Tag: book

Annual list of recommended books.

  • Think Smaller: The Counterintuitive Path to AI Adoption

    Escaping Prototype Purgatory: A Playbook for AI Teams We’re living through a peculiar moment in AI development. On one hand, the demos are spectacular: agents that reason and plan with apparent ease, models that compose original…

    Think Smaller: The Counterintuitive Path to AI Adoption
  • The data flywheel effect in AI model improvement

    How Leaders Are Using RL to Build a Competitive AI Advantage I have long been fascinated by reinforcement learning (RL), but have always viewed it as complex and beyond the reach of most enterprise AI teams.…

    The data flywheel effect in AI model improvement
  • Why AI Efficiency Outruns Hardware Shortages

    Time Bought, Advantage Lost? The Limits of Semiconductor Sanctions The technological and economic competition between the United States and China has increasingly centered on AI capabilities, with semiconductor access becoming the critical battleground. Since 2022, these…

    Why AI Efficiency Outruns Hardware Shortages
  • From Prototype Purgatory to Production-Grade AI Agents

    Taming the Wild West of AI Agents: Addressing the Challenges of Real-World Deployment AI agents are autonomous systems that combine language (and multimodal) understanding with the decision-making prowess of foundation models to interpret complex inputs, reason…

    From Prototype Purgatory to Production-Grade AI Agents
  • Paradigm Shifts in Data Processing for the Generative AI Era

    Bridging the Gap: Multimodal Data Processing for Generative AI By Ben Lorica and Dean Wampler. In the rapidly evolving landscape of Generative AI, one of the most critical, yet often underestimated challenges is data processing and…

    Paradigm Shifts in Data Processing for the Generative AI Era
  • Unlocking the Power of Incentives: 2023 Book of the Year

    In the fast-moving worlds of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science, truly understanding user behavior and motivation is the key that unlocks innovation and progress. This is why Gradient Flow is happy to name economist…

    Unlocking the Power of Incentives: 2023 Book of the Year
  • Book Review: The Fund

    In his revelatory new book “The Fund,” Rob Copeland of The New York Times pulls back the curtain on the controversial management techniques of billionaire Ray Dalio, founder of hedge fund behemoth Bridgewater Associates. Copeland documents…

    Book Review: The Fund
  • Book Review: Going Infinite

    I was skeptical about Michael Lewis’ new book, Going Infinite. I thought I knew enough about FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) that reading a book wasn’t a great use of my time. More importantly, I already…

    Book Review: Going Infinite
  • 2023 Summer Book Recommendations

    As we dive into the summer of 2023, I’d like to share with you a selection of non-fiction books that have captivated my attention and enriched my understanding of various subjects this year. All three books…

    2023 Summer Book Recommendations
  • Our Top Book Pick for 2022

    Data Science in Context Our book of the year is a collaboration between a team of highly regarded experts in the fields of AI and data science. This book provides a comprehensive overview of what students…