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- Hodor: Overload scenarios and the evolution of their detection and handling
- Sharing LinkedIn’s Responsible AI Principles
- Recent honors and awards for Amazon scientists
- Ten teams advance in the Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge
- 2022 in review: DDoS attack trends and insights
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365 named Best Email Security Service of 2023 by SE Labs
Replit Blog (2)
- Announcing the Pro Plan: The Most Powerful Development Experience on Replit
- Replit x Weights & Biases Machine Learning Hackathon Winners
- One year of war in Ukraine: Internet trends, attacks, and resilience
- The Chief Zero Trust Officer: a new role for a new era of cybersecurity
Earthly Blog (3)
- Earthly CI: Launching a new era for CI
- Announcing Earthly’s $6.5M Seed+ round
- Build a Data Dashboard with Streamlit in Python
- We ❤️️ integrations
- Manage pricing and billing with Billing Admin
- Announcing "Tailscale Up" community conference
Sentry Blog RSS (3)
- Sentry’s Frontend Tests: Migrating from Enzyme to React Testing Library
- Introducing OpenTelemetry Support: Take Action on Your Observability Data
- Support for Next.js Middleware and Edge Routes
- Caring about costs is cool
- Five values guiding our cloud exit
- We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit
- Applied NLP solutions & AI education (Practical AI #212)
- Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round (Changelog News)
- Web development's lost decade (JS Party #263)
- What it takes to scale engineering (The Changelog #527)
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (4)
- Pluralistic: Fighting the privacy wars, state by state (23 Feb 2023)
- Pluralistic: Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds" (21 Feb 2023)
- Pluralistic: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU (20 Feb 2023)
- Pluralistic: Pluralistic is three (19 Feb 2023)
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- Czy AI okaże się niewypałem dla inwestorów venture capital?
- Innowacje przez regulacje
- Halucynacje na temat współpracy MS z OpenAI
Google AI Blog (5)
- Pre-training generalist agents using offline reinforcement learning
- Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Health
- Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit
- Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Natural sciences
- FRMT: A benchmark for few-shot region-aware machine translation
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (6)
- IPv6 Buzz 120: Revisiting IPv6 Address Allocation – What’s The Right Size For Your Organization?
- Day Two Cloud 183: How Did We Get To WebAssembly And What Is It For?
- Tech Bytes: Extending ZTNA To Remote And Office Workers With Fortinet (Sponsored)
- Network Break 418: Avaya Goes Chapter 11 Again; Cisco, Arista See Revenues Rise
- Full Stack Journey 075: Authentication’s Role In The Online World
- Heavy Networking 666: Improving Quality Of Experience With LibreQoS
- How edge functions move your back end close to your front end
- Shorten the distance between production data and insight (Ep. 541)
- Authorization on Rails (Ep. 540)
- Are clouds having their on-prem moment?
- Developer with ADHD? You’re not alone.
- The Overflow #165: Your new favorite band is an AI
- Because the only thing worse than building internal tools is maintaining them (Ep. 539)
DTN (10)
- A Farmer’s Sustainability Equation: Ancient Wisdom Plus Modern Insights
- Automation Drives Acceleration in Fuel Transaction Volumes
- Access robust producer data
- See how much you can save
- Minimize risk while maximizing sales
- Four Ways Automation Helps Manage Inventory
- The Art of Planting – 3
- DTN Fertilizer Outlook 2/23
- EPA Adjusts Dicamba Cutoff Dates in ’23
- Ag Weather Forum 2/23
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (12)
- ControlNet
- FlexGen
- This AI chatbot "Sidney" is misbehaving - Nov 23 2022 Microsoft community thread
- A Concerning Trend
- How ChatGPT Kicked Off an A.I. Arms Race
- TabFS
- I've been thinking how Sydney can be so different from ChatGPT
- Docker can copy in files directly from another image
- Can We Trust Search Engines with Generative AI? A Closer Look at Bing’s Accuracy for News Queries
- Writing Javascript without a build system
- How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions
- Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
During times of sparse funding, many startups who are facing headwinds will consider M&A options to get a soft or moderately profitable landing for their teams. But does anyone actually want to acquire you? Getting acquired is like meeting the world’s worst in-laws: Judgmental, money-obsessed, potentially driven by ego reasons that are impossible to fully divine.” Not having great answers to all of these questions isn’t a blocker to getting acquired. Same question as geography, but for industry. (BACK TO TOP)
.hilite {cursor:zoom-in} a:link img.hilite, a:visited img.hilite {color: #fff;} a:hover img.hilite {color: #f66;} Interrupts have been an important part of computers since the mid-1950s, 1 providing a mechanism to interrupt a program's execution. Interrupts allows the computer to handle time-critical tasks such as I/O device operations. I've been reverse-engineering the 8086 starting with the silicon die. The die photo below shows the chip under a microscope. Based on NEC v. pre.e...e. FC )... (BACK TO TOP)
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/
Insights from the founder of Launch School, Chris Lee, who helped more than 200 new grads find their first software engineering jobs. (BACK TO TOP)
This post was written with help from Amarachi Aso . Performance-conscious applications often utilize Redis to cache queried data. Occasionally, Redis might be implemented as the primary database or source of truth. Regardless of the setup, engineers may want to retrieve and visualize their Redis data. In this tutorial, we will (BACK TO TOP)
https://medium.com/digital-mckinsey
How to build a vulnerability scanning solution into your Golden Image Pipeline using Google Workflows and Cloud Functions by Chris Do — Senior Cloud Architect, and Adrian Cortio — Senior DevOps Engineer II As you have no doubt seen, companies have already started to run critical workloads with sensitive information on public cloud platforms. Doing this requires building new types of security capabilities — ones that automate the interrogation of cloud systems against security policies . Tenable. (BACK TO TOP)
In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along well with your manager, your peers’ perspective will usually be closer to yours than your manager’s. Once you transition into an engineering executive role, you’ll still have peers, but they’re a different sort of peer, who will look at problems from a very different perspective than yours. If you ask the head of product for feedback, they will give it, but it’ll come from a product perspective.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Disney was a celebrity by his mid-30s, Disney the company was famous by 1930s. Even though politically the 1930s was considered the decade of Roosevelt (elected President in 1933), culturally the 1930s was considered the decade of Mickey Mouse. Almost every new animation/filmmaking technique they tried, they would experiment with it in shorts (Silly Symphonies) before applying to big films like Snow White. Disney kept pushing the envelope.e. The average age at Disney was 25.e. https://t.twitter. (BACK TO TOP)
https://engineering.atspotify.com/
Deep linking and attribution are important functionalities for a growing business. Deep links seamlessly get you to the content you want in the app. Attribution helps us understand which activity (such as marketing or sharing) drives you to that content. At Spotify in 2017, these critical functionalities were in disrepair. But over the course of [...] The post A Multi-Year Challenge: Repairing Deep Linking & Attribution at Spotify appeared first on Spotify Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
Stephen Wolfram has published an eminently readable description of what ChatGPT does, how it’s designed, and offer some insights into why it appears to work so well. Interestingly Wolfram also offers some intriguing ideas that ChatGPT may teach us more than we expect about how humans process, and communicate with, language. I found the article … Continue reading Stephen Wolfram on ChatGPT → (BACK TO TOP)
In the digital era, it’s all about speed. It’s how businesses both excel and compete. And if you’re in the software business, speed is defined as getting changes - bug fixes, new features, or updates for back-end operations - in the hands of the customers faster. This can be measured through higher deployment, faster lead time to change, and reduced developer toil – and one way to improve all three is continuous delivery. CD aims to automate and streamline the software development process.” (BACK TO TOP)
Learn about some of the possible downsides of using database indexes and how to remove unused database indexes in MySQL. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
http://highscalability.com/blog/
This is a guest article by NK . You can view the original article Consistent hashing explained on systemdesign.one website. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/
Introduction In episode 3, Miki implemented a type that satisfied Go’s error interface. The odd thing about his type was it would be considered not-nil although no value was set for it. To get a better understanding of the situation, Miki gives a brief explanation of how Go determines if an error value is nil, and in this case, Miki specified the type of the variable returned to be a pointer of his custom error type which blindsided Go’s mechanism to determine a nil value. (BACK TO TOP)
https://neugierig.org/software/blog/atom.xml
It's been four months since I first wrote about retrowin32, my win32 emulator . Here's a progress report. Before I get into the tech bits I have some softer life observations. Feel free to skip down to the next section if you're just here to talk computers. The first is that I left my job in large part due to a lack of free time, but unexpectedly the rest of my life kind of expanded to consume much of that time. I took this break from work with an explicit goal of trying to take it easy......... (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.timescale.com/blog/
Learn how VPCs work and why you should use them to help secure the services running your cloud-based application. We also highlight common use cases, including how to set up VPC peering between Timescale Cloud and AWS. (BACK TO TOP)
Note : This article is also available in Korean . A while back I wrote my first overview of South Korea’s unusual approach to online security . After that I published two articles on specific applications . While I’m not done yet, this is enough information to draw some intermediate conclusions.” The approaches make little sense given actual attack scenarios, they tend to produce security theater rather than actual security. But Microsoft has you covered there. I don’t know that yet. (BACK TO TOP)
https://monzo.com/blog/technology
In September 2022, Monzo became a Direct Participant of the Bacs scheme. In this post, Tech Lead Ryan explains how we built a new connection to the the Bacs scheme over the SWIFT banking network and managed the risks involved. (BACK TO TOP)
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne
Administrative Stuff Just one month until the March TLA+ Workshop ! Thanks to everyone who already signed up, I’m in the process of revising everything and am real excited to share the new content. There’s still nine slots left if you want to join! I have a new blog post up: NP-Complete isn’t (always) Hard , about NP-complete problems and modern SAT solvers. Code review vs code proofreading So in my last newsletter I had an aside on code review: This is also why a lot of people hate code review. (BACK TO TOP)
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
This paper appeared in OSDI 2021 . I really like this paper. It is informative, it taught me new things about concurrency control techniques. It is novel, it shows a practical application of simple machine learning to an important systems problem, concurrency control. It shows significant benefits for a limited but reasonable setup. It has good evaluation coverage and explanation. It is a good followup paper to the benchmarking papers we have been looking at recently. Tu, W. Zheng, E. Kohler, B. (BACK TO TOP)
(fyi, here’s the code for everything I built below, you can clone and deploy the full app here as well.) (BACK TO TOP)
#510 – February 20, 2023 Saving Millions on Logging: Finding Relevant Savings In this two-part blog series, we will look at a structured method we use for approaching cost savings work and demonstrating how we apply it at Hubspot to save millions on the storage costs of our application logs. Not only do you have to account for deployment practices, you also have to have the right metrics in place and the proper culture. Perhaps your organization has 6 or so development teams. (BACK TO TOP)
Listen now (52 min) | Latent Space Podcast Ep. 1 (BACK TO TOP)
We’re sharing how we’re enabling production and delivery of AV1 for Facebook Reels and Instagram Reels. We believe AV1 is the most viable codec for Meta for the coming years. It offers higher quality at a much lower bit rate compared with previous generations of video codecs. Meta has worked closely with the open source [...] Read More... The post How Meta brought AV1 to Reels appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Millions of Americans receiving food assistance benefits just earned a new right that they can't yet enforce: The right to be reimbursed if funds on their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards are stolen by card skimming devices secretly installed at cash machines and grocery store checkout lanes. (BACK TO TOP)
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog.rss.html
Co-Authors - Abhishek Gilra, Nizar Mankulangara, Salil Kanitkar, and Vivek Deshpande Introduction To connect professionals and make them more productive, it is crucial that LinkedIn is available at all times. For us, downtime means that our members and customers don’t have access to the conversations, connections, and knowledge that are essential to them achieving their objectives.. For linkedin.com to achieve our goal of 99. (BACK TO TOP)
Co-authors - Blake Lawit and Ya Xu Editors Note: This post originally appeared on LinkedIn's Official Blog. LinkedIn was founded with a clear vision to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. In 2023, we are seeing transformative advances in AI that have the potential to help us accelerate our progress toward that vision. AI is not new to LinkedIn. LinkedIn has long used AI to enhance our members’ professional experiences. While AI […] (BACK TO TOP)
Researchers honored for their contributions to the scientific community. (BACK TO TOP)
University teams are competing to develop a bot that best responds to customer commands in a virtual world. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/
With DDoS attacks becoming more frequent, sophisticated, and inexpensive to launch, it’s important for organizations of all sizes to be proactive and stay protected. In this blog, we detail trends and insights into DDoS attacks we observed and mitigated throughout 2022. The post 2022 in review: DDoS attack trends and insights appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 receives Best Email Security Service of 2023 award by SE Labs. The post Microsoft Defender for Office 365 named Best Email Security Service of 2023 by SE Labs appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
https://surfingcomplexity.blog
The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion; and to the very end of life, our location of all things in one space is due to the fact that the original extents or bignesses of all the sensations which came to our … Continue reading Good category, bad category (or: tag, don’t bucket) → (BACK TO TOP)
One of the benefits of basic scientific research is the potential for bringing about future breakthroughs. Fundamental research in the physical and biological sciences might one day lead to things like new sources of power, radically better construction materials, remarkable new medical treatments. Social scientific research holds no such promise. Work done in the social … Continue reading The value of social science research → (BACK TO TOP)
Today, we are launching a new plan for you to speed up your development with Replit's AI tools and an even more powerful Workspace. What is included in the Pro plan? All the benefits from the entry Hacker plan: Unlimited Private Repls, one Always On, and one Boost that you can apply to any of your Repls. + A more powerful Workspace: Anytime you are actively coding, your Workspace will have 4 GB Memory, 4 vCPUs — double what you would get with Hacker. (BACK TO TOP)
The Replit x Weights & Biases Machine Learning Hackathon was Replit’s very first machine learning-focused hackathon that took place on February 4-11, 2023 with participants selected from all over the world! After applying and being accepted into the hackathon, participants hacked for seven days on their projects, using both custom machine learning models and fine-tuning existing ones, all by combining the power of Weights & Biases and Replit... You can watch the closing ceremony on YouTube. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/
As a network security researcher, I run a bunch of honeypots and related honeytraps . I typically do this to generate a baseline for "what is normal" attack volume. I've spent the last few months relying on my previously collected baseline data. (Fortunately, that's been good enough for now.) I've also been redesigning some new honeypot and monitoring systems. This month, I began rolling out a couple of new honeypot systems and redoing some benchmark experiments.g.240.205.240.205.240.205..034 .) (BACK TO TOP)
As someone who runs my own servers, I spend a lot of time looking over various log files. In particular, I look for things that stand out as attack indicators. These attributes are usually easy to identify, allowing me to add them to my automated blocking rules. One of the things I noticed is that my mail server really doesn't see the same volume of malicious connections that my web servers receive. I suspect that the common usage of strong anti-spam solutions work.117.121.117.121.191]: 450 4.7. (BACK TO TOP)
This blog post reports on Internet insights during an historical war in Europe that has been seen and shared online, and discusses how Ukraine's Internet remained resilient in spite of dozens of disruptions in three different stages of the conflict. (BACK TO TOP)
Implementing Zero Trust can be challenging, and efforts may stall. The need for a Chief Zero Trust Officer (CZTO) is driven by the increasing importance of Zero Trust security in the face of escalating cyber attacks. (BACK TO TOP)
Hello world! We have partnered up with some cool people in Silicon Valley 1 to fix the world of CI. So today we are launching Earthly CI , the world’s first CI/CD solution that merges together a CI and a build system. A more fine-grained understanding of the build allows Earthly CI to run faster than a CI ever could before. And it’s not an incremental improvement. It’s a dramatic improvement. We’re talking 100% to 2,000% faster. Here’s how we did it. You’re stuck. We’re calling it Earthly CI./.. (BACK TO TOP)
The developer tools market is shifting towards modern development workflows that include complex build scripts, varying code layouts (e.g. monorepos, polyrepos), mixed programming languages, and mixed architectures (e.g. Intel, Apple Silicon). Developers need tools that improve their experience and efficiency as well as deliver consistency across the varying operating systems and processor architectures the individual team members may be using. Today, we are announcing Earthly’s $6.6M. (BACK TO TOP)
Streamlit is an open-source Python framework that lets you turn data scripts into shareable web apps in minutes. Streamlit makes it easy for data scientists and analysts to create and deploy interactive visualizations and dashboards for machine learning models and other Python applications. You need almost no experience with building front ends to get started with Streamlit. It is designed to do the heavy lifting of generating an intuitive and responsive interface from a simple Python script... (BACK TO TOP)
Tailscale is, at its heart, network infrastructure. The value of network infrastructure is what it enables us to connect with. By using Tailscale, your infrastructure is limited only by your imagination, whether it be the hot new frontend platform, legacy hardware in your data center that’s pre-refresh cycle, an Android device sitting in your desk drawer, or even AWS Infinidash ! Your infrastructure is whatever, and wherever, you want it to be.com . (BACK TO TOP)
If you have a large organization, you typically have a finance or accounting team that manages your spend on technology, but not the technology itself. We’re making two changes to make it easier for you to manage billing: we’re introducing a new Billing Admin role, and allowing individuals with the Admin role to now manage billing. Billing Admins can modify all pricing plan and billing information , including updating your plan, billing email, address, and tax ID. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re bringing Tailscale out of the network layer and into the real world with Tailscale Up, the first-ever in-person Tailscale community conference, on May 31 in San Francisco . Meet Open Source maintainers, hardware hackers, self-hosters, and Tailscalars (sometimes all the same person) to share stories and workflows, and hear about the latest projects and integrations we’ve been working on. Our CFP is open now through March 24. Attend Tickets are on sale now! You can purchase tickets here . (BACK TO TOP)
At Sentry, we practice continuous delivery, which means that code can be released as soon as it’s merged into the main branch. This allows… (BACK TO TOP)
As an open source company that grew out of a side project in 2008 to an application and performance monitoring platform (APM) used by over… (BACK TO TOP)
Third-party JavaScript libraries provide developers with the tools they need to build modern web experiences, and a bit of cheatcode at… (BACK TO TOP)
Revenue gets all the glory in the land of tech. The unlimited upside! Growth cures all! The next digit unlocks the next round! Don't get me wrong, without revenue, without paying customers, there's nothing. But once there's something, costs count just as well to the bottom line as does revenue – if you care about profits, and you should. Profits equal independence, sustainability, and, ultimately, prosperity. But costs aren't just about the bottomline, they're also a measure of efficiency. (BACK TO TOP)
I've talked a lot about cost in our reasoning for leaving the cloud . But while cost is crucial, it is not the only motivating factor. Here are five values that have guided our decision, and that I recently articulated in an internal post at 37signals (so excuse the code names etc): We value independence above all else . We serve the internet . This business owes its entire existence to the societal and economic aberration that is the internet. We spend our money wisely . We lead the way . (BACK TO TOP)
Since declaring our intention to leave the cloud in October, we've been busy at work making it so. After a brief detour down a blind alley with an enterprise Kubernetes provider , we found our stride building our own tools, and successfully moved the first small application out of the cloud a few weeks ago. Now our sights are set on a total cloud exit by the end of the Summer, and by our preliminary calculations, we stand to save about $7m in server expenses over five years from doing so. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re super excited to welcome Jay Alammar to the show. Jay is a well-known AI educator, applied NLP practitioner at co:here, and author of the popular blog, “The Illustrated Transformer.” In this episode, he shares his ideas on creating applied NLP solutions, working with large language models, and creating educational resources for state-of-the-art AI. (BACK TO TOP)
Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round (Changelog News)
Simon Willison rounds up the goings on around Microsoft’s new GPT-powered Bing search, The Vue/Vite team build a nimble web client for Mastodon, Will Larson writes about writing an engineering strategy, Denis Pushkarev seeks support to maintain core-js & I share a lightning round of cool tools I’ve found and used recently. ⚡️ (BACK TO TOP)
Amal sits down for a one-on-one with Alex Russell, Microsoft Partner on the Edge team, and former Web Standards Tech Lead for Chrome, whose recent post, The Market for Lemons, stirred up a BIG conversation in the web development community. Have we really lost a decade in potential progress? What happened? Where do we go from here? (BACK TO TOP)
This week we’re talking to Rachel Potvin, former VP of Engineering at GitHub about what it takes to scale engineering. Rachel says it’s a game-changer when engineering scales beyond 100 people. So we asked to her to share everything she has learned in her career of leading and scaling engineering. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Fighting the privacy wars, state by state: Treating Congress as damage and routing around it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Fighting the privacy wars, state by state (permalink) In 2021, Apple updated its mobile OS so that users could opt out of app tracking with one click.eff.politico. It's a powerful, but imperfect strategy. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds": A return to "Lovecraft Country.craphound. Today, Harpercollins releases The Destroyer of Worlds, a spectacular followup to Country that revisits the characters, setting, and supernatural dread of the original: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-destroyer-of-worlds-matt-ruff?variant=40490768957474 Country was structured as a series of linked novellas, each one picking up where the previous left off, with a different focal characters.com. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU: Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Despite the fact that most other rich countries have a far more efficient process, many Americans believe that adopting this process here is either impossible, immoral, or both. The tax authority also knows about your major deductions, like your kids or other dependents. It's simple and easy to understand.org. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Pluralistic is three: Time flies when you're writing blogs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Pluralistic is three (permalink) Though I didn't know it at the time, Jan 29, 2020 was my last day at Boing Boing; as it happens, that was nearly exactly 19 years after my first day at Boing Boing. When I stopped, I was 49.medium.S. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.kubafilipowski.com/
Jakiś czas temu pisałem o aplikacjach, których zacząłem używać w zeszłym roku . Po tym wpisie dostałem kilka rekomendacji innych aplikacji, które warto wypróbować. Aplikacja, której zacząłem używać i bardzo polubiłem to Cron , którą polecił mi Mateusz . Cron to kalendarz ma Maca. Mają też appkę na iOS, ale to appka desktopowa zrobiła na mnie największe wrażenie. Kalendarz to nic nowego. Cron robi małe rzeczy najlepiej z kalendarzy jakich używałem do tej pory (wiele). Ma tryb jasny i ciemny. (BACK TO TOP)
Trafiłem na wątek na Twitterze na temat inwestowania venture capital w projekty oparte o generatywne AI. W skrócie, argument Tylera Tringasa jest taki: większość nowych projektów AI to “API calle” do OpenAI. To sprawia, że większość wartości z tej technologii zostanie podzielona między firmami, które dostarczają API (np OpenAI), a dużymi firmami, które dodadzą AI jako nową funkcję. Generatywne AI to feature, a nie product . Myślę, że to pochopna opinia. Microsoft jest ewidentnym liderem. (BACK TO TOP)
Jakiś czas temu pisałem, że UE wymusza na Apple, by wpuścił do iOSa inne App Story . Argumentowałem wtedy, że zamieszanie, które to wywoła będzie w dłuższej perspektywie dobre dla Apple. Potencjalnie niższe przychody z Apple Tax (30% ceny aplikacji i subskrypcji leci do Apple) będą rekompensowane silniejszym ekosystemem aplikacji. Nawet jeśli by było to dla niej korzystne. UE robi nam kolejny prezent.” ( za FT ) Na iOS od dawna można pobrać Chrome albo Firefox. Są częścią strategii Apple.4. (BACK TO TOP)
Na twitterze co jakiś czas wraca obrazek z dwoma kółkami wizualizującymi liczbę parametrów w GPT-3 vs GPT-4. Dwa kółka to flaga hajpu generatywnego AI. Sam Altman w wywiadzie u Ben Thomsona zapytany o to, czy nowy Bing Chat to GPT-4 udzielił wymijającej odpowiedzi: “I think the model numbers thing is a dumb framework anyway. The thing people thought, there’s been many versions of GPT-3 so it’s a better model, we need to figure out our naming at some point. I don’t think you are a good person. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Aviral Kumar, Student Researcher, and Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, Google Research Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can learn skills to solve decision-making tasks like playing games , enabling robots to pick up objects , or even optimizing microchip designs . However, running RL algorithms in the real world requires expensive active data collection .e.e., only data from highly suboptimal policies). The fine-tuning from offline gameplay data is illustrated below. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Greg Corrado, Distinguished Scientist, and Yossi Matias, VP Engineering and Research, Google Research (This is Part 8 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. You can find other posts in the series here .) Google’s focus on AI stems from the conviction that this transformational technology will benefit society through its capacity to assist, complement, and empower people in almost every field and sector. We’ve seen this play out first hand.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Hartmut Neven, VP of Engineering, and Julian Kelly, Director of Quantum Hardware, on behalf of the Google Quantum AI Team Many years from today, scientists will be able to use fault-tolerant quantum computers for large-scale computations with applications across science and industry. These quantum computers will be much bigger than today, consisting of millions of coherent quantum bits, or qubits. Roadmap for building a useful error-corrected quantum computer with key milestones. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by John Platt, Distinguished Scientist, Google Research (This is Part 7 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. You can find other posts in the series here .) It's an incredibly exciting time to be a scientist. Since joining Google Research eight years ago, I’ve had the privilege of being part of a community of talented researchers fascinated by applying cutting-edge computing to push the boundaries of what is possible in applied science. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Parker Riley, Software Engineer, and Jan Botha, Research Scientist, Google Research Many languages spoken worldwide cover numerous regional varieties (sometimes called dialects), such as Brazilian and European Portuguese or Mainland and Taiwan Mandarin Chinese. Although such varieties are often mutually intelligible to their speakers, there are still important differences. For example, the Brazilian Portuguese word for “bus” is ônibus , while the European Portuguese word is autocarro . (BACK TO TOP)
Today's podcast episode revisits the subject of IPv6 address allocation along with how changes in network planning and Regional Internet Registry (RIR) policy are influencing allocation size requests. We also look at how network trends around IoT, cloud, and SD-WAN might affect allocation size and how to overcome "IPv4 thinking." The post IPv6 Buzz 120: Revisiting IPv6 Address Allocation – What’s The Right Size For Your Organization? appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
WebAssembly (Wasm) is an up-and-coming technology that's probably going to fall into the lap of operations folks. WebAssembly is basically a specification on how to compile things to a bytecode format and how to execute that bytecode. On today's Day Two Cloud we start to peel the onion on what WebAssembly, what it's used for, and why you might want to get your hands on it. The post Day Two Cloud 183: How Did We Get To WebAssembly And What Is It For? appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today's Tech Bytes podcast dives into the notion of applying Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) to users on campus as well as remote workers. Our sponsor is Fortinet and we discuss bringing ZTNA to users on prem, as well as IoT devices. The post Tech Bytes: Extending ZTNA To Remote And Office Workers With Fortinet (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
This week's Network Break looks at who takes a haircut in Avaya's Chapter 11 restructuring, GoDaddy's ongoing security issues, new photonics from Nokia, a huge quarter for Arista and more tech news. The post Network Break 418: Avaya Goes Chapter 11 Again; Cisco, Arista See Revenues Rise appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Authentication is a key technology that underpins large portions of the online world, and so it's worth exploring in a bit more detail. In this episode of the Full Stack Journey podcast, Scott talks with Dan Moore of FusionAuth about all things authentication. The post Full Stack Journey 075: Authentication’s Role In The Online World appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Welcome to Heavy Networking! In this episode we discuss LibreQoS, a free and open source software project to help ISPs improve network latency and responsiveness and improve the Quality of Experience (QoE) for their customers. That project is LibreQoS, and it's being used by ISPs and others to ensure stable latency across networks. The post Heavy Networking 666: Improving Quality Of Experience With LibreQoS appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Serverless functions have made computing seamless and fast. but for worldwide audiences, you need to get closer to your user to overcome latency. The post How edge functions move your back end close to your front end appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk with Stanimira Vlaeva, Developer Advocate at MongoDB, and Fredric Favelin, Technical Director, Partner Presales at MongoDB, about how a serverless database can minimize the distance between producing data and understanding it. The post Shorten the distance between production data and insight (Ep. 541) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Sam Scott, cofounder and CTO of Oso, joins the home team to talk about what makes authorization a challenge, the difference between authentication and authorization, and what zombies taught him about web development. The post Authorization on Rails (Ep. 540) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
While public cloud usage continues to grow, an increasing number are also moving to on-prem private clouds (sometimes even owning and operating their own hardware). The post Are clouds having their on-prem moment? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Is there a connection between programming and ADHD? And could it be that people with ADHD are particularly well-suited to programming careers? The post Developer with ADHD? You’re not alone. appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Secure code and SLDC practices, lossless compression, and tech specs The post The Overflow #165: Your new favorite band is an AI appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
David Hsu, founder and CEO of Retool, joins Ben to talk about low-code and no-code tools: why some folks love to hate them and whether they really help devs work faster or just allow those of us who aren’t programmers to muck everything up. Or both! The post Because the only thing worse than building internal tools is maintaining them (Ep. 539) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Ancient methods are driving more sustainable practices on modern farms. Gain insights into current programs and discover the critical benefits. The post A Farmer’s Sustainability Equation: Ancient Wisdom Plus Modern Insights appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Find out how downstream oil and gas companies use online, digital selling platforms to increase fuel transactions, accelerate growth, and capture more spot deals. The post Automation Drives Acceleration in Fuel Transaction Volumes appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Reach the right audiences to ensure your messaging hits home with comprehensive insights into nearly every U.S. farm operation. The post Access robust producer data appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn the real dollar value of automatic eBOL alerts. Plug your numbers into our ROI calculator to learn how much money you could save. The post See how much you can save appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Read our white paper to learn how to more efficiently manage and enforce credit limits at the rack. The post Minimize risk while maximizing sales appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
The downstream oil and gas industry continues to accelerate. Learn four critical ways automation can benefit your inventory processes. The post Four Ways Automation Helps Manage Inventory appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
How U.S. Corn Yield Champion David Hula Overhauled His Planter to Get Better Results. The post The Art of Planting – 3 appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Nitrogen Fertilizer Wholesale Prices Fall Sharply in January on Lack of Demand, Lower European Natural Gas Prices. The post DTN Fertilizer Outlook 2/23 appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Dicamba Labels Now List June 12 as Cutoff in IA, IL, IN and June 20 in SD. The post EPA Adjusts Dicamba Cutoff Dates in ’23 appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Polar Vortex Chill May Hinder Fieldwork Start. The post Ag Weather Forum 2/23 appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
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