Unlocking Japanese LLMs with AWS Trainium: Innovators Showcase from the AWS LLM Development Support Program | Amazon Web Services

Unlocking Japanese LLMs with AWS Trainium: Innovators Showcase from the AWS LLM Development Support Program | Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to supporting the development of cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by companies and organizations across the globe. As part of this commitment, AWS Japan announced the AWS LLM Development Support Program (LLM Program), through which we’ve had the privilege of working alongside some of Japan’s most innovative teams. From startups to global enterprises, these trailblazers are harnessing the power of large language models (LLMs) and foundation models (FMs) to boost productivity, create differentiated customer experiences, and drive meaningful progress across a variety of industries by taking advantage of purpose-built generative AI infrastructure on…
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GP-VLS: A general-purpose vision language model for surgery

GP-VLS: A general-purpose vision language model for surgery

[Submitted on 27 Jul 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled GP-VLS: A general-purpose vision language model for surgery, by Samuel Schmidgall and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Surgery requires comprehensive medical knowledge, visual assessment skills, and procedural expertise. While recent surgical AI models have focused on solving task-specific problems, there is a need for general-purpose systems that can understand surgical scenes and interact through natural language. This paper introduces GP-VLS, a general-purpose vision language model for surgery that integrates medical and surgical knowledge with visual scene understanding. For comprehensively evaluating general-purpose surgical models, we propose SurgiQual,…
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I send my kids to stay with family over the summer. I deserve time away from them, and they have fun.

I send my kids to stay with family over the summer. I deserve time away from them, and they have fun.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tanya Mitra. It has been edited for length and clarity.One of the highlights of my summer so far was a short getaway to the Texas hill country with my partner, Tyran. We did everything from hiking, visiting wineries, and floating on the river for three hours to relaxing over a movie at our Airbnb.We didn't spend a whole lot of time talking about the kids. We allowed ourselves to be spontaneous and just be us. As a couples coach, I'm intentional about taking the time to reconnect with my significant other.Meanwhile,…
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CLR-Fact: Evaluating the Complex Logical Reasoning Capability of Large Language Models over Factual Knowledge

CLR-Fact: Evaluating the Complex Logical Reasoning Capability of Large Language Models over Factual Knowledge

arXiv:2407.20564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various natural language processing tasks by acquiring rich factual knowledge from their broad training data, their ability to synthesize and logically reason with this knowledge in complex ways remains underexplored. In this work, we present a systematic evaluation of state-of-the-art LLMs' complex logical reasoning abilities through a novel benchmark of automatically generated complex reasoning questions over general domain and biomedical knowledge graphs. Our extensive experiments, employing diverse in-context learning techniques, reveal that LLMs excel at reasoning over general world knowledge but face significant challenges with…
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How Maker’s Mark produces 34 million bottles of bourbon a year

How Maker’s Mark produces 34 million bottles of bourbon a year

In a tiny Kentucky town, Maker's Mark produces one of America's most famous bourbon whiskeys. Known worldwide for its bottles' iconic red wax, the company sells over 3 million cases of bourbon each year. But bourbon making is a complicated process that depends on special wooden barrels to age the whiskey for years, and the oak trees needed to make those barrels aren't growing enough to support the next generation of bourbon makers. We visited Maker's Mark's one and only distillery to learn more about making bourbon and what the company is doing to stop the industry from facing a…
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Spatial Temporal Approach for High-Resolution Gridded Wind Forecasting across Southwest Western Australia

Spatial Temporal Approach for High-Resolution Gridded Wind Forecasting across Southwest Western Australia

arXiv:2407.20283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate wind speed and direction forecasting is paramount across many sectors, spanning agriculture, renewable energy generation, and bushfire management. However, conventional forecasting models encounter significant challenges in precisely predicting wind conditions at high spatial resolutions for individual locations or small geographical areas (< 20 km2) and capturing medium to long-range temporal trends and comprehensive spatio-temporal patterns. This study focuses on a spatial temporal approach for high-resolution gridded wind forecasting at the height of 3 and 10 metres across large areas of the Southwest of Western Australia to overcome these challenges. The model utilises the data…
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Etsy just announced a loyalty program that’s (sort of) similar to Amazon Prime

Etsy just announced a loyalty program that’s (sort of) similar to Amazon Prime

Etsy just announced an upcoming loyalty program for buyers called Etsy Insider. This is the first-ever program of its type on the platform and the company begins testing in September. Select customers will receive an invite for the service as it gets closer to launch.So what do you get? It’s sort of like Amazon Prime, but without the streaming video and all of that other stuff. Etsy Insider offers free shipping and access to discounts. Pricing has yet to be announced, but COO Raina Moskowitz says the monthly fee will be close to the cost of a latte. So, anywhere…
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