Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 15, 2020

I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive. Mediocre software exists because someone wasn't able to hire better engineers, or they didn't have time, or whatever.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

-based companies, 44% said that they’ve not hired enough, were too siloed off to be effective and haven’t been given clear roles. As a result, most machine learning tasks in an organization are bottlenecked on an oversubscribed centralized data science team,” Molino told TechCrunch via email.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

MARCH 22, 2018

Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil has recently written an entire book filled with examples of poor interpretability as a dire warning of the potential social carnage from misunderstood models—e.g., There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 18, 2025

However, off-the-shelf LLMs cant be used without some modification. RAG is a framework for building generative AI applications that can make use of enterprise data sources and vector databases to overcome knowledge limitations. This can be overwhelming for nontechnical users who lack proficiency in SQL.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Many customers looking at modernizing their pipeline orchestration have turned to Apache Airflow, a flexible and scalable workflow manager for data engineers. Airflow users can avoid writing custom code to connect to a new system, but simply use the off-the-shelf providers. Step 0: Skip if you already have Airflow.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MAY 12, 2021

These BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts and maps designed to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the business. The challenge that CIOs are facing is how best to make use of these new tools?

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CIO

JULY 14, 2023

In the shaper model, you’re leveraging existing foundational models, off the shelf, but retraining them with your own data.” A general LLM won’t be calibrated for that, but you can recalibrate it—a process known as fine-tuning—to your own data. Every company will be doing that,” he adds. “In

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