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  • Cloud Blog: New Cassandra to Spanner adapter simplifies Yahoo’s migration journey

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    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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

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    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,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gemini 0.4

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    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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM 0.18

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    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…

  • Hacker News: All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots

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    Source URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/11/12/voyage-multimodal-3/ Source: Hacker News Title: All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text announces the release of voyage-multimodal-3, a cutting-edge multimodal embedding model that enhances the capability of semantic search and retrieval tasks involving both text and images. Its ability to…

  • Hacker News: Don’t Look Twice: Faster Video Transformers with Run-Length Tokenization

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    Source URL: https://rccchoudhury.github.io/rlt/ Source: Hacker News Title: Don’t Look Twice: Faster Video Transformers with Run-Length Tokenization Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents a novel approach called Run-Length Tokenization (RLT) aimed at optimizing video transformers by eliminating redundant tokens. This content-aware method results in substantial speed improvements for training and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: NuExtract 1.5

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    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…

  • The Register: Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you’d expect

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/chatbots_run_robots/ Source: The Register Title: Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you’d expect Feedly Summary: LLM-controlled droids easily jailbroken to perform mayhem, researchers warn Science fiction author Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics, and you’d never know it from the behavior of today’s robots or those making them.… AI Summary…

  • Slashdot: Laundry-Sorting Robot Spurs AI Hopes and Fears At Europe’s Biggest Tech Event

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/11/15/2133254/laundry-sorting-robot-spurs-ai-hopes-and-fears-at-europes-biggest-tech-event?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Laundry-Sorting Robot Spurs AI Hopes and Fears At Europe’s Biggest Tech Event Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights advancements in AI showcased at the Web Summit, particularly through the demonstration of Digit, a humanoid robot by Agility Robotics. This event underscores the growing integration…

  • AWS News Blog: Replicate changes from databases to Apache Iceberg tables using Amazon Data Firehose (in preview)

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/replicate-changes-from-databases-to-apache-iceberg-tables-using-amazon-data-firehose/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Replicate changes from databases to Apache Iceberg tables using Amazon Data Firehose (in preview) Feedly Summary: Amazon Data Firehose introduces a new capability that captures database changes and streams updates to a data lake or warehouse, supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB, with automatic scaling…