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30+ LLM Interview Questions and Answers

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Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly valuable tools in data science, generative AI (GenAI), and AI. These complex algorithms enhance human capabilities and promote efficiency and creativity across various sectors. LLM development has accelerated in recent years, leading to widespread use in tasks like complex data analysis and natural language processing.

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Video Highlights: Gemini Ultra — How to Release an AI Product for Billions of Users — with Google’s Lisa Cohen

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In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, is joined by Lisa Cohen, Google’s Director of Data Science and Engineering, to discuss the launch of Gemini Ultra. Discover the capabilities of this cutting-edge large language model and how it stands toe-to-toe with GPT-4.

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Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event

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Scientists have discovered that a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event is underway, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants.

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The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: Behind the scenes

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A more in-depth look at the concepts and ideas behind my talk "The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How open-source beats economies of scale, even for LLMs" , including academic literature, related experiments and preliminary results for distilled task-specific models.

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs

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A GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with a Microsoft repository, making the files appear trustworthy.

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Relatively Universal ROM Programmer Makes Retro Tech Hacking Accessible

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There's treasures hidden in old technology, and you deserve to be able to revive it. Whether it's old personal computer platforms, vending machines, robot arms, or educational kits based on retro plat.

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Why do some leading geologists reject the term "Anthropocene"?

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Scientists, journalists, and artists often say that we live in the Anthropocene, a new age in which humans shape the Earth. Why do some leading geologists reject the term?

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Fallout style RPG made in Excel

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fallout-like-excel-rpg_v1-1Download Story It is the 145th year of the second age. Life in Mercer is unrecognisable to that which came earlier - The bombs saw to that. Humanity may never fully recover.Adventure beckons once more, and you are ready to answer its call!

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Cindy Lee Might Be the Future of Music

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The buzziest indie album of the moment is a folder of files you can only get from a janky Geocities website. Drake is dropping new music on something called Krakenfiles.com. Chris Black wonders if the post-streaming era will look like Web 1.0.

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Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle

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After years of work, an international team found evidence that a once-independent nitrogen-fixing microbe has become a permanent resident within algae cells

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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UN plastics treaty: don't let lobbyists drown out researchers

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Tackling plastic pollution needs scientists to be in the negotiating room at upcoming talks. Tackling plastic pollution needs scientists to be in the negotiating room at upcoming talks.

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You might not want to use your fingertip to unlock your phone

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The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.

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Americans' New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat

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Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry.

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Los Angeles is using an AI program to predict homelessness

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In Los Angeles, a homelessness prevention pilot program aims to use predictive AI to identify individuals and families at risk of becoming homeless.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Traveling Flame Discovery [video]

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Thanks to Jane Street for sponsoring this video. Take a look at the opportunities they have here: [link] Mediums (Media?) are really.

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My Journey into Personal Computer Software Development in 1983

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In 1983, Personal Computers were quite the up and coming thing. You could buy your own for a few thousand dollars. Though they were mostly considered toys by many East Coast programmers (more expensive "workstations" were the rage), there had already been some interesting and promising applications developed for it.

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To Fight 'Shrinkflation,' France Will Force Retailers to Warn Shoppers

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Merchants will be required to put signs in front of all products that have been reduced in size without a corresponding price cut.

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How to fix America's aviation system

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It’s been almost 15 years since the last deadly plane crash on a U.S. airline. But near misses in U.S. aviation have grown 25% in the last decade. What's behind the rise in close calls?

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Bostrom's Deep Utopia

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Nick Bostrom’s new tome … has a great cover with a number of interesting questions and a subtitle that hints that it might address the meaning of life in a future where AI and robots can do everything. But alas, after much build up and anticipation, he leaves that question unanswered, with an abrupt oops, out of time on page 427. … He tries to address meaty topics like, what keeps life interesting?

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Show HN: Exploring Indra's Pearls with WebGPU

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I’m excited to be releasing an interactive visualization using WebGPU of the fascinating math in the book “Indra’s Pearls: The Vision of…

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Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S.

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Mercedes is the first automaker to sell level 3 autonomous cars to U.S. consumers, after announcing plans to do so last year.

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Influential women's tech network shuts down unexpectedly

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Women Who Code, which had hundreds of thousands of members globally, has dissolved after a board vote.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Pharmaceutical giant Bayer is getting rid of bosses

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CEO Bill Anderson says he doesn’t want it to be a “lame” company, but its stock has still tanked 50%.

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Multiple Planes Cross Runway While Another Is Taking Off [video]

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Your support is really important and appreciated to keep these videos coming! =)-- [link] [link].

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Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight

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The Senate voted after a midnight deadline to reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse.

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Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird

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Thunderbird will support Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) natively, all written in Rust!

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Self-Reasoning Tokens, teaching models to think ahead

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What is the mathematical formulation of reasoning? How can we make LLMs like chatGPT think before they speak?

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I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service (2021)

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I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an emoji email address service. In the process I went viral on Tik Tok, made $1000 in a week, hired a Japanese voice actor, and learnt about the weird world of emoji domains.

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Rust Custom Target for QEMU RISC-V on Apache NuttX RTOS

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Our Rust App compiles for Software Floating-Point, but Apache NuttX RTOS expects Hardware Floating-Point.

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Stop Doing Cloud

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An example of how you can save money, simplify your architecture and speed up the development by going back to the basics and ditching the cloud, kubernetes and whatnot.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.