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Serving Quantized LLMs on NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs

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Quantization is a technique for making machine learning models smaller and faster. We quantize Llama2-70B-Chat, producing an equivalent-quality model that generates 2.2x more.

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OpenAI API for Beginners: Your Easy-to-Follow Starter Guide

KDnuggets

Learn how to use OpenAI Python API for accessing language, embedding, audio, vision, and image generation models.

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Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

Hacker News

On Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2023, Cloudflare detected a threat actor on our self-hosted Atlassian server. Our security team immediately began an investigation, cut off the threat actor’s access, and no Cloudflare customer data or systems were impacted by this event.

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Can you believe it? 3 tips for disclosing and consuming AI-generated content

SAS Software

Let me ask: did you believe Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really boasted about the company’s power in a 2019 video, saying, “Imagine this for a second: One man, with total control of billions of people’s stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures.” The video of Zuckerberg purportedly saying [.] Can you believe it?

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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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OLMo is Here, Powered by Mosaic AI + Databricks

databricks

As Chief Scientist (Neural Networks) at Databricks, I lead our research team toward the goal of giving everyone the ability to build and.

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Learn with LinkedIn: Free Courses About AI

KDnuggets

Want to learn about AI? You can for FREE with LinkedIn.

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Advanced RAG 02: Unveiling PDF Parsing

Towards AI

Last Updated on February 2, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Florian June Originally published on Towards AI. Including key points, diagrams, and code For RAG, the extraction of information from documents is an inevitable scenario. Ensuring the effectiveness of content extraction from the source is crucial in improving the quality of the final output.

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Introducing AI Model Sharing with Databricks

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Today, we're excited to announce that AI model sharing is available in both Databricks Delta Sharing and on the Databricks Marketplace. With Delta.

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A New FlowingData Book, Second Edition

FlowingData

I wrote a book! It’s the second edition of Visualize This. It focuses on the how of visualization with practical examples that you can apply to your own data. You’ll learn how to use a variety of tools and work through the full visualization process, from data to visual analysis to publication-ready graphics. This second edition is loosely based on the first, but this is a brand new book.

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Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation

Hacker News

We’re developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat. In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, we found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. While this uplift is not large enough to be conclusive, our finding is a starting point for continued research and community deliberation.

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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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Dark Data: Opportunity or Threat

Towards AI

Last Updated on February 1, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Adam Ross Nelson Originally published on Towards AI. A visual analysis of the dark data phenomena Organizations suffer from what is often known as the dark data problem. This article reframes the issue as an opportunity: the dark data opportunity. Dark data presents a challenge for businesses and organizations.

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Welcome to the Data Intelligence Platform: Databricks + Einblick

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At Databricks, we believe that AI will change the way that enterprises interact with their data. That’s why today, we're excited to welcome t.

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Data Under Siege? Combatting the Weaponization of Information in the Digital Age

Dataversity

The emergence of generative AI marks a pivotal shift in the digital landscape, profoundly impacting our ability to discern reality from fabrication. This technology, capable of producing highly convincing and realistic content such as news articles, social media posts, images, and videos, blurs the line between what’s authentic and what’s engineered.

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Google Search Drops Cache Link from Search Results

Hacker News

After a couple of months of testing, it seems Google has now removed the cache link from the search results page. I no longer see a link to the Google cache within search result snippets but that doesn't mean you cannot access to cache, you can.

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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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[Code Llama 70B?] It is One Step Away From Surpassing GPT-4

Towards AI

Last Updated on February 2, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Gao Dalie (高達烈) Originally published on Towards AI. When one thinks about the development of artificial intelligence models, the two names that initially come to mind are OpenAI and, perhaps, Google. However, they are not the only ones. In this Post, we will delve into the key features and improvements that Code Llama 70B brings to the table.

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Cost of a Big Mac at every McDonald’s in the United States

FlowingData

A map, by Pantry & Larder, shows the cost of a Big Mac at each McDonald’s in the United States, as of early 2023. As you might expect, the prices are higher on the east and west coasts. The most expensive Big Mac was in Lee, Massachusetts for $8.09. I assume shipping to Hawaii and Alaska brings prices up in those states. But what’s going on in Montana and Arizona?

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Designing generative AI workloads for resilience

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Resilience plays a pivotal role in the development of any workload, and generative AI workloads are no different. There are unique considerations when engineering generative AI workloads through a resilience lens. Understanding and prioritizing resilience is crucial for generative AI workloads to meet organizational availability and business continuity requirements.

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A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash

Hacker News

A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker-for-hire past—and the legal threats aimed at making them disappear.

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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.

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How to Build a Simple Generative AI Application with Gradio

Towards AI

Last Updated on February 2, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Saqib Jan Originally published on Towards AI. Gradio is simply a great choice for creating a customizable user interface for machine learning models to test your proof of concept. Image Source: Hugging Face blog When you have a specific idea in mind, say summarizing an article, a small specialist model that is designed for that specific task can perform just as well as a general-purpose Large Language model.

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Commonness of Race in Different Occupations

FlowingData

Some occupations are more race-dominant than others. This is the percentage of employed persons 16 years and older who are a given race or ethnicity for each.

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There’s an easier way to use ChatGPT

Dataconomy

OpenAI introduces GPT Mentions, a revolutionary feature reshaping conversational AI dynamics. From streamlining workflows to offering a user-friendly interface and practical applications across various scenarios, GPT Mentions will make it easier to use ChatGPT. In this article, we explore the key aspects of this new ChatGPT feature and provide a concise guide on effective utilization, ensuring a smooth experience for users of all levels in the realm of conversational AI.

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New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros

Hacker News

​Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc). [.

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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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Getting started with Amazon Titan Text Embeddings

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Embeddings play a key role in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML). Text embedding refers to the process of transforming text into numerical representations that reside in a high-dimensional vector space. This technique is achieved through the use of ML algorithms that enable the understanding of the meaning and context of data (semantic relationships) and the learning of complex relationships and patterns within the data (syntactic relationships).

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How the AI Boom is a Windfall for Tiny Anguilla

Hacker News

The rising popularity of artificial intelligence has impacted the entire world, including the tiny island of Anguilla. Located in the Caribbean, the country, home to about 15,000 people, has a unique and suddenly in-demand resource. In the late 1980s, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned countries and regions of geographic interest their own two-letter domains.

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How Will the Golden Age of "Making It Worse" End?

Hacker News

One of the more poignant and ridiculous and enduringly popular contemporary American insanities is the belief that one person—it’s almost always a man, although Jennifer Garner did get to do it in a movie once—can make a critical difference in any bad situation, provided that person is angry and violent enough.

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A mistakenly published password exposed Mercedes-Benz source code

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Mercedes-Benz accidentally exposed a trove of internal data after leaving a private key online that gave “unrestricted access” to the company’s source code, according to the security research firm that discovered it.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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USCIS Announces Strengthened Integrity Measures for H-1B Program

Hacker News

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced a final rule to strengthen the integrity of and reduce the potential for fraud in the H-1B registration process, including by reducing the potential for gaming the registration system and ensuring each beneficiary would have the same chance of being selected, regardless of the number of registrations submitted on their behalf.

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Why flying insects gather at artificial light

Hacker News

Explanations of why nocturnal insects fly erratically around fires and lamps have included theories of “lunar navigation” and “escape to the light” However, without three-dimensional flight data to test them rigorously, the cause for this odd behaviour has remained& unsolved. We employed high-resolution motion capture in the laboratory and stereo-videography in the field to reconstruct the 3D kinematics of insect flights around artificial lights.

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Philips hid CPAP machine problems from FDA and patients for years

Hacker News

Tainted CPAP machines and ventilators went to children, the elderly and at least 700,000 veterans despite internal warnings. Company insiders said the devices posed an “unacceptable” risk.

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AWS charge for using IPv4 expected to bring $1B/year and speed up IPv6 adoption

Hacker News

On Thursday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new charge for customers with public IPv4 addresses. It had warned a new pricing plan was going to be put into place last July, but new estimates suggest that it could make an extra $1 billion per annum from this change.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.