Tag: experience

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/stragglers-in-ai-a-guide-to-automated-straggler-detection/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Taming the stragglers: Maximize AI training performance with automated straggler detection Feedly Summary: Stragglers are an industry-wide issue for developers working with large-scale machine learning workloads. The larger and more powerful these systems become, the more their performance is hostage to the subtle misbehavior of a single component.…

Cloud Blog: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/how-yahoo-calendar-broke-free-from-hardware-queues-and-dba-bottlenecks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Yahoo Mail is in the midst of one of its largest infrastructure transformations to date: a multi-year effort to modernize hundreds of petabytes of services by moving to Google Cloud.The Yahoo Mail migration…

The Register: ‘Suddenly deprecating old models’ users depended on a ‘mistake,’ admits OpenAI’s Altman

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/openai_tweaks_gpt5_after_user/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Suddenly deprecating old models’ users depended on a ‘mistake,’ admits OpenAI’s Altman Feedly Summary: Tech biz tweaks GPT-5, brings back 4 and others as options after customer backlash OpenAI has brought back GPT-4o after a weekend of user protests – mostly about removal of model choice – following…

The Register: Google fixing Gemini so it doesn’t channel paranoid androids quite so often

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/google_fixing_gemini_self_flagellation/ Source: The Register Title: Google fixing Gemini so it doesn’t channel paranoid androids quite so often Feedly Summary: Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/ai-for-data-engineers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison Feedly Summary: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison I recorded an episode last week with Claire Giordano for the Talking Postgres podcast. The topic was “AI for data engineers" but we ended up covering an enjoyable range of different…

Docker: Remocal and Minimum Viable Models: Why Right-Sized Models Beat API Overkill

Aug 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/remocal-minimum-viable-models-ai/ Source: Docker Title: Remocal and Minimum Viable Models: Why Right-Sized Models Beat API Overkill Feedly Summary: A practical approach to escaping the expensive, slow world of API-dependent AI The $20K Monthly Reality Check You built a simple sentiment analyzer for customer reviews. It works great. Except it costs $847/month in API calls…

AlgorithmWatch: The AI Revolution Comes With the Exploitation of Gig Workers

Aug 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-revolution-exploitation-gig-workers/ Source: AlgorithmWatch Title: The AI Revolution Comes With the Exploitation of Gig Workers Feedly Summary: Business process outsourcing (BPO) companies manage the human work behind AI development. However, they face accusations of worker exploitation, underpayment and wage theft. Big tech companies benefit from this work model. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**:…

Slashdot: AI Industry Horrified To Face Largest Copyright Class Action Ever Certified

Aug 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/08/2040214/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Industry Horrified To Face Largest Copyright Class Action Ever Certified Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the potential repercussions of a major copyright class action lawsuit against Anthropic, which could significantly impact the entire AI industry. Claims from industry groups suggest that if…

The Cloudflare Blog: Redesigning Workers KV for increased availability and faster performance

Aug 8, 2025

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