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25 May

Hard Reset Podcast: Strong Water | Episode #14

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It seems like our world is constantly on fire. If you live in California, Oregon, Washington, Canada, Australia, or anywhere else on the globe that’s regularly choked by wildfires, you’re all-too-aware of the importance of effective firefighting strategies. Dry brush, unattended campfires, and even gender reveal fireworks gone awry are enough to set a forest ablaze. 90% of all wildfires are caused by human error, but what if we had a manmade solution that could put out flames with 10 times the strength of water? Strong Water has created a cutting edge water technology that looks like slime, acts as…

24 May

The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How open-source beats economies of scale, even for LLMs

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With the latest advancements in Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models (LLMs), and big companies like OpenAI dominating the space, many people wonder: Are we heading further into a black box era with larger and larger models, obscured behind APIs controlled by big tech monopolies? I don’t think so, and in this talk, I’ll show you why. I’ll dive deeper into the open-source model ecosystem, some common misconceptions about use cases for LLMs in industry, practical real-world examples and how basic principles of software development such as modularity, testability and flexibility still apply. LLMs are a great new tool…

24 May

Language Modeling Reading List (to Start Your Paper Club)

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Some friends and I started a weekly paper club to read and discuss fundamental papers in language modeling. By pooling together our shared knowledge, experience, and questions, we learned more as a group than we could have individually. To encourage others to do the same, here’s the list of papers we covered, and a one-sentence summary for each. I’ll update this list with new papers as we discuss them. (Also, why and how to read papers .) Attention Is All You Need: Query, Key, and Value are all you need* (*Also position embeddings, multiple heads, feed-forward layers, skip-connections, etc.) GPT:…

24 May

Documentation enhancements for Deephaven Community | Deephaven

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Deephaven's API continues to grow with each release, as does the base of documentation supporting it. In addition to documenting brand-new features, we continue to revise and expand existing documentation. Read on to learn about some of the most significant recent changes to the Deephaven documentation.Documentation of brand-new features includes:We've added a new section for Community Questions. Here, you'll find answers from the Deephaven team to frequently asked user questions. If you have a question, feel free to ask us on Slack.New additions to the Deephaven user guide include:New reference documents include:Deephaven's documentation team has been working hard on a…

24 May

AI Chip Deficit: Alternatives to Nvidia GPUs – EE Times

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//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> In January 2024, leading private equity firm Blackstone announced it was building a $25 billion AI data empire. A few months later, OpenAI and Microsoft followed suit with a proposition to build Stargate, a $100 billion AI supercomputer that will launch the company to the forefront of the AI revolution. Of course, this is not a surprise. With the rapid acceleration the AI sector has witnessed over the past few years, industry giants all over the world are in a frantic haste to get front-row seats. Experts already predict the…

24 May

Automatic retry function with Kotlin flows

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Table of contents Short code example Why use this? My app on the Google play store Resources Programming Android with Kotlin: Achieving Structured Concurrency with Coroutines. Chapter 10 Short code example Here is the code that will allow you to make automatic retries on a flow: fun <T, R : Any> Flow<T>.mapWithRetry( action: suspend (T) -> R, predicate: suspend (R, attempt: Int) -> Boolean ) = map { data -> var attempt = 0L var shallRetry: Boolean var lastValue: R? = null do { val tr = action(data) shallRetry = predicate(tr, (++attempt).toInt()) if (!shallRetry) lastValue = tr } while (shallRetry)…

24 May

NATO Innovation Fund announces its new investment team

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The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) has announced its new investment team with experience that spans AI, energy and climate, quantum, materials, space tech and semiconductors. These knowledge sets will be used to “identify cutting edge startups, support leading founders, and help bolster the defence, security and resilience of allied nations.” They join our founding team that have worked over the past 12 months to kickstart the fund’s investment activity, including Managing Partner Andrea Traversone, Kelly Chen, Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky, Thorsten Claus and Chris O’Connor. Senior Associate Ben Banforth was previously an Investment Manager at XTX Ventures, the venture arm of XTX…

24 May

New generative media models and tools, built with and for creators

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Responsible from design to deploymentWe’re mindful about not only advancing the state of the art, but doing so responsibly. So we’re taking measures to address the challenges raised by generative technologies and helping enable people and organizations to responsibly work with AI-generated content.For each of these technologies, we’ve been working with the creative community and other external stakeholders, gathering insights and listening to feedback to help us improve and deploy our technologies in safe and responsible ways.We’ve been conducting safety tests, applying filters, setting guardrails, and putting our safety teams at the center of development. Our teams are also pioneering…

24 May

Microsoft releases Windows 11 24H2 to the Release Preview channel – gHacks Tech News

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Microsoft has released the upcoming 2024 feature update for Windows 11 to the Release Preview channel. The update is available for testing ahead of its final release later this year. The final version is expected to be released in September or October. It marks the start of Copilot+ PCs, which is a new PC class that is required to run most of the AI functions of the Windows 11 operating system. These PCs have new requirements, including a dedicated NPU chip. The early release is noteworthy for a number of reasons: Windows 11 version 24H2 can't be installed on devices…

24 May

VivaTech & The New French Tech Next40/120: When AI Meets Green Tech

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Paris will be the center of innovation and technology this week. The 2024 edition of VivaTech in Paris is set to be a great success with more than 150,000 in-person visitors. It has become the largest technology and innovation event in Europe with CEOs, C-leaders, VCs, and startups attending from all over the world. The lineup of speakers is quite impressive with Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, X), Robin Li (Baidu), Eric Schmidt (former CEO of Google), John Kerry (68th US Secretary of State), Charles Michel (European Council President), Marc Pritchard (P&G chief brand officer), Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montreal professor),…