by Dr. Owns | Feb 27, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Quick Links: Submission Guidelines How To Submit Your Work How to get your article ready for publication! Adding and using images Longform posts, columns, and online books FAQ Why become a contributor? We are looking for writers to propose up-to-date content focused...
by Dr. Owns | Feb 27, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
You are training your latest AI model, anxiously watching as the loss steadily decreases when suddenly — boom! Your logs are flooded with NaNs (Not a Number) — your model is irreparably corrupted and you’re left staring at your screen in despair. To make matters...
by Dr. Owns | Feb 27, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Welcome to part 2 of my LLM deep dive. If you’ve not read Part 1, I highly encourage you to check it out first. Previously, we covered the first two major stages of training an LLM: Pre-training — Learning from massive datasets to form a base model. Supervised...
by Dr. Owns | Feb 26, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
“You don’t have to be an expert to deceive someone, though you might need some expertise to reliably recognize when you are being deceived.” When my co-instructor and I start our quarterly lesson on deceptive visualizations for the data visualization course we teach...
by Dr. Owns | Feb 26, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Thanks to Ben Lichtman (B3NNY) at the Seattle Rust Meetup for pointing me in the right direction on SIMD. SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) operations have been a feature of Intel/AMD and ARM CPUs since the early 2000s. These operations enable you to, for...
by Dr. Owns | Feb 26, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Introduction What if we could make language models think more like humans? Instead of writing one word at a time, what if they could sketch out their thoughts first, and gradually refine them? This is exactly what Large Language Diffusion Models (LLaDA) introduces: a...
