It'll be a while before we can answer "is it good". I mean… it's a computer, and so far it seems to be correctly doing what a computer ought to do. Can't ask for much more than that!
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Delta Lake and Iceberg creators discuss open table formats
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For many organizations, struggling with which table format to choose delays lakehouse adoption. There’s an easier way. Hear from the original creators of Delta Lake & Iceberg on the state of open table formats & how Databricks solves #interoperability: https://
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AlphaChip Feedback Loop Improves AI Hardware Design
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Feedback loop: train SOTA chip design model (AlphaChip) -> use it to design better AI chips -> use them to train better models -> to design better chips… part of the reason why our TPU stack is so good. Congrats @Azaliamirh, @annadgoldie, @JeffDean & the AlphaChip team! https://t.co/MLwaAP79Tg
— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) 26 septembre 2024Feedback loop: train SOTA chip design model (AlphaChip) -> use it to design better AI chips -> use them to train better models -> to design better chips… part of the reason why our TPU stack is so good. Congrats @Azaliamirh
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AlphaChip: Reinforcement Learning for ASIC Chip Floorplanning
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Welcome, AlphaChip! Today, we are sharing some exciting updates on our work published in @Nature in 2021 on using reinforcement learning for ASIC chip floorplanning and layout. We’re also naming this work AlphaChip. Since we first published this work, our use of this approach
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Augmented Reality Will Transform Daily Life and Human Interaction
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La realidad aumentada va a cambiar el mundo. Cuando estos dispositivos se vuelvan más baratos y cómodos de llevar, serán una parte integral de nuestra vida diaria. Permitirá superponer información digital en el mundo real, mejorando nuestra interacción con el entorno.
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 26 septembre 2024
Desde… pic.twitter.com/iBPlxFrsKfLa realidad aumentada va a cambiar el mundo. Cuando estos dispositivos se vuelvan más baratos y cómodos de llevar, serán una parte integral de nuestra vida diaria. Permitirá superponer información digital en el mundo real, mejorando nuestra interacción con el entorno. Desde
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Why DuckDB Sparks Interest Among Tech Leaders
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@kellabyte someone suggested I wrote about DuckDB and your tweet has now confirmed. If you have time/inclination, what do you see in it that sparks your interest? (For an InfoWorld piece)
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High-Performance Multimodal Agent with Edge-Cloud Integration
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Born to build high-performance agent that can handle real-time multimodal interactions natively. It comes with edge-cloud integration out of the box. And there's so much more. Most importantly, it's built with .
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Common Network Diagnostic Query for Connection Verification
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what is the query you always type in to the search engine to make sure your network connection is working
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Next Level Debugging Techniques and Methods
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this is some next level debugging if i may say so myself
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Data Centers Create Few Jobs Post-Construction Claims
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this argument is a little surprising, assuming it's right. data centers don't employ huge numbers of people once they're built https://
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