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Rocket is an application that does exactly what you expect it to do. For example, if you visit /hello/John/58, you will see a greeting that says, “Hello, 58 year old named John!” Unlike other applications, Rocket does not blindly call the hello function if the age is not a valid u8. It tries other matching […]
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Python is a key component in Meta’s operations, with its use in Instagram’s backend and various other systems. The company has made contributions to the latest version of Python, Python 3.12. In this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig and production engineer Amethyst Reese discuss the Python Foundation Team’s efforts to […]
Inflection-2 is a powerful AI model that has been trained on 5,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs with impressive computing capacity. It has outperformed Google’s PaLM 2 Large model in various AI benchmarks such as MMLU, TriviaQA, HellaSwag, and GSM8k. Despite being larger in size, Inflection-2 is more efficient than its predecessor, Inflection-1, thanks to a transition […]
UltraFastBERT is a BERT variant that demonstrates how language models can use only a small fraction of their neurons for individual inferences. In their study, the researchers show that UltraFastBERT achieves comparable performance to other BERT models, while using only 0.3% of its neurons during inference. This is possible by employing fast feedforward networks (FFFs) […]
Video-LLaVA is a project that focuses on learning united visual representation by alignment before projection. The project highlights its remarkable interactive capabilities between images and videos, even without image-video pairs in the dataset. By binding unified visual representations to the language feature space, the project enables a large language model (LLM) to perform visual reasoning […]
Last year, Earth experienced the brightest flash of light ever seen in the night sky, caused by a powerful blast of gamma rays from a distant cosmic explosion. Known as the “BOAT” or Brightest Of All Time, the flash lasted for seven minutes and its afterglow was visible for seven hours. It activated lightning detectors […]
Watabou’s Cave Generator is part of a series of map generators created by Watabou, known for their stylish designs. The cave generator, in particular, caught the author’s attention due to its mysterious nature. The generator operates on a hex grid, but the author was able to add a square grid as well. The majority of […]
Firefox development is making a big change from using Mercurial to Git. The decision was not mine, but as someone involved in the process, I feel partially responsible. Let’s take a step back and look at the history leading up to this decision. In the early days, the Mozilla source code was stored in a […]
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that bacteria can store and pass on information about when to form certain strategies that can lead to dangerous infections in humans. This includes resistance to antibiotics and the formation of bacterial swarms. The bacteria, specifically E. coli, use iron levels to store this information […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has given the green light for the use of compulsory process in investigations involving artificial intelligence (AI) products and services. This resolution will enable FTC staff to issue civil investigative demands (CIDs) in AI-related investigations, similar to a subpoena, while still maintaining the Commission’s control over when CIDs are issued. […]