Tag: metrics

  • Hacker News: Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?

    Source URL: https://www.404media.co/are-overemployed-ghost-engineers-making-six-figures-to-do-nothing/ Source: Hacker News Title: Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a viral tweet by Stanford researcher Yegor Denisov-Blanch regarding an algorithm that identifies “Ghost Engineers,” software engineers who perform minimally at tech companies, thus exposing a…

  • AWS News Blog: Time-based snapshot copy for Amazon EBS

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/time-based-snapshot-copy-for-amazon-ebs/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Time-based snapshot copy for Amazon EBS Feedly Summary: With time-based copying, critical EBS snapshots and AMIs can now meet crucial RPOs by specifying exact completion durations from 15 minutes to 48 hours for disaster recovery, testing, development, and operations. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided…

  • Hacker News: Full LLM training and evaluation toolkit

    Source URL: https://github.com/huggingface/smollm Source: Hacker News Title: Full LLM training and evaluation toolkit Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces SmolLM2, a family of compact language models with varying parameters designed for lightweight, on-device applications, and details on how they can be utilized in different scenarios. Such advancements in AI…

  • Hacker News: 32k context length text embedding models

    Source URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/09/18/voyage-3/ Source: Hacker News Title: 32k context length text embedding models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the launch of the Voyage 3 series embedding models, which provide significant advancements in retrieval quality, latency, and cost-effectiveness compared to existing models like OpenAI’s. Specifically, the Voyage 3 models…

  • Slashdot: Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality?

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/23/1855203/does-github-copilot-improve-code-quality Source: Slashdot Title: Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a blog post by GitHub that evaluates the impact of GitHub Copilot on code quality and developer efficiency. While initial data suggests positive outcomes—such as faster coding speeds and improved code readability—contradictory…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quantization matters

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/23/quantization-matters/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quantization matters Feedly Summary: Quantization matters What impact does quantization have on the performance of an LLM? been wondering about this for quite a while, now here are numbers from Paul Gauthier. He ran differently quantized versions of Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct through his Aider code editing…

  • AWS News Blog: Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/track-performance-of-serverless-applications-built-using-aws-lambda-with-application-signals/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals Feedly Summary: Gain deep visibility into AWS Lambda performance with CloudWatch Application Signals, eliminating manual monitoring complexities and improving serverless app health. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Amazon has introduced CloudWatch Application Signals, an…

  • AWS News Blog: Introducing new capabilities to AWS CloudTrail Lake to enhance your cloud visibility and investigations

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-new-capabilities-to-aws-cloudtrail-lake-to-enhance-your-cloud-visibility-and-investigations/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Introducing new capabilities to AWS CloudTrail Lake to enhance your cloud visibility and investigations Feedly Summary: CloudTrail Lake updates simplify auditing with AI-powered queries, summarization, and enhanced dashboards for deeper AWS activity insights. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text details new features and enhancements to…

  • Hacker News: AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers

    Source URL: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/alphaqubit-quantum-error-correction/ Source: Hacker News Title: AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the introduction of AlphaQubit, an AI-based decoder developed by Google DeepMind and Google Quantum AI to improve the reliability of quantum computing by accurately identifying and correcting errors.…

  • Hacker News: AWS Lambda PR/FAQ After 10 Years

    Source URL: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/11/aws-lambda-turns-10-a-rare-look-at-the-doc-that-started-it.html Source: Hacker News Title: AWS Lambda PR/FAQ After 10 Years Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details the evolution and features of AWS Lambda, a serverless computing service that enables developers to run their code without the complexities associated with infrastructure management. This information can greatly benefit…