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.
I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they work here or there, and sometimes you can use them to win Kaggle competitions. Unfortunately, this interpretation completely misses the forest for the trees. Neural networks are not just another classifier, they represent the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we develop software. They are Software 2.0. The “classical stack” of Software 1.0 is […]
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Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) transforms how organizations handle unstructured document data, enabling automatic extraction of valuable information from invoices, contracts, and reports. Today, we explore how to programmatically create an IDP solution that uses Strands SDK, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base, and Bedrock Data Automation (BDA). This solution is provided through a Jupyter notebook that enables users to upload multi-modal business documents and extract insights using BDA as a parser to retrieve relevant chunks and augment a prompt to a […]
arXiv:2601.00207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rigorous crop counting is crucial for effective agricultural management and informed intervention strategies. However, in outdoor field environments, partial occlusions combined with inherent ambiguity in distinguishing clustered crops from individual viewpoints poses an immense challenge for image-based segmentation methods. To address these problems, we introduce a novel crop counting framework designed for exact enumeration via 3D instance segmentation. Our approach utilizes 2D images captured from multiple viewpoints and associates independent instance masks for […]
Cloud computing is no longer just a tech term used by IT teams. Today, students, startups, educators, and small businesses all talk about it. One model that often comes up in these discussions is Platform as a Service, or PaaS. Platform as a Service is commonly discussed when people start learning about cloud technology in a practical way. An example of platform as a service in cloud computing, such as Google App Engine, helps explain how developers can […]
arXiv:2601.03282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Electric Autonomous Dial-A-Ride Problem (E-ADARP) optimizes routing and scheduling for electric autonomous vehicles to transport customers from origins to destinations. It features a combined objective that minimizes travel cost and excess user ride time, and allows partial recharging. Motivated by practical scenarios where time and battery data are available with limited precision, we introduce a discrete variant of the problem, termed D-E-ADARP, in which all time and battery parameters are discretized. This […]
arXiv:2601.03266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced in clinical decision-making, yet the deployment of proprietary systems is hindered by privacy concerns and reliance on cloud-based infrastructure. Open-source alternatives allow local inference but often require large model sizes that limit their use in resource-constrained clinical settings. Here, we benchmark two on-device LLMs, gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b, across three representative clinical tasks: general disease diagnosis, specialty-specific (ophthalmology) diagnosis and management, and simulation of human expert grading […]
AI is often treated like a single solution. In practice, it is a category label that hides three different toolboxes. If you confuse them… Continue reading on Towards AI »
When I was a kid, I suppose sometime in my early teens, I was interested in music theory, but I couldn’t play piano. One time I asked a lady who played piano at our church to play a piece of sheet music for me so I could hear how it sounded. The music was in the key of A, but she played it in A♭. She didn’t say she was going to change the key, but I could […]