Microsoft is finally making custom chips â and theyâre all about AI (8 minute read)
Microsoft built its own custom AI chip for training large language models. It has also developed Arm-based CPU for cloud workloads. Both chips will arrive in 2024. They could potentially lessen the industryâs reliance on Nvidia. Microsoft is already designing the second-generation versions of these chips. More details about the new chips are available in the article.
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Google Search will let you leave and read âNotesâ on web pages (5 minute read)
Google is experimenting with a way for users to create and read Notes that contain tips from other people when searching for an article or topic. The feature is a response to the popularity of people adding âRedditâ to their search queries for more human results. Users can like, share, save, or report Notes. More details about Notes and other new features Google recently added to Search are available in the article.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower high cholesterol (4 minute read)
A single infusion of a novel gene-editing treatment has been shown to reduce cholesterol in people with an inherited condition that causes extremely high LDL cholesterol levels. The treatment uses CRISPR to edit a gene in the liver. Gene editing could provide a longer-lasting option for treating hereditary high cholesterol compared to long-term medication. A lot of work still needs to be done to ensure that the treatment is safe.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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MonkeyPatch (GitHub Repo)
MonkeyPatch is a method for easily calling an LLM in place of the function body in Python. It produces the same parameters and output you would expect from a function implemented by hand. MonkeyPatch produces functions that are well-typed, reliable, stateless, and production-ready.
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The Architecture Of Serverless Data Systems (14 minute read)
The future of cloud data services is large-scale and multi-tenant. This article looks at real-world serverless multi-tenant (MT) data architectures to understand how different types of systems implement serverless MT. While some patterns immediately jump out, there is a surprising amount of diversity among the systems surveyed. The article covers what serverless MT is and the generic challenges in building these systems.
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Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat? (33 minute read)
GPTs allows ChatGPT Plus users to create their own custom GPT chat bots that other Plus subscribers can then talk to. While it might not seem like much more than a fancy wrapper for standard GPT-4 with some pre-baked prompts, GPTs combines many features to provide much more than that. This article discusses these features and shows users how to get the most out of OpenAIâs latest feature.
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Why do people use VBA? (9 minute read)
Most people who use VBA do so because they have no other choice - many organizations run their entire business processes with Excel, which requires VBA to automate.
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Push Ifs Up And Fors Down (3 minute read)
Consider moving if conditions inside functions to the caller instead, and if you have a whole batch of things to work with, you can amortize the startup cost and be flexible about the order things are processed.
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