Tag: science

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/deepseek-nvidia/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia Feedly Summary: The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia Long, excellent piece by Jeffrey Emanuel capturing the current state of the AI/LLM industry. The original title is “The Short Case for Nvidia Stock" – I’m using the Hacker…

  • Hacker News: Mastering Atari Games with Natural Intelligence

    Source URL: https://www.verses.ai/blog/mastering-atari-games-with-natural-intelligence Source: Hacker News Title: Mastering Atari Games with Natural Intelligence Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents a significant advancement in the realm of AI, showcasing VERSES’ Genius-powered agent that outperforms existing leading AI algorithms on the Atari 100k benchmarking challenge with remarkable efficiency. This represents a…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing the 2025 Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First UK

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/announcing-the-2025-google-for-startups-accelerator-ai-first-uk/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing the 2025 Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First UK Feedly Summary: According to the UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, the UK’s AI sector is rapidly expanding, with over 3,000 AI companies generating more than £10 billion in revenues, employing over 60,000 people, and contributing £5.8…

  • CSA: How Can We Bridge the Cyber Talent Gap with Diversity?

    Source URL: https://www.zscaler.com/cxorevolutionaries/insights/solving-cyber-workforce-puzzle Source: CSA Title: How Can We Bridge the Cyber Talent Gap with Diversity? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the importance of nurturing cyber talent, particularly among women and underrepresented groups, to address the significant cyber workforce gap. It emphasizes collaboration between various sectors and the inclusion…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gemini 0.9

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/llm-gemini/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-gemini 0.9 Feedly Summary: llm-gemini 0.9 This new release of my llm-gemini plugin adds support for two new experimental models: learnlm-1.5-pro-experimental is “an experimental task-specific model that has been trained to align with learning science principles when following system instructions for teaching and learning use cases" –…

  • Hacker News: Why AI reminds me of cloud computing

    Source URL: https://bitmasonsllc.blogspot.com/2025/01/why-ai-reminds-me-of-cloud-computing.html Source: Hacker News Title: Why AI reminds me of cloud computing Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text explores the historical and current significance of AI, particularly focusing on large language models (LLMs), while drawing parallels with the evolution of cloud computing. It emphasizes the unpredictability of technological…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Has Created an AI Model For Longevity Science

    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/01/18/0020239/openai-has-created-an-ai-model-for-longevity-science Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Has Created an AI Model For Longevity Science Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s development of a language model specifically for protein engineering signifies a groundbreaking integration of AI in biological research. This initiative showcases AI’s ability to enable significant scientific advancements, especially in enhancing…

  • The Register: Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/hlrs_supercomputer_hunter/ Source: The Register Title: Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer Feedly Summary: €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 Hundreds of AMD APUs fired up on Thursday as Germany’s High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart announced the completion of its latest supercomputer dubbed…

  • The Register: Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/nvidia_israel_blackwell/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer Feedly Summary: System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems Nvidia is constructing a 30-megawatt research-and-development supercomputer stuffed with its latest-generation Blackwell GPUs in northern Israel at an estimated cost of half a billion dollars.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • Hacker News: Don’t use cosine similarity carelessly

    Source URL: https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2025/01/dont-use-cosine-similarity/ Source: Hacker News Title: Don’t use cosine similarity carelessly Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text explores the complexities and limitations of using cosine similarity in AI, particularly in the context of vector embeddings derived from language models. It critiques the blind application of cosine similarity to assess…