My Journey with Data & Analytics - Part 7 – Glimpse into what I read in 2023

I read a lot of articles, papers, blogs and when I like something I share it on LinkedIn. At the end of a year or at the beginning of a new year, I go through what excited me during the past year.

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In the past I used to chronicle everything I had shared, but this year I choose to do it differently, from the long list I choose what still excites me as I look back into 2023 getting into 2024.

As I sieved through all the content, only three things seemed to interest me, Bablu Lawrence as a technologist (1&2) , concept of open tables (3) and AI or Gen AI as a concept (4-8).

?I liked reading more blogs from Bablu Lawrence as he continued his journey into the depths of AI

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Another masterpiece from Bablu Lawrence . This one is closer to my heart as this about SQL ?? – Vinayak

Building an API to Query Relational Databases Using Natural Language

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Yet another insightful article by Bablu Lawrence , covering multiple topics like data mesh and generative AI. My favorite part though is the section on open table formats and the world of Delta and Iceberg which I believe are going to revolutionize Data Analytics space along with Gen AI - Vinayak

Five emerging trends in Analytical Data Systems

Concept of Open Table formats and how the data war is moving into the space interested me

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If you have two vendors supporting Delta, two supporting Iceberg and one supporting all three, it's going to be fun to watch what happens – Vinayak

Announcing Onetable - Written by Tim Brown

Gen AI has taken the world by storm and no wonder it features in my musings as well. Looking into the future Open Tables and Gen AI seem to be the themes for 2024.

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“Scott, though, believed in a more optimistic story. At one point, he told me, about seventy per cent of Americans worked in agriculture. Technological advances reduced those labor needs, and today just 1.2 per cent of the workforce farms. But that doesn’t mean there are millions of out-of-work farmers: many such people became truck drivers, or returned to school and became accountants, or found other paths. “Perhaps to a greater extent than any technological revolution preceding it, A.I. could be used to revitalize the American Dream,” Scott has written.”

The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid plans. By Charles Duhigg

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Working with Structured Data on LLMs: ChatGPT, Bard and Bing

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India has the highest AI skill penetration globally – Andrew NG, speaking virtually at Global AI Enclave.

Few more pointers below

1. India accounted for 20,000 of the total 90,000 learners on "Generative AI for everyone" course in Coursera , in the first month of Launch.
2. As per a research India has the highest AI skill penetration globally
3. Regulations shouldn't stifle innovation
4. The number of jobs that AI would replace completely is much lesser than numbers being quoted
5. A job has many tasks, AI can replace a set of tasks, but all jobs have tasks that can't be replaced completely
6. A radiologist using AI would replace a radiologist not using AI
7. Autonomous Agents which execute a complex sequence of actions is round the horizon
8. We wouldn't be where we are with LLMs if not for Quantization ..... pretty much every day I run an LLM on my laptop if there is sensitive data that I can't share.

India has the highest AI skill penetration globally – Andrew NG

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Fitting AI models in your pocket with quantization

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How on-device AI is enabling generative AI to scale [The future of AI is hybrid] Providing cost savings as well as performance, personalization, privacy and security benefits

While the sun set on 2023, it has risen in 2024 with new expectations of a better world and I get ready to learn more....