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The August release of the Jamba-1.5 models, scaled versions of the Jamba models from March 2024, went largely unnoticed. But it's important, as it is the first really large non-transformer LLM (spoiler, it's an SSM-Transformer hybrid)! I wrote a post about it: https://lnkd.in/gDjKSY5n Come to my talk about modern non-transformer architectures at DataFest Yerevan 2024 this week: https://lnkd.in/gGPX-u7F. I'll cover many interesting results from the last few years. MLP, CNN, RNN, SSM, Hybrids.

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Host Julian Wallis shares insights on customer-centric product development in Episode #4 of Pulse by Intuji, with guest Talia Wolf - CEO of Getuplift. Julian emphasises the fundamental principle of truly understanding customer needs in product development. He discusses the common pitfall of assuming what customers want without deep research: "You can build a product that you think your customers want, but if you don't truly understand their needs, you're likely just creating something destined to fail." He highlights the importance of aligning product development with actual user demands, ensuring that the final product resonates well with its intended audience and succeeds in the market. Tune in to explore how a deep understanding of customer needs can transform product development and lead to more successful outcomes. Want to hear the full conversation? Catch the full episode at the links below, or find us wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts - ➕ YouTube - https://buff.ly/4cB1E4N ➕ Spotify - https://buff.ly/3J3MQxV ➕ Apple Podcasts - https://buff.ly/4cCnRiZ ➕ Deezer - https://buff.ly/3J3MQOr Also, give us a follow on the platforms below to keep up with the latest from Pulse by Intuji - 👉 LinkedIn - https://buff.ly/3J5Pu6u 👉 YouTube - https://buff.ly/4cB1E4N 👉 TikTok - https://buff.ly/4aIF3S9 👉 Instagram - https://buff.ly/3J3MPKn 👉 X/Twitter - https://buff.ly/3J3MQ0T 👉 Website - https://buff.ly/4aIF3l7 #ProductDevelopment #CustomerExperience #B2BMarketing #PulseByIntuji #UserCenteredDesign #BusinessStrategy

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I ran across this post in the Changelog newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eCdjVekq - I like the name slop for unwanted AI-generated content. I love LLMs. They are part of my daily workflow, and I've been exploring them more seriously while on my sabbatical. I wouldn't misrepresent generated content without critical review as my own, but the web seems to be filled with more generated garbage (or 'slop')—content that looks fine at first but isn't accurate or helpful. LLMs (and other generative AI) should help us to make things of higher quality, not just churn out slop more quickly.

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If you’re hiring a Head of Product, our research shows that it’s a smart bet to choose someone with both product expertise *and* applied software engineering experience ✅✅ It's the approach taken by 81% of infra orgs at $50M+ ARR—in part because these leaders are more likely to have a nuanced understanding of the end user experience. Read more in the second chapter of our Executive Hiring Series report: https://bit.ly/4bL03HQ

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🧙 Moving Faster From PoC to Prod With Timescale UI Tooling 🧙 Timescale’s new UI tools are here to speed up your PoC-to-production journey. Key highlights: 🫢 Data Migration Tools: Drag-and-drop your CSV/Parquet files or flex with pg_dump. Our wizard even lets you pick and choose what to migrate—schema-only? Time range? You got it. 🪄 Wizards for Hypertables, Aggregates, and Compression: Forget the terminal. Set up TimescaleDB’s performance boosters right in the UI, quick and painless. 💡 Actions Hub: Feeling lost? The hub’s got your back with next-step recommendations, making sure you’re fully set up. Stop thinking and jump in—onboarding’s never been this easy (or fun). 😏 🔗 Link in the comments to check it out.

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🚀 In this episode of the JUXTCast, JUXT (juxt.pro) Head of Delivery Joe Littlejohn is joined by JUXT engineers Aaron Knauf and Mariusz Saternus. They explore the world of Platform Engineering and share insights on delivering effective developer platforms within large organizations 💻 🎧 Tune in to hear their discussion on creating scalable and efficient solutions that empower developers and enhance productivity: https://lnkd.in/eqFxErDp #PlatformEngineering #TechInnovation #JUXTCast #Podcast

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🚀 💡Gemma 2, the next generation of open AI models, is now available to researchers and developers. It offers exceptional performance and efficiency with sizes of 9 billion and 27 billion parameters. Gemma 2 supports various AI tasks and integrates seamlessly with popular frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Hugging Face. The models are optimized for various hardware, including NVIDIA GPUs and Google Cloud TPUs, ensuring versatile applications across different projects. This release is designed to drive innovation and accessibility in AI development, providing powerful tools for creating advanced applications. https://ow.ly/fGHp50Sx3UU #Gemma2 #GoogleCloudTPUs #MachineLearning #TensorFlow #PyTorch #HuggingFace

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A couple of recent improvements to Konquest for us to shout about. Our flexible yet accessible calculation engine is already our pride and joy, but we just keep making it better. Firstly, we recently added support for bi-monthly and semi-annual schemes, ideal for those kicker schemes where you want to close out the year strong and have consultants make up for a shaky start to the year. https://lnkd.in/emeMvYUP Then today, we have just shipped support for schemes which are calculated into any number of weeks from (and back from) a specified start date. Want to run three week schemes starting on the 2nd Wednesday of the year - now you can with Konquest 🦍 https://lnkd.in/eeC_KM9G We're currently hard at work on the next set of enhancements, this time looking at ways you can penalise blank months and missed thresholds in a variety of different ways. Feel your current commission structure is not getting the best out of your teams? There's never been a better time to speak to us. #commissionaccomplished

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Friday marked the end of Cycle 5 here. That means only one thing (well externally at least): update time. We've launched a complete visual overhaul of the Flow Controller. Both bringing it into line with the visual style of the rest of Flux, and improving the usability with Power-Only inputs. Power-Only inputs are super helpful when you want to connect power from one location, and data from another, without worrying about overriding input data. We also added a few powerful nodes to the Audio module, enabling better display of audio status to Guest. With the On Timestamp Updated broadcaster, you can now update text and other Module with the current timestamp, and duration of audio playback. With the Set Source listener, you can change the currently playing audio track in response to an event, such as the Guest selecting a different podcast from a playlist, or triggering a dynamic sound from an API call. You can read more about these nodes in the newly updates Audio Module documentation. Check out the full list of updates: https://lnkd.in/eVeRW6sD #experiencedesign #ux #nocode

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Hyperoptimisation from a product that works perfectly well seems to be incredibly value destructive for all concerned. Not sure why it happens so much in tech I learned today that something coming up imminently on our engineering road map is updating all our lambdas to be compatible with new AWS standards. Apparently this is something that will happen every 18 months or so forever and GCP is apparently even worse. If we don’t do this by the time AWS deprecates this functionality Spot Ship will stop working. However doing it will lead to zero improvement in functionality for us. AWS has literally spent money on engineering that has had no effect but to waste our engineers time and subsequently p*ss me off. They are not alone. There comes a time in a product life cycle where it feels engineering dollars are being spent for the sake of it. Why not either downsize workforce, or give the guys and girls a very long very well paid holiday (if trying to keep them out of competitor hands)??? While our product has got so much better over the last year (primarily by ticking off the most crucial of existing paying customer asks), I want to stay aware that at some point it will be essentially “done”. Any further “improvement” will just annoy clients. Engineers love to say SAAS is alive and never “done”…but I think this may be largely talking their book I’ve seen it a lot in consumer (e.g. having to update the Uber app when you just want to get a car back from the pub once every two weeks…despite them having added no noticeable new functionality for 10 years). This is the first time I’ve noticed it so clearly in B2B. #shipsandshipping #maritime #founder #vc

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It's Friday, which means it's time to deploy. In this episode, John Bristowe covers: - SHIPPED24 is next week! - Announcing Codefresh steps for Octopus Deploy - Free your teams from maintenance tasks with runbooks - Webinars from Octopus Deploy - Events with Octopus Deploy - Octopus Deploy at KubeCon - New GitOps Certification! - Octopus Deploy on YouTube

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Talking about Hivenet distributed compute approach - I am frequently getting as feedback : "does this really work? cause if it does, it's amazing" when it comes to leveraging distributed resources for high demanding compute jobs. Well, the World Community Grid just turned 20 this year and this tech for good initiative just demonstrates that distributed compute (cpu based) works. Of course there are new challenges with GPU based needs for AI nowadays - but if we did it there and then, why couldn't we do it now for AI needs? #foodforthoughts #compute #hivenet

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🛠️ Introducing: Messages This new toolset is packed with patterns and functionality to help teams manage their responses at scale and build agents more efficiently. Some new tools for teams: - reuse responses across different workflows and components - any changes made to a reused message will propagate across all instances - create multiple variants of a response to cater to diverse scenarios - centralized view of where each message is used, who last edited it, and when it was last updated Thank you to Zoran Slamkov for the walkthrough and to our incredible team of engineers who consistently ship to the highest standard 🚢 #aiagents #conversationalai #voiceflow

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In our latest blog, 1upHealth Engineering Leader Daniel Templeton shares how our newly defined career ladder for software engineers has led to tangible cultural improvements and outsized product improvements. Daniel writes, in part, “At 1upHealth, we’ve worked hard to create a working environment where all engineers can do their best work. As a result of our career ladder approach, we’ve created a fair, positive, and diverse culture where employees can thrive and market-leading software is developed – in support of our customers’ biggest data challenges.” To learn more, read the blog: https://bit.ly/4dbvqfx #engineering #healthdataexchange

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Have you seen our brand-new agenda for CTO Craft Con: London 2025? In today’s session spotlight, we’re thrilled to highlight a Fireside Chat you won’t want to miss: "The Intersection of Tech and Product: Defining Roles in the Modern Organization" with Niall Paterson and Hannah Patrick from Butternut Box | B Corp. As tech and product roles increasingly intersect, clarifying responsibilities and fostering seamless collaboration is crucial to avoid overlap and boost team efficiency. In this session, Niall and Hannah will delve into: ✨ Defining distinct roles and aligning efforts for smoother operations ✨ Strategies for effective tech-product collaboration that fuel innovation and product success ✨ Practical insights to help your teams combine strengths for optimal outcomes Explore our full agenda and grab your ticket to gain actionable insights from industry experts shaping the future of tech and product teams. 🔗 Remember, super early bird discounts end Friday 22nd November. Don't miss out - register here, today: https://lnkd.in/e84Zs8cQ #TechLeadership #CTOCraftCon #CompanyCulture

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AI Integration and Modukarisation - will the most value will be derived from building platforms that treat models like processors, delivering performance improvements to developers who never need to know what is going on under the hood. This will mean the biggest benefits will accrue to horizontal reach — on the API layer, the model layer, and the GPU layer — as opposed to vertical integration https://lnkd.in/gugKTDWi #artificialintelligence #ai

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If you're a tech leader facing rapid growth, you don’t need to sacrifice quality for the sake of churning out features. Many growing tech companies fall into the trap of becoming 'feature factories', losing sight of their main objectives; a common scenario in the fast-paced world of technology development. Always focus on empowering teams and aligning them with customer needs. "The team is the unit of delivery; we start together and finish together." Finn Hegarty, CPTO and Co-founder ABC Glofox This principle underscores the importance of collaborative, outcome-focused development. How does your organization balance feature development with maintaining product quality? Read the full showcase - Link in the comments At Conflux, we create comprehensive showcases of companies excelling in their transformation journeys, demonstrating your success in action, and spotlighting your best practices.

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