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🎬 Media ML: How Netflix is evolving the data engineering function
🦾Plus: 💰 Perplexity’s $42.5M publisher revenue program
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Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🤖Top 20 AI Platforms for 2025
🦆Basic Feature Engineering with DuckDB
⚡ Drop-in Python replacements to instantly speed up data science workflows
🛠️ How to dynamically patch a Python function’s source code at runtime
🎙️ Microsoft’s SOTA text-to-speech model
👨🏻⚖️ Elon Musk’s xAI sues Apple, OpenAI
🗳️ AI leaders fight AI rules
💡 AI Tutorial:How to turn your ideas into live apps
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Traditional data engineering at Netflix focused on building structured tables for metrics, dashboards, and data science models. These tables were primarily structured text or numerical fields, ideal for business intelligence, analytics and statistical modeling…Enter Media ML Data Engineering — a new specialization at Netflix that bridges the gap between traditional data engineering and the unique demands of media-centric machine learning
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In 2025 as new updates and improvements take over the field of AI, the ranking of these AI platforms will have to shift. We look at the 20 best artificial intelligence platforms for 2025, and why we think they deserve to be on the list.
In this post, we show how to perform essential machine learning data preprocessing tasks, like missing value imputation, categorical encoding, and feature scaling, directly in DuckDB using SQL. This approach not only simplifies workflows, but also takes advantage of DuckDB’s high-performance, in-process execution engine for fast, efficient data preparation…
Many of Python’s most popular data science libraries—including pandas, Polars, scikit-learn, and XGBoost—can now run much faster on GPUs with little to no code changes…Using libraries like NVIDIA cuDF, cuML, and cuGraph, you can keep your existing code and scale it to handle much larger workloads with ease.
It's possible to dynamically change a function's source code at run time in Python using the compile and exec functions. This technique enables developers to build more flexible AI bots that can generate and execute code with access to the current environment. However, it also raises some serious security concerns.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Prediction-Encoded Pixels (GitHub Repo)
Prediction-Encoded Pixels is a format specifically designed for low-color pixel art. It uses 'Prediction by Partial Matching, Order-2' compression, which is able to compress packed-palette-indices smaller than GIF, PNG, and QOI
DNS Reaper is a subdomain takeover tool that can be used as an attacker, defender, or bug hunting tool.
Recode allows developers to run remote development environments on their own cloud.
AI News:
Perplexity just unveiled a new revenue-sharing initiative that allocates $42.5M to publishers whose content appears in AI search results, introducing a $5 monthly Comet Plus subscription that gives media outlets 80% of proceeds. Publishers will earn money when their articles generate traffic via Perplexity's Comet browser, appear in searches, or are included in tasks by the AI assistant.
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Microsoft just released VibeVoice, a new open-source text-to-speech model built to handle long-form audio and capable of generating up to 90 minutes of multi-speaker conversational audio using just 1.5B parameters. The model generates podcast-quality conversations with up to four different voices, maintaining speakers’ unique characteristics for hour-long dialogues.
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, just filed a lawsuit in Texas against both Apple and OpenAI, alleging that the iPhone maker’s exclusive partnership surrounding ChatGPT is an antitrust violation that locks out rivals like Grok in the App Store.
Nvidia's Jetson AGX Thor robotics chip module is now on sale for $3,499 as a developer kit. The first kits will ship next month. The chips will allow customers to create robots that run generative AI models. They can also be used for self-driving cars. The Jetson Thor chips are based on Nvidia's Blackwell graphics processor, which is also used in the company's current generation of AI chips and chips for computer games.
A group of AI leaders—including a16z’s Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman—have launched a $100M initiative, Leading The Future (LTF), to advocate against AI regulations in next year’s elections. LFT operates through a network of federal and state Political Committees (PACs) and advocacy groups that support pro-AI election candidates and counter policies that are seen to potentially stifle innovation.
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