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Udayan Kanade draws a striking connection between modern LLM behavior and the core ideas behind randomized algorithms, revealing how a decades-old field quietly shapes today’s AI.
LLMs Are Randomized Algorithms | Towards Data Science
A surprising connection between the newest AI models and a 50-year old academic field
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December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Udayan Kanade draws a striking connection between modern LLM behavior and the core ideas behind randomized algorithms, revealing how a decades-old field quietly shapes today’s AI.
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Our latest Author Spotlight features Vyacheslav Efimov, who reveals how writing 60+ articles on TDS strengthens his real-world ML debugging and system design. He explains why theoretical depth is key to production success.
Our latest Author Spotlight features Vyacheslav Efimov, who reveals how writing 60+ articles on TDS strengthens his real-world ML debugging and system design. He explains why theoretical depth is key to production success.
Learning, Hacking, and Shipping ML | Towards Data Science
Vyacheslav Efimov on AI hackathons, data science roadmaps, and how AI meaningfully changed day-to-day ML Engineer work
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December 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"The more I teach something, the better I understand it." 🧠
Our latest Author Spotlight features Vyacheslav Efimov, who reveals how writing 60+ articles on TDS strengthens his real-world ML debugging and system design. He explains why theoretical depth is key to production success.
Our latest Author Spotlight features Vyacheslav Efimov, who reveals how writing 60+ articles on TDS strengthens his real-world ML debugging and system design. He explains why theoretical depth is key to production success.
Sara Nobrega dives into advanced prompt strategies for LLM-powered time-series analysis, showing how to push beyond traditional methods and unlock deeper insights.
LLM-Powered Time-Series Analysis | Towards Data Science
Part 2: Prompts for Advanced Model Development
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December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sara Nobrega dives into advanced prompt strategies for LLM-powered time-series analysis, showing how to push beyond traditional methods and unlock deeper insights.
Struggling with the slow computation time of the Boruta algorithm? Nicolas Vana's debut TDS article introduces Greedy Boruta, a modification that reduces runtime by 5-40x while maintaining high recall for feature selection.
The Greedy Boruta Algorithm: Faster Feature Selection Without Sacrificing Recall | Towards Data Science
A modification to the Boruta algorithm that dramatically reduces computation while maintaining high sensitivity
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December 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Struggling with the slow computation time of the Boruta algorithm? Nicolas Vana's debut TDS article introduces Greedy Boruta, a modification that reduces runtime by 5-40x while maintaining high recall for feature selection.
Discover the simple intuition behind k-NN. Angela Shi's latest article explains the algorithm by comparing it to estimating a price by asking neighbors, then builds a working model based on that idea in Excel.
The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 1: k-NN Regressor in Excel | Towards Data Science
This first day of the Advent Calendar introduces the k-NN regressor, the simplest distance-based model. Using Excel, we explore how predictions rely entirely on the closest observations, why feature…
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December 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Discover the simple intuition behind k-NN. Angela Shi's latest article explains the algorithm by comparing it to estimating a price by asking neighbors, then builds a working model based on that idea in Excel.
Rethink your reliance on AI assistants for coding. Pascal Janetzky shares his experience of turning off Copilot and what he learned about its domain-dependent value.
The Machine Learning Lessons I’ve Learned This Month | Towards Data Science
Christmas connections, Copilot's costs, careful (no-)choices
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December 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Rethink your reliance on AI assistants for coding. Pascal Janetzky shares his experience of turning off Copilot and what he learned about its domain-dependent value.
@taupirho.bsky.social explains practical techniques for integrating C with Python to handle computationally intensive tasks without sacrificing flexibility.
Run Python Up to 150× Faster with C | Towards Data Science
A practical guide to offloading performance-critical code to C without abandoning Python.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
@taupirho.bsky.social explains practical techniques for integrating C with Python to handle computationally intensive tasks without sacrificing flexibility.
Learn how AI-powered browsers can be manipulated to steal your saved passwords and banking information through prompt injection. Mike Huls explains the security risks in his latest article.
The Problem with AI Browsers: Security Flaws and the End of Privacy | Towards Data Science
How Atlas and most current AI-powered browsers fail on three aspects: privacy, security, and censorship
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December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Learn how AI-powered browsers can be manipulated to steal your saved passwords and banking information through prompt injection. Mike Huls explains the security risks in his latest article.
Struggling with LLMs that perform well on benchmarks but fail on real-world tasks? Hailey Quach explains why evaluation is the real starting point for AI alignment and how single-number scores can be misleading.
Why AI Alignment Starts With Better Evaluation | Towards Data Science
You can’t align what you don’t evaluate
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December 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Struggling with LLMs that perform well on benchmarks but fail on real-world tasks? Hailey Quach explains why evaluation is the real starting point for AI alignment and how single-number scores can be misleading.
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The Reinforcement Learning Handbook: A Guide to Foundational Questions in @towardsdatascience.com
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The Reinforcement Learning Handbook: A Guide to Foundational Questions | Towards Data Science
Simplifying all the concepts required to master reinforcement learning
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November 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The Reinforcement Learning Handbook: A Guide to Foundational Questions in @towardsdatascience.com
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Stop LLM parsing errors. Anthropic Structured Outputs for Claude Sonnet 4.5/Opus 4.1 guarantee JSON output. My guide on @towardsdatascience.com shows how to build reliable agents & data extractors.
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A Hands-On Guide to Anthropic’s New Structured Output Capabilities | Towards Data Science
A developer’s guide to perfect JSON and typed outputs from Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1
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November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Stop LLM parsing errors. Anthropic Structured Outputs for Claude Sonnet 4.5/Opus 4.1 guarantee JSON output. My guide on @towardsdatascience.com shows how to build reliable agents & data extractors.
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The MCP Security Survival Guide: Best Practices, Pitfalls, and Real-World Lessons in @towardsdatascience.com
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The MCP Security Survival Guide: Best Practices, Pitfalls, and Real-World Lessons | Towards Data Science
Unless you’re someone who lives and breathes cybersecurity, chances are you didn’t think much about authentication, network exposure, or what happens if someone else finds your server. This guide isn’...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The MCP Security Survival Guide: Best Practices, Pitfalls, and Real-World Lessons in @towardsdatascience.com
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With the AI Tutor, every roadmap becomes interactive. Click any node and choose between traditional resources or AI-generated lessons and assessments. The tutor adapts to your level, helps you identify gaps, and provides context-specific guidance along the way.
Try it 👉 roadmap.sh/ai
Try it 👉 roadmap.sh/ai
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
With the AI Tutor, every roadmap becomes interactive. Click any node and choose between traditional resources or AI-generated lessons and assessments. The tutor adapts to your level, helps you identify gaps, and provides context-specific guidance along the way.
Try it 👉 roadmap.sh/ai
Try it 👉 roadmap.sh/ai
Reduce time spent on prompt engineering for time-series analysis. Sara Nobrega's article includes a cheat sheet with ready-to-use prompts for advanced model development.
LLM-Powered Time-Series Analysis | Towards Data Science
Part 2: Prompts for Advanced Model Development
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December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reduce time spent on prompt engineering for time-series analysis. Sara Nobrega's article includes a cheat sheet with ready-to-use prompts for advanced model development.
Feeling like the AI hype doesn't match your daily reality? Pascal Janetzky explores why AI often targets "moonshots" instead of simple, practical problems, like putting wheels on a suitcase.
AI Hype: Don’t Overestimate the Impact of AI | Towards Data Science
Targeting moonshots instead of trolleys
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December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Feeling like the AI hype doesn't match your daily reality? Pascal Janetzky explores why AI often targets "moonshots" instead of simple, practical problems, like putting wheels on a suitcase.
Find the "so what" in your data. Rashi Desai's article covers how to interpret the "why" behind the numbers and translate findings into insights your audience can connect with.
Why Storytelling With Data Matters for Business and Data Analysts | Towards Data Science
Data is driving the future of business and here’s how you can be prepared for that future
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December 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Find the "so what" in your data. Rashi Desai's article covers how to interpret the "why" behind the numbers and translate findings into insights your audience can connect with.
Looking for a practical way to manage rules-based systems? Dmitry Lesnik and Tobias Schäfer walks you through building an engine using "t-objects" and provides an open-source Python library to get started.
Building a Rules Engine from First Principles | Towards Data Science
How recasting propositional logic as sparse algebra leads to an elegant and efficient design
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November 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Looking for a practical way to manage rules-based systems? Dmitry Lesnik and Tobias Schäfer walks you through building an engine using "t-objects" and provides an open-source Python library to get started.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Ready to get published? 📓 If you have an interesting project, a technical deep dive, or a theoretical reflection, we want to publish it! TDS offers tools, editorial support, and a payment program for your contributions.
Become a contributor ➡️ bit.ly/TDSContributor
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Follow a practical Python guide to classify tweet sentiment with 3 different methods. This article by Piero Paialunga covers TF-IDF, BERT embeddings, and a GPT-based approach.
The Three Ages of Data Science: When to Use Traditional Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or an LLM (Explained with One Example) | Towards Data Science
A practical use case to describe how the data scientist job changed across three generations of machine learning
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November 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Follow a practical Python guide to classify tweet sentiment with 3 different methods. This article by Piero Paialunga covers TF-IDF, BERT embeddings, and a GPT-based approach.
When someone says to "just get more data," do they mean more rows or more columns? Mohannad Elhamod's debut TDS article breaks down the crucial difference, explaining the unique risks and benefits of expanding your dataset vertically versus horizontally.
Does More Data Always Yield Better Performance? | Towards Data Science
Exploring and challenging the conventional wisdom of “more data → better performance” by experimenting with the interactions between sample size, attribute set, and model complexity.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
When someone says to "just get more data," do they mean more rows or more columns? Mohannad Elhamod's debut TDS article breaks down the crucial difference, explaining the unique risks and benefits of expanding your dataset vertically versus horizontally.
Learn how to make Python code up to 150x faster by offloading computationally heavy algorithms to C. @taupirho.bsky.social covers 3 practical methods, from simple subprocesses to advanced C extensions.
Make Python Up to 150× Faster with C | Towards Data Science
A practical guide to offloading performance-critical code to C without abandoning Python.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Learn how to make Python code up to 150x faster by offloading computationally heavy algorithms to C. @taupirho.bsky.social covers 3 practical methods, from simple subprocesses to advanced C extensions.
Ida Silfverskiöld shares research on common metrics for multi-turn chatbots, RAG, and agentic applications.
Agentic AI: On Evaluations | Towards Data Science
Metrics to track for RAG and agents, plus the frameworks that help
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November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Ida Silfverskiöld shares research on common metrics for multi-turn chatbots, RAG, and agentic applications.
Turn seconds into milliseconds in your #PowerBI reports. @datamozart.bsky.social demonstrates the significant performance gains achieved by using aggregations on large-scale datasets.
The Ultimate Guide to Power BI Aggregations | Towards Data Science
Aggregations are one of the most powerful features in Power BI — learn how to leverage this feature to improve the performance of your Power BI solution
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November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Turn seconds into milliseconds in your #PowerBI reports. @datamozart.bsky.social demonstrates the significant performance gains achieved by using aggregations on large-scale datasets.
Improve your product from the inside out. Dr. Janna Lipenkova teaches you how to use SLMs to analyze user feedback and support chats in real-time, providing insights before launching user-facing AI features.
It Doesn’t Need to Be a Chatbot | Towards Data Science
A more organic, incremental approach to integrating AI into existing products
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November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Improve your product from the inside out. Dr. Janna Lipenkova teaches you how to use SLMs to analyze user feedback and support chats in real-time, providing insights before launching user-facing AI features.
That sinking feeling when you find a bug and have to fix it in every single one of your notebooks. Ibrahim Habib explains how a modular codebase can prevent this headache.
Organizing Code, Experiments, and Research for Kaggle Competitions | Towards Data Science
Lessons and tips learned while earning a Kaggle Competition Medal
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November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
That sinking feeling when you find a bug and have to fix it in every single one of your notebooks. Ibrahim Habib explains how a modular codebase can prevent this headache.