In the challenging fight against illegal poaching and human trafficking, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis’s McKelvey School of Engineering have devised a smart solution to enhance geospatial exploration. The problem at hand is how to efficiently search large areas to find and stop such activities. The current methods for local searches are limited…
Image by AuthorFunctions are essential in a data science project because they make the code more modular, reusable, readable, and testable. However, writing a messy function that tries to do too much can introduce maintenance hurdles and diminish the code’s readability. In the following code, the function impute_missing_values is long, messy, and tries to do…
A company’s Accounts Payable (AP) department carries the very important responsibility of tracing what the business owes to suppliers and vendors and verifying that payments are approved and made to these counterparties. Without an AP department, a business would have a difficult time tracking down all the invoices it receives from its suppliers and ensuring…
Years ago, suppliers and buyers lined up at auction houses to wheel and deal, negotiating in person to find the best product at the best price (for both parties). It goes without saying that the Internet killed the auction house for everyday B2B solicitation, but the model remained. Though negotiations were digitized and distant, most…
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There are two major challenges in visual representation learning: the computational inefficiency of Vision Transformers (ViTs) and the limited capacity of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to capture global contextual information. ViTs suffer from quadratic computational complexity while excelling in fitting capabilities and international receptive field. On the other hand, CNNs offer scalability and linear complexity…
Introduction to AutoGen and Mistral AI: AutoGen is a framework developed by Microsoft and designed to simplify the development of multi-agent applications, particularly in orchestrating LLM agents. Multi-agent applications involve systems where multiple LLM or multi-modal agents or entities interact with each other in the whole workflow to achieve specific goals or tasks. These agents…
Automation in accounting? A game-changer! Imagine invoice processing costs dropping from $40 to $1.42 each. That's why accounting automation is among the hottest trends today. QuickBooks Online is a powerhouse in accounting, but pair it with Zapier's automation magic, and you get an unstoppable duo. You can connect QuickBooks with over 5000+ apps — no code needed. Create an…
People buy insurance policies with the hope that in the event of an unfortunate loss or damage to the insured assets, their deprivation will be suitably compensated by the insurance provider at the earliest. Once loss or damage occurs, the compensation payment process is initiated by sending the First Notice of Loss (FNOL). The…
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2023 was the year of Large Language Models and Open Source. Many startups and companies open-sourced their models and weights to combat proprietary LLMs such as ChatGPT and Claude. Some of the important companies and models (open source) for 2023 were:
Meta (LLama, LLamav2)
TII (Falcon 7B, 40B, 180B)
Mistral…