Boolean function minimization with AI
I was curious how well LLMs would do at minimizing a Boolean expression, that is, taking a Boolean expression and producing a smaller equivalent expression. I didn’t expect good performance because this problem is more about logic than recall, but sometimes LLMs surprise you, so I wanted to give it
Read moreThreads, a Slack alternative completely unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge
Instagram’s Twitter clone Threads enjoyed a fairly fruitful first week in existence, sailing past 30 million users in the first 24 hours before passing 100 million signups within five days. And just yesterday, numbers from Data.ai indicated that Threads has now hit 150 million downloads. However, another completely unrelated app
Read moreThis week in robotics: Amazon’s iRobot deal hits an EU snag as new funding keeps hot drone summer rolling
This week brought in good news for the robotics space in the form of new investment for nascent companies, but two established players within the space hit a snag. Amazon’s potential $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, which had previously been approved by the U.K.’s antitrust regulators, is now getting an
Read moreMy Journey with Depth Estimation
Example of training images with true labelsI recently participated in the AICrowd Mono Depth Perception competition, a proud milestone in my machine learning journey. I secured 4th place and was awarded the “Most Creative Solution Award.” In this post, I’ll detail the challenge, my approach, and the lessons learned. I’ve also
Read moreProduction Engineering and Generative AI
Hi, I’m Jakob, and I lead engineering at a new Enterprise AI company. We’ve been working with a range of experts across enterprises to understand what our customers need to use AI effectively in production environments. I want to share some of the learnings we have been hearing.No one has all
Read moreColleen Ballinger’s toxic gossip train won’t stop chugging on
The YouTuber apology video is an art form. A penitent creator must be remorseful, but not theatrical. Concise, but not rehearsed. Honest, but not defensive. Above all, an apology video cannot be memeable, or it’ll never be taken seriously. Colleen Ballinger’s apology saga, however, will be one of the most
Read moreFirst Amendment org challenges restrictions on TikTok at Texas universities
Through a new lawsuit, a free speech group and research coalition that studies technology’s effect on society are pushing back against a ban on TikTok affecting government devices in the state of Texas. In the lawsuit, filed by Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute on behalf of the Coalition for
Read moreStartups, be careful who you sell to
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. As a photographer, the saga of Amazon buying Digital Photo Review (DPReview among friends) before slowly grinding it into the ground and then suddenly announcing they were closing the site, and then going “j/k, we’re
Read moreAll money is not created equal: What raising venture debt looks like
David Spreng Contributor Share on Twitter David Spreng is a seasoned venture and growth debt lender with 30 years of experience, the founder and CEO of Runway Growth Capital, and the author of All Money Is Not Created Equal. The first step in the process of raising venture debt is
Read moreLarge language models and mnemonics
The Major mnemonic system encodes numbers as words in order to make them easier to remember. Digits correspond to consonant sounds (not spellings) as explained here. You can use the system ad hoc, improvising an encoding of a word as needed, or you can memorize canonical encodings of numbers, also
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