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📈 Data Scientist's Guide to Time Series Forecasting
🦾Plus: 👀 Oracle and Meta explore $20B AI cloud deal
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🏢 Applications of Data Science in Business
📊 A Practical Overview on Probability Distributions
🤖 Notion Launches AI Agents for Multi-Step Workflows
🔧A Deep Dive into Ty, Pyrefly, and Zuban
⚡ xAI Launches Grok 4 Fast
👀 Oracle and Meta explore $20B AI cloud deal
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create and edit Canva designs with ChatGPT
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Time series forecasting is everywhere in business. Whether you’re predicting sales for next quarter, estimating inventory demand, or planning financial budgets, accurate forecasts can make — or break — strategic decisions. However, classical time series approaches — like painstaking ARIMA tuning — are complicated and time-consuming.
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Aim of this paper is a general definition of probability, of its main mathematical features and the features it presents under particular circumstances. The behavior of probability is linked to the features of the phenomenon we would predict. This link can be defined probability distribution.
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This post looks at how well the new Python type checkers conform to provide insight into specification compliance. While conformance test coverage is important for specification compliance and handling edge cases, it is not always the best predictor of a type checker's utility for everyday Python development.
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Grok 4 Fast shows how the AI race is shifting toward efficiency as well as capability. This new model uses reinforcement learning to increase reasoning power while cutting token costs by 40%.
The companies are in talks on a multi-year agreement worth about $20 billion that would make Oracle a key cloud partner for Meta’s AI workloads. Oracle would provide compute for training and deploying Meta’s models, expanding beyond its existing partnerships. Meta declined to comment and Oracle did not respond to requests. The negotiations highlight Oracle’s growing role after securing a five-year contract with OpenAI.
At Connect 2025, Meta revealed new Ray-Ban Display smart glasses and a Neural Band wristband that reads nerve signals (sEMG) so users can silently type in the air. Zuckerberg said he types at about 30 words per minute this way, compared to ~21 wpm for testers and ~36 wpm on phones.
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AI Tutorial
How to create and edit Canva designs with ChatGPT
Go to Canva and either create a template or select an existing one.
Open ChatGPT, click ‘+’ > Connectors > connect your Canva account.
Sample Prompt: “Open my [template name] in Canva. Create 4 personalized variations with custom messages for different occasions: John (promotion at work), Sara (graduation celebration), David (new home purchase), Emily (running her first marathon). Keep the design style consistent with the original template but update colors, text, and small elements to reflect each event’s mood.”
ChatGPT will duplicate your template and automatically fill in personalized text for each variation.
Open your variations in Canva, polish the layouts, tweak fonts or colors if needed, and then download and share.
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