Building a Question Answering PDF Chatbot
LangChain + OpenAI + Panel + HuggingFace
Grounding Large Language Models in a Cognitive Foundation: How to Build Som
Many intelligent robots have come and gone, failing to become a commercial success. We’ve lost Aibo, Romo, Jibo, Baxter—even Alexa is reducing staff. Perhaps they failed to reach their potential because you can’t have a meaningful conversation with them. We are now at an…
How to use Sidekiq in Rails 7: Background Jobs
In this blog, we'll explore how to use background jobs with Sidekiq in Rails 7 to handle long-running...
Salience Labs advances its AI agenda using new chip design
Vaysh Kewada, CEO and Co-Founder of Salience Labs, advances AI by circumventing finite processing power with a revolutionary new chip design.
The shrinking role of semaphores [LWN.net]
Linux Kernel 6.3 Released
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols: The latest Linux kernel is out with a slew of new features -- and, for once, this release has been nice and easy. [...] Speaking of Rust, everyone's favorite memory-safe language, the new kernel…
Wtf is a kdf? | blog.dataparty
Earlier this week a letter from an activist imprisoned in France was posted to the internet. Contained within Ivan Alococo’s dispatch from the Villepinte prison
SynthDiD 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Synthetic Difference-in-Differences
On the method’s advantages and disadvantages, demonstrated with the synthdid package in R
Data Machina #198
Your own LLM. MiniGPT-4. WebGPT on WebGPU. Transformers from scratch. ChatGTP Plugins demo live. Whisper JAX. LLaVA. MetaAI DINO SoTA Computer Vision. Autonomous agents in LangChain. RedPajama.
How reinforcement learning with human feedback is unlocking the power of ge
How reinforcement learning with human feedback helps ensure that businesses are building ethical generative AI models.
A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning
Self-supervised learning, dubbed the dark matter of intelligence, is a promising path to advance machine learning. Yet, much like cooking, training SSL methods is a delicate art with a high...
Getting Started with LangChain: A Beginner’s Guide to Building LLM-Powered
A LangChain tutorial to build anything with large language models in Python
Top 50 TV Shows Of All Time Ranked by the most known sources of ratings like IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and so on.
298 votes, 284 comments. 315K subscribers in the moviecritic community. A subreddit for movie reviews and discussions
How to improve your ChatGPT prompts and responses
It's like learning a new language - kind of.
The nightmares that paralyse you
Sleep paralysis has inspired paintings and horror stories. Now scientists are starting to understand why people wake from dreams unable to move.
The Magic of Knowing When to Use Concrete vs. Abstract Language - By Jonah Berger - Behavioral Scientist
When trying to make language either more concrete or more abstract, one helpful approach is to focus on either the how or the why.
Finetuning Large Language Models
An introduction to the core ideas and approaches
Memory Roundup: Ultra-low-power SRAM, ULTRARAM, & 3D Flash Hit the Scene
New memory technologies have emerged to push the boundaries of conventional computer storage.
Edge 285: A Recap Of Our Series About Federated Learning
A summary of the topics discussed in the last 8 weeks.
‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus
The long read: A series of financial scandals have rocked Italy’s most glamorous club. But is the trouble at Juventus symptomatic of a deeper rot in world football?
The von Restorff Isolation Effect: What Stands Out Is Remembered Better
The Lost Music of Connie Converse
A writer of haunting, uncategorizable songs, she once seemed poised for runaway fame. But only decades after she disappeared has her music found an audience.
Significant Objects | …and how they got that way
…and how they got that way
The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Ope
Sundays, The Sequence Scope brings a summary of the most important research papers, technology releases and VC funding deals in the artificial intelligence space.
Stanford CRFM
Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free
Facebook’s parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3
HackerNews Ranking Algorithm: How would you have done it?
Here's a small thought experiment that explores an alternative approach to ranking posts on HackerNews.
Eight Things to Know about Large Language Models
The widespread public deployment of large language models (LLMs) in recent months has prompted a wave of new attention and engagement from advocates, policymakers, and scholars from many fields....
Squirrelzilla T-Shirt
This funny t-shirt twist on the Godzilla movie shows off your sense of humor and strange affinity for squirrels in hilarious style. Printed with eco-friendly inks on ultra soft fabric, this designer squirrel graphic tee will help us all rally together to prevent radioactive…
Spinning Diagrams with CSS
This article discusses using CSS to make spinning 3D diagrams.
The Hacker
Runa Sandvik has made it her life’s work to protect journalists against cyberattacks. Authoritarian regimes are keeping her in business.
This Ginger-Based Cocktail Is an Incredible Hangover Cure
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Shaky Pete's Ginger Brew is a semi-frozen cocktail from Hawksmoor's New York City location that calls for gin, ginger syrup, lemon juice, and London Pale ale.
Baby AGI: The Birth of a Fully Autonomous AI
Introducing the new fully autonomous task manager that can create, track and prioritize your company's projects using artificial intelligence.
There’s a new version of Stable Diffusion, and it’s truly amazing
We found the best new creative tools using generative AI, so you don't have to. This week's big news? The new Stable Diffusion XL is now available.
What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work?
Transformer models are one of the most exciting new developments in machine learning. They were introduced in the paper Attention is All You Need. Transformers can be used to write stories, essays, poems, answer questions, translate between languages, chat with humans, and they…
A Brief Introduction to Slot Antennas
Learn about slot antennas, namely their history, characteristics, and electromagnetic (EM) behavior for low-voltage, small-form-factor electronic devices.
How Upgrading Ruby Broke JavaScript
A tale of false assumptions.
Exploring Distributions with {shiny} and {TidyDensity}
Introduction Shiny is an R package that allows you to build interactive web applications using R code. TidyDensity is an R package that provides a tidyverse-style interface for working with probability density functions. In this tutorial, we’ll ...
Visiting Suva, Fiji’s Capital City
Suva, the Fijian capital, is not on many travelers’ itineraries, but with a multiethnic population from all over the country and the region, it defines the urban South Pacific.
Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart
An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.
Top 10 Best Vector Databases & Libraries
Vector database is a type of database that stores data as high-dimensional vectors, which are...
The Prince
On the French Riviera and Italian coast, in the yacht clubs and shimmering ballrooms, everyone, including Pamela Anderson, wanted to get close to the prince. So did investigators. The story of Stefano Cernetic.
Melba's Contains Multitudes — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
New Orleans-based po’boy shop Melba’s sells more than just sandwiches, it offers literacy for lunch.
RIP John by phleep
John Prine caricature
How to Load Code in Ruby | AppSignal Blog
Let's look into three options for code loading in Ruby: using load, require, and autoload.
Draculas, Ranked
We’ve counted all the counts and put together a high-stakes ranking of the best and the worst.
Hacker News
A Cross-Section of the Most Relevant Literature To Get Up to Speed
Sleeping beauties: the evolutionary innovations that wait millions of years
Some organisms truck along slowly for aeons before suddenly surging into dominance – and something similar often happens with human inventions, too. But why?
Model selection, AIC and Tweedie regression
Just some simple codes to illustrate some points we will discuss this week, for the last course on GLMs, before the final exam. We have mentioned that the Gamma distribution belongs to the exponential, so we can run a regression, and compute the associated AIC, > set.seed(123) >…
Load Balancing
A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.