Feeling impressed to put in writing your first TDS put up earlier than the top of 2024? We’re at all times open to contributions from new authors.
And similar to that, 2024 is (nearly) within the books. It was a yr of thrilling transitions — each for the TDS group and, in lots of significant methods, for the information science, machine studying, and AI communities at giant. We’d prefer to thank all of you—readers, authors, and followers—on your assist, and for conserving us busy and engaged along with your glorious contributions and feedback.
In contrast to in 2023, when a single occasion (ChatGPT’s launch simply weeks earlier than the start of the yr) stopped everybody of their tracks and formed conversations for months on finish, this yr we skilled a extra cumulative and fragmented sense of transformation. Practitioners throughout business and academia experimented with new instruments and labored onerous to seek out progressive methods to learn from the speedy rise of LLMs; on the similar time, additionally they needed to navigate a difficult job market and a world the place AI’s footprint inches ever nearer to their very own on a regular basis workflows.
That will help you make sense of those developments, we revealed greater than 3,500 articles this previous yr, together with a whole bunch from first-time contributors. Our authors have an unbelievable knack for injecting their distinctive perspective into any subject they cowl—from massive questions and well timed matters to extra targeted technical challenges—and we’re happy with each put up we revealed in 2024.
Inside this huge artistic output, some articles handle to resonate notably nicely with our readers, and we’re dedicating our closing Variable version to those: our most-read, -discussed, and -shared posts of the yr. As you would possibly count on, they cowl loads of floor, so we’ve determined to rearrange them following the key themes we’ve detected this yr: studying and constructing from scratch, RAG and AI brokers, profession development, and breakthroughs and innovation.
We hope you get pleasure from exploring our 2024 highlights, and we want you a calming finish of the yr — see you in January!
