November 27, 2024

AI

How to Transition from Engineering to Data Science

AI for engineers: experience of an engineering graduate Dan Pietrow · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 3 hours ago — Photo by Cash Macanaya on Unsplash Hi there, I often get asked about my transition from engineering to data science. Having made the leap, I’ve learned what works (and what doesn’t) and I thought it would be of value to share my insight to hopefully save you a lot

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AI

How to Prune LLaMA 3.2 and Similar Large Language Models

This article explores a structured pruning technique for state-of-the-art models, that uses a GLU architecture, enabling the creation of smaller and more efficient large language models. Pere Martra · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 14 min read · 3 hours ago — Disclaimer: This article was originally written in Spanish and translated into English using AI tools as support to ensure accuracy and consistency. You can find the original Spanish version here. As

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Hardware

Microsoft’s gaming division not hiring white staff, Elon Musk tags CEO, says this is illegal

TL;DR: Elon Musk criticized Microsoft’s gaming division for allegedly excluding white males from hiring, calling it illegal. This follows posts by Ian Miles Cheong and others highlighting comments from Obsidian Entertainment’s Art Director, Matt Hansen, about prioritizing Black artists and replacing “crusty white dudes.” Musk said “this is illegal”, while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has not responded. Elon Musk has tagged Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, pointing to a post on X where Microsoft’s gaming division

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Alibaba researchers unveil Marco-o1, an LLM with advanced reasoning capabilities

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The recent release of OpenAI o1 has brought great attention to large reasoning models (LRMs), and is inspiring new models aimed at solving complex problems classic language models often struggle with. Building on the success of o1 and the concept of LRMs, researchers at Alibaba have introduced Marco-o1, which enhances reasoning capabilities and tackles problems with

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Software

How Coinspect is Revolutionizing Blockchain Technology Through Advanced Security | HackerNoon

In 2014, Coinspect emerged as one of the first dedicated services in the blockchain security sector. A decade later, it has made a name for itself,  defending blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) systems, which continue to face significant vulnerabilities. Coinspect has a range of unique services including smart contracts audit, penetration testing services, and source code reviews, all of which are critical while trying to detect security vulnerabilities before they are used maliciously. Their most

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Software

If You Like DreamLLM, Check These Works Out | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background & Problem Statement 2.1 How can we use MLLMs for Diffusion Synthesis that Synergizes both sides? 3 DreamLLM 3.1 End-to-End Interleaved generative Pretraining (I-GPT) 3.2 Model Training 4 Experiments and 4.1 Multimodal Comprehension 4.2 Text-Conditional Image Synthesis 4.3 Multimodal Joint Creation & Comprehension 5 Discussions 5.1 Synergy between creation & Comprehension? 5. 2 What is learned by DreamLLM? 6 Related Works 7 Conclusions and References A

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Breaking the cloud backup ‘black box’ with intelligent data mapping and retrieval

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Since the earliest days of computing, enterprises have used backups to keep their business-critical information protected. A successfully established cloud backup posture ensures the organization goes untouched during unforeseen events like natural disasters or system failure. However, even after multifold growth in the scale and complexity of enterprise tech stacks, the approach to setting up these

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What Is Learned by DreamLLM? Dream Query Attention | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background & Problem Statement 2.1 How can we use MLLMs for Diffusion Synthesis that Synergizes both sides? 3 DreamLLM 3.1 End-to-End Interleaved generative Pretraining (I-GPT) 3.2 Model Training 4 Experiments and 4.1 Multimodal Comprehension 4.2 Text-Conditional Image Synthesis 4.3 Multimodal Joint Creation & Comprehension 5 Discussions 5.1 Synergy between creation & Comprehension? 5. 2 What is learned by DreamLLM? 6 Related Works 7 Conclusions and References A

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What Is the Synergy Between Creation & Comprehension? What You Need to Know | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background & Problem Statement 2.1 How can we use MLLMs for Diffusion Synthesis that Synergizes both sides? 3 DreamLLM 3.1 End-to-End Interleaved generative Pretraining (I-GPT) 3.2 Model Training 4 Experiments and 4.1 Multimodal Comprehension 4.2 Text-Conditional Image Synthesis 4.3 Multimodal Joint Creation & Comprehension 5 Discussions 5.1 Synergy between creation & Comprehension? 5. 2 What is learned by DreamLLM? 6 Related Works 7 Conclusions and References A

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Let AI Tune Your Database Management System for You | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Limeng Zhang, Centre for Research on Engineering Software Technologies (CREST), The University of Adelaide, Australia; (2) M. Ali Babar, Centre for Research on Engineering Software Technologies (CREST), The University of Adelaide, Australia. Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1 Configuration Parameter Tuning Challenges and 1.2 Contributions 2 Tuning Objectives 3 Overview of Tuning Framework 4 Workload Characterization and 4.1 Query-level Characterization 4.2 Runtime-based Characterization 5 Feature Pruning and 5.1 Workload-level Pruning 5.2

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