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Tag: arithmetic operations

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/11/defeating-nondeterminism/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Feedly Summary: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference A very common question I see about LLMs concerns why they can’t be made to deliver the same response to the same prompt by setting a fixed random number seed. Like many others I had…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/0125250/microsofts-analog-optical-computer-shows-ai-promise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a project by Microsoft Research involving an analog optical computer (AOC) designed for AI workloads, significantly enhancing computation speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs. The initiative offers opportunities for…

  • Cloud Blog: Mark Your Calendar: APT41 Innovative Tactics

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/apt41-innovative-tactics/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Mark Your Calendar: APT41 Innovative Tactics Feedly Summary: Written by: Patrick Whitsell Google Threat Intelligence Group’s (GTIG) mission is to protect Google’s billions of users and Google’s multitude of products and services. In late October 2024, GTIG discovered an exploited government website hosting malware being used to target…

  • Hacker News: Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features to Compute Addition

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03445 Source: Hacker News Title: Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features to Compute Addition Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Short Summary: The paper discusses how pre-trained large language models (LLMs) utilize Fourier features to enhance their arithmetic capabilities, specifically focusing on addition. It provides insights into the mechanisms that…

  • Hacker News: Matrix Multiplication in Finite Fields

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    Source URL: https://fileforma.substack.com/p/update-ffgemm-finite-field-general Source: Hacker News Title: Matrix Multiplication in Finite Fields Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Fileforma, a laboratory focused on researching custom binary formats for AI, particularly alternatives to traditional floating-point formats. The introduction of the ffGEMM library highlights the importance of finite fields in fast…