ISSUE 452 · September 12, 2023

Insight

Generative AI and intellectual property

If you put all the world’s knowledge into an AI model and use it to make something new, who owns that and who gets paid? This is a completely new problem that we’ve been arguing about for 500 years.
Benedict Evans

Interview with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

Great podcast interview with Sam Altman about AI, how quickly it's evolving, interesting applications, and ultimately, his perspectives on how AI will impact the world going forward.
In Good Company Podcast | Nicolai Tangen and Sam Altman

Posts & Tutorials

A Gentle Introduction to GDAL - Part 5: Shaded Relief

Awesome post on using the open-source Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) for visualizing elevation data. This post is the continuation of a series that started in 2017. If you're interested in geospatial data, all of these tutorials are detailed and clear, with lots of useful links along the way:

• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Map Projections & gdalwarp
• Part 3: Geodesy & Local Map Projections
• Part 4: Working with Satellite Data
• Part 5: Shaded Relief
• Part 6: Coming up! Expected to cover other types of data, such as cloud cover, city lights, and vegetation

Robert Simmon

Using random forest based outlier detection to clean a training dataset

Nice tutorial that considers several outlier detection and removal approaches while cleaning a training dataset from a Kaggle competition.
Tyler Burleigh

An introduction to Python for R Users

Great post for R users that want to use Python for data analysis. It covers a variety of topics, including key libraries, Jupyter notebooks, working with pandas data frames, function chaining, and visualization.
Rebecca Barter

How do we spend our time?

Super interesting (and effective!) approach for visualizing the daily activities of people around the world. If you like this approach, also see the voronoiTreemap package >>
Nicola Rennie

Why AI Is the Mother of All Unicorns

Dive into Bill Gates’ prophecies, the rise of giants, and why AI is not just another hype. This post takes a look at who is positioned to win the biggest slice of the pie and where the most value will be generated.
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Tools & Code

Open Interpreter

Open Interpreter is an open-source, local implementation of OpenAI's Code Interpreter. In other words, Open Interpreter can run code and give you a local, LLM interface to your computer's software and files. It was announced just a week ago and it already has over 18,000 stars!
GitHub | Killian Lucas

Career

4 Skills the Next Generation of Data Scientists Needs to Develop

As data and analytics continue to expand across industries, it makes sense that the next generation of data leaders will have bigger roles that will impact strategy, decision-making, and operations. In this post, Joel Shapiro explores four key skills that data people need to develop.
Harvard Business Review | Joel Shapiro

Privacy & Security

What Data Does My Car Collect About Me and Where Does It Go?

In a new series of articles, Mozilla concludes that cars have become "a privacy nightmare." Modern cars are, essentially, computers on wheels with sensors, cameras, microphones, GPS receivers, connections to our phones, and on and on. This article explores what all that data is, exactly, how it's handled, and where it goes.
Mozilla Foundation | Jen Caltrider, Misha Rykov and Zoë MacDonald 

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