RAG Is Not the Whole Toolkit: The NLP Techniques Real Problems Still Need
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B00] - Retrieval answers one kind of question. Classifying a request, matching free text to a reference list, reading a table, cleaning OCR noise: each has a cheaper method that works, and the engineering is knowing which one to reach for
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How we stopped reviewing every agent action and started routing human attention where it actually mattered
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From One Agent to a Team: Understanding Codex Subagents
A hands-on guide to defining specialist agents and coordinating their work in the Codex CLI
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How to run the backend locally with Docker or in the cloud
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Quantization and Pruning Methods to Make Your LLM Leaner
This article walks through what each technique actually does, why skipping them costs real money and real latency, and then gets hands-on with five specific methods people are running in production right now.
Interpretable Text Classification: Probing Scikit-LLM Embedding Spaces
In this article, you will learn how to use probing classifiers, UMAP visualization, and SHAP values to interpret and analyze the quality of text embeddings...
AI agents are everywhere right now. You hear terms like tool calling, agent loops, MCP, guardrails thrown around as if its common language… it isn’t! But that is about to change. Agentic AI isn’t nearly as complicated as it sounds once you understand the few core ideas that actually matter. Here are...
Agentic AI Is Rewriting The Analytics Stack But There's One Skill It Still Can't Touch
As AI handles more of the execution, what work should belong to agents vs humans and why does that distinction matter?
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Stop Giving Your AI Agent a Search Box and Start Giving It Typed Tools, Hard Bounds, and a Gate It Cannot Talk Past
What happens when you stop feeding a model context and let it go find its own, walking a knowledge graph within strict limits, and what four models and one wrong prediction revealed about whether that is worth doing.
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Mastering the AI Project Cycle: From Concept to Production
In fact, AI projects are not built by simply choosing a model and feeding it data. Furthermore, a successful AI system goes through multiple stages, starting with identifying the right problem and ending with deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. This structured journey is known as the...
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #2D] - What data scientists say when asked, what the model actually does under the hood, and why the honest answer changes your architecture decisions in enterprise RAG
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Why most agents are just flowcharts in disguise, and what to build instead.
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A New Towards Data Science: A Faster Site and a Brand-New Contributor Portal
We're excited to share some big news: We completely rebuilt the TDS website and our contributor portal. Whether you come here to read, to write, or both, here's what you can expect from our new site.
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Hallucinations, Watermarks, Removers, and a Squeezed Balloon
Watermarks act at the model’s moments of doubt, and so do the safety checks that catch AI mistakes
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A practical guide to navigate hierarchies, find routes, detect cycles and calculate degrees of separation
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Most LLM inference runtimes have no idea a physical deadline exists. This one refuses admission rather than miss a 33ms robot control cycle, evicts KV cache by meaning instead of age, and is written entirely in hand-written CUDA — no cuBLAS, no libtorch.
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Speculative Decoding on CPUs: Nearly 4x Faster Token Generation with DFlash
Speculative decoding can turn underused CPU compute into faster token generation, without changing the model's output. In our vLLM tests, DFlash delivered 3.92x the autoregressive throughput with Qwen3.5-9B on Intel Xeon 6 at concurrency 1. We break down where the speedup comes from, explain the acc...
Integrating Agentic AI with Existing Machine Learning Pipelines
In this article, you will learn how to combine a classical machine learning pipeline with an agentic AI system to build a hybrid, autonomous customer...