Tag: computation

Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/researchers-get-spiking-neural-behavior-out-of-a-pair-of-transistors/ Source: Hacker News Title: Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses advancements in neuromorphic computing and energy efficiency in AI, particularly through innovative use of silicon transistors to mimic neuronal behavior. This has substantial implications for…

Schneier on Security: AIs as Trusted Third Parties

Mar 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/ais-as-trusted-third-parties.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AIs as Trusted Third Parties Feedly Summary: This is a truly fascinating paper: “Trusted Machine Learning Models Unlock Private Inference for Problems Currently Infeasible with Cryptography.” The basic idea is that AIs can act as trusted third parties: Abstract: We often interact with untrusted parties. Prioritization of…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

Mar 27, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/27/tracing-the-thoughts-of-a-large-language-model/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Tracing the thoughts of a large language model Feedly Summary: Tracing the thoughts of a large language model In a follow-up to the research that brought us the delightful Golden Gate Claude last year, Anthropic have published two new papers about LLM interpretability: Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational…

Cloud Blog: Harvesting hardware: Our approach to carbon-aware fleet deployment

Mar 27, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/hardware-harvesting-at-google-reducing-waste-and-emissions/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Harvesting hardware: Our approach to carbon-aware fleet deployment Feedly Summary: When it comes to managing the infrastructure and AI that powers Google’s products and platforms – from Search to YouTube to Google Cloud – every decision we make has an impact. Traditionally, meeting growing demands for machine capacity…

Hacker News: Sharding Pgvector

Mar 27, 2025

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Source URL: https://pgdog.dev/blog/sharding-pgvector Source: Hacker News Title: Sharding Pgvector Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implementation of a sharding strategy for handling vector indices in the pgvector database, focusing specifically on large-scale embeddings. It highlights the challenges of scaling vector searches and presents an approach using two indexing…

Hacker News: Sharding Pgvector

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Source URL: https://pgdog.dev/blog/sharding-pgvector Source: Hacker News Title: Sharding Pgvector Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implementation of a sharding strategy for handling vector indices in the pgvector database, focusing specifically on large-scale embeddings. It highlights the challenges of scaling vector searches and presents an approach using two indexing…

Wired: How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/how-extropic-plans-to-unseat-nvidia/ Source: Wired Title: How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia Feedly Summary: Challenging the world’s most successful chipmaker with an entirely new type of computer chip may seem absurd—but it is no more ridiculous than the AI race itself. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Extropic is developing innovative computer chips that utilize…

Schneier on Security: AI Data Poisoning

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Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/ai-data-poisoning.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Data Poisoning Feedly Summary: Cloudflare has a new feature—available to free users as well—that uses AI to generate random pages to feed to AI web crawlers: Instead of simply blocking bots, Cloudflare’s new system lures them into a “maze” of realistic-looking but irrelevant pages, wasting the…

The Register: Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting

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