Social media spam as a case study Photo by Nong on UnsplashDisclaimer: the examples in this post are for illustrative purposes and are not commentary on any specific content policy at any specific company. All views expressed in this article are mine and do not reflect my employer. Why is there any spam on social…
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Data science is a field that has grown tremendously in the last hundred years because of advancements made in the field of computer science. With computer and cloud storage costs getting cheaper, we are now able to store copious amounts of data at a very low cost compared to a…
Diffusion models represent a cutting-edge approach to image generation, offering a dynamic framework for capturing temporal changes in data. The UNet encoder within diffusion models has recently been under intense scrutiny, revealing intriguing patterns in feature transformations during inference. These models use an encoder propagation scheme to revolutionize diffusion sampling by reusing past features, enabling…
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GENERATIVE AI A step-by-step tutorial on query SQL databases with human language Image by the author (generated via Midjourney)Many businesses have a lot of proprietary data stored in their databases. If there’s a virtual agent that understands human language and can query these databases, it opens up big opportunities for these businesses. Think of customer…
Order capture is the process of receiving, validating, and recording customer orders from across channels to facilitate efficient fulfillment. A smoother capture process often means a faster order-to-cash cycle, fewer mistakes, and happier customers. Yet, McKinsey's 2023 supply chain survey showed that nearly half of the respondents had not consistently invested in the digital supply…
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Text analysis tasks have been around for some time as the needs are always there. Research has come a long way, from simple description statistics to text classification and advanced text generation. With the addition of the Large Language Model in our arsenal, our working tasks become even…
Addressing the challenge of efficient and controllable image synthesis, the Alibaba research team introduces a novel framework in their recent paper. The central problem revolves around the need for a method that generates high-quality images and allows precise control over the synthesis process, accommodating diverse conditional inputs. The existing methods in image synthesis, such as…
Researchers are on a quest to develop enzymes that can break down plastics so they can be 100% recycled The world produces about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste each year. Much of it ends up in landfills, and a significant portion is polluting the world’s oceans. Yet even when plastic is recycled, the process…
Photo by Yancy Min on UnsplashA hands-on guide for adding a motivational GitHub action to your repository I’ll start with a confession: as a software engineer, I hated and avoided writing tests for years. I came across so many dusty projects — some with no tests at all, others that had tests but those had…