the Rift Between Law and Logic appeared first on Towards Data ...

If you don't want to be left behind, start doing these things with Claude The post 3 Claude Skills Every Data Scientist Needs in 2026 appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Ace system design interviews with 10 GitHub repositories packed with fundamentals, proven patterns, and real questions to help you design scalable systems with confidence.

Whenever you can rewrite an optimization problem so that fixing some variables makes the rest separable, you could try Benders. The post Benders’ Decomposition 101: How to Crack Open a Stochastic Program That’s Too Big to Swallow Whole appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Take a curated look at the best small language models currently available on Hugging Face, what each one is actually good at, the benchmark numbers that back those claims up, and the code to get started with each one.

I have been experimenting with the OpenAI Agents SDK, and it has quickly become one of my favorite ways to build agentic AI applications.

By the middle of 2026, we can easily assume on thing about AI – it is far from the experimental stage. If not before, 2026 is the year when AI is moving deeper into products, workplaces, governments, and everyday decision-making. This shift is visible in the massive AI conferences that are now being...

You know window functions, but do you know how to use them to solve business problems? You will after you read this article.

Apply coding agents to your domain in a safe manner The post How to Safely Run Coding Agents appeared first on Towards Data Science.

From your first backtest to a real trading system, here are GitHub repos that can seriously level up your quant trading skills fast.

The syntax and semantics of mathematics The post Introduction to Lean for Programmers appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Cowork is an autonomous agent that lives inside the Claude Desktop app, which has direct access to a folder on your computer, and can plan, execute, and deliver real work.

Want to level up your data engineering toolkit? Here are some Python libraries that'll make your pipelines faster, cleaner, and easier to maintain.

A scalable semantic localization layer for entity and relationship reconciliation The post Proxy-Pointer RAG: Solving Entity and Relationship Sprawl in Large Knowledge Graphs appeared first on Towards Data Science.

AI agents are evolving from answering questions to taking actions inside browsers. They can now open pages, click buttons, fill forms, extract data, and automate multi step workflows across websites. Moonshot AI’s Kimi WebBridge brings this capability to Chrome and Edge, allowing local AI agents to ...

This article is about the gap between what candidates prepare for and what companies actually need right now.

95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to launch. Why? The post Why Your AI Demo Will Die in Production appeared first on Towards Data Science.

AI research in 2025 was defined by major shifts. The industry moved beyond chatbots and into reasoning systems, autonomous agent and multimodal systems. Last year, companies like Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, DeepSeek, and NVIDIA pushed AI research into new territory with papers focused ...

Learn how to get the most out of OpenAI's coding agent The post How to Maximize OpenAI’s Codex appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Billions of rows might be the exception, but for everything else, Pandas is still a highly reliable tool. The post Pandas Isn’t Going Anywhere: Why It’s Still My Go-To for Data Wrangling appeared first on Towards Data Science.

The exact tools I'm learning, the projects I'm building, and the mistakes I'm already expecting to make The post From Data Analyst to Data Engineer: My 12-Month Self-Study Roadmap appeared first on Towards Data Science.

You walk into the interview room. The whiteboard displays the following prompt: “A major retailer wants to deploy a GenAI chatbot for customer support. How would you approach this?” You have 35 minutes. Your palms are sweating.  Sound familiar? GenAI case studies currently serve as the primary chall...

Want to add a safety layer in your chatbot, image analyzer or any another LLM-based system? I would strongly suggest you try OpenAI’s moderation model: omni-moderation-latest, this can help your system identify if the input is potentially harmful or not, that too free of cost. We’ll look into the ba...