Towards Data Science

Water Cooler Small Talk, Ep. 12: Byzantine Fault Tolerance

How do you make decisions when you can't trust anyone in the room? The post Water Cooler Small Talk, Ep.

Towards Data Science
Aug 20

The LLM Judge That Kept Agreeing With Itself

The article recounts a production incident where a large language model (LLM) was used to evaluate the outputs of another LLM, and the judging model consistently agreed with itself. It explores the implications of relying on one model to assess another’s work, highlighting the potential pitfalls of such an approach. The narrative offers lessons on the limits of trusting automated evaluation systems in real‑world deployments.

By Priyansh Bhardwaj
Towards Data Science
Oct 10

How Can AI Agents Read Untrusted Sources Safely?

The article discusses implementing architectural guardrails to ensure AI agents safely read and utilize untrusted sources within their workflows. It outlines strategies for protecting agents from unreliable or malicious information while maintaining functional integration. The focus is on designing robust safeguards that prevent the propagation of errors or harmful content.

By Thuwarakesh Murallie
Towards Data Science
Aug 18

Building Enterprise Agent Systems that People can Trust, Verify and Improve

The article outlines five principles that guide the successful deployment of enterprise agent systems, illustrated with a real-world example from a $100M+ company. It explains how these principles help ensure that such systems can be trusted, verified, and improved over time. The post serves as a practical guide for building reliable agent-based solutions in production environments.

By Sheila Teo
Towards Data Science
Oct 8

Everyone Is Selling AI at You — Here’s How to Keep Your Judgement

The article titled "Everyone Is Selling AI at You — Here’s How to Keep Your Judgement" discusses three strategies for navigating the current AI hype. It offers practical moves to help readers maintain critical thinking and discern genuine value from marketing claims. The piece was originally published on Towards Data Science.

By Janna Lipenkova
Towards Data Science
Oct 18

Inferring the Host: A Bayesian Look at the Monty Hall Problem

The article discusses how the Monty Hall problem’s optimal strategy depends on the host’s behavior. It explains that for a specific type of host, the rule "always switch" is correct, and suggests observing a few episodes to identify which host you are dealing with. The piece applies Bayesian reasoning to determine the host’s strategy and its impact on the game’s outcome.

By Samit Ganguly
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 24

Can Trustless Agents Be Trusted? An Empirical Study of the ERC-8004 Decentralized AI Agent Ecosystem

As autonomous AI agents increasingly transact across organizational boundaries, a fundamental trust challenge emerges: how can an agent assess whether an unknown counterpart is trustworthy? The ERC-8004 protocol addresses this challenge with the first permissionless trust layer for AI agent economies, built around three on-chain registries for Identity, Reputation, and Validation.

Towards Data Science
Aug 25

Hallucinations, Watermarks, Removers, and a Squeezed Balloon

The article discusses how watermarks function during moments of uncertainty in AI models, paralleling safety checks that identify mistakes. It examines the roles of hallucinations, watermarks, and removal techniques in ensuring model reliability. The piece also touches on the metaphor of a squeezed balloon to illustrate constraints on model output.

By Javier Marín Valenzuela