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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building effective agents

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/building-effective-agents/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building effective agents Feedly Summary: Building effective agents My principal complaint about the term “agents" is that while it has many different potential definitions most of the people who use it seem to assume that everyone else shares and understands the definition that they have chosen to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode"

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/gemini-thinking-mode/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode" Feedly Summary: Those new model releases just keep on flowing. Today it’s Google’s snappily named gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp, their first entrant into the o1-style inference scaling class of models. I posted about a great essay about the significance of these just this morning. From…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Is AI progress slowing down?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/is-ai-progress-slowing-down/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Is AI progress slowing down? Feedly Summary: Is AI progress slowing down? This piece by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor is the single most insightful essay about AI and LLMs I’ve seen in a long time. It’s long and worth reading every inch of it – it…

  • Cloud Blog: What’s new for Google Cloud databases — December 2024

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/whats-new-for-databases-december-2024/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: What’s new for Google Cloud databases — December 2024 Feedly Summary: As the year winds down and we gather around the (digital) fireplace, the excitement around Google Cloud databases is ramping up! It’s been a busy season of innovation and customer success, and we’ve got a sack full…

  • Cloud Blog: How Memorystore helps FanCode stream 2X more live sports

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/fancode-migrates-from-aws-to-memorystore-for-redis-cluster/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Memorystore helps FanCode stream 2X more live sports Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: FanCode needed to deliver low-latency, personalized sports content to millions of fans while scaling rapidly. By migrating to Google Cloud and adopting Memorystore for Redis Cluster, FanCode built a fully integrated, scalable backend infrastructure that…

  • Hacker News: No More Adam: Learning Rate Scaling at Initialization Is All You Need

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11768 Source: Hacker News Title: No More Adam: Learning Rate Scaling at Initialization Is All You Need Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents a novel optimization technique called SGD-SaI that enhances the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm for training deep neural networks. This method simplifies the process…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud Pub/Sub 2024 highlights: Native integrations, sharing and more

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/pubsub-highlights-of-2024/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud Pub/Sub 2024 highlights: Native integrations, sharing and more Feedly Summary: In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations need to leverage real-time data for actionable insights and improved decision-making. Availability of real-time data is emerging as a key element to evolve and grow the business. Pub/Sub is Google…

  • The Register: AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/aws_hpe_server_instances/ Source: The Register Title: AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB Feedly Summary: Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them Amazon Web Services usually stays schtum about the exact disposition of the servers it rents in…

  • Hacker News: Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users

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    Source URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/13/microsoft-confirms-password-deletion-for-1-billion-users-attacks-up-200/ Source: Hacker News Title: Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is pushing for the adoption of passkeys as a secure alternative to passwords, citing a rise in password-related attacks. The company highlights the strong security benefits of passkeys, which are resistant…

  • Hacker News: Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident write-up

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    Source URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/12/14/quick-takes-on-the-recent-openai-public-incident-write-up/ Source: Hacker News Title: Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident write-up Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The provided text analyzes an incident at OpenAI on December 11, highlighting a saturation problem in Kubernetes API servers that led to service failures due to the unexpected interactions of…