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🤖 Data Augmentation for Machine Learning
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📚5 Top Cheat Sheets to Master Data Science
🤖OpenAI introduces Open Responses
⚛️Vercel ships React rules for agents
🔍Anthropic rolls out Tool Search in Claude Code
🤖Comet gets a new unified attachment selector in Perplexity
💡 AI Tutorial:Use ChatGPT to Find the Best Deals in Minutes
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
In this article, you will learn practical, safe ways to use data augmentation to reduce overfitting and improve generalization across images, text, audio, and tabular datasets. Topics we will cover include: How augmentation works and when it helps, Online vs. offline augmentation strategies, Hands-on examples for images (TensorFlow/Keras), text (NLTK), audio (librosa), and tabular data (NumPy/Pandas), plus the critical pitfalls of data leakage.
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Open Responses enters at a moment when agent workloads outgrow chat-style APIs. Developers now build systems that plan, call tools, loop over tasks, and stream intermediate state, yet most interfaces still assume turn-based text exchange. The gap between how agents work and how APIs expose inference keeps growing.
Vercel ships react-best-practices after a familiar pattern repeats across production React apps. Teams ship features, performance slips, and engineers debug symptoms instead of causes. The slowdowns usually come from the same places: async work that turns sequential, bundles that grow quietly, and components that re-render too often.
As MCP adoption expands, servers now expose 50+ tools, and Claude Code must preload every schema into context. That setup works at small scale, then breaks once context fills before real work starts. The problem shows up fast in practice. Teams run 7 or more MCP servers and burn 67k+ tokens on tool descriptions alone. Context fills with definitions instead of code, plans, or reasoning. MCP stays useful, but scale hurts.
What investment is rudimentary for billionaires but ‘revolutionary’ for 70,571+ investors entering 2026?
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The scarcity of these treasured artworks has helped drive their prices, in exceptional cases, to thin-air heights, without moving in lockstep with other asset classes.
The contemporary and post war segments have even outpaced the S&P 500 overall since 1995.*
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
LazyVim
LazyVim is a Neovim setup powered by lazy.nvim to make it easy to customize and extend your config.
axe-api
The next-generation Rest API Framework.
docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.
Lets-Plot
An open-source plotting library for statistical data.
AI News:
The time has come. OpenAI announced it’s finally beginning testing ads within ChatGPT in the coming weeks. Plus, Pro, and Enterprise subscriptions will not include ads, but testing will begin with adult free users in the U.S. The company is also making its low-cost Go offering available in the U.S. and users who opt for that plan will begin to see ads.
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Perplexity is testing a new compact attachment UI for Comet that combines mode selectors, attachment options, and connectors into a single selector.
Your Google Workspace subscription just got more powerful. Google is expanding access to its AI videomaking tool Flow, which was launched last may only to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers. Now, those with Business, Enterprise, and Education Workplace plans can access the Veo 3.1-run tool to generate clips based on a text prompt or images.
Google has launched TranslateGemma, a suite of open translation models built on the Gemma 3 architecture, available in 4B, 12B, and 27B sizes. These models support 55 languages and are engineered for efficiency, running smoothly on devices ranging from smartphones to cloud GPUs. In performance benchmarks, the mid-sized 12B model outperformed a much larger 27B baseline, while the compact 4B version matched the quality of larger legacy systems.
A viral video created with Kling AI’s motion tools has drawn over 14 million views by seamlessly swapping a creator’s face and body onto Stranger Things actors. The clip demonstrates how rapidly AI video technology is evolving, allowing for realistic full-body swaps using just a single image. Experts warn that this creates new risks beyond traditional deepfakes, significantly lowering the barrier for impersonation scams and non-consensual content.
AI Tutorial
Use ChatGPT to Find the Best Deals in Minutes
Open ChatGPT, click the plus (+) button and select Shopping Research.
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Example:
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ChatGPT will ask follow-up questions to refine the results, such as brand preferences, size limits or features you care about.
Compare the suggestions and pick the one that fits your needs best.
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