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The policies being driven forward by Thierry Breton around the EU AI Act have been utmost damaging for the European tech industry, and they need to be revised as soon as possible. We need to better balance driving European innovation through data collection and modeling with conflicting needs such as data protection and safety. We need to ensure we can turn these developments into businesses that can be the pillar of the next generation of companies that provide productivity growth in Europe. We have no other choice - either we do this here, or we will have to take over products developed in the US and in China, as it already happened with search engines, cell phones, and social networks. We wouldn't want to let this happen with AI applications in robotics or digital assistants. #euacc #euaiact #aiact

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One thing I’ve learned in my first 10 months at Meta… Don’t ask a senior eng what to do or how to do something. Instead, explore different approaches and ask the senior eng which they would recommend. For example, when devising the tech plan for a new feature that requires storing and retrieving new data, don’t simply ask what data solution you should use. Instead, scour internal wikis, existing code patterns, etc, to learn about the data storage solutions available. Then list out the pros and cons specific to your use case in terms of latency cost, capacity usage, reliability, implementation complexity, etc. Sending that breakdown to the senior eng (along with your own proposal for what you think the best choice is) will not only make their lives easier, but prove to them that you’re capable of working at the next level. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, if there’s a quick question that a senior engineer could answer in 30 seconds, but would take you 2 hours to figure out on your own, it makes sense to ask. What do others think? What types of questions should you ask senior eng and how should you decide whether to ask a question or figure it out on your own? #softwareengineer

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Hello Everyone, Welcome to Part 2 of our series on Building a Cache Iteratively. In this instalment, we'll delve into the concept of introducing threads into the equation, understanding the challenges of concurrent access, and devising a solution within a data structure. We'll tackle these issues in the most basic yet effective manner, gradually building a reliable system. You can find the detailed discussion in the following Medium article: https://lnkd.in/gsKYTyzN For those interested in exploring the code base, it's available on GitHub: https://lnkd.in/gp-dTVdU Feel free to dive in, explore, and share your thoughts! #LRUCache #Cache #LLD

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Exciting times ahead at Autonomys (formerly Subspace)! 🚀 We're pioneering the Age of Autonomy with our identity-based decentralized AI (deAI) stack for human + AI (H+AI) collaboration. Our Autonomys ID (Auto ID) protocol ensures secure, verifiable identities for both humans and AI agents, fostering a trustful, ethical AI environment. With distributed storage, compute, and a robust dApp suite, we're setting the stage for scalable, AI-powered applications. Join us in this journey towards a decentralized, autonomous future! https://lnkd.in/eUCn4yZY #AI3 #Web3 #DeAI #Blockchain #Identity #Autonomy #AIRevolution #DigitalIdentity

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What a honour to take part in building resources to teach primary school students about AI! 🦾 Well done to the Code for Life team!! Resources are available for all primary teachers and you can find out more below ☺️ Here’s a teaser: https://lnkd.in/eeAvt3C9

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🚀 Ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of tech tools out there? 😅 You’re not alone! I have been getting a lot of questions about how I approach learning new technologies, and I realized it’s time to share my insights! ✍️ In my latest article, I outlined my personal strategies for mastering new tech tools efficiently. 💡 https://lnkd.in/dxDTwA-C Whether you are a seasoned developer or just starting out, these tips can help streamline your learning process and boost your productivity. 📈Curious about my journey? 🌟 Check it out and let’s discuss how you tackle learning in this fast-paced tech world! 🤔💬 #Learning #TechTools #DeveloperJourney 

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A blog on (very) nerdy topic that I worked on with our (amazing) intern Xiangpeng Hao this year: https://lnkd.in/eQDfvNfH. We quantify how much of the discussion about changing Apache Parquet metadata was shiny-new-object syndrome and how much was actual technical limitations. We think there is easily a factor of 4 to be had from existing implementations before new formats are needed

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We're headed down the complex path of "replacing and improving upon activities you might do with your smartphone" with natural conversation. Try creating your own AI conversational agents at iyo.studio and let us know if you have feedback!

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New partnership between Stack Overflow and Open AI. I will be super interested in seeing how this impacts the short and long term accuracy of LLMs in the future. In this video Theo shares a very thought-provoking picture of what this could mean for LLMs in the future. https://lnkd.in/gph_wGPs

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Principal Engineer Staff Engineer Distinguished Engineer (my favourite) I’m going to say it and it’s likely a little rhetorical: I dislike all these terms immensely. Please can someone give me the canonical description for what they are supposed to mean? (I know I can use a search engine or AI to do it… I want to know what people think they mean). The industry I work in is in danger of disappearing up its own backside. What’s wrong with: Software engineer Why do we need to differentiate? The only reason I can see is signposting to people with differing levels of experience or different sets of responsibilities. If we need to do that then, I’m not sure our teams are set up correctly in the first place. #software #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #productdevelopment

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Falling back in with a side-quest Colab about LLM evals (high level) - its not just about prompting. Including my absolute favorite: Cosine Similarity. I love this algorithm (or is it technically just a function? ratio? idk/care). This colab is a bridge to some concepts I'm hoping to get to soon: like how to automate quality evals, and auto-reject outputs that do not closely follow the prompt instructions. These are things that really should be handled by code when creating LLM-backed services for production purposes. Again, this is using the smallest Llama 3.2 1B model, and there's no training step this time, so you can run it on just a CPU runtime without much fuss. LMK what you find (anyone who runs this should get different results, and those results are probably always going to be interesting)

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𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿-𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘅 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟮 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 🤯 That was me for the past weekend when Venessa Maduka and I built a social media platform for the TikTok track in the Headstarter Hackathon where we used Next.js and Material UI for the frontend, Golang and Redis for the backend, with MySQL database. The hackathon started at 8 p.m. EST on Friday, and I hopped off the kickoff meeting after 10 p.m. EST with the track chosen in mind. BUT... the track requires using Golang, MySQL, and Redis for the backend as they are what TikTok uses in production. I had absolutely 0 experience with both Golang and Redis at the time, while my real coding experience with backend merely started half a month ago. A huge challenge was blocked in front of me. What did I choose? Of course, go fight it! I'm driven by the curiosity to learn and use the tech stacks that a big tech company like TikTok would use in real products, so I immediately dived into searching, learning, and coding. 3 hours before the deadline, I finally made the information stored in the database to successfully show up in the frontend. 12 minutes before the deadline, I made the post functionality work properly and started merging the newest frontend update from Venessa's branch. 7 minutes before the deadline, I made everything work and started to record the demo video. At 5 p.m. EST on Sunday, right at the deadline, we submitted. 2 hours and 22 minutes later, we got an email: "Congrats on being a finalist" that pulled me straight out of the dinner table to start preparing for the finalist demo. 8 minutes later, the finalist demo meeting started. I really appreciate Venessa for the beautiful UI design and the well-done frontend! I especially LOVED the logo! Thank you, Yasin Ehsan 🚀, Sajjaad Khader, and Faizan Ahmed for hosting the hackathon that pushed me to learn a ton of new useful knowledge in an unbelievably short time! My finalist demo went smoother than the demo video I submitted (which I'm going to put here right now: https://lnkd.in/du8mz8fC). If any of you could send the meeting recording to the Discord channel so I can cut the part I spoke to post on LinkedIn, that would be great!! Hey Arman Khondker, how do you think of our Flow platform? 😃 There is a feedback form where you can rank our hackathon products. I don't think it would really affect anything, but you are welcome to put "1-Weijia" and select TikTok track, then submit, just for fun lol: https://tally.so/r/m6RpjY My team is planning to also create a social media platform for our final product which will let you quickly find people that you want to talk with and make socializing easier. Everyone, leave a comment below on what features you would like to see! Let me make your dream feature come true!

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sharpening writing skill is one of killer skill!

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I am excited to share the latest blog, co-authored by myself, Junhwi Kim and Vyas Sekar, detailing how we managed to successfully localized and improved LLM by combining Fine-Tuning and RAG. https://lnkd.in/gKDkgGPq

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Have you ever dreamt of an improbable books crossover, like Frodo from 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 becoming the main character of the 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 or Emma Bovary from 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘺 acting as a modern-days Shakespearean Juliet? Well, all of this is now possible! I'm thrilled to introduce my latest #opensource product for #storytelling: 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬-𝐦𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐫-𝐚𝐢 𝐯𝟎.𝟎.𝟎: built with #ReactJS and shipped through Vercel, this #webapp combines the power of two #AI tools: - #gpt4omini by OpenAI, which takes care of cooking new and intriguing plots starting from the user's instructions, the titles and the summaries of the two books to mix (summaries are scraped through Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia API) - #text2img realtime API by ModelsLab, which provides a stable diffusion pipeline to create a thumbnail for your newly-generated story Everything is provided under a simple and intuitive #UI, which uses #chatscope's React template kit. Curious of trying? The app is already live at: https://lnkd.in/dsS6jDsh And you can also have a tour of the GitHub repo (and leave a little ⭐ while you're there): https://lnkd.in/djHQ8gkg The documentation is still under construction, but will become available soon😊 Have fun!📚📚

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My first week as a SWE Fellow at Headstarter AI has been an incredible journey, filled with learning, growth, and valuable insights. One of the highlights was attending the "Our Pathways to Tech" event, hosted by Yasin Ehsan 🚀, Faizan Ahmed, and the Headstarter team. The event featured amazing speakers like Nabeel Alamgir🦄, Shariar Kabir, Miguel Acero, and Dustin Beadle, who shared their wisdom on thriving in the tech industry. Here are some of the key takeaways that resonated with me: 1. Nabeel Alamgir's advice about taking ownership of our decisions and viewing rejections as opportunities to improve was particularly impactful. This mindset is essential for both professional and personal growth. 2. The importance of reaching out and building connections within the industry cannot be overstated. Networking and fostering relationships are crucial for career development and finding new opportunities. 3. Being part of Headstarter AI has reinforced the value of maintaining high standards and holding oneself accountable. This experience has taught me the importance of hard work, effective communication, and the joy of being part of a diverse community of developers. 4. The potential for job opportunities from companies like Ruby, founded by Shariar Kabir and Miguel Acero, was a motivating factor. It encourages me to work harder and strive for excellence, hoping to secure similar opportunities. I am excited about the challenges and learning experiences that lie ahead in the coming weeks. Ready to take on the hits and grow from them! #TechIndustry #CareerGrowth #Networking #HardWork #SWEFellowship #HeadstarterAI #Inspiration #Motivation

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