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Ideas about tabular AI, explained plainly.
Concepts · 2 min
What is a Data Language Model?
A foundation model that reads tables directly, with no shared keys, labels, or preprocessing.
Read Concepts · 9 min
What is a tabular foundation model?
A tabular foundation model is pre-trained on many tables and predicts, imputes, and detects anomalies on a new table without per-dataset training.
Read Concepts · 8 min
Why build a large tabular foundation model?
What scale adds to a tabular foundation model: one checkpoint for many tasks, more than 1.5 billion parameters, and the trade-offs of serving it.
Read Systems · 9 min
Real-time AI: from event streams to decisions
What real-time AI is, how Apache Kafka and Apache Flink feed it, and how online and continual learning keep models current.
Read Concepts · 10 min
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): from naive to agentic
How retrieval-augmented generation works, why naive RAG fails, and how advanced, graph, and agentic RAG fix it, with evaluation.
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AI and machine learning for tabular data: a practical guide
How AI, machine learning, and deep learning relate, which learning paradigms apply to tables, and when to choose trees or a foundation model.
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One pass, one bundle: what a table model returns
Sector, column profile, cross-table map, imputation, predictions, and a held-out block.
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Joining tables that share no key
How a model can align columns and match rows across sources, and why the result should be a proposal.
Read Evaluation · 2 min
A score is only as good as its report
What a held-out report should contain, and how to read one without being fooled by a headline number.
Read Architecture · 2 min
Quick runs and endpoints: stateless and stateful
Two ways to use a table model: a one-shot call that stores nothing, and a persistent endpoint that holds state.
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Snapshots: freezing data so numbers stay meaningful
Why immutable data snapshots make reports, upgrades, and refreshes trustworthy.
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