Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
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DECEMBER 31, 2024
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024.
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The biggest AI flops of 2024
DECEMBER 31, 2024
From chatbots dishing out illegal advice to dodgy AI-generated search results, take a look back over the years top AI failures.
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Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
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DECEMBER 31, 2024
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
Alibaba slashes prices on large language models by up to 85% as China AI rivalry heats up
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Alibaba is cutting prices on its large language models by up to 85%, the Chinese tech giant announced Tuesday.
The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
Interesting Interview with DeepSeek's CEO
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DECEMBER 31, 2024
Annotated translation of its CEO's deepest interview
AI ready to hit its stride in schools in 2025
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Experts predict that 2025 will be the year artificial intelligence (AI) truly gets off the ground in K-12 schools.
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Silicon Valley's turn of fortune: Intel has worst year ever, while Broadcom enjoys record gain
DECEMBER 31, 2024
It was a big year for silicon in Silicon Valley but a brutal one for the company most responsible for the area's moniker.
Urine Led to the Foundation of Chemistry
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DECEMBER 31, 2024
One alchemist's search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold accidentally unlocked the central science instead.
AI Robots Are Entering the Public World—With Mixed Results
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Theyre terrible cocktail party guests but operators say the potential of what robots can do is growing Robots are stepping out.
The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize
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DECEMBER 31, 2024
The worlds biggest colonial powerprided itself on beinga liberal democracy. Was this part of the problem?
Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to DAG Writing
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!
Transit systems turn to AI-powered cameras to catch drivers who block bus lanes
DECEMBER 31, 2024
KENILWORTH, N.J. If you're the kind of driver who parks in the bus lane to run a quick errand, you might want to think twice. The nation's biggest transit systems are using AI-enhanced cameras to keep bus lanes clear of illegally parked cars.
I put Gemini vs ChatGPT to the test with 7 prompts — here's the winner
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Googles Gemini and OpenAIs ChatGPT are the most widely used artificial intelligence platforms today.
Systems ideas that sound good but almost never work
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DECEMBER 31, 2024
Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended
Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder
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The 2 Fastest-Growing Skills To Boost Salaries Up To 47% In 2025
DECEMBER 31, 2024
In 2024, job postings mentioning GenAI (generative AI) increased fourfold, while nearly 50% of non-job seeking professionals recognize the value of AI upskilling, according to research shared via an email from Coursera.
Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle
DECEMBER 31, 2024
"Private autopsy doesnt confirm cause of death stated by police.
Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine
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DECEMBER 31, 2024
Cesium for Unreal is a free open source plugin that enables 3d geospatial technology for Unreal Engine. The world's first full-scale high-accuracy WGS84 globe in a game engine.
15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
‘Godfather of artificial intelligence’ Geoffrey Hinton backs Elon Musk’s OpenAI legal battle
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Geoffrey Hinton, the prominent data scientist known as the Godfather of artificial intelligence, is backing Elon Musk in his legal attempt to block
Signalling chaos: Inside the Elizabeth line's two-day breakdown
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DECEMBER 31, 2024
Last month, the Elizabeth line suffered two days of problems when the signalling system broke down, and now a clearer timeline of what happened is emerging.
Here Are The Top 5 Skills To Learn In 2025
DECEMBER 31, 2024
As we stand on the cusp of a new year, the job market continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, driven by technological advancements and shifting economic realities.
FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia
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DECEMBER 31, 2024
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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report
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Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.
Forget ChatGPT — Google Gemini is my favorite AI product of the year
DECEMBER 31, 2024
I don't think I've ever seen, in all my decades covering technology, a year as tumultuous as 2024 in terms of tech progress.
Arnis: Generate Cities in Minecraft from OpenStreetMap
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DECEMBER 31, 2024
Generate any location from the real world in Minecraft Java Edition with a high level of detail.
Why early generative AI ads aren’t working and how creatives will shift to integrate the tech into their work
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Marketers are faithfully obsessed with the shiny new thing when it comes to their brand activations. So its no surprise that in year two of having generative AI at their disposal, marketers have rushed to use it in their advertising. But so far, consumers arent as enamored with generative AI created ads as marketers have been. Throughout 2024, the marketers who obviously used generative AI to make their ads ( Toys R Us , Under Armour , Coca-Cola ) or touted the possibilities of generative AI in
Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success
Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com
Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.
The year in AI: how ChatGPT, Gemini, Apple Intelligence, and more changed everything in 2024
DECEMBER 31, 2024
A year ago, it sometimes felt like AI had spread everywhere in some fashion, but it was only a preview of how AI burst into people's lives, for good
Static search trees: faster than binary search
Hacker News
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Problem statement 1.2 Recommended reading 1.3 Binary search and Eytzinger layout 1.4 Hugepages 1.5 A note on benchmarking 1.6 Cache lines 1.7 S-trees and B-trees 2 Optimizing find 2.1 Linear 2.2 Auto-vectorization 2.3 Trailing zeros 2.4 Popcount 2.5 Manual SIMD 3 Optimizing the search 3.1 Batching 3.2 Prefetching 3.3 Pointer arithmetic 3.3.1 Up-front splat 3.3.2 Byte-based pointers 3.3.3 The final version 3.4 Skip prefetch 3.5 Interleave 4 Optimizing the tree
Top 10 Tech Articles Of 2024
DECEMBER 31, 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, here's a look back at some of the tech stories that caught my eye in the past year.
Large Concept Models: Language modeling in a sentence representation space
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DECEMBER 31, 2024
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Introducing CDEs to Your Enterprise
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