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25 May

Lost Files on Mac External Drive? Here’s How to Recover Them – gHacks Tech News

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Data loss from Mac external drives is a common and often frustrating experience. Whether it’s due to accidental deletion, formatting errors, drive corruption, or system crashes, losing valuable documents can disrupt your work and personal life. A reliable data recovery solution is essential to mitigate these disruptions and restore lost files quickly and effectively. Causes of Data Loss on Mac External Drives Losing data from Mac external drives can stem from various issues, each with its unique challenges. Here’s a closer look at the common causes: Accidental Deletion Mistakes happen, and sometimes files are deleted unintentionally. Often, these end up…

25 May

Accelerating Advertising With AI Comes At A Cost

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AI — a catchword and momentous concept — is all-consuming. It demands nearly as much energy as Argentina uses in a year, is the obsession of practically every marketer I meet, and is invoked breathlessly by those who have the most to gain and lose from it. On Alphabet’s most recent earnings call, for example, Sundar Pichai and Philipp Schindler emphasized the integration of Gemini models into Performance Max to accelerate creativity and the adoption of AI-powered tools such as Smart Bidding and automatically created assets. It’s mathematically obvious to apply AI to advertising — it saves time and, by…

25 May

Business of AI Report 2023

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The Business of AI Report analyzes the AI trends and events that happened over the year since ChatGPT was released through a business & strategy lens. It covers a wide range of topics from the fastest growing generative AI products to why San Francisco is the AI hotspot to OpenAI’s Dev Day. There is a link to the report in Slides format (with product GIFs) at the end of this post. If you’re interested in meeting a curated group of 40-50 other people interested in the business of AI, check out the Enterprise GenAI Forum I’m hosting next week. The…

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…