Author(s): Abinaya Subramaniam Originally published on Towards AI. If retrieval is the search engine of your RAG system, chunking is the foundation the search engine stands on. Even the strongest LLM fails when the chunks are too long, too short, noisy, or cut at the wrong place. That is why practitioners often say: “Chunking determines 70% of RAG quality.” Good chunking helps the retriever find information that is complete, contextual, and relevant while bad chunking creates fragmented, out […]

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Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. A tiny local language model now organizes my files in real time for free, offline, and with zero rules. My Downloads folder used to feel like a crime scene. iMAGE GENERATED USING AIThe article discusses the author’s experience with automating the organization of their Downloads folder using a local AI agent that analyzes new files and categorizes them appropriately without any predetermined rules. The system consists of a few components […]

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As costs for diagnostic and sequencing technologies have plummeted in recent years, researchers have collected an unprecedented amount of data around disease and biology. Unfortunately, scientists hoping to go from data to new cures often require help from someone with experience in software engineering. Now, Watershed Bio is helping scientists and bioinformaticians run experiments and get insights with a platform that lets users analyze complex datasets regardless of their computational skills. The cloud-based platform provides workflow templates and […]

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Every year, global health experts are faced with a high-stakes decision: Which influenza strains should go into the next seasonal vaccine? The choice must be made months in advance, long before flu season even begins, and it can often feel like a race against the clock. If the selected strains match those that circulate, the vaccine will likely be highly effective. But if the prediction is off, protection can drop significantly, leading to (potentially preventable) illness and strain […]

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Caroline Uhler is an Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Engineering at MIT; a professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the Institute for Data, Science, and Society (IDSS); and director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is also a core institute and scientific leadership team member.  Uhler is interested in all the methods by which scientists can uncover causality in biological systems, ranging from causal discovery […]

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Key Highlights: Microsoft has been actively investing in different countries to make them ready for what’s being called AI boom these days. The company has been an active investor in the UAE, where it is pouring money to train younger generation on new AI tools, opening AI hubs, and helping the nation to adopt AI in the best possible manner. Thanks to these efforts, the UAE topped the global AI adoption list, according to Microsoft’s AI Diffusion report. […]

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See how different time series methods reveal the shifts, surges, and stabilization in inflation expectations.

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Synthetic data are artificially generated by algorithms to mimic the statistical properties of actual data, without containing any information from real-world sources. While concrete numbers are hard to pin down, some estimates suggest that more than 60 percent of data used for AI applications in 2024 was synthetic, and this figure is expected to grow across industries. Because synthetic data don’t contain real-world information, they hold the promise of safeguarding privacy while reducing the cost and increasing the […]

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