So much debate over the utility of AI is based on vibes alone, most doesn't engage with the increasing number of controlled experiments that show strong real world abilities of AI across a variety of fields. Implementation takes time, of course, but this isn't just speculation.
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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!
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Direct engagement outperforms scheduled posting for social media
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if you want attention, don’t use Buffer, post directly and engage with people.
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GPT-4 adoption in business shows no skepticism from users
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Its all anecdotal, of course, but not seeing any skepticism that this is a big deal from organizations actually using GPT-4 in businesses.
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MIT CEOs Report Significant AI Performance Impact
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At a conference at MIT, talking with a range of CEOs, technical leads in firms, etc. These are mostly people ahead of the curve in experimenting with AI in their organization. Every one of the ones applying it was saying it had a big impact on performance in their organization.
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LLaMA 3 Extended Context Window Reaches 128K Tokens
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It's been a week since LLaMA 3 dropped. In that time, we've:
– extended context from 8K -> 128K
– trained multiple ridiculously performant fine-tunes
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Top Generative AI Use Cases for Retail Industry
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Discover the industry's top #generativeAI use cases and how #retailers believe it’s will be a key differentiator. https://
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Inference Compute Shortage: Foundation Models Need More Resources
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Much has been said about many companies’ desire for more compute (as well as data) to train larger foundation models. I think it’s under-appreciated that we have nowhere near enough compute available for inference on foundation models as well. Years ago, when I was leading teams
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New Book Release: Mastering Marketing Data Science for Modern Marketers
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New book release by @IainLJBrown — now available at amzn.to/3UfluKn "Mastering Marketing #DataScience: A Comprehensive Guide for Today's Marketers" 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵 #Martech #AI #MachineLearning #CMO #Analytics #DataScientist 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 See reviews: linkedin.com/pulse/elevate-y…
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Blogging Strategy: Low Competition Niche Topics Rank Higher
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I keep finding stuff I blogged showing up at the top of Google search queries for all sorts of interesting queries, because there's not as much competition from other bloggers around the topics that I cover