AI boom makes European universities the new Harvard and Stanford for tech talent https://fortune.com/europe/2024/06/20/ai-boom-means-europes-universities-are-becoming-the-new-harvard-and-stanford-for-finding-tech-talent/

Fortune Europe

AI boom makes European universities the new Harvard and Stanford for tech talent

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch’s Parisian alma mater is a breeding ground for France’s $2.3 billion AI talent boom

#fun

Beyond the Basics of Retrieval for Augmenting Generation – Parlance
https://parlance-labs.com/education/rag/ben.html

Parlance

Beyond the Basics of RAG – Parlance

LLMs are powerful, but have limitations: their knowledge is fixed in their weights, and their context window is limited. Worse: when they don’t know something, they might just make it up. RAG, for Retrieval Augmented Generation, has emerged as a way to mitigate…

#fun

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WCR-Rankings - IMD business school for management and leadership courses
https://www.imd.org/centers/wcc/world-competitiveness-center/rankings/world-competitiveness-ranking/rankings/wcr-rankings/#_tab_Rank

IMD business school for management and leadership courses

WCR-Rankings - IMD business school for management and leadership courses

World Competitiveness Ranking

#misc

https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

Maggieappleton

Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

#career

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestionsEU/s/SjBgooFlzC

I have never heard of such a low salary in the data domain. Is the market bad at the moment or is it just my bias?

Reddit

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#timeseries

Ekambaram, Vijay, Arindam Jati, Pankaj Dayama, Sumanta Mukherjee, Nam H. Nguyen, Wesley M. Gifford, Chandra Reddy, and Jayant Kalagnanam. 2024. “Tiny Time Mixers (TTMs): Fast Pre-Trained Models for Enhanced Zero/Few-Shot Forecasting of Multivariate Time Series.” arXiv [Cs.LG]. arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03955.

arXiv.org

Tiny Time Mixers (TTMs): Fast Pre-trained Models for Enhanced...

Large pre-trained models excel in zero/few-shot learning for language and vision tasks but face challenges in multivariate time series (TS) forecasting due to diverse data characteristics....

Visualizing the Training Costs of AI Models Over Time
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/training-costs-of-ai-models-over-time/

Visual Capitalist

Visualizing the Training Costs of AI Models Over Time

In this graphic, we show how the cost of training AI models has skyrocketed given the huge amount of computing power required to run them.

#ai

Uncensor any LLM with abliteration
https://huggingface.co/blog/mlabonne/abliteration

huggingface.co

Uncensor any LLM with abliteration

A Blog post by Maxime Labonne on Hugging Face

#business

The Art of Strategy Is About Knowing When to Say No
https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-art-of-strategy-is-about-knowing-when-to-say-no

Harvard Business Review

The Art of Strategy Is About Knowing When to Say No

In Hubspot’s early days as a startup, CEO Brian Halligan prided himself on being a “yes man” — saying yes to every exciting and half-way feasible idea someone on his team pitched. But this eventually resulted in a chaotic lack of focus for his employees.…

#business

All Business Strategies Fall into 4 Categories
https://hbr.org/2024/05/all-business-strategies-fall-into-4-categories

Harvard Business Review

All Business Strategies Fall into 4 Categories

The problem with strategy frameworks is that although they can help you determine whether an opportunity is attractive or whether a given strategy is likely to work, they generally don’t help you in the task of identifying the opportunity or crafting the…

LeCun, Yann. 2024. “Will Learning Machines Take over the World?” Frontiers for Young Minds 12 (May). https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2024.1164958.

frym-12-1164958.pdf

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#ai

So real.

https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/

Openai

Hello GPT-4o

We’re announcing GPT-4 Omni, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.

#ai

GraphRAG: Unlocking LLM discovery on narrative private data - Microsoft Research
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/

Microsoft Research

GraphRAG: A new approach for discovery using complex information

Microsoft is transforming retrieval-augmented generation with GraphRAG, using LLM-generated knowledge graphs to significantly improve Q&A when analyzing complex information and consistently outperforming baseline RAG. Get the details.

#ml

https://github.com/google-research/timesfm

GitHub

GitHub - google-research/timesfm: TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a pretrained time-series foundation model developed…

TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a pretrained time-series foundation model developed by Google Research for time-series forecasting. - google-research/timesfm

#misc

Who doesn't!

http://meilij.com/2024/04/30/jealous-about-nixtla/

#ai

From Predictive to Generative - How Michelangelo Accelerates Uber’s AI Journey | Uber Blog
https://www.uber.com/en-DE/blog/from-predictive-to-generative-ai/

#tools

This is a good move. I would like to see more of these in the data schema domain.

Announcing JSON Canvas: an open file format for infinite canvas data - Obsidian
https://obsidian.md/blog/json-canvas/

Obsidian

Announcing JSON Canvas: an open file format for infinite canvas data

The Obsidian Canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources.

#misc

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94

the Guardian

Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh

#misc

https://twitter.com/MikePFrank/status/1773073214551306369?t=92KwYEBHJwfXhCtSSEinaA&s=19

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Michael P. Frank 💻🔜♻️ (@MikePFrank) on X

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