How I used n8n to build AI study partners for learning Mandarin: vocabulary, listening, and pronunciation correction. The post How AI Can Become Your Personal Language Tutor appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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Walkthrough using open-source prompt optimization algorithms in Python to improve the accuracy of an autonomous vehicle car safety agent running on OpenAI's GPT 5.2 The post Automatic Prompt Optimization for Multimodal Vision Agents: A Self-Driving Car Example appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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Understanding the foundations of federated learning The post Federated Learning, Part 1: The Basics of Training Models Where the Data Lives appeared first on Towards Data Science.

A step-by-step journey through data transformation, star schema modeling, and DAX variance analysis with lessons learned along the way. The post Beyond the Flat Table: Building an Enterprise-Grade Financial Model in Power BI appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Achieving infinite context with 114× less memory The post How LLMs Handle Infinite Context With Finite Memory appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Hands-on walkthroughs of problems and solution approaches that power real‑world data science use cases The post Data Science Spotlight: Selected Problems from Advent of Code 2025 appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Forget stiff lines and wild polynomials. Discover why Splines are the "Goldilocks" of feature engineering, offering the perfect balance of flexibility and discipline for non-linear data using Scikit-Learn’s SplineTransformer. The post Mastering Non-Linear Data: A Guide to Scikit-Learn’s SplineTransf...

And why Fourier features change everything The post Teaching a Neural Network the Mandelbrot Set appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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Using ACE to create self-improving LLM workflows and structured playbooks The post Beyond Prompting: The Power of Context Engineering appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Why Retrieval Helps in Time Series Forecasting We all know how it goes: Time-series data is tricky. Traditional forecasting models are unprepared for incidents like sudden market crashes, black swan events, or rare weather patterns. Even large fancy models like Chronos sometimes struggle because the...

Apply the best methods from academia to get the most out of practical applications The post How to Improve the Performance of Visual Anomaly Detection Models appeared first on Towards Data Science.

PostgreSQL is fast. Whether your Python code can or should keep up depends on context. This article compares and benchmarks various insert strategies, focusing not on micro-benchmarks but on trade-offs between safety, abstraction, and throughput — and choosing the right tool for the job. The post Fa...

How approximate vector search silently degrades Recall—and what to do about It The post HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Why privacy breaks fairness at small scale—and how collaboration fixes both without sharing a single record The post I Evaluated Half a Million Credit Records with Federated Learning. Here’s What I Found appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Human-guided AI collaboration The post Probabilistic Multi-Variant Reasoning: Turning Fluent LLM Answers Into Weighted Options appeared first on Towards Data Science.

My take after 10 years in Supply Chain on why this can be an excellent playground for data scientists who want to see their skills valued. The post Why Supply Chain is the Best Domain for Data Scientists in 2026 (And How to Learn It) appeared first on Towards Data Science.

A practical guide to observability, evaluations, and model comparisons The post Measuring What Matters with NeMo Agent Toolkit appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Part 2: Avoiding burnout, learning strategies and the superpower of solitude The post The Best Data Scientists Are Always Learning appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Make your coding agents more efficient The post How to Optimize Your AI Coding Agent Context appeared first on Towards Data Science.

From unstructured text to structured Knowledge Graphs The post GliNER2: Extracting Structured Information from Text appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Finding the most informative points in images The post Feature Detection, Part 3: Harris Corner Detection appeared first on Towards Data Science.

From single to multi-core on your local PC and beyond The post Ray: Distributed Computing for All, Part 1 appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Instead of using shift as an excuse for poor performance, use Inverse Probability Weighting to estimate how your model should perform in the new environment The post Stop Blaming the Data: A Better Way to Handle Covariance Shift appeared first on Towards Data Science.

An explanation of how YOLOv1 measures the correctness of its object detection and classification predictions The post YOLOv1 Loss Function Walkthrough: Regression for All appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Running a code-free comparison in Azure The post Prompt Engineering vs RAG for Editing Resumes appeared first on Towards Data Science.

It is common to have either planning data or the previous year's data displayed beyond today's date. But future data can be confusing. How can I add a Slicer to show or hide future data? Let’s see how to do it. The post How to Filter for Dates, Including or Excluding Future Dates, in Semantic Models...

A deep dive on data transfer bottlenecks, their identification, and their resolution with the help of NVIDIA Nsight™ Systems The post Optimizing Data Transfer in AI/ML Workloads appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Check the tools your LLM uses before replacing it with just a more powerful model The post How to Keep MCPs Useful in Agentic Pipelines appeared first on Towards Data Science.

A prerequisite for long-term success of machine learning systems The post Drift Detection in Robust Machine Learning Systems appeared first on Towards Data Science.

The unconventional career paths you need to explore The post Off-Beat Careers That Are the Future Of Data appeared first on Towards Data Science.

What happens when your clear dashboard meets stakeholders who want everything on one screen The post The Real Challenge in Data Storytelling: Getting Buy-In for Simplicity appeared first on Towards Data Science.

How to build, score, and interpret RFM segments step by step The post EDA in Public (Part 3): RFM Analysis for Customer Segmentation in Pandas appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Robot friends collaborate to learn to fly a drone The post Deep Reinforcement Learning: The Actor-Critic Method appeared first on Towards Data Science.

From simple chat to multi-agent reasoning and real-time REST APIs The post Production-Ready LLMs Made Simple with the NeMo Agent Toolkit appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Five key learnings that I discovered during a programming challenge and how they apply to data science The post What Advent of Code Has Taught Me About Data Science appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Understanding retrieval in RAG systems by experimenting with different chunk sizes The post Chunk Size as an Experimental Variable in RAG Systems appeared first on Towards Data Science.