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Pre-Training Context is All You Need

The driving force behind modern transformer models stems to a large extent from its pertaining data, allowing for strong in-context…

6 min readNov 27, 2023

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The Inflation of AI: Is More Always Better?

New ML models emerge hourly but this fast pace comes with drawbacks; hypothesis-driven development can help to mitigate those.

6 min readNov 8, 2023

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Don’t Forget Confidence Intervals for Your ML Product

Machine Learning is never 100% correct. Thus, an ML model is only helpful when users understand the uncertainty of predictions.

7 min readOct 10, 2023

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How to Low-Pass Filter in Google BigQuery

When working with time-series data, it can be important to apply filtering to remove noise. This story shows how to implement a low-pass…

9 min readJan 21, 2024

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How to Avoid Five Common Mistakes in Google BigQuery / SQL

While working with BigQuery for years, I observed 5 issues that are commonly made, even by experienced Data Scientists

8 min readOct 25, 2023

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Rotating On-Call for Operational and Support: A Must for Data Teams

A rotating on-call schedule for operational, support, and tech-dept frees the rest of the team to do great development

7 min readJun 20, 2023

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Daily Standups May Not Improve Your Team’s Agility

If you feel daily standups are not helpful for your data science team, you might be right

5 min readJun 7, 2023

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Success in ML Projects through Technical Drawings

Improve workflows and expectation management in ML through technical drawings

8 min readMay 30, 2023

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How Machine Learning Will Become a Game Changer for the Location Data Industry

Location data can provide unique insights but comes with costs and privacy issues. ML can overcome these drawbacks and improve location…

9 min readMar 9, 2023

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Benjamin Thürer

Benjamin Thürer

PhD | Director of Data Science | ML Team Lead | Data Science - Machine Learning - AI | Neuroscientist | Motor Learning | Geospatial Data

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