Sat.Jul 06, 2024

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How to Interview and Hire ML/AI engineers

Eugene Yan

What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.

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Arcee AI Introduces Arcee Agent: A Cutting-Edge 7B Parameter Language Model Specifically Designed for Function Calling and Tool Use

Marktechpost

Arcee AI has recently released its latest innovation, the Arcee Agent , a state-of-the-art 7 billion parameter language model. This model is designed for function calling and tool usage, providing developers, researchers, and businesses with an efficient and powerful AI solution. Despite its smaller size compared to larger language models, the Arcee Agent excels in performance, making it an ideal choice for sophisticated AI-driven applications without the hefty computational demands.

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Introduction to Kafka Tiered Storage at Uber

Uber ML

Kafka Tiered Storage, developed in collaboration with the Apache Kafka community, introduces the separation of storage and processing in brokers, significantly improving the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of Kafka clusters.

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Enhancing Language Models with RAG: Best Practices and Benchmarks

Marktechpost

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques face significant challenges in integrating up-to-date information, reducing hallucinations, and improving response quality in large language models (LLMs). Despite their effectiveness, RAG approaches are hindered by complex implementations and prolonged response times. Optimizing RAG is crucial for enhancing LLM performance, enabling real-time applications in specialized domains such as medical diagnosis, where accuracy and timeliness are essential

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Selective Column Reduction for DataLake Storage Cost Efficiency

Uber ML

Discover how Uber is revolutionizing data storage efficiency, cutting costs and boosting rewriting performance by 9-27x with an innovative approach to selective column reduction in Apache Parquet files.

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Unified Session for Analytical Events

Uber ML

Discover our journey in designing a new analytical session definition and successfully migrating thousands of tables, bringing data metric parity to our organization–a scalable and robust architecture, capable of managing 45M session life cycles per day.

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This AI Paper from NYU and Meta AI Introduces LIFT: Length-Instruction Fine-Tuning for Enhanced Control and Quality in Instruction-Following LLMs

Marktechpost

Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced with the development of large language models (LLMs) that follow user instructions. These models aim to provide accurate and relevant responses to human queries, often requiring fine-tuning to enhance their performance in various applications, such as customer service, information retrieval, and content generation.

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Accelerating Advertising Optimization: Unleashing the Power of Ads Simulation

Uber ML

Discover how Uber Eats built an end-to-end, real-world scale, versatile, and accurate simulation environment, accelerating the optimization of ad strategies and algorithms, all without burning through real money.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Fine-Tuning ChatGPT for Your Business

Marktechpost

Businesses continually seek ways to leverage AI to enhance their operations. One of the most impactful applications of AI is conversational agents, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT standing out as a leading tool. However, to maximize its potential, businesses often need to fine-tune ChatGPT to meet their specific needs. This guide delves into the process of fine-tuning ChatGPT, offering valuable insights for businesses aiming to optimize their AI capabilities.

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future. Download today to learn more!

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Kafka Tiered Storage from Uber

Bugra Akyildiz

Articles Kafka proposes a new extension to Kafka called Kafka Tiered Storage(KTS) in their blog post , a solution aimed at improving Apache Kafka's storage capabilities and efficiency. The proposal addresses several challenges associated with Kafka's current storage model and introduces a new architecture to enhance scalability, efficiency, and operational costs.

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Meet SpiceAI: A Portable Runtime Offering Developers a Unified SQL Interface to Materialize, Accelerate, and Query Data from any Database, Data Warehouse, or Data Lake

Marktechpost

The demand for speed and efficiency is ever-increasing in the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud applications. Cloud-hosted applications often rely on various data sources, including knowledge bases stored in S3, structured data in SQL databases, and embeddings in vector stores. When a client interacts with such applications, data must be fetched from these diverse sources over the network.

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Exploring the Influence of AI-Based Recommenders on Human Behavior: Methodologies, Outcomes, and Future Research Directions

Marktechpost

Given their ubiquitous presence across various online platforms, the influence of AI-based recommenders on human behavior has become an important field of study. The survey by researchers from the Institute of Information Science and Technologies at the National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, and the University of Pisa delve into the methodologies employed to understand this impact, the observed outcomes, and potential future research directions.

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Safeguarding Healthcare AI: Exposing and Addressing LLM Manipulation Risks

Marktechpost

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 have made significant strides in AI research, outperforming previous state-of-the-art methods across various benchmarks. These models show great potential in healthcare, offering advanced tools to enhance efficiency through natural language understanding and response. However, the integration of LLMs into biomedical and healthcare applications faces a critical challenge: their vulnerability to malicious manipulation.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Salesforce AI Research Introduces SummHay: A Robust AI Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Context Summarization in LLMs and RAG Systems

Marktechpost

Natural language processing (NLP) in artificial intelligence focuses on enabling machines to understand and generate human language. This field encompasses a variety of tasks, including language translation, sentiment analysis, and text summarization. In recent years, significant advancements have been made, leading to the development of large language models (LLMs) that can process vast amounts of text.

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Meta 3D Gen: A state-of-the-art Text-to-3D Asset Generation Pipeline with Speed, Precision, and Superior Quality for Immersive Applications

Marktechpost

Text-to-3D generation is an innovative field that creates three-dimensional content from textual descriptions. This technology is crucial in various industries, such as video games, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR), where high-quality 3D assets are essential for creating immersive experiences. The challenge lies in generating realistic and detailed 3D models that meet artistic standards while ensuring computational efficiency.

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MInference (Milliontokens Inference): A Training-Free Efficient Method for the Pre-Filling Stage of Long-Context LLMs Based on Dynamic Sparse Attention

Marktechpost

The computational demands of LLMs, particularly with long prompts, hinder their practical use due to the quadratic complexity of the attention mechanism. For instance, processing a one million-token prompt with an eight-billion-parameter LLM on a single A100 GPU takes about 30 minutes for the initial stage. This leads to significant delays before the model starts generating outputs.

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