Ida Silfverskiöld, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:28:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Ida Silfverskiöld, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com 32 32 The Architecture Behind Web Search in AI Chatbots https://towardsdatascience.com/the-architecture-behind-web-search-in-ai-chatbots-2/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:19:55 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607822 And what this means for generative engine optimization (GEO)

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]]> Building Research Agents for Tech Insights https://towardsdatascience.com/building-research-agents-for-tech-insights/ Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:30:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607127 Using a controlled workflow, unique data & prompt chaining

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]]> Agentic AI: On Evaluations https://towardsdatascience.com/agentic-ai-evaluation-playbook/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:46:20 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606809 Metrics to track for RAG and agents, plus the frameworks that help

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]]> Agentic AI: Implementing Long-Term Memory https://towardsdatascience.com/agentic-ai-implementing-long-term-memory/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:35:32 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606401 The problem and current solutions

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]]> Agentic RAG Applications: Company Knowledge Slack Agents https://towardsdatascience.com/agentic-rag-applications-company-knowledge-slack-agents/ Fri, 30 May 2025 20:10:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606178 Lessons learnt using LlamaIndex and Modal

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]]> Agentic AI: Single vs Multi-Agent Systems https://towardsdatascience.com/agentic-ai-single-vs-multi-agent-systems/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:15:17 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=605376 Demonstrated by building a tech news agent in LangGraph

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]]> Learn to Build Advanced AI Image Applications https://towardsdatascience.com/learn-to-build-advanced-ai-image-applications-9c98d0f1f930/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:02:06 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/learn-to-build-advanced-ai-image-applications-9c98d0f1f930/ By building an interior designer in ComfyUI

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]]> Advanced Prompt Engineering: Chain of Thought (CoT) https://towardsdatascience.com/advanced-prompt-engineering-chain-of-thought-cot-8d8b090bf699/ Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:01:36 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/advanced-prompt-engineering-chain-of-thought-cot-8d8b090bf699/ Comparing different techniques for reasoning

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]]> Economics of Hosting Open Source LLMs https://towardsdatascience.com/economics-of-hosting-open-source-llms-17b4ec4e7691/ Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:57:01 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/economics-of-hosting-open-source-llms-17b4ec4e7691/ Leveraging various deployment options

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]]> Working with Embeddings: Closed versus Open Source https://towardsdatascience.com/working-with-embeddings-closed-versus-open-source-39491f0b95c2/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:42:55 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/working-with-embeddings-closed-versus-open-source-39491f0b95c2/ Using techniques to improve semantic search

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]]> Fine-Tune Smaller Transformer Models: Text Classification https://towardsdatascience.com/fine-tune-smaller-transformer-models-text-classification-77cbbd3bf02b/ Tue, 28 May 2024 19:26:44 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/fine-tune-smaller-transformer-models-text-classification-77cbbd3bf02b/ Using Microsoft's Phi-3 to generate synthetic data

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]]> Deploy Long-Running ETL Pipelines to ECS with Fargate https://towardsdatascience.com/deploy-long-running-etl-pipelines-to-ecs-with-fargate-01ab19c6d2a8/ Sun, 03 Mar 2024 16:26:19 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/deploy-long-running-etl-pipelines-to-ecs-with-fargate-01ab19c6d2a8/ To keep things simple and costs to a minimum

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