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Intellectual debt: The hidden costs of machine learning

Dynatrace

Technical Debt—Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03. The sudden lure of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems designed for IT brings new urgency to the topic of intellectual debt. At some point the debt reaches a tipping point where the high costs of maintenance prevent innovation. Intellectual debt.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. What is the limited resource that they control and monopolize? It’s not our data. It’s our attention.

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Planning for Responsive Images

CSS - Tricks

The answer, in turn, depends on the answers to these questions: Are the images created dynamically by the user or statically by a design team? Static : A photographer, designer, or you (the developer) create the images for the website. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) March 1, 2017. Strategy for dynamic images.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Coincidence? Probably not, but only time will tell.

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

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What Are ChatGPT and Its Friends?

O'Reilly

They’ve all had additional specialized training; and they all have a reasonably well-designed user interface. All of these models are based on a technology called Transformers , which was invented by Google Research and Google Brain in 2017. The design of Transformers lends itself to large sets of training data.

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