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Power BI is one of the most popular BI tools in the world!

And I just partnered with Boot.dev to build a Full Power BI Course that is really unique!

You'll learn all about data modeling, building dashboards, DAX, and more!

Be sure to check it out here:

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Open article: Learn Data Visualization with Power BI [Full Course] | Boot.dev by boot.dev

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Saying "No" can get your farther in your career than saying "Yes".

Say No to:
- Jobs that don't pay you what you're worth
- Bad bosses
- Staying late because everyone else does
- Work that doesn’t use your strengths
- Every request that comes your way

Saying Yes to these things can set you back years in your career. Know yourself, your strengths, what you want and say Yes to those things and no to everything else.

The amazing thing about life is you can completely re-invent yourself whenever you want!

Most people do it during big events in their life - Moving across the country, new job, going to college, etc - times where you are starting over or starting fresh.

Honestly, you could just do it now.

You could wake up tomorrow and decide to change tons of things. Start working out, start taking classes, start wearing different clothes. Anything you want!

I completely changed myself after college. I was about to move across the country to do an Internship in Dallas and I shaved my head.

Just to try something new! And I wouldn't ever go back to who I was or how I was living before. 

Take a chance and trying something new. Become the person you want to be.

I've been using Claude Cowork for the past few days with my real work and here's my honest review:

1. It's fast and thoughtful
- Processes in-depth drafts what would take me hours
- It breaks complex problems into steps and assess each step
- Can create entire documents with good output

2. Context is difficult for longer durations
- As I used it more it lost the context fairly quickly over time which I needed to continue to prompt
- Not huge issue, but the longer the task it would often drift and do 90% what I initially wanted

3. It can give A LOT of output at one time!
- This is good and bad. Lots of work done at one time, but also a lot to review!
- And reviewing was very important for large documents it produced (got it right 90% of the time, some less if it didn't understand what I really wanted)
- Downside was if it wasn't good, took a long time to run and redo

4. It deleted some of my files
- I gave it access to some Folders I set up just for testing with some real files
- It deleted my files and told me it didn't and was still there (not cool - luckily I had backups)

5. Connectors, Plugins, Skills are all great!
- But they don't always work. In fact 25% of the time they just failed and Clause Cowork would have to find a workaround
- It's a great ecosystem, but the ecosystem is not super reliable

6. It's good, but a lot of the online attention is Hype
- Listen, it is good - absolutely, but it's not fire the entire Marketing, Coding, and HR teams good
- Hype gets people trying it (like me) and I see many use cases for it in my personal uses, but it doesn't match all the hype see

I like trying new things and staying up to date in AI and I think I'll continue to use Claude Cowork for a few use cases - definitely worth trying out!

In this weeks Databricks lesson we are using IDP (Intelligent Document Processing) to extract data from our Unstructured Documents using ai_extract.

Unstructured files are notoriously difficult to work with, but IDP makes it pretty streamlined all within Databricks!

https://lnkd.in/e52_K6MJ

Open video: Ai_extract in Databricks on youtube.com

In this weeks Databricks lesson we are taking a look at ai_classify!

With ai_classify you can classify your files and label them before you actually start extracting your data.

Imagine you have a ton of files in a folder and you want to extract the data, but they're all mixed in with tons of other files - this is how you can easily classify and separate them

https://lnkd.in/eyR2Nkft

Open video: Ai_classify in Databricks on youtu.be

I haven't taken any PTO in 3 years!!

Well - I do take time off, I just don't get paid for it. One of the few downsides of working for yourself.

But it beats having to request time off, they say too many people are taking those days off and we need people in the office. Then you have to tell your family it was denied so you have to reschedule those plans.

When you bootstrap a company and it starts to pick up some steam every VC and Angel investor will come out of the woodwork to offer you "free" money.

I started Analyst Builder 3 years ago and I've gotten hundreds of small and large companies and investors wanting to give me money to "Scale, Tap into a larger Market, Advertise" and everything else.

All I'd have to do is give up control of some of my company.

And looking back, maybe I would have grown faster, scaled bigger, etc, but I knew that came with strings attached. I'd have someone to report to, someone looking for an ROI on their investment in a year or so.

I also knew they'd want me to raise my prices, push out content faster and faster, and make more money at all costs.

Once you give up a part of your company you aren't in control anymore. You are beholden to investors and it stops becoming about the company and more about ROI.

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It's 2025 and we're at the peak of the attention economy  
  
Where Authenticity is king, visibility is currency and people wanna buy from people

Not faceless dehumanized brands  
  
So, they told you LinkedIn was "free marketing" you slapped some posts and called it strategy  
  
You've poured hours crafting the 'perfect' post, only to watch it sink without a trace..  
  
Then it dawned on you, your technical brilliance isn't enough to draw a crowd  
  
Hell, maybe you've even tried mimicking influencers, scrambling for any traction..  
  
Your post got 500 f*cking views... from your friends...  
  
Being ignored is soul-crushing  
  
It's not your fault tough  
  
When you started your company, you didn't sign-up for a degree in an Audience Building, Copywriting and LinkedIn strategy 

And here you are, sacrificing yet another late night for your vision  

"Am I just sabotaging my efforts?"  
  
"Is my life-work meaningless?"  
  
Getting traction feels impossible  
  
You hoped hiring some marketer would save your weekends but..  
  
Tech is a code they can't crack  
  
They can only churn out the lame, soul-sucking crap we all ignore on sight  
  
With armies of founders flooding feeds, your voice dissolves into meaningless white noise  
  
But in the process, you've wasted more of your precious time explaining 101 tech concept and rewriting low-quality drafts 

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If they could rise above the noise, so can you

Yeah, even if you're an introvert with a "boring" niche

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Paolo Perrone

Google's new agent framework makes LangChain look like a toy.

It's called ADK. It treats agent development like software development
Not prompt engineering.

What it is:
→ Code-first agent development — Python, Java, TypeScript, Go
→ Event-driven runtime, not request-response
→ Version control, testing, CI/CD all work naturally

The agent primitives:
→ LlmAgent for reasoning
→ SequentialAgent, ParallelAgent, LoopAgent for deterministic pipelines
→ AgentTool: use agents as tools inside other agents
→ LLM-driven routing for dynamic task delegation

The tool ecosystem is where it gets ridiculous:
→ Google Search, Code Execution built-in
→ Full MCP support (BigQuery, Google Maps MCP servers)
→ Point it at any OpenAPI spec → auto-generates tools
→ Direct LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, LangGraph integration
→ Human-in-the-loop confirmation before tool execution
→ Long-running async tools

Model support:
→ Optimized for Gemini but model-agnostic
→ LiteLLM integration: swap in Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, anything
→ Any model in Vertex AI Model Garden

And it streams bidirectional audio and video out of the box.

pip install google-adk

💾 Save this before your next "which agent framework" debate.
♻️ Repost if your team is still duct-taping agents with prompt chains.

No BS AI/ML Content | ML Engineer with a Plot Twist 🥷100M+ Views 📝

Stop paying for AI engineering bootcamps.

The fundamentals can be learned in 2-3 weeks. For free.

Here's everything you need:
→ https://lnkd.in/gCFQ69G9 — Andrew Ng's bite-sized courses
→ huggingface.co/learn — NLP, transformers, diffusion models
→ openai/openai-cookbook — Real production patterns
→ karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero — Build GPT from scratch
→ fast.ai — Practical deep learning, no PhD required

All excellent. If I had to pick one: Karpathy.
He teaches how it works, not just how to call the API.

♻️ Repost to save someone $2,000.

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2 founders built Claude Code but for marketing, and it's already compressing 10-month execution cycles into 10 days

After multi-billion dollar exits to Salesforce and Oracle, Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya noticed something:

AI eliminated manual work for engineers, but marketers were still dealing with analysis and dashboards.

I was watching their conversation with Navin Chaddha from Mayfield and it struck me what has driven their success as serial entrepreneurs:

•⁠ ⁠“A bad decision made quickly is better than a good decision made slowly.”
•⁠ ⁠“Everything we used to do in 10 months, we now try to do in 10 days.”

Hear them break it all down:

You don't need 14 courses to build AI agents.

You need 6 weeks and this path:

Week 1️⃣: Understand the pattern
→ Anthropic's Building Effective Agents: https://lnkd.in/ew-rnBgD
→ Chip Huyen's agent explainer: https://lnkd.in/gKNqjeGZ
→ 3 hours total. No courses yet.

Week 2️⃣: Build something ugly
→ Langflow (no-code, 1 hour to ship): langflow.org
→ A research agent. A Slack bot. Anything.
→ Now you have context for everything else.

Week 3️⃣–4️⃣: Understand what you built
→ AI Agents in LangGraph: https://lnkd.in/g7raxjpC
→ Agent Memory: https://lnkd.in/ehtwbCVz
→ Rebuild your ugly thing. Properly.

Week 5️⃣–6️⃣: Deploy it
→ LangSmith for tracing: smith.langchain.com
→ Railway or Render for hosting
→ Now it's a portfolio piece.

The trap:
"I need to understand transformers first."
"I should take the Andrew Ng course first."
"I'll start when I have more time."

Build ugly. Learn why it's ugly. Fix it.

💾 Save for your next "where do I even start" spiral
♻️ Repost if you've bookmarked 47 courses and finished zero

They told you 70B models need 80GB VRAM. They lied.

AirLLM runs Llama 70B on a 4GB GPU.

No quantization. No distillation. No pruning.

The trick: layer-wise inference. Instead of loading the entire model into VRAM, it loads one layer at a time from disk.

Your GPU only ever holds one layer. The rest lives on disk.

What you can run:

→ Llama 70B on 4GB VRAM
→ Llama 405B on 8GB VRAM
→ Qwen2.5, Mixtral, ChatGLM all supported

pip install airllm

from airllm import AutoModel

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("garage-bAInd/Platypus2-70B-instruct")

input_tokens = model.tokenizer(input_text,
    return_tensors="pt",
    truncation=True,
    max_length=128)

output = model.generate(
    input_tokens['input_ids'].cuda(),
    max_new_tokens=20)

Standard transformers API. That's it.

Optional: 4-bit compression for 3x speed boost.

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("...", compression='4bit')

Trade-off: slower inference than full VRAM loading. But if you don't have the VRAM, you don't have options.

Works on MacOS with Apple Silicon too.

1.9k GitHub stars. Apache 2.0.

→ github.com/lyogavin/airllm

💾 Save for when your GPU budget doesn't match your model ambitions
♻️ Repost if you've ever closed a tab because "requires 80GB VRAM"

Google just dropped a FREE agent starter pack.

One command. 60 seconds. Full production stack.

3,100+ GitHub stars. Here's why:

5 agent templates, ready to deploy:

1️⃣ ReAct agent (ADK)
2️⃣ RAG agent: document retrieval + Q&A
3️⃣ Multi-agent with A2A Protocol
4️⃣ Live API: real-time multimodal
5️⃣ LangGraph base

That's the starting point. The infrastructure is what makes it DIFFERENT:

⚡ Cloud Run + Agent Engine deployment
⚡ Terraform configs included
⚡ CI/CD with Cloud Build + GitHub Actions
⚡ Vertex AI evaluation built in
⚡ Interactive playground for testing

One command:

uvx agent-starter-pack create my-awesome-agent

No boilerplate. No config hell. No "works on my machine."

Google gave away what most teams spend weeks building.

For $0.

Which template are you starting with? 👇

♻️ Repost for someone building agents from scratch

RAG, CoT, ReAct, RLHF, LoRA, MoE

What do these acronyms actually mean?

If you're breaking into AI engineering, these come up constantly. 

Here's the breakdown:

🔹 RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
Instead of relying only on what the model "knows," you retrieve relevant documents and feed them into the prompt. Reduces hallucination. Powers most production AI apps.

🔹 CoT (Chain of Thought)
Prompting the model to "think step by step" before answering. Dramatically improves reasoning on complex tasks. Free performance boost.

🔹 ReAct (Reasoning + Acting)
Agent pattern where the model alternates between thinking and taking actions. Think → Act → Observe → Repeat. Foundation of most agent frameworks.

🔹 RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback)
How ChatGPT became ChatGPT. Train the model to prefer outputs humans rate highly. Why models are helpful instead of just predictive.

🔹 LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)
Fine-tune a model by training only a small number of new parameters. Makes fine-tuning accessible without massive GPU costs.

🔹 MoE (Mixture of Experts)
Model architecture where only a subset of parameters activate per token. How Mixtral and Nemotron run 30B+ params on consumer hardware.

Frameworks change every quarter.
These acronyms won't.

💾 Save for your next "wait, what does that stand for?" moment
♻️ Repost so they don't have to ask you.

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