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The article delves into the intricate design and mechanisms behind popular electrical baby toys from companies like VTech and Clementoni. For example, the Baby Clementoni puzzle board uses a unique combination of switches and plastic pieces to emit charming sounds when placed correctly. VTech toys, on the other hand, use a complex system of bit […]
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TL;DR: The author built an AI tax advisor called Tax Driver using GPT-4 and the open-source library Open Tax Solver to explore tax scenarios. Tax Driver is capable of evaluating various tax scenarios but can be inconsistent and miss the mark at times. While it can generate code and provide solid analyses with some coaching, […]
The author argues that programming paradigms are no longer as relevant in modern programming languages, as almost all languages now incorporate features from multiple paradigms. This has led to the emergence of so-called post-paradigm languages like Rust, Nim, and Gleam, which draw on the best features of past languages without limiting programmers to a single […]
In this study, Mini-Gemini is introduced as a framework to enhance Vision Language Models (VLMs) by focusing on high-resolution visual tokens, high-quality data, and VLM-guided generation. The aim is to bridge the performance gap compared to advanced models like GPT-4 and Gemini. Mini-Gemini supports a range of Language Models from 2B to 34B and has […]
In this research, Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models (LLMs) are explored as a way to improve response accuracy in tasks like Question-Answering (QA). Current approaches either add unnecessary computational complexity to simple queries or struggle with multi-step queries. To address this, a new adaptive QA framework is proposed, using a classifier to select the best strategy […]
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“Cpp2” is Herb Sutter’s personal project aiming to simplify and make writing ordinary C++ functions and types safer without disrupting backward compatibility. It is not an alternate language but rather a new “skin” for C++, using existing modules and concepts seamlessly. The goal is to provide a simpler and safer way to write C++ code […]
Ray Tomlinson, an MIT graduate, sent the first email over a network in October 1971. Fast forward 50 years, and around 121 trillion emails are sent yearly among 4.3 billion individuals, making email the paramount form of written communication worldwide. Google, Yahoo, and Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail) recently announced stricter email security protocols to counter spam […]
The authors introduce Jamba, a large language model combining Transformer and Mamba layers using a mixture-of-experts architecture. This flexible design allows for efficient parameter usage and high performance, fitting in a single 80GB GPU. Jamba excels in long-context evaluations, showing strong results for up to 256K tokens context length. The study explores key architectural decisions […]
On Mar 31st, 2024, a talented developer unveiled 84 innovative matrix multiplication kernels for llamafile on their webpage. These kernels help enhance image reading and prompt evaluation speed by 30% to 500% when using F16 and Q8_0 weights on CPU. The improvements are particularly impressive on ARMv8.2+, Intel, and AVX512 computers. Llamafile, the brainchild of […]