BFloat16 is a format introduced in Ampere architectures (Nvidia A100 cards) or newer. M1 chips for some reason have also bfloat16 in PyTorch, but I think this MPS bfloat16 is something very different.
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NVIDIA AI-Ready Servers Enable Generative AI Deployment
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We announced that the world’s leading system manufacturers will deliver NVIDIA AI-ready servers to help companies customize and deploy #GenerativeAI applications using their proprietary business data. https://
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SQLChain Upgrade: Multi-Database QnA Chatbot Support
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SQLChain upgrade We have upgraded SQLChain to now supports MySQL, MsSQL, PostgreSQL and the default SQLite! You can now have a QnA chatbot answering questions about your databases
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Postgres Vector Store Using TypeORM and pgvector Extension
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Postgres Vector Store Postgres Vector Store is using TypeORM with the pgvector extension – https://
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JSON REST APIs and App Store: The Real iPhone Moment
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Instead, the iPhone moment was really more of a rolling event triggered by two important events: the popularization of JSON-enabled REST APIs, and the launch of the App Store. And it was the former allowed apps to talk to each other for the first time.
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VMware Unified Approach Simplifies Multi-Cloud Enterprise Solutions
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With 83% of enterprises using diverse cloud environments, and 78% of executives facing complexity, VMware's unified approach offers a seamless solution vital for modern business. More > https://
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Debugging Unfamiliar Codebases Using Symmetry Techniques
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A nice technique for debugging unfamiliar codebases is to exploit the symmetries. That is, if you don’t know the correct output, find cases where the outputs should relate given certain related inputs. Then do more running the code than reading it to test your expectations.
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Don McMillan Brings Technical Humor to SAS Explore Conference
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It’s the top of the week, Explorers, and Don McMillan is bringing the technical funnies . He’s excited about SAS Explore, and we hope you are too. Meet us in Las Vegas. There is still time to register! http://
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ChatGPT vs ReST: A New Approach
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ChatGPT was trained using RLHF, while Google, through its DeepMind entity, proposes an alternative approach called ReST—and this could significantly accelerate many processes. Paper link here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.08998.pdf
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55.7 Billion IoT Devices by 2025 Edge Computing
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#IDC predicts there will be 55.7 billion connected #IoT devices by 2025. At the same time, more than half of enterprise-managed data is expected to be created and processed outside the data center or cloud. My POV: Workloads that generate large amounts of data requiring quick