I'm really excited about the growing potential to run small models on my own laptop (like Llama 3 8B or Phi-3) that don't "know" much but are capable of tool usage and summarization – then I can use them for things like local RAG as well
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Jensen Delivers First NVIDIA DGX-1 to Stanford SVL
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So appreciative of Jensen’s contribution to #AI! This was when he delivered the world’s first @nvidia DGX-1 to our lab @StanfordSVL back in 2016!
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EU Commission Invests €112 Million AI Quantum Research Innovation
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Commission invests €112 million in AI and quantum research and innovation | Shaping Europe’s digital future https://
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European 1 Million Genomes Initiative Reaches Two Key Milestones
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Two milestones for advancing European 1+ Million Genomes initiative | Shaping Europe’s digital future https://
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Flowise Migrates File Storage to Blob Storage and S3
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4/Storage Files that are uploaded on Flowise used to store as base64 string on a local file path. This caused limitation and huge burden on database. We've migrated the logic to support blob storage. You can specify a folder path or use S3:
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Grayskull e150 DevKit Introduction with Tenstorrent
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Join us for an introduction to the Grayskull e150 DevKit with @tenstorrent Staff AI/ML Engineer Tom Stesco. Register here –> http://
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Running Whisper-cpp on macOS via Homebrew and Hugging Face
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Thanks to @slhck I also now have a recipe for running CLI whisper-cpp on macOS via Homebrew and a model file downloaded from Hugging Face – detailed notes on that here (including converting mp3 to wav using ffmpeg):
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Skilled programmers overcome time constraints in development work
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It helps that they were skilled programmers already, it was just the time constraint that was keeping them from hacking on things
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Postgres Renaissance: Vector Databases Give Way to SQL Evolution
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if 2023 was the New Hope of vector dbs
— swyx 🐣 (@swyx) 25 avril 2024
then 2024 is Postgres Strikes Back@1st1 figured out how to add support for streaming RAG in 3LOC with deferred indexes in edgedb. pretty natural when you are already rewriting SQL for the AI/post-relational era! https://t.co/7iiY1XKNAa pic.twitter.com/5u7HFtpVG0if 2023 was the New Hope of vector dbs then 2024 is Postgres Strikes Back @1st1 figured out how to add support for streaming RAG in 3LOC with deferred indexes in edgedb. pretty natural when you are already rewriting SQL for the AI/post-relational era!
