Income Calculator – Your Earnings Percentile in Your Age Group

Income Calculator To calculate your income percentile (US data), enter your current age and gross income (pre tax) and hit “Calculate”: Enter Your Age: Enter Your Income ($): Calculate Percentile For instance, if you’re 40 years old and you’re making $120,000, you’re in the top 10% of earners: How Did You Calculate This? The data … Read more

Character.AI – What We Can Learn From Scaling Parasocial Relationships to Millions

Noam Shazeer, the CEO and cofounder of Character.ai, has worked for Google for almost 20 years. If you work for Google, you’ll quickly learn about the challenges of scaling things to billions of users. AI model architecture, distributed algorithms, and quantization — the most important aspect of accelerating AI was to scale it. Naturally, many … Read more

L4S: Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (RFC 9330)

Imagine streaming your favorite 4K movie or playing high-speed online games with virtually no lag. That’s the promise of L4S: The need for speed and reliability in internet services is paramount. Enter RFC 9330, a groundbreaking document from the IETF that’s set to revolutionize how we experience the internet. This Low Latency, Low Loss, and … Read more

Python Ternary Multiple Times

The Python ternary operator, also known as the conditional operator, is a concise way to write simple if-else statements. Introduced in Python 2.5, this operator allows you to return one of two values depending on the evaluation of a given condition. You might find the ternary operator particularly useful when you want to write clean … Read more

3 Easy Steps to Avoid Being Disrupted by AI

Our production capacity will continue to increase by orders of magnitude through automation, robotics, and generative AI. With the rise of generative AI, we have scaled intelligence, and we’ll just multiply the number of productive agents as they can be easily spun off and replicated in the cloud. Essentially, we can now ‘inject life into … Read more

Google Deep Learning – 800 Years of Human Experimentation in One Discovery

In a remarkable feat of technology and science, Google DeepMind’s AI system, GNoME, has discovered over 2.2 million new crystal materials, including 380,000 that are considered stable and potentially useful for future technologies. πŸ”— Image credits This discovery represents an advancement equivalent to nearly 800 years’ worth of knowledge in material science. With such a … Read more

Are LLMs Greedy? An Experimental Analysis of the Tipping Prompt ($0 to $1 Million)

Abstract: Is the prompting technique of offering GPT-4 Turbo a tip for a perfect answer effective? There’s little formal research on this topic at the time of writing. Our initial experiments on a coding-related prompt show that tipping may offer some benefits, although the tipping amounts seem crucial. For example, if the offered tip is … Read more

Can I Use Anthropic’s Claude 2 in LangChain?

πŸ’‘ Langchain is an open-source toolkit for building language model applications. It’s designed to make it easier to integrate language models into your AI apps, giving you a set of tools and APIs for this purpose. Langchain is not a language model itself but a framework for using language models in development projects. Anthropic’s Claude … Read more

Starling-7B: UC Berkeley’s New Open-Source LLM

How do you copy GPT-4 without actually copying the model weights? In this article, you’ll learn how! πŸ’‘ Researchers from UC Berkeley have unveiled Starling-7B, an innovative large language model (LLM) trained using Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF), as opposed to the Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) approach used by many competitors. Starling-7B … Read more

Commands for Installing WinSound in Linux

The winsound module is specific to the Windows operating system and is used for playing sounds. It’s a part of the standard library in Python for Windows. Unfortunately, you cannot directly install or use winsound on Linux, as it is not compatible with Linux environments. For similar functionality on Linux, you would typically use other … Read more

What’s New in Python 3.12?

In this quick and easy guide, I’ll give you a simplified overview of what’s new in Python 3.12. The official docs only provide a version full of technical clutter and, therefore, are hard to understand. To check your Python version, simply run this in your command line or shell: These are the top 10 new … Read more