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  • Data Science as Engineering: Foundations, Education, and Professional Identity

    Data Science as Engineering: Foundations, Education, and Professional Identity Recognize data science as an engineering practice and structure education accordingly. The post Data Science as Engineering: Foundations, Education, and Professional Identity appeared first on Towards Data Science. Tom Narock Go to original source

  • Opinion: PubMed has competition from Germany. That’s a very good thing

    Opinion: PubMed has competition from Germany. That’s a very good thing In May the German National Library of Medicine announced its plan to develop an open, sustainable, and sovereign alternative to PubMed, the free online biomedical database housed in the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.   The announcement of this…

  • Stop Worrying about AGI: The Immediate Danger is Reduced General Intelligence (RGI)

    Stop Worrying about AGI: The Immediate Danger is Reduced General Intelligence (RGI) Let’s make conscious and deliberate choices when we use AI. The post Stop Worrying about AGI: The Immediate Danger is Reduced General Intelligence (RGI) appeared first on Towards Data Science. Shashank Vatedka Go to original source

  • My Experiments with NotebookLM for Teaching 

    My Experiments with NotebookLM for Teaching  Exploring NotebookLM as a teaching companion The post My Experiments with NotebookLM for Teaching  appeared first on Towards Data Science. Parul Pandey Go to original source

  • What the Most Detailed Peer-Reviewed Study on AI in the Classroom Taught Us

    What the Most Detailed Peer-Reviewed Study on AI in the Classroom Taught Us The rapid proliferation and superb capabilities of widely available LLMs has ignited intense debate within the educational sector. On one side they offer students a 24/7 tutor who is always available to help; but then of course students can use LLMs to…

  • I Teach Data Viz with a Bag of Rocks

    I Teach Data Viz with a Bag of Rocks Last Thursday, my co-instructor and I showed up to the Data Visualization course we teach at the University of Washington with a bag of rocks. The bag consisted of a fairly diverse collection that I myself put together across a set of treks in various regions…

  • Talking to Kids About AI

    Talking to Kids About AI I’ve had the pleasant opportunity recently to be involved with a program called Skype a Scientist, which pairs scientists of various types (biologists, botanists, engineers, computer scientists, etc) with classrooms of kids to talk about our work and answer their questions. I’m pretty familiar with discussing AI and machine learning with…

  • Opinion: STAT readers on cadavers in med education, doctors and AI, and more

    Opinion: STAT readers on cadavers in med education, doctors and AI, and more First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes selected…

  • Talk to Videos

    Talk to Videos Large language models (LLMs) are improving in efficiency and are now able to understand different data formats, offering possibilities for myriads of applications in different domains. Initially, LLMs were inherently able to process only text. The image understanding feature was integrated by coupling an LLM with another image encoding model. However, gpt-4o…