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New release in Manning Early Access Program! Read a book while it's being written! Imagine training a perfectly tuned model tailored to your field—whether it's generating Python code, decoding protein structures, or mapping antibody sequences—all without incurring high hardware or operational costs. "Domain-Specific Small Language Models" by Guglielmo Iozzia guides you through the best practices for model sizing. It covers open-source libraries like Hugging Face’s SLM frameworks and fine-tuning techniques applicable to custom datasets. Find it on: https://hubs.la/Q03gYMHn0 🚀 Ready to build smarter, highly focused language models? Don't miss out! Save 50% with code MLIOZZIA50LI before April 25th. #SLMs #GenerativeAI #ManningBooks

📣 New in MEAP! 📣 Ready to revolutionize the worlds of art, design, and content creation? Our latest MEAP release - "Build a Text-to-Image Generator (from Scratch)" by Mark Liu - empowers you to create AI models for stunning image generation from text. The book takes you step-by-step through two distinct methods, vision transformers and diffusion models, while showcasing the essential AI development techniques that will elevate your skills to new heights! Master the tech behind DALL·E and Stable Diffusion, and emerge with fully functional AI pipelines you built yourself. Save 50% with code MLLIU250LI before May 2 at https://hubs.la/Q03hY1kT0

Speed up your data science workflow with AI! 📊✨ “Data Analysis with LLMs” by Immanuel Trummer teaches you to use ChatGPT & LLMs from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Hugging Face & more to analyze text, tables, images & audio—plus build LangChain pipelines. Ready to prompt like a pro? Save 50% with code PBTRUMMER50LI before May 1.

Can you tell me about yourself? Why should we hire you? What kind of salary are you looking for? Check out the video below to discover what your interviewer REALLY wants to know: https://hubs.la/Q03hCHQT0 Interview Speak by Barbara Limmer & Laura Browne is now available in MEAP.

Today’s the day! Shivendra Srivastava and Naresh Vurukonda are diving deep into prompt engineering at a live IEEE-hosted event. It’s happening at 6 PM PT in Santa Clara, CA, and the best part? You can join in person or virtually from wherever you are! They’ll be sharing real-world techniques and insights in their talk, "Prompt Engineering: Making the Most of LLMs," followed by a hands-on workshop. • Event details: https://mng.bz/wZlB • RSVP on LinkedIn: https://mng.bz/pZJE Can’t make it live? You can still check out their MEAP! Get it for 45% off with code IEEEsriv45 here: https://mng.bz/Gw6V

Want to win a free book at Tableau's #TC25? Find Everyday Data Visualization author, Desireé Abbott, and mention this post — if you're the first, you'll score a free print copy of her book! Like and share this post to enter our raffle for a free eBook copy. A selfie with Desireé gets you double entries! Check out her book here: https://mng.bz/Wwrx

🌟 FLASH SALE - Save 50% on all MEAPs! 🌟 Are you familiar with MEAP? MEAP, or Manning Early Access Program, gives you the unique opportunity to read a book chapter by chapter while it’s still being crafted. Once the final version is ready, you’ll receive the complete eBook instantly. Secure your printed copy now by pre-ordering, and you’ll get it ahead of the official release. 🚀 This is an opportunity you won’t want to miss! Find the LINK in the COMMENTS below.

Ready to take on the workshop portion of the Optimized AI Conference? RAG systems are becoming a cornerstone of enterprise AI, but optimizing them isn’t simple. It takes a deep understanding of vector and keyword search, efficient context management for LLMs, and strategies that scale across multiple data types. Join Trey Grainger, author of AI-Powered Search, for his 9 AM ET workshop, “Optimizing Enterprise RAG Systems,” and get hands-on with exactly what it takes to build and tune these systems. Workshop details: https://mng.bz/eB5w Can't make it today? That's alright! Grab Trey’s book at 45% off with code OAIConf25 here: https://mng.bz/Kw44

New titles are now available on Amazon! Check out the fresh lineup we just released! 📖 Effective Data Analysis by Mona Khalil 📖 Go in Practice, Second Edition by Nathan Kozyra, Matt Butcher, and Matthew Farina 📖 Graph Neural Networks in Action by Dr. Keita Broadwater, MBA and Namid Stillman 📖 Hacking Cryptography by Kamran Khan and Bill Cox 📖 Learn SQL in a Month of Lunches by Jeff Iannucci Find the LINKS in the COMMENTS below.

Not big on RAG but love diving into LLMs? We've got just the session for you! In a couple of hours, Alessandro Negro takes the stage at the Optimized AI Conference with his talk, “Knowledge Graphs and LLMs in Action – {GraphAware}.” He’ll show how combining Knowledge Graphs with LLMs can unlock accurate, domain-specific question answering — no LLM retraining required. Details: https://loom.ly/MBWzYu4 Can’t make it to Atlanta? That's alright — grab 45% off his MEAP, Knowledge Graphs and LLMs in Action, with code OAIconf25 through May 31st: https://loom.ly/phQV6yw