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The list of sessions & key takeaways - AI-powered transformation: Driving innovation and reshaping organizations - Joana Carrasqueira, Senior Manager, AI Developer Relations, Google Building with the Gemini API and Google AI Studio - Shrestha Basu Mallick, Product Lead, Gemini API and AI Studio, Google Introduction to Gemini APIs and Google AI Studio - Paige Bailey, AI Developer Experience Engineer, Google AI for everyone with Gemma - Kathleen Kenealy, Staff Research Engineer, Google Gemma is ​​'open' and 'offline', ​​'open' and 'offline' means you can run the model on local machines or host it yourself! The weights are publicly available, which is the 'open' part of the model Tuning recipes - A collection of guides and examples for the Gemma open models from Google. $100,000 prize for a Kaggle Competition to fine-tune Gemma 2 for a specific language or cultural context. AI in your pocket: Building intelligent Android apps - Jingyu S...

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Disraeli. The book " How to Lie with Statistics ", first published in 1954, is an attention grabbing title for what should have really been called "A Guide to Spotting Statistical Trickery" This book exposes common statistical manipulations used to mislead audiences. The author explains in a light-hearted way through its ten chapters how to critically evaluate statistical claims and avoid being deceived by distorted data. In this age of both human & AI driven misinformation, this book is more relevant than ever. Chapter 1: The Sample with the Built-in Bias Trick: Presenting data based on a biased sample that doesn't accurately represent the population it claims to reflect. For example, using a sample of Yale graduates with known addresses to determine the average income of all Yale graduates. This method excludes those who may not be as financially successful, resulting in an inflated av...

This Week I Learned -   * "India continues to remain a super important market for Meta globally. It’s one of the largest user markets for us and the trends that we’re seeing here are definitely about continued growth and engagement across all our platforms. It’s not just Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, but even for the recently launched Threads, India is one of the largest markets globally with over 200 million downloads. We’re seeing continued momentum and growth, across the board. Also, we are witnessing an equally strong adoption of newer products such as AI platform Llama. India provides the largest user base for Meta’s platforms. I think we are almost sort of using India as the playbook, you know, for global. Consider this: India was one of the first countries to test and launch (Instagram) Reels in 2020. Today, it’s one of the strongest products that we have globally. India is also the first country where we launched Payments on WhatsApp Business. Also, India is the b...