Do text embeddings perfectly encode text?
The Gradientby Jack Morris5 Mar 2024
The rise of the vector database As a result of the rapid advancement of generative AI in recent years, many companies are rushing to integrate AI into their businesses.
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top 31%Building with nightly Swift toolchains on macOS
Ole Begemannby Ole Begemann5 Mar 2024
The Swift website provides nightly builds of the Swift compiler (called toolchains) for download.
Google at APS 2024
Google AI Blogby Google AI (noreply@blogger.com)4 Mar 2024
March 4, 2024 Kate Weber and Shannon Leon, Google Research, Quantum AI Team Today the 2024 March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) kicks off in Minneapolis, MN.
Software engineering book recommendations
Bruno Rochaby Bruno Rocha3 Mar 2024
Software engineering book recommendations The following is a list of software engineering books I've read that I felt had a strong and lasting positive impact on my career.
All Roads Lead to Robotics
Eric Jangby Eric Jang3 Mar 2024
robot [ roh-bot ] (noun) 1. A read/write API to physical reality 2. A source of training tokens about The Self Two years ago I left Google Robotics and wrote about the various career options that I...
Shopping for bath towels on Amazon? Experts say to look for these 9
NBC Newsby Bethany Heitman1 Mar 2024
An old, scratchy towel is no way to cap off a hot shower — wrapping yourself in a fluffy, warm bath towel is a much better finale.
Oracle's way to get multiple values in a top 1 per group query
Java, SQL and jOOQ.by lukaseder1 Mar 2024
I’ve blogged about generic ways of getting top 1 or top n per category queries before on this blog.
How the Swift compiler knows that DispatchQueue.main implies @MainActor
Ole Begemannby Ole Begemann29 Feb 2024
You may have noticed that the Swift compiler automatically treats the closure of a DispatchQueue.main.async call as @MainActor.
The Wax and the Wane of the Web
A List Apartby by Ste Grainer29 Feb 2024
I offer a single bit of advice to friends and family when they become new parents: When you start to think that you’ve got everything figured out, everything will change.
Cutting Through the Noise: Three Things We've Learned About Generative AI and Developer Productivity
eBay Tech Blogby Senthil Padmanabhan29 Feb 2024
The pace of innovation is faster than ever before, and through our AI work at eBay, we believe we’ve unlocked three major tracks to developer productivity: utilizing a commercial offering...
Podcast: Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov on AI, the Future of Shopping Online, and the Value of Building In-House
eBay Tech Blogby eBay News Team28 Feb 2024
eBay’s Chief AI Officer, Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, recently joined the Bloomberg Intelligence podcast "Tech Disruptors" to discuss his role, how he sees the rapidly changing landscape of AI, eBay’s...
Site Redesign
Blog25 Feb 2024
This is not the update I was hoping to get out by now! I started on a page, and got struck by my eternal enemy: scope creep.
Why Doesn’t My Model Work?
The Gradientby Michael Lones24 Feb 2024
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding
Google AI Blogby Google AI (noreply@blogger.com)22 Feb 2024
February 22, 2024 Posted by Long Zhao, Senior Research Scientist, and Ting Liu, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research An astounding number of videos are available on the Web, covering a...
An introduction to passkeys: what they are, and how they work | Runway
Bruno Rochaby Bruno Rocha22 Feb 2024
Passkeys are an alternative to passwords that allow you to sign in to any website or app that supports this technology without needing to define/remember a password.
Advances in private training for production on-device language models
Google AI Blogby Google AI (noreply@blogger.com)21 Feb 2024
February 21, 2024 Posted by Zheng Xu, Research Scientist, and Yanxiang Zhang, Software Engineer, Google Language models (LMs) trained to predict the next word given input text are the key...
Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Signal Blog20 Feb 2024
Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts...
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
Dan Luu18 Feb 2024
If I ask myself a question like "I'd like to buy an SD card; who do I trust to sell me a real SD card and not some fake, Amazon or my local Best Buy?", of course the answer is that I trust my local...
What's faster, COUNT(*) or COUNT(*) with LIMIT in SQL? Let's check
Java, SQL and jOOQ.by lukaseder16 Feb 2024
In a previous blog post, we’ve advertised the use of SQL EXISTS rather than COUNT(*) to check for existence of a value in SQL. I.e.
Rustlings of a Leaf
Rustlings of a Leafby Leaf15 Feb 2024
Dishonesty Fees (Note: None of the links here are referral links, just there for your convenience) For the longest time I used Aussie Broadband for my internet access.