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PyTorch 101: Understanding Graphs, Automatic Differentiation and Autograd

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PyTorch is one of the foremost python deep learning libraries out there. It’s the go to...
PyTorch is one of the foremost python deep learning libraries out there. It’s the go to choice for deep learning research, and as each days passes by, more and more companies and research labs are adopting this library. In this series of tutorials, we will be introducing you to PyTorch, and how to make the best use ...
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Batched reward model inference and Best-of-N sampling

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Published on November 19, 2024rReward models have been a key part of reinforcement learning on top...
Published on November 19, 2024rReward models have been a key part of reinforcement learning on top of LLMs, used broadly in techniques like RLHF and as LLM-as-a-judge critics in evals. They have also been used in the data preparation phase of preference optimization methods like SimPO, where a reward model was used ...
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Iumenta: A generic framework for animal digital twins

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Elon Musk's Engineering Principles – The 5 Step Process (2021)

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There’s this interview with Elon Musk, showing around the SpaceX rocket production facility in Texas. There’s...
There’s this interview with Elon Musk, showing around the SpaceX rocket production facility in Texas. There’s a lot of talk about rockets and stuff, though in between he’s giving some fascinating insights into the design process and the principles he’s following. The “5 Step Process” as he calls it. Wanted to write ...
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SQLite vs. PostgreSQL Performance [video]

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Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools' joke to retail

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(Image credit: SilverStone) Cases, cooling, and power specialist SilverStone has announced that a desktop PC case...
(Image credit: SilverStone) Cases, cooling, and power specialist SilverStone has announced that a desktop PC case that it previously showed off as an April Fools’ joke is heading to retail. An unashamedly beige SilverStone FLP01 pre-built system was on display earlier in the week at the firm’s Japan Expo. Japanese t...
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New textbook teaches students about matrix methods and their real world apps

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Mena Davidson • August 5, 2024Linear Algebra for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing, written...
Mena Davidson • August 5, 2024Linear Algebra for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing, written by ECE Professors Jeffrey Fessler and Raj Nadakuditi, provides an accessible and interactive guide to matrix methods. A new textbook, Linear Algebra for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Signal Processin...
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Traditional Japanese Salted Aged Salmon Recipe for 1,000 Years [video]

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Ask HN: Anybody used Retool for production, user-facing app?

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Rats Learned to Drive–and They Love It

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Hyrumtoken: A Go package to encrypt pagination tokens

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Sequin: A powerful little tool for inspecting ANSI escape sequences

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Transitioning from the attention era to the automation era

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We are at a major inflection point in our internet journey: transitioning from earning and packaging...
We are at a major inflection point in our internet journey: transitioning from earning and packaging attention to selling summarization and automation. Our key metric is moving from time-spent to time-saved. The first era – the Attention Era – was marked by the creation of giant piles of content and connections, whi...
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$8k Suzuki from India Received a 5-Star Crash Test Rating

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There aren’t any new models available under $20,000 in the for American car buyers anymore, but...
There aren’t any new models available under $20,000 in the for American car buyers anymore, but emerging auto markets like India have plenty of cheap cars to go around. One of these budget cars just proved that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to be safe.Motor 1 spotted a recent crash test done by Global NCAP,...

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Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible

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Fireworks F1: A Breakthrough in Complex Reasoning with Compound AI

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By Fireworks AI|11/15/2024
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Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits

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Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

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Playful, intricate Japanese leaf art – in pictures – Art and design

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Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference

cerebras.ai

Frontier AI now runs at instant speed. Last week we ran a customer workload on Llama...
Frontier AI now runs at instant speed. Last week we ran a customer workload on Llama 3.1 405B at 969 tokens/s – a new record for Meta’s frontier model. Llama 3.1 405B on Cerebras is by far the fastest frontier model in the world – 12x faster than GPT-4o and 18x faster than Claude 3.5 Sonnet. In addition, we achieved...
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'Achilles heel' of antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered

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(Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock) SAN DIEGO — In the ongoing battle against antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” researchers have uncovered...
(Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock) SAN DIEGO — In the ongoing battle against antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” researchers have uncovered an unexpected vulnerability that could change how we fight these deadly infections – and it all comes down to a microscopic competition for resources. The discovery comes at a cr...
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Histogramming Bytes with Positional Popcount

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A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix, I dropped some implementation...
A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix, I dropped some implementation of byte histogramming without explaining anything. This post aims to rectify that lack of explanation. pospopcnt Imagine an array of N k-bit words as an N-by-k matrix of bits. It's easy to take a plain old popcnt across a...
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Show HN: Venmo Unofficial API

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Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

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Earlier this week, Laura Helmuth resigned as editor in chief of Scientific American, the oldest continuously...
Earlier this week, Laura Helmuth resigned as editor in chief of Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. "I've decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief," she wrote on Bluesky. "I'm going to take some time to think about what come...

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