Feeling inspired to jot down your first TDS post before the top of 2024? We’re at all times open to contributions from recent authors.
And identical to that, 2024 is (almost) within the books. It was a yr of exciting transitions — each for the TDS team and, in lots of meaningful ways, for the info science, machine learning, and AI communities at large. We’d wish to thank all of you—readers, authors, and followers—in your support, and for keeping us busy and engaged along with your excellent contributions and comments.
Unlike in 2023, when a single event (ChatGPT’s launch just weeks before the start of the yr) stopped everyone of their tracks and shaped conversations for months on end, this yr we experienced a more cumulative and fragmented sense of transformation. Practitioners across industry and academia experimented with recent tools and worked hard to seek out progressive ways to learn from the rapid rise of LLMs; at the identical time, in addition they needed to navigate a difficult job market and a world where AI’s footprint inches ever closer to their very own on a regular basis workflows.
To enable you make sense of those developments, we published greater than 3,500 articles this past yr, including a whole bunch from first-time contributors. Our authors have an incredible knack for injecting their unique perspective into any topic they cover—from big questions and timely topics to more focused technical challenges—and we’re pleased with every post we published in 2024.
Inside this massive creative output, some articles manage to resonate particularly well with our readers, and we’re dedicating our final Variable edition to those: our most-read, -discussed, and -shared posts of the yr. As you may expect, they cover so much of ground, so we’ve decided to rearrange them following the most important themes we’ve detected this yr: learning and constructing from scratch, RAG and AI agents, profession growth, and breakthroughs and innovation.
We hope you enjoy exploring our 2024 highlights, and we wish you a calming end of the yr — see you in January!
