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Tag: effectiveness

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Sam Altman

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/12/sam-altman/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Sam Altman Feedly Summary: We want AI to “just work” for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten. We hate the model picker as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intelligence. We will next ship GPT-4.5,…

  • Slashdot: Oracle’s Ellison Calls for Governments To Unify Data To Feed AI

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/02/12/1857208/oracles-ellison-calls-for-governments-to-unify-data-to-feed-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Oracle’s Ellison Calls for Governments To Unify Data To Feed AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Larry Ellison advocates for the consolidation of national data to enhance AI model effectiveness, emphasizing the need for a unified, secure database. This approach could yield significant improvements in public…

  • Hacker News: Automated Capability Discovery via Foundation Model Self-Exploration

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07577 Source: Hacker News Title: Automated Capability Discovery via Foundation Model Self-Exploration Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper “Automated Capability Discovery via Model Self-Exploration” introduces a new framework (Automated Capability Discovery or ACD) designed to evaluate foundation models’ abilities by allowing one model to propose tasks for another…

  • Hacker News: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights

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    Source URL: https://cacm.acm.org/research/metas-hyperscale-infrastructure-overview-and-insights/ Source: Hacker News Title: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an in-depth overview of Meta’s hyperscale infrastructure, highlighting its engineering culture, productivity initiatives, hardware-software co-design, and innovative strategies for optimizing performance and reducing costs. The insights offered are relevant for…

  • Hacker News: CAPTCHAs: ‘a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service’

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    Source URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/ Source: Hacker News Title: CAPTCHAs: ‘a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service’ Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The study from UC Irvine critically evaluates Google’s reCAPTCHA v2, highlighting its inefficacy in preventing bot traffic while raising significant privacy concerns. The findings indicate that reCAPTCHA…

  • Hacker News: Memory profilers, call graphs, exception reports, and telemetry

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    Source URL: https://www.nuanced.dev/blog/system-wide-context Source: Hacker News Title: Memory profilers, call graphs, exception reports, and telemetry Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges that developers face with AI coding assistants due to the lack of crucial operational context in debugging scenarios. It outlines a series of experiments aimed at…

  • Hacker News: How (not) to sign a JSON object (2019)

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    Source URL: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/24/how-not-to/ Source: Hacker News Title: How (not) to sign a JSON object (2019) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a detailed examination of authentication methods, focusing on signing JSON objects and the complexities of canonicalization. It discusses both symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic methods, particularly emphasizing the strengths…

  • Hacker News: The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers

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    Source URL: https://serce.me/posts/2025-02-07-the-llm-curve-of-impact-on-software-engineers Source: Hacker News Title: The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The article discusses the varying impact of large language models (LLMs) on software engineers’ productivity based on their experience level. It highlights that junior engineers find LLMs particularly useful for learning…