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Early prototype g1 uses prompting strategies to enhance LLM’s reasoning abilities through o1-like reasoning chains, overcoming logic problems that stump leading models. Unlike o1, g1 shows reasoning tokens and invites open source community development. Experimental g1 empowers LLMs to “think” by visualizing complex logic steps. Combining Chain-of-Thought with tactics like exploring alternatives and using three […]
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The tech industry is facing challenges with funding drying up and AI disrupting business models, pushing companies into “wartime” mode for survival. Engineering Managers need to lead low-morale teams through ambiguity and intense pressure by focusing on goal-aligned delivery, building a strong team, and supporting individual growth. Wartime requires ruthless prioritization, quick decision-making, and protecting […]
The author’s LinkedIn account was mysteriously shut down after sending a private Youtube video link to a trustworthy contact related to helping teams in Ukraine. They also experienced issues with installing Signal on their iPhone after receiving a Signal group invite in a LinkedIn chat. The author is awaiting resolution from LinkedIn but notes increased […]
The leaked onboarding document for new members of MrBeast’s production company reveals the specific company culture and operational strategies behind running a viral YouTube operation in the 2020s. The focus is on creating the best possible YouTube videos, with strict guidelines for thumbnails, viewer engagement, and a defined video formula. Employees are classified as A, […]
The author delves into Jensen’s Inequality, exploring its implications and practical applications in real-world scenarios. The inequality states that the expected value of a function is greater than or equal to the function applied to the expected value of the input when the function is convex. The author provides intuitive examples, such as traffic flow […]
AT&T, once a giant in computing, designed and manufactured its own microprocessors, including the unique and interesting Hobbit. The Hobbit was optimized to run C programs efficiently, but faced challenges when Apple decided to switch to the ARM architecture for its Newton handheld. Despite its potential, the Hobbit eventually fell out of favor, leading to […]
The Pit Viper 360 by Bounce Imaging is a revolutionary panoramic thermal imaging throwable camera designed for military and law enforcement purposes. Unveiled at the National Tactical Officers Association conference, this device offers a 360° view of any scenario without the need to risk human lives by putting heads around corners. The Pit Viper 360 […]
The author questions the widely accepted notion that human experiences are unified, suggesting instead that disunity may be the norm rather than the exception. They challenge the idea that experiences like visual perception, tactile sensation, and conscious thoughts are bound together in a cohesive way, proposing that the act of introspection might artificially create the […]
WordLlama is a compact NLP toolkit focused on tasks like fuzzy-deduplication and ranking, optimized for CPU hardware with minimal inference-time dependencies. It extracts token embeddings from large language models to create efficient word representations, significantly smaller than models like GloVe. The utility offers Matryoshka Representations for truncating embedding dimensions, low resource requirements for fast CPU […]
In a previous post, the process of creating a fair coin from a biased coin was explored, leading to the realization that this is part of a larger problem of deterministic randomness extraction. The focus is on creating a stream of output bits that are uniformly random, despite potentially biased and correlated input bits. Various […]