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[Aberdeen City Council @AberdeenCC]

Due to continued snow showers and road surface temperatures well below 0C, we will be gritting the primary routes twice overnight, at 7pm and again from about 4am. We will continuously grit the arterial main roads through the night.

[Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne]

I love this beautiful and extraordinarily well published book: "Better Data Visualizations" by @jschwabish

Get it at https://t.co/JQGXY01e4V
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#DataViz #DataStorytelling #Statistics #VisualAnalytics #DataScience #DataScientists #BeDataBrilliant

[Nescol Computing Technologies @ComputingNescol]

Our competitors brought home three medals. Charlie Priestley received a silver medal, and Earyn Stewart and Findlay Pell shared a bronze. Congratulations to all three of them.

[Nescol Computing Technologies @ComputingNescol]

WorldSkills UK National Finals Medal Ceremony 2023 - LIVE STREAM

17th November starting from 7pm
Wish best for Charlie Priestley, Earyn, and Findlay Pell

https://t.co/buE1GNMACu

[Nescol Computing Technologies @ComputingNescol]

Good luck to students Charlie Priestley, Earyn Stewart and Findlay Pell in the Worldskills UK national finals! The NESCol trio are competing in the Network Systems Administrator category this week and hoping for success when the results are announced later today.

[NESCol Students' Association @NESColSA]

Come along to a charity book-sale organised by Rachel, one of our fantastic students, to raise money for Grampians Women's Aid 📚

Whether you have books to donate or some extra space on your shelves, come along on the 12th of October beside Dino's 🫶

[NESCol Library @NESClib]

October is Black History Month and the theme this year is Saluting Our Sisters, a celebration of the vital role black women have played in shaping history.

We have put together some of the library resources you can explore to learn more.

#BlackHistoryMonth
#SalutingOurSisters

[Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne]

"Streamlit for #DataScience" (Second Edition) Step-by-step guide to building interactive data apps in #Python: https://t.co/pypHFEyXIt by @tylerjrichards via @streamlit @PacktPublishing
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[Nescol Computing Technologies @ComputingNescol]

Ethical Hacker

Learn the art of offensive security to uncover cyber threats and vulnerabilities before the cybercriminals do.

https://t.co/ocKFp1Ku48

[Networking Academy @CiscoNetAcad]

Attention 📢 IT specialists who want to start working in multinational or English-speaking companies, and non-IT employees working in the IT sector.

There is a course that will open new doors for you ➡️
https://t.co/SCaQKGA6fg

[Nescol Computing Technologies @ComputingNescol]

Ada Scotland Festival

Back for a fourth year, the Festival dates: 2nd to 13th October 2023.

https://t.co/CPT7YwH9p9

[Nescol Computing Technologies @ComputingNescol]

Every young woman and non-binary student has the potential to have a successful career in cyber.
https://t.co/3HLdiaiGLG

[NESCol Student Advice Centre @NESColAdvice]

World Suicide Prevention Day 2023: “Creating Hope Through Action”

Our Student Wellbeing Advisors will be hosting stalls on each campus on the 8th of September

Aberdeen City - Dinos: 11:30 am – 1:30pm
Altens - Engine Room: F Block) 10am – 11am
Fraserburgh -The Atrium: 12pm – 2pm

[Pascal Bornet @pascal_bornet]

Incredible video captures T-cells fighting cancer

A sensor in the cancer cell illuminates upon impact, providing real-time data to help improve treatments

Ct: Jeroen Slaats
#innovation #techforgood #cancer #biotech #celltherapy #oncology

[North East Scotland College @NESCollege]

If you’ve received a conditional offer for a place at NESCol, don’t forget to let us know when you get your exam results. If you haven’t applied yet, there’s still time to choose a course now you’ve got your grades: https://t.co/JyR8NwsxnY
#YourNESColFuture
#YourFutureStartsHere

[Nescol Computing Technologies @ComputingNescol]

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[Nescol Computing Technologies @ComputingNescol]

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[Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne]

9 FREE #GenerativeAI Courses from Google👇

1. Introduction to Generative #AI:
https://t.co/oACb11BXKe

2. Introduction to #LLMs Large Language Models:
https://t.co/e6L7ISLMu4

3. Introduction to Responsible AI:
https://t.co/M2Wx4saStS

4. Introduction to Image Generation:
https://t.co/QSHBN0cMaV

5. Encoder-Decoder Architecture:
https://t.co/GCfzU3QRKG

6. Attention Mechanism:
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7. Transformer Models and BERT Model:
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8. Create Image Captioning Models:
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9. Introduction to Generative AI Studio:
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More details: https://t.co/nFWT8jMC9U

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

Open source LLMs have a major limitation.

But today, everything changes with the release of a new Foundation LLM Giraffe!🦒

So, what limitation does Giraffe overcome❔

❗️Open source LLMs have a max context length of 2k tokens, which roughly mean that they can not take inputs longer than 1500 words.

❗️This makes them less useful for creating a Custom LLM based on your knowledge base.

❗️Limited data in each call negatively impacts model performance.

How Giraffe solved this problem❔

❗️@AbacusAI have released two versions of Giraffe with context lengths to 4K and 16K.

❗️Which means now you can feed them with upto 3000 & 12000 words respectively in one go! 🚀

Find all the code & instructions for reproducing or building on the results 👇
https://t.co/bmJzlDai1Y

The weights (and datasets) are available for download from Huggingface.

4k: https://t.co/RPpo3KONRe

16k: https://t.co/froJexGyNS

The current implementation is based on Llama-v1, the implementation for Llama-v2 with research paper to be released soon!

Follow @AbacusAI for all the updates!

That's a wrap, if you interested in:

- Python 🐍
- ML/MLOps🤖
- Maths for ML 🧮
- CV/NLP 🗣
- LLMs 🧠

Find me → @akshay_pachaar ✔️
Everyday, I share tutorials on above topics!

Cheers! 🥂