Tag: innovation
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Cloud Blog: New Cassandra to Spanner adapter simplifies Yahoo’s migration journey
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/new-proxy-adapter-eases-cassandra-to-spanner-migration/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New Cassandra to Spanner adapter simplifies Yahoo’s migration journey Feedly Summary: Cassandra, a key-value NoSQL database, is prized for its speed and scalability, and used broadly for applications that require rapid data retrieval and storage such as caching, session management, and real-time analytics. Its simple key-value pair structure…
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Hacker News: Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud fs
Source URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174204 Source: Hacker News Title: Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud fs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Regatta Storage introduces a cloud file system designed for optimal scalability and performance, aligning closely with the evolving needs of data-intensive applications. This innovation…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/jack-clark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: The main innovation here is just using more data. Specifically, Qwen2.5 Coder is a continuation of an earlier Qwen 2.5 model. The original Qwen 2.5 model was trained on 18 trillion tokens spread across a variety of languages and tasks (e.g, writing,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gemini 0.4
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/llm-gemini-04/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-gemini 0.4 Feedly Summary: llm-gemini 0.4 New release of my llm-gemini plugin, adding support for asynchronous models (see LLM 0.18), plus the new gemini-exp-1114 model (currently at the top of the Chatbot Arena) and a -o json_object 1 option to force JSON output. I also released llm-claude-3…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM 0.18
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/17/llm-018/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: LLM 0.18 Feedly Summary: LLM 0.18 New release of LLM. The big new feature is asynchronous model support – you can now use supported models in async Python code like this: import llm model = llm.get_async_model(“gpt-4o") async for chunk in model.prompt( "Five surprising names for a pet…
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Slashdot: AI Lab PleIAs Releases Fully Open Dataset, as AMD, Ai2 Release Open AI Models
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/16/0326222/ai-lab-pleias-releases-fully-open-dataset-as-amd-ai2-release-open-ai-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Lab PleIAs Releases Fully Open Dataset, as AMD, Ai2 Release Open AI Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines PleIAs’ commitment to open training for large language models (LLMs) through the release of Common Corpus, highlighting the significance of open data for LLM…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: NuExtract 1.5
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/16/nuextract-15/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: NuExtract 1.5 Feedly Summary: NuExtract 1.5 Structured extraction – where an LLM helps turn unstructured text (or image content) into structured data – remains one of the most directly useful applications of LLMs. NuExtract is a family of small models directly trained for this purpose, and released…
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Hacker News: Thoughtworks Technology Radar Oct 2024 – From Coding Assistance to AI Evolution
Source URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/thoughtworks-tech-radar-oct-2024/ Source: Hacker News Title: Thoughtworks Technology Radar Oct 2024 – From Coding Assistance to AI Evolution Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Thoughtworks’ Technology Radar Volume 31 emphasizes the dominance of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) and their responsible integration into software development. It highlights the need…