Millions of links are about to be silenced by #Google and they will soon be no more.

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

Your daily reminder that #llm can’t reason

#genai #chatgpt

Source: https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/112796170421418841

I am thrilled to have been quoted in Isaac Sacolick’s article on how analytics tools, dashboards, and ML models get tested.

I speak about the importance of catching data issues as they arise, as opposed to waiting for angry business users to come knocking at your door (which destroys the trust they have in data!)

Read it here: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715665/7-steps-to-improve-analytics-for-data-driven-organizations.html

Jeroen Overschie is like a boss.

You’re missing out if you’re not there!

When Microsoft announces a new product with the tagline “Experience the next generation in analytics”, everyone turns their head.

Intrigued by the promise, many of our customers asked us to help them deploy Microsoft Fabric.

Does Microsoft’s tagline hold when tested against real-world production scenarios at scale?

Next Wednesday at 10:30 CET, join the webinar led by the CTO of Xebia Data, the CTO of Xebia Base, and our esteemed data engineer Virginia López-Gil Pérez to find out.

https://xebia.ai/gl-fabric-webinar

Niels Zeilemaker Diederik Greveling

Increase your margin by 25%?

Yes, we can.

Read fonq.nl’s customer story below

https://customers.xebia.com/fonq-embraces-data-driven-pricing

When people ask me why speech-to-text models are so accurate with Italian (and Spanish) compared to English, even if the English language has much more training data

Simon Willison on LLMs

“any time someone outsources actual decision making authority to an opaque random number generator is a recipe for disaster."

Full interview on Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/zoom-ceo-envisions-ai-deepfakes-attending-meetings-in-your-place/

Seems appropriate

Do you know what your 1% is?

That is, if you get 1% better at something, how much more money do you earn?

At Albert Heijn, we helped them get 5% better at demand forecasting at scale and also recorded a webinar with their Lead Data Scientist. Watch the webinar on-demand at  https://events.xebia.com/demand-forecasting-at-scale-on-demand-webinar?utm_campaign=Data%26AI%20%7C%20Q2FY24%20%7C%20Demand%20Forecasting%20%7C%20NL&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=xebia-team

and read their customer story at

https://customers.xebia.com/pioneering-grocery-chain-improves-prediction-accuracy-by-5

What will 5% mean for your company?