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Tabular foundation models predict the missing column of any spreadsheet zero-shot, the way an LLM completes text — and on the TabArena benchmark they now sit above fully tuned gradient-boosted trees. An introduction to how they work, an independent reproduction of the strongest open one, and a map of where XGBoost still wins. The post …

A chat with aged avatars of future selves can guide people paralyzed by tough decisions. The question is what information to feed the bots. Read More

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Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8quater] – Two angles on the cascade, cost and a validation loop, backed by a real sweep of twenty local models against a hosted flagship The post Loop Engineering for RAG Generation: An LLM Cascade from a Cheap Local Model Up to a Hosted Flagship appeared first on Towards Data Science. …