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Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on UnsplashLast month, DeepMind published a paper where they presented AlphaTensor, an AI algorithm able to find faster ways of doing one of the most common algebra operations: matrix multiplication. But of course, there is a valid question you may be asking yourself: what does this have to do with me? Well, in this article I will explain the contents of the paper and if you stick with me till the end, you will find some examples of why this is such a big breakthrough, and how it will affect your…

Announced last month, writer Cody Ziglar and artist Federico Vicentini are set to launch a new Miles Morales: Spider-Man book arriving on December 7th that aims to take a back to basics approach with the character including the return of his original costume. However, life will be anything but simple for Miles as Marvel has revealed details about a new villain named Rabble who will be tormenting Miles. Here’s how Marvel describes the new foe: Kicking off in December, MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN’s new series will be defined…

My personal answer to this question, based on my own experiencePhoto by McCabe Coats on UnsplashIn the last months, I’ve seen a trend: more and more people want to get into the analytics field, but they need to be guided in choosing the right path.First of all, I’d like to publicly thank all of the folks who spent some time sending me a direct message on Linkedin or an email: I’d really like to thank you for reaching out, and asking for my opinion. Also, I’d like to thank all of the people who wrote me messages of…

How systolic arrays workPhoto by Vishnu Mohanan on UnsplashIntroductionIn a world where neural networks are being used to process almost any kind of data (from images to audio or heart activity), there is an increasing interest in moving the execution of these models from the cloud to edge (embedded) systems. Why is this an interesting trend? Well, these are some of the reasons for this paradigm change:Energy consumption: instead of running the AI algorithm on expensive and energy-hungry hardware like a GPU, why not build…

Leveraging the power of loops in PythonPhoto by 愚木混株 cdd20 on UnsplashSome months ago, I wrote an article on loops and statements in Python; this article was related to making you understand loops and statements.Instead, in this article, I want to cover in more depth some different possibilities of using loops, with some exercises.The first thing I want to show you is list comprehension, and why and when to use it. First, I advise you to read my previous article on loops and statements because you need a deep…

Scalable Time Series Modeling with open-source projects StatsForecast, Fugue, and SparkBy Kevin Kho, Han Wang, Max Mergenthaler and Federico Garza Ramírez.TL:DR We will show how you can leverage the distributed power of Spark and the highly efficient code from StatsForecast to fit millions of models in a couple of minutes.Time-series modeling, analysis, and prediction of trends and seasonalities for data collected over time is a rapidly growing category of software applications.Businesses, from electricity and economics…

The end of this month will see Saladin Ahmed‘s final issue on Miles Morales: Spider-Man, as the prolific writer announced his departure from the series last July. While no Miles Morales book is currently in the October or November Marvel solicitations, it’s hard to imagine that Marvel would keep fans waiting too long for a new Miles Morales book especially with the much-anticipated Spider–Man: Across the Spider–Verse animated film next summer. Sure enough, courtesy of an exclusive from The Root, Marvel has announced a…

It can save your life: believe me!Photo by Mohammad Rahmani on UnsplashCoding can lead you to real messes, believe me. If you are a beginner, right now you are writing your first lines of code and maybe you are dealing with warnings and code errors; did I guess?As you will learn and practice more and more, you will deal with projects and, unfortunately, with bigger problems. Especially if you are working with Jupyter Notebooks — because you want to be a Data Scientist, right? So, start with Notebooks! — the fact that…

They seem to be the same, but the difference between them is relevantPhoto by Luke Chesser on UnsplashData visualization is not as easy as it may sounds: you don’t have to show your data; you have to tell a story and you have to choose your heroes properly.In this case, your heroes are the graphs you choose to use to tell your story, and you have to know one important thing: not everyone is a technician. One of the things people in data have to master, in fact, is storytelling and data exposition techniques because, in…

My advice after more than a year of studying and practicing Data Science while working full timePhoto by Compare Fibre on UnsplashThere are few certainties in this world, but one is becoming very clear: the career path is anything but a straight line. Forget the “study, get a job, get married, and retire” approach: it won’t be like that for our generation (and, maybe, for the future ones). This may be due to the fast-growing digital professions: many people were stuck in their jobs while they have seen a world growing…