Tag: performance

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Say hello to gemini-exp-1121

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/22/gemini-exp-1121/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Say hello to gemini-exp-1121 Feedly Summary: Say hello to gemini-exp-1121 Google Gemini’s Logan Kilpatrick on Twitter: Say hello to gemini-exp-1121! Our latest experimental gemini model, with: significant gains on coding performance stronger reasoning capabilities improved visual understanding Available on Google AI Studio and the Gemini API right…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/22/amazon-s3-append-data/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object Feedly Summary: Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object This is a first for Amazon S3: it is now possible to append data to…

  • Hacker News: Bayesian Neural Networks

    Source URL: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/distill_bayes_net/public/ Source: Hacker News Title: Bayesian Neural Networks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) and their ability to mitigate overfitting and provide uncertainty estimates in predictions. It contrasts standard neural networks, which are flexible yet prone to overfitting, with BNNs that utilize Bayesian…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing Mistral AI’s Large-Instruct-2411 on Vertex AI

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-new-mistral-large-model-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing Mistral AI’s Large-Instruct-2411 on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: In July, we announced the availability of Mistral AI’s models on Vertex AI: Codestral for code generation tasks, Mistral Large 2 for high-complexity tasks, and the lightweight Mistral Nemo for reasoning tasks like creative writing. Today, we’re announcing the…

  • Hacker News: WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08107 Source: Hacker News Title: WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces WhisperNER, a novel model that integrates named entity recognition (NER) with automatic speech recognition (ASR) to enhance transcription accuracy and informativeness. This integration is particularly relevant for AI…

  • AWS News Blog: Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/track-performance-of-serverless-applications-built-using-aws-lambda-with-application-signals/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals Feedly Summary: Gain deep visibility into AWS Lambda performance with CloudWatch Application Signals, eliminating manual monitoring complexities and improving serverless app health. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Amazon has introduced CloudWatch Application Signals, an…

  • Hacker News: Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half

    Source URL: https://oxide.computer/blog/how-oxide-cuts-data-center-power-consumption-in-half Source: Hacker News Title: Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the inefficiencies of traditional data center IT systems compared to modern hyperscale cloud architectures, emphasizing a shift towards integrated, rack-scale computing. Oxide’s innovative approach aims to consolidate hardware…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/llm-chess/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now Feedly Summary: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now Last week Dynomight published Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess pointing out that most LLMs are terrible chess players with the exception of…

  • Hacker News: Refresh vs. Long-lived Access Tokens (2023)

    Source URL: https://grayduck.mn/2023/04/17/refresh-vs-long-lived-access-tokens/ Source: Hacker News Title: Refresh vs. Long-lived Access Tokens (2023) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the differences between long-lived access tokens and a combination of long-lived refresh tokens with short-lived access tokens, particularly in the context of OAuth 2.0. It highlights the security benefits of…

  • Hacker News: Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work

    Source URL: https://portswigger.net/research/listen-to-the-whispers-web-timing-attacks-that-actually-work Source: Hacker News Title: Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text introduces novel web timing attack techniques capable of breaching server security by exposing hidden vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack surfaces more effectively than previous methods. It emphasizes the practical…