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Truth time! I love transparency because it takes away the uncertainty and illusions. It helps and inspires people to plan and execute based on facts, not bullshit.
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Nature finds a way.
In October 2013, I wrote a post arguing that computing was disrupting language and that this was the Mother of All Disruptions . My specific argument was that…
Last week, the open-core team chat platform Mattermost announced that “Mattermost Cloud Free will no longer be offered after July 26, 2023.” This likely came as an unpleasant surprise to users on that plan, as less than a month before, Mattermost’s pricing page featured the promise that the Cloud Free …
Together releases the RedPajama-INCITE 3B and 7B model family, including base, instruction-tuned, and chat versions, with the 3B model running on an RTX 2070.
Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.
Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.
...that were written in a military training camp and accidentally grew to 5k words
We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm
Introducing MPT-7B, the first entry in our MosaicML Foundation Series. MPT-7B is a transformer trained from scratch on 1T tokens of text and code. It is open source, available for commercial use, and matches the quality of LLaMA-7B. MPT-7B was trained on the MosaicML platform in 9.5 days with zero human intervention…
Chris James, London - Software Engineer
I am frequently away from home (whether on family vacation, a business trip, or out around town), but I have a number of important resources on my home network—as any homelabber does. There are services I like to access remotely like my NAS with my giant media library, my edit server with all my active projects, and…
Element is one of 14 messaging apps blocked by the Central Indian Government which - we believe from media reports - relates to Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Discover Vector Databases: How They Work, Examples, Use Cases, Pros & Cons, Selection and Implementation. They have combined capabilities of traditional databases and standalone vector indexes while specializing for vector embeddings.
All the AI design hype got me twitching enough to write about the business risks of working so high-fidelity so fast.
An introduction on how to use the Zama Concrete open source TFHE compiler
EARN IT Act is aiming at scanning our messages and photos, we are calling of Senators to oppose this surveillance bill!
Large Language Models (LLMs) have a data freshness problem. Even some of the most powerful models, like GPT-4, have no idea about recent events. Let's learn how to fix this.
LangChain has become a tremendously popular toolkit for building a wide range of LLM-powered applications, including chat, Q&A and document search. In this blogpost I re-implement some of the novel LangChain functionality as a learning exercise, looking at the low-level prompts it uses to create these higher level…
We'll create and load a snapshot of our custom JavaScript runtime to optimize startup time.
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SemiAnalysis published something of a bombshell leaked document this morning: Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”. The source of the document is vague: The text below is …
