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March 5, 2025

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Partially rewriting an LLM in natural language

Our most recent work on using sparse autoencoders (SAEs) focused on automatically generating natural language interpretations for their latents and evaluating how good they are. If all the latents were interpretable, we could use the interpretations to simulate the latent activations, replacing the SAE encoder with an LLM and a natural language prompt. We should then be able to patch the activations generated by this natural language simulation back into the model and get nearly identical behavior to the original. In the limit, we could effectively “rewrite” the entire model in terms of interpretable features and interpretable operations on those

March 5, 2025

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What is Apache Arrow? Features, How to Use and More

Data is at the core of everything, from business decisions to machine learning. But processing large-scale data across different systems is often slow. Constant format conversions add processing time and memory overhead. Traditional row-based storage formats struggle to keep up with modern analytics. This leads to slower computations, higher memory usage, and performance bottlenecks. Apache Arrow solves these issues. It is an open source, columnar in-memory data format designed for speed and efficiency. Arrow provides a common way to represent tabular data, eliminating costly conversions and enabling seamless interoperability. Key Benefits of Apache Arrow Zero-Copy Data Sharing – Transfers data

March 5, 2025

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How MUFG Bank increased sales efficiency by 10x with LangChain

MUFG Bank is Japan’s largest bank and one of the world’s leading financial institutions. They provide capital market solutions to major corporate clients and promote economic growth around the world.  Problem: Solving data overload for corporate sales  In MUFG Bank’s Global Capital Markets Division, the FX & Derivative Sales team faced a key challenge. FX & Derivative Sales team members needed to gather and analyze vast amounts of corporate data in order to create compelling client presentations – from 10k reports, to market data, to financial disclosures. This was a time-consuming process and skill-dependent (with junior members often needing additional

March 5, 2025

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I didn’t think this would actually work 😭

Semen Parfait Ingredients: 1 cup heavy cream 1/4 cup sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 cup semen 1 cup granola 1 cup fresh fruit (such as berries or sliced stone fruit) Optional: additional whipped cream and/mint for garnish Instructions: In a large bowl, whip the heavy cream until it begins to thicken. Add the sugar and vanilla extract and continue to whip until stiff peaks form. Gently fold in the semen until fully incorporated. In a parfait glass or other clear serving dish, layer the granola, fruit, and semen whipped cream. Repeat the layers until the glass is full. Optional:

March 5, 2025

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Kirell Benzi – AI Art Gallery

These Are Not Flowers (2020) questions the viewer on the nature of shapes, objects and colors. Inspired by oil-paintings of old both in texture and subject matter, the uncanny scenery contrasts with the numerical values running on both sides of the pieces. These values represent the weight of each individual object or animal mixed by the neural network to generate each frame. More AI and Data Artworks: www.kirellbenzi.com Main: Kirell Benzi, Ph.D Music: Erick Benzi Source link

March 5, 2025

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Couchbase Edge Server Cuts Hardware Needs

Couchbase logo Couchbase’s release Tuesday of Couchbase Edge Server heralds a number of significant advancements for the growing prevalence and utility of edge computing. Firstly, since it was built on the core engine of Couchbase Lite, Couchbase Edge Server provides a multipurpose, NoSQL database that natively supports JSON and transactional and analytical workloads. Secondly, since it was designed to accommodate small form factor edge devices, it has minimal hardware requirements. The server runs on devices with as little as a gigabyte of RAM, making it ideal for Raspberry Pis, tablets, and other mobile gadgets. Lastly, Couchbase Edge Server operates without an

March 5, 2025

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GTA V finally gets its 'next-gen' update on PC, three years after consoles

PC players of Grand Theft Auto V have at long last reached parity with their console brethren. Following an announcement last month, today Rockstar Games has a PC update with features that for several years had only been available to the latest console generation. It’s a free update for anyone who already owned a copy of the hugely popular game. The original version of GTA V has been delisted from PC storefronts in favor of the new Expanded & Enhanced iteration of the game, which includes a copy of the old Legacy edition. Both Story Mode and Online progress can

March 5, 2025

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Stanford CRFM

The Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) framework is an open source framework for reproducible and transparent benchmarking of language models that is widely adopted by academia and industry. To meet HELM users’ needs for more powerful benchmarking features, we are proud to announce our collaboration with Unitxt, an open-source community platform developed by IBM Research for data preprocessing and benchmark customization. The integration of Unitxt into HELM gives HELM users access to the vast Unitxt catalog of benchmarks, and allows users to run sharable and customizable evaluation pipelines with greater ease. Installation and Usage First, install HELM with the

March 5, 2025

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GPT-4.5 Won’t Blow Your Mind. It Might Befriend It Instead.

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