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A lot of exciting tech updates including:
🤖 Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 3.5, twice as fast as previous versions, excels in coding, writing, and visual tasks
⚡️ Lesson of the Week: How to write efficient and effective SQL queries.
💰 NVIDIA becomes world’s most valuable company, with a market cap of $3.34 trillion.
💡 Weekly Tech Tip: Guide for Slack AI.
🚀 What’s New: Percentiles for skill analyses, extended assessment times, bug fixes, and backend updates.
📒 Book of the Week: “Becoming a Data Head” by Alex J. Gutman and Jordan Goldmeier.
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Anthropic Releases Most Advanced Chatbot
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 3.5, its most advanced AI model, outperforming previous versions and competing models like ChatGPT-4o.
Like 4o, Claude Sonnet 3.5 is free for everyone. Additionally, it’s twice as fast, excels in coding, writing, and visual tasks, and features a 200k+ token context window for handling extensive documents.
It does lack some features of ChatGPT-4o, such as an image generator, Voice Mode, GPTs, Memory/Custom Instructions, and conversation sharing.
Some exciting use cases for Claude Sonnet 3.5 include:
- Interpreting charts, graphs, or transcribing text from imperfect images.
- Building web apps and websites from screenshots.
- Generating various visualizations like power points, charts, and diagrams instantly.
Anthropic also released an impressive projects feature, enabling paid teams to create workspaces with dedicated chat history and knowledge bases for better context-specific chats and team collaboration.
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Lesson of the Week
Elevate your SQL prowess using key insights derived from our “Citizen’s guide to SQL” skill, designed for crafting powerful and precise queries.
Question of the Week:
How could this query be improved?
Select one:
A) Use GROUP BY instead of SELECT DISTINCT
B) Remove the DISTINCT keyword without using GROUP BY
C) Add a LIMIT clause without changing SELECT DISTINCT
See if you’re right–the answer is at the bottom!
NVIDIA Tops in Tech Caps
NVIDIA has become the world’s most valuable company, reaching a market cap of $3.34 trillion, driven by its dominance in AI chip production.
Its stock price has nearly doubled this year, surpassing tech giants like Microsoft and Apple. Analysts predict further growth in the AI sector, though some express concerns about increasing competition.
NVIDIA’s rise has also elevated its CEO, Jensen Huang, to celebrity status, compared by Mark Zuckerberg to be the “Taylor Swift of tech.”
Weekly Tech Tip
Guide for Slack AI
Slack AI can enhance your team’s productivity and streamline your workflow with its powerful, intuitive tools. Some features are:
- Instant Conversation Summaries: Quickly catch up on channels, threads, and DMs with instant summaries, saving you time and keeping you informed.
- Daily Recaps: Get automated summaries of your unread channels every morning, helping you stay up to date without constant notifications.
- Smart Search: Ask questions in natural language and get concise answers from Slack’s data, complete with citations for source messages.
If you don’t use Slack, don’t worry! We’ll have tips for Microsoft Teams next week. If there’s another software you’d like us to cover, please submit your feedback in the “Rate this Newsletter” section below.
QuantHub’s Tech Updates
We added percentiles to skill assessments and the option to extend assessment time limits upon request, along with fixing various bugs and making backend updates to improve user experience.
Book of the Week
“Becoming a Data Head” by Alex Gutman and Jordan Goldmeier is a comprehensive guide for understanding data science, statistics, and machine learning.
The book aims to help professionals think statistically, ask the right questions about data, and understand advanced concepts like machine learning and AI.
It also covers common pitfalls in data interpretation and provides a fun, approachable way to become proficient in data science in the workplace.
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Lesson of the Week Answer:
A) Use GROUP BY instead of SELECT DISTINCT