SmolLM2
SmolLM2 (via) New from Loubna Ben Allal and her research team at Hugging Face: SmolLM2 is a family of compact language models available in three size: 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters. They are capable of solving a wide range of tasks while being lightweight enough to run on-device. […] It was trained on 11 trillion […]
Rewrite It in Rails
01 Nov, 2024 In 2022 I started building an application for creating Customs declarations. After evaluating some options and writing code in various programming languages and frameworks such as .NET/F#, Go, Rust, React, I eventually decided to write it in Ruby on Rails. Why? Because I was already familiar with Rails and because of that […]
October 30 – Reflections on the Day the Earth Moved for H5N1
Pigs are now in the picture, a new genotype adds caseload and complexity, and USDA is finally moving towards national bulk tank surveillance to assess dairy herd status Sometimes events come together at a point in time when we later look back and say, “that was the day we finally conceded that this is serious”. […]
My Time Working at Stripe
2024-10-28 I did the thing you’re not supposed to do. I quit my job at Stripe without another lined up. Before I left I pondered deeply how I wanted to leave. The thought of leaving my job was terrifying yet energizing in ways I didn’t expect. I found myself up in the middle of the […]
Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel
In this article NVDA DOW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, speaks during the launch of the supercomputer Gefion, where the new AI supercomputer has been established in collaboration with EIFO and NVIDIA at Vilhelm Lauritzen Terminal in Kastrup, Denmark October 23, 2024. Ritzau Scanpix | Mads Claus Rasmussen | […]
Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration
Abstract Abnormally short and long sleep are associated with premature mortality, and achieving optimal sleep duration has been the focus of sleep health guidelines. Emerging research demonstrates that sleep regularity, the day-to-day consistency of sleep–wake timing, can be a stronger predictor for some health outcomes than sleep duration. The role of sleep regularity in mortality, […]
Linux on Apple Silicon with Alyssa Rosenzweig
Asahi Linux is a project that aims to port Linux to Apple Silicon chips, which use a custom ARM-based architecture. The project is fundamentally important given the popularity of Apple Silicon Macs, and it’s also a heroic effort because Apple Silicon is an entirely undocumented platform. Alyssa Rosenzweig is a well-known computer scientist who describes […]
The Cult of Microsoft
At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called ‘The Growth Mindset” that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold, to how your on-the-job performance is judged. I am not speaking in hyperbole. Based on a review […]
A 22 percent increase in the German minimum wage: nothing crazy
We present the first empirical evidence on the 22 percent increase in the German minimum wage, implemented in 2022, raising it from Euro 9.82 to 10.45 in July and to Euro 12 in October. Leveraging the German Earnings Survey, a large and novel data source comprising around 8 million employee-level observations reported by employers each […]
The Elimination Strategy – Why More Makes Your SaaS Worth Less
By Andrew on 11/1/2024 The most valuable companies in the world aren’t built by adding. They’re built by eliminating. Not by giving customers more options, but by systematically removing every friction between them and what they want. The Pattern That Built Billion-Dollar Companies Amazon eliminated: Store visits (shop from home) Product hunting (search + recommendations) […]