Science and Technology | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/category/technology/ Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:44:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Science and Technology | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/category/technology/ 32 32 10 Data + AI Observations for Fall 2025 https://towardsdatascience.com/10-data-ai-observations-to-watch-in-fall-2025/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:44:13 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607371 What's happening—and what's next— for data and AI at the close of 2025.

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]]> Using LangGraph and MCP Servers to Create My Own Voice Assistant https://towardsdatascience.com/using-langgraph-and-mcp-servers-to-create-my-own-voice-assistant/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:30:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607032 Built over 14 days, all locally run, no API keys, cloud services, or subscription fees.

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]]> The MCP Security Survival Guide: Best Practices, Pitfalls, and Real-World Lessons https://towardsdatascience.com/the-mcp-security-survival-guide-best-practices-pitfalls-and-real-world-lessons/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 01:38:07 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606803 Unless you’re someone who lives and breathes cybersecurity, chances are you didn’t think much about authentication, network exposure, or what happens if someone else finds your server. This guide isn’t here to kill the excitement—it’s here to help you use MCP without opening the door to trouble.

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]]> The Best AI Books & Courses for Getting a Job https://towardsdatascience.com/best-ai-books-courses-to-get-a-job/ Mon, 26 May 2025 23:18:38 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606104 A comprehensive guide to the books and courses that helped me learn AI

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]]> Avoiding Costly Mistakes with Uncertainty Quantification for Algorithmic Home Valuations https://towardsdatascience.com/avoiding-costly-mistakes-with-uncertainty-quantification-for-algorithmic-home-valuations/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:40:22 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=605679 The simple tricks for using AVMU, or Automated Valuation Model Uncertainty, to make your home buying decisions more confident and less risky!

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]]> A Simple Implementation of the Attention Mechanism from Scratch https://towardsdatascience.com/a-simple-implementation-of-the-attention-mechanism-from-scratch/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:05:51 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=605368 How attention helped models like RNNs mitigate the vanishing gradient problem and capture long-range dependencies among words

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]]> How to Enhance SQL Code Security and Maintainability https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-enhance-sql-code-security-and-maintainability-3e398b4dd68e/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:02:01 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-enhance-sql-code-security-and-maintainability-3e398b4dd68e/ Introduction to SQL procedures, their applications and benefits, and how to encrypt SQL code

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]]> Multi-Headed Cross Attention – By Hand https://towardsdatascience.com/multi-headed-cross-attention-by-hand-37c07b3ee8f2/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:02:09 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/multi-headed-cross-attention-by-hand-37c07b3ee8f2/ Hand computing a fundamental component of multimodal models

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]]> A Derivation and Application of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (2024 Nobel Prize) https://towardsdatascience.com/a-derivation-and-application-of-restricted-boltzmann-machines-2024-nobel-prize-ead5fe66908c/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:47:34 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/a-derivation-and-application-of-restricted-boltzmann-machines-2024-nobel-prize-ead5fe66908c/ Investigating Geoffrey Hinton's Nobel Prize-winning work and building it from scratch using PyTorch

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]]> Qubits Explained: Everything You Need to Know https://towardsdatascience.com/qubits-explained-everything-you-need-to-know-1c510e6e9f06/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:02:01 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/qubits-explained-everything-you-need-to-know-1c510e6e9f06/ A deep dive into the building block of quantum computers.

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]]> The State of Quantum Computing: Where Are We Today? https://towardsdatascience.com/the-state-of-quantum-computing-where-are-we-today-17ee19f51b1d/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:07:56 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-state-of-quantum-computing-where-are-we-today-17ee19f51b1d/ And what we need to overcome

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]]> Google’s Willow Quantum Computing Chip: A Game Changer? https://towardsdatascience.com/googles-willow-quantum-computing-chip-a-game-changer-b9463ca996c3/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:02:03 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/googles-willow-quantum-computing-chip-a-game-changer-b9463ca996c3/ Suppressing Logical Errors Exponentially! For the First Time

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]]> The Fallacy of Complacent Distroless Containers https://towardsdatascience.com/the-fallacy-of-complacent-distroless-containers-8b09bd3ad55a/ Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:52:34 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-fallacy-of-complacent-distroless-containers-8b09bd3ad55a/ Making containers smaller is the most popular practice when reducing your attack surface. But how real is this sense of security?

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]]> I Combined the Blockchain and AI to Generate Art. Here’s What Happened Next. https://towardsdatascience.com/i-combined-the-blockchain-and-ai-to-generate-art-heres-what-happened-next-859309c5d4c6/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 11:02:13 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/i-combined-the-blockchain-and-ai-to-generate-art-heres-what-happened-next-859309c5d4c6/ Using LLMs to create artistic representations of data

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]]> A Design Researcher’s Guide to Publishing https://towardsdatascience.com/a-design-researchers-guide-to-publishing-151b0b70d80d/ Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:02:25 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/a-design-researchers-guide-to-publishing-151b0b70d80d/ Turn 'publish or perish' into 'learn, write, and share'

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]]> TSMixer: Google’s Innovative Deep Learning Forecasting Model https://towardsdatascience.com/tsmixer-googles-innovative-deep-learning-forecasting-model-4c3ab1c80a23/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:31:38 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/tsmixer-googles-innovative-deep-learning-forecasting-model-4c3ab1c80a23/ Combining lightweight design with high forecasting accuracy

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]]> Nobel Prizes 2024: AI Breakthroughs Win Big https://towardsdatascience.com/nobel-prizes-2024-artificial-intelligence-77a5a7027d5c/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:37:43 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/nobel-prizes-2024-artificial-intelligence-77a5a7027d5c/ Lessons Learned After the AI Nobel Debate

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]]> Don’t Flood Your Algorithms With Easy Examples – It Costs Money https://towardsdatascience.com/dont-flood-your-algorithms-with-easy-examples-it-costs-money-01513a5930bf/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:31:01 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/dont-flood-your-algorithms-with-easy-examples-it-costs-money-01513a5930bf/ A common mistake that slows down training and burns cash

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]]> Step-by-Step Guide for Building Bump Charts in Plotly https://towardsdatascience.com/step-by-step-guide-for-building-bump-charts-in-plotly-ef7c84ad3a0b/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:01:05 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/step-by-step-guide-for-building-bump-charts-in-plotly-ef7c84ad3a0b/ Learn how to create custom bump charts in Python using Plotly for data visualization

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]]> Overcoming Security Challenges in Protecting Shared Generative AI Environments https://towardsdatascience.com/overcoming-security-challenges-in-protecting-shared-generative-ai-environments-1ffb27da1bde/ Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:17:03 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/overcoming-security-challenges-in-protecting-shared-generative-ai-environments-1ffb27da1bde/ Ensuring Safe AI on Multi-Tenancy

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