Tag: Testing
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Cloud Blog: How to benchmark application performance from the user’s perspective
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/benchmarking-how-end-users-perceive-an-applications-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to benchmark application performance from the user’s perspective Feedly Summary: What kind of performance does your application have, and how do you know? More to the point, what kind of performance do your end users think your application has? In this era of rapid growth and unpredictable…
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The Register: Post Office CTO had ‘nagging doubts’ about Horizon system despite reliability assurances
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/17/post_office_cto_inquiry/ Source: The Register Title: Post Office CTO had ‘nagging doubts’ about Horizon system despite reliability assurances Feedly Summary: As ‘heat’ built from campaigners, tech boss kept telling MPs everything was fine The former CTO of the Post Office had “nagging doubts" about the Horizon system at the center of one of the…
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Hacker News: Cell-Based Architecture Enhances Modern Distributed Systems
Source URL: https://www.infoq.com/articles/cell-based-architecture-distributed-systems/ Source: Hacker News Title: Cell-Based Architecture Enhances Modern Distributed Systems Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the concept of cell-based architectures, which enhance resilience, scalability, and security in distributed systems. It highlights the benefits of isolating failures, managing resources effectively, and proposing practical advice for implementing…
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Hacker News: AI PCs Aren’t Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU
Source URL: https://github.com/usefulsensors/qc_npu_benchmark Source: Hacker News Title: AI PCs Aren’t Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text presents a benchmarking analysis of Qualcomm’s Neural Processing Unit (NPU) performance on Microsoft Surface tablets, highlighting a significant discrepancy between claimed and actual processing speeds for…
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Hacker News: Un Ministral, Des Ministraux
Source URL: https://mistral.ai/news/ministraux/ Source: Hacker News Title: Un Ministral, Des Ministraux Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces two advanced edge AI models, Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, designed for on-device computing and privacy-first applications. These models stand out for their efficiency, context length support, and capability to facilitate critical…
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The Cloudflare Blog: Analysis of the EPYC 145% performance gain in Cloudflare Gen 12 servers
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/analysis-of-the-epyc-145-performance-gain-in-cloudflare-gen-12-servers Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Analysis of the EPYC 145% performance gain in Cloudflare Gen 12 servers Feedly Summary: Cloudflare’s Gen 12 server is the most powerful and power efficient server that we have deployed to date. Through sensitivity analysis, we found that Cloudflare workloads continue to scale with higher core count…
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The Register: DARPA pays $6M to see fully autonomous Black Hawk helicopters
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/black_hawk_autonomous_tech/ Source: The Register Title: DARPA pays $6M to see fully autonomous Black Hawk helicopters Feedly Summary: Resupply like Call of Duty? Not yet – only one planned for now The US military is betting the Black Hawk helicopter of the future won’t need pilots, and it’s giving the bird’s maker Sikorsky $6…
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Cloud Blog: Sustainable silicon to intelligent clouds: collaborating for the future of computing
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/2024-ocp-global-summit-keynote/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Sustainable silicon to intelligent clouds: collaborating for the future of computing Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Google VP and Technical Fellow and Amber Huffman, Principal Engineer. Partha delivered a keynote address today at the 2024 OCP Global Summit, an annual conference for leaders,…
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Hacker News: Announcing Our Updated Responsible Scaling Policy
Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/announcing-our-updated-responsible-scaling-policy Source: Hacker News Title: Announcing Our Updated Responsible Scaling Policy Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses an important update to the Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) by Anthropic, aimed at mitigating risks associated with frontier AI systems. The update introduces a robust framework for evaluating AI capabilities…