Programming

New data science tools and state-of-the-art models make a splash on a daily basis, but Python, for all its frequently cited shortcomings (speed, anyone?), remains one of the main unifiers of data and ML practitioners around the world. Scroll down the TDS homepage on any given day, and you’ll find…

Use these commands in your terminal and shell scripts to boost your programming productivity! — Unix-based or Unix-like operating systems typically motivate programmers to communicate with the system via the command terminal by offering a standard commands collection. These commands include file management, networking, programming, and utility commands. Every modern operating system comes with an inbuilt file manager GUI app to view and manage files…

If you already mastered programming in Scala, you might want to explore more advanced concepts and techniques to enhance your skills. The journey towards becoming an exceptional Scala developer is one that requires continuous learning and a thirst for knowledge. As the saying goes, ‘Success is not the key to…

There is much more than star or snowflake schema when we talk about data modelling — Followed by the immense amount of reader on my post about dimensional data modelling, I realised that more people than I expected undervaluate this topic. …

Mastering the text substitution tool — sed is a CLI tool for text substitution, like “Find and Replace” in GUI editors. While sd is a better alternative these days, learning sed has some advantages: It’s a standard UNIX tool, available everywhere. It shares syntax with vim’s command-mode. sed is based. However, mastering sed takes some time…

They Work Wonders When Used The Correct Way — The first time I heard about the lambda function, I thought it would be very useful and unique. But when I learned it, it didn’t impress me enough! Why was that so? It was because of the dumb examples that I tried using. Sometimes, a coding concept wouldn’t feel interesting…

A beginner-friendly tutorial to level up your Next.js development with MDX. — Web development has come a long way since the early days of writing HTML and JavaScript for creating websites. Among these technologies and tools, JSX is a particularly noteworthy extension that has gained widespread popularity as the go-to solution for creating immersive and dynamic web content. However, as web development…

A State-of-the-Art LLM Better than LLaMa for Free — The Falcon models are state-of-the-art LLMs. They even outperform Meta AI’s LlaMa on many tasks. Even though they are smaller than LlaMa, fine-tuning the Falcon models still requires top-notch GPUs with more than 40 GB of VRAM. Well, this was before the introduction of QLoRa. QLoRa quantizes LLMs in 4-bit…

Changing the game: How Falcon 40B’s is going to disrupt the AI industry — This is huge. Falcon 40B is the most powerful open source language model to date. And it is now available for commercial use, completely royalty-free! Something OpenAI might not like that much, maybe? :) In this post we’ll check out why this is a game-changer for the AI industry, what…