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βwe're going to show the Condor which is us getting to a th000 cubits and really this is pushing our scale to the Limitβ
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βIf we go all the way back to 2016 you know before I even worked at openai when I was at Google I wrote a paper called with some colleagues some of whom are now anthropic co-founders concrete problems β¦β
βnotion AI is saying I can go ahead and like complete or give you ideas or finish the bullet points for youβ
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βWe present Marconi, the first system that supports efficient prefix caching with Hybrid LLMs.β
βyeah you know um few things really really experiment with voice it is a completely different way of using tachu BT it is very it's never existed before it's like unlike anything else you will have triβ¦β
βfor me the biggest moment was it was chat GPT code interpreter right the mode of chat GPT where it can not just write python code but it can execute that python code and show you the resultsβ
βI was an early Jasper customer so I had sort of experimented with and seen the power of this technology early from from using Jasperβ
βI think the thing that actually really clicked was like coding and developing stuff that like made me want to like push myself to do more was the the game Flappy Birdβ
βvoice mode which I love I use that I I I literally I go on an hourong walk with my dog and I'm coding while I'm walking here because I've got airpods in and I can tell talk and voice mode can use codeβ¦β
βthousands of companies from open AI to series a startups rely on stat to ship fast learn more and make smart decisionsβ
βfor people who want the basics of of quantum mechanics, uh, uh, Richard Fineman has this wonderful popular book called QED.β
βDespite strong performance on vision-language tasks, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with mathematical problem-solving, with both open-source and state-of-the-art models falling shorβ¦β
βCode available at: https://github.com/rsinghlab/Shape-Blind.β
β# LangMem SDK for agent long-term memoryβ
βI came across this blog that um one of the former YC Partners Daniel gross wrote but it was like How to Build the Next Googleβ
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βIn this work, we ask the question: "Do visual self-supervised approaches lag behind CLIP due to the lack of language supervision, or differences in the training data?" We study this question by trainiβ¦β
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βThis paper rethinks the key building block for conferencing infrastructures -- selective forwarding units (SFUs)... we present Scallop, an SDN-inspired SFU that decouples video-conferencing applicatioβ¦β
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βPaul program wrote a lot on on lisp. He actually has a book called on lisp. Uh and pgram's view of programming languages is more of an art rather than than a science.β
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βGPUs, CPUs, and. . . NICs: Rethinking the Network's Role in Serving Complex AI Pipelinesβ
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βMy guest today is the New York Times' labor reporter, Noam Scheiber. He has a new book out today, Mutiny, The Rise and Revolt of the College Educated Working Class.β
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