This year, Congress introduced the CREATE AI Act, which will establish NAIRR to provide access to compute and datasets for academics, nonprofit researchers & startups. How academia can capitalize on the opportunities NAIRR brings? Join us on Tues, Oct 31: https://
stanford.io/3tXJmsn
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CREATE AI Act Launches NAIRR for Academic Research Access
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Why no clear AI challenger emerged in five years
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I mean this have been apparent for like 5 years in my opinion. Not sure why nobody managed to win users over. There are a good few attempts, but no clear new challenger
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Perplexity releases higher performance AI models, now hiring
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Evaluation prompts were taken from @AnthropicAI hh-rlhf dataset. What’s next? We’ll be releasing more models with higher performance in the future. Stay tuned! P.S,
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Backdrop Build: Free 4-Week Program for Crypto AI Builders
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Looking for support to launch something on Stability? Check out Backdrop Build — a 4 week program for builders in crypto and AI. It's free, async friendly, and there are over $50k in grants for top projects. Apply before October 29 to join @StabilityAI
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Managing Legal Risk for Software Entrepreneurs
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Fun reading, for people who share my weird hobbies. (Knowing how to do this would ease worries many software entrepreneurs have about being sued, because Warren Buffet has to keep score about how often he pays out for that, and when I checked in mid 2010s it was 40 bps/yr risk.)
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MicroISV Journey: Building Independent Software Ventures
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The community burnt an excessive amount of brainsweat on this question; plus la change. I called myself a microISV for a few years; the original title of my blog was “microISV on a shoestring.” This was not a very considered choice; WordPress said I needed a title and so…
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The Original Indie Hacker Communities Before IndieHackers Era
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There was a thriving community on Joel Spolsky’s Business of Software forum who were all grinding things out in obscurity-at-large but publicly to each other, incidentally. It was IndieHackers before IndieHackers gave that general activity a name. (And before that, shareware.)
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Great companies optimize for speed and continuous learning
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Great companies / organizations optimize for moving quickly and learning. If you hear too often that we can’t try that for XYZ reason, you are likely not in the right place.
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Cerebras Co-Founder Presents AI Hardware Innovations at OktoberTech
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Cerebras Co-Founder JP Fricker had a great time presenting at OktoberTech 2023! This annual event by @Infineon Technologies brought together some of the brightest minds in the tech industry to share their perspectives on the latest trends and innovations. #Digitalization
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Diversification strategy: Building resilience in AI technology
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No pongas todos los huevos en la misma cesta, nunca sabes lo que puede pasar y es importante tener una red de seguridad que te permita poder levantarte y seguir adelante fácilmente!
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 26 octobre 2023
Vídeo vía: @IntEngineering pic.twitter.com/Bfh7WEZcJ1No pongas todos los huevos en la misma cesta, nunca sabes lo que puede pasar y es importante tener una red de seguridad que te permita poder levantarte y seguir adelante fácilmente! Vídeo vía: @IntEngineering