Diskless Kafka: 80% Leaner, 100% Open

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Microsoft researchers developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs

Microsoft researchers claim they’ve developed the largest-scale 1-bit AI model, also known as a “bitnet,” to date. Called BitNet b1.58 2B4T, it’s openly available under an MIT license and can run on CPUs, including Apple’s M2. Bitnets are essentially compressed models designed to run on lightweight hardware. In standard models, weights, the values that define the internal structure of a model,...
Four Kinds of Optimisation

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Is SpacetimeDB a Yak-Shaving Success Story?

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Ursa - ClickHouse Research Fork

Overview During the New Year holidays at the end of December 2024, I decided to fork ClickHouse to improve its performance and implement some ideas I had for a while. The main thing was to beat Umbra in the ClickBench benchmark or at least come close to its performance. In the process, I learned a lot of new stuff, found a...
A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products

Most AI teams focus on the wrong things. Here’s a common scene from my consulting work: AI TEAMHere’s our agent architecture—we’ve got RAG here, a router there, and we’re using this new framework for…ME[Holding up my hand to pause the enthusiastic tech lead]Can you show me how you’re measuring if any of this actually works?… Room goes quiet This scene has played...

Month: August 2010

Evolving Architectures – Part V – Leaps

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on August 4, 2010

When talking about “evolving architectures,” a “leap” is one of the worst things that can happen. In the previous installment in this series, I defined…