The TL Podcast for July 3rd, 2023: Good tidings from BlackBerry, Micron, Intel, etc. Snowflake, Micron, BlackBerry had upbeat news to report, and the database world is set for a shake-up because of generative AI. https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/the-
tl-podcast-for-july-3rd-2023-good-tidings-from-blackberry-micron-intel-etc
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Generative AI Reshapes Database Market: Tech Giants Report
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RISC-V Conference Panel: AI Hardware Leaders Discuss Innovation
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Watch the full panel at @Andes_Tech @risc_v conference moderated by @DylanOnChips and featuring #tenstorrent CEO @jimkxa
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Cerebras AI Training Workshop at Argonne National Labs
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Open to the public: Cerebras AI Training Workshop – July 17-18 Argonne National Labs offers this workshop to universities, national labs, and industries working on open science and will introduce the Cerebras CS-2 deployed at ALCFs AI Testbed Register: https://
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Twitter tech performance slowdown observed this week
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I can only see a very small portion of Twitter. The tech side of Twitter (and other services). Definitely slower but this week is slow everywhere.
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Fast Search and Replace in Large Repl Projects
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3/ Search & Replace Navigating large projects requires fast and responsive search. Using ripgrep and crosis, we built the functionality to search your Repls. We then used a variety of streaming techniques to make it fast.
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Llama.cpp and Activation Checkpointing Optimization Techniques
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yea, llama.cpp is it for the llama-style models.
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Analog Technology: Advantages and Distribution Challenges
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Analog has advantages. But is hard to distribute.
