TDS Newsletter: The Theory and Practice of Using AI Effectively

This newsletter edition focuses on blending the theory and practice of using AI effectively, particularly with LLM applications and AI agents. It highlights articles that encourage understanding complex systems from the ground up while also providing actionable insights. Key featured pieces explore agentic AI from first principles, the realistic value of AI solutions beyond chatbots, and the meaning of "reasoning" in LLMs. The newsletter also curates other popular articles on topics like deep reinforcement learning, vision-language intelligence with RAG, and scaling recommender transformers.