In today's edition:

• 🥇5 Reasons You Should Consider Implementing DataOps

• 🔧Kubernetes Development: Your Go-To Tools Guide

• 🔍Why Facebook doesn’t use Git

• 🆓Google, Harvard, and more are offering FREE AI courses

• 🤖Salesforce Launches Einstein Copilot

• 💐 Women, AI, and the Leadership Gap

• 🏗️ Meta is building a giant AI model

• 🤖 6 AI Tools

• 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

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🚀 NVIDIA and HP Supercharge Data Science and Generative AI on Workstations

HP Amplify — NVIDIA and HP Inc. today announced that NVIDIA CUDA-X™ data processing libraries will be integrated with HP AI workstation solutions to turbocharge the data preparation and processing work that forms the foundation of generative AI development.

5 Reasons You Should Consider Implementing DataOps

In this article, I’ll explain what exactly is DataOps, the differences between DevOps and DataOps and the top reasons to implement a DataOps model now. Read on to find out more.

Simplifying Kubernetes Development: Your Go-To Tools Guide

The article compares six Kubernetes local development tools, aiding in workflow streamlining, faster iterations, and realistic environments.

Why Facebook doesn’t use Git  (12 minute read)

Mercurial is a tool for creating and managing code changes used at Facebook. Facebook started out on Git, but it began hitting scaling limits in around 2012. Mercurial's developers were receptive to the idea of Facebook engineers contributing patches to scale it better while Git's developers were not.

Google, Harvard, and more are offering FREE AI courses (no payment required)

Here are 8 FREE courses to master AI in 2024:

Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics

In this 4 module course, the University of California - Davis covers big data and introduces IBM's Watson. Start by learning about big data opportunities and end knowing the limitations of AI.

The State of Competitive Machine Learning - 2023 Edition

We summarise the state of the competitive landscape and analyse the 300+ competitions that took place in 2023. Plus a deep dive analysis of 60+ winning solutions to figure out the best strategies to win at competitive ML

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Machine Learning in 2024 – Beginner's Course

🤖 AI News:

Salesforce Launches Einstein Copilot

Einstein Copilot - Salesforce introduces "Einstein Copilot," an AI that assists healthcare workers by automating tasks like booking appointments and summarizing patient information. Alongside, "Assessment Generation" digitizes health evaluations, streamlining data gathering.

🌐 Clash Over AI Image Theft

Midjourney has accused Stability AI of image theft, banning its employees in retaliation. This accusation came to light through a tweet from AI enthusiast Nick St. Pierre, detailing an alleged breach where Stability AI personnel supposedly accessed and stole data from Midjourney's database.

INFLECTION AI

📶 Inflection upgrade nears GPT-4

Inflection just launched Inflection-2.5, a major upgrade to the model powering its Pi personal AI assistant — now capable of delivering near GPT-4 level performance.

Inflection-2.5 achieves 94% of GPT-4's performance across tasks, despite using just 40% of the training compute

🦠 Researchers create self-spreading AI malware

Cybersecurity researchers just developed the first known computer ‘worm’ designed to target and spread through interconnected AI ecosystems.

AI pushing U.S. power grid to the brink.

A looming energy crisis in the United States, with the power grid at risk of being overwhelmed due to soaring industrial power demands, particularly from data centers and clean-technology factories. This surge, significantly influenced by advancements in AI, presents an urgent challenge for utilities.

Meta is building a giant AI model

A Giant AI Model - Meta is developing a unified AI model to enhance video recommendations on its platforms, which boosted Reels watch time by 8-10%. This model, part of Meta's 2026 tech plan, will extend to Facebook videos and Groups. 

💡 Tech Talks

Jensen Huang shared Nvidia's inception and views on the AI surge.

 🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

1. Audiowriter - record your spontaneous thoughts, we’ll turn them into clear & coherent in writing

2. Interviews Chat revolutionizes interview preparation by offering a comprehensive suite of tools and resources

3. Unicorn Platform, the virtuoso of web creation, merges sophistication with simplicity.

4. ProductScope AI: Helps brands scale quickly with visually stunning product creative, rapid product development

5. PrintmyAI - Transform your AI-generated masterpieces into stunning posters or elegant framed canvases

6. KnowNotes is a personalized AI for all your lectures, notes, and assignments.

7. Scale jobs - Unlock the power of Human + AI Assistant in your job search

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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries 

JSR
JSR is the open-source package registry for modern JavaScript. JSR natively supports TypeScript, and works with all JS runtimes and package managers.

liteJQ
jq extension for SQLite.

pql
Pipelined Query Language.

Ascent
Ascent is a logic programming language (similar to Datalog) embedded in Rust via macros.

Omni
SaaS-simple deployment of Kubernetes - on your own hardware.

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