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Divine Delights: Cheese and Bread

Discover the ultimate cheese-and-bread-based meals at the International Welsh Rarebit Centre in Defynnog. Doctor asks to take placenta home to put on roses in Bristol hospital, sparking curiosity.

The Perils of the Ivory Tower

Former researcher shares insights on starting a Machine Learning project with the right problem definition for success. Emphasizes the importance of understanding, finding, and solving the business problem hidden in datasets.

Introducing Pixtral Large on Amazon Bedrock!

Mistral AI's Pixtral Large model is now available on Amazon Bedrock, offering a powerful multimodal AI solution with 124 billion parameters. This model excels in multilingual text analysis, chart interpretation, and general visual understanding, revolutionizing various data-driven tasks.

The Magic of CatBoost: A Closer Look

Catboost introduces a new method of calculating the Target Statistic for categorical variables, avoiding issues like sparsity and memory problems. By replacing one-hot encoding with a smoothed average, Catboost provides a practical solution for real-world tasks.

EU's €20bn AI Gigafactory Plan

EU plans €20bn investment in power-hungry supercomputers for AI 'moonshots'. Strategy aims to make Europe a competitive AI continent, says Vice-President Virkkunen.

LLMs: Revolutionizing Medicine and Materials

MIT and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers develop a groundbreaking multimodal approach using Large Language Models and graph-based models to streamline molecule design, increasing success rate from 5% to 35%. This innovative technique could automate the entire process of molecule design and synthesis, potentially revolutionizing drug discovery.