How to Increase Coding Iteration Speed
Learn how to become a more efficient programmer with local testing The post How to Increase Coding Iteration Speed appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 13: LASSO and Ridge Regression in Excel
Ridge and Lasso regression are often perceived as more complex versions of linear regression. In reality, the prediction model remains exactly the same. What changes is the training objective. By adding a penalty on the coefficients, regularization forces the model to choose more stable solutions, especially when features are correlated. Implementing Ridge and Lasso step by step in Excel makes this idea explicit: regularization does not add complexity, it adds preference. The post The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” […]
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On the Challenge of Converting TensorFlow Models to PyTorch
How to upgrade and optimize legacy AI/ML models The post On the Challenge of Converting TensorFlow Models to PyTorch appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going
Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disobedience to ensure that students and scholars have the books they need and to preserve swaths of culture from being lost forever. Reputable research generally follows a familiar pattern: Scientific articles are written by scholars based on their research—often with public funding. Those articles are then peer-reviewed by other scholars in their fields and revisions […]
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CA Fires Spotlight Licensing Carriers for Inmates
California’s recent wildfires were fought by over 780 inmate firefighters who received rigorous taxpayer-funded training. But until recent reforms, many of these trained firefighters faced insurmountable barriers to employment after release—state licensing laws blocked them from the very careers they’d prepared for. lead , Cato scholar Stephen Slivinski examines this issue in a new Washington Post opinion piece, revealing how occupational licensing laws create employment barriers for 70 million Americans with criminal records. The evidence is clear: employment is […]
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The Complete Guide to Using Pydantic for Validating LLM Outputs
Large language models generate text, not structured data.
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Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro in Search are coming to more countries around the world.
We’re bringing our most intelligent model yet, Gemini 3 Pro, to Google Search in more countries around the world.
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The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 9: LOF in Excel
In this article, we explore LOF through three simple steps: distances and neighbors, reachability distances, and the final LOF score. Using tiny datasets, we see how two anomalies can look obvious to us but completely different to different algorithms. This reveals the key idea of unsupervised learning: there is no single “true” outlier, only definitions. Understanding these definitions is the real skill. The post The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 9: LOF in Excel appeared first on Towards […]
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The History of Thanksgiving: Thanks, Property Rights
This Thanksgiving, I give thanks for something our forebears gave us: property rights.
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We’re announcing new health AI funding, while a new report signals a turning point for health in Europe.
At the European Health Summit in Brussels, Greg Corrado, Distinguished Scientist at Google, released a new report authored by Implement Consulting Group and commissioned…
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