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November 22, 2024 Ben and Ryan sit down with public interest technologist Sukhi Gulati Gilbert, a senior product manager at Consumer Reports, for a conversation about digital data privacy. They talk about why digital privacy matters, the challenges consumers face in safeguarding their data, and the legislative gaps in privacy protection, along with the app […]
Web2 and Web3 developers don’t always have the kindest view of one another. They think Web3 is all scams and we think Web2 is stuck in the stone age with a technology that doesn’t take advantage of the distributed technology landscape. Both of these are unfair: any hype cycle draws unethical opportunists and technology isn’t […]
November 15, 2024 Chris Fowler, Director of Engine for Call of Duty, tells Ben and Ryan about his path from marine biology to game development, the ins and outs of game engines, and the technical feats involved in creating massively popular games like Call of Duty. Chris also explains why community feedback is so critical […]
Ben and Ryan are joined by Matt Zeiler, founder and CEO of Clarifai, an AI workflow orchestration platform. They talk about how the transformer architecture supplanted convolutional neural networks in AI applications, the infrastructure required for AI implementation, the implications of regulating AI, and the value of synthetic data. Source link
In the Developer Coefficient, a study commissioned by the fintech giant Stripe, developers reported that they spent over 17 hours a week on maintenance tasks like debugging and refactoring—work classified as “toil.” Our 2024 Developer Survey revealed a lot of the same issues and grievances for professional developers. The biggest frustration, by a large margin, […]
November 8, 2024 Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data, joins Ben and Ryan for a deep-dive conversation about the evolving landscape of web data. They talk through the challenges involved in data collection, the role of synthetic data in training large AI models, and how public data access is becoming more restrictive. Or also shares […]
November 1, 2024 Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercel’s GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel is rethinking […]
Fine-tuning techniques: The term “fine tuning” refers to further training a pretrained model. In the case of LLMs, this means that we take a pretrained foundation model and train it some more. But, there are so many different ways that this training can be done, which makes the concept of fine tuning incredibly vague. This […]
October 25, 2024 Ben chats with Shayne Longpre and Robert Mahari of the Data Provenance Initiative about what GenAI means for the data commons. They discuss the decline of public datasets, the complexities of fair use in AI training, the challenges researchers face in accessing data, potential applications for synthetic data, and the evolving legal […]
We recently introduced Fastlane by PayPal—an accelerated guest checkout experience—to the US market. Customers can save their card and shipping information once, then use those prefilled details for future purchases wherever Fastlane is available. As we designed Fastlane, we wanted it to fit seamlessly into our merchants’ ecommerce sites. That meant also building this product […]