Machine Learning

Bayesian statistics you’ve likely encountered MCMC. While the rest of the world is fixated on the latest LLM hype, Markov Chain Monte Carlo remains the quiet workhorse of high-end quantitative finance and risk management. It is the tool of choice when “guessing” isn’t enough and you need to rigorously map out uncertainty. Despite the intimidating …

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Image by Author   # Introduction   BitNet b1.58, developed by Microsoft researchers, is a native low-bit language model. It is trained from scratch using ternary weights with values of (-1), (0), and (+1). Instead of shrinking a large pretrained model, BitNet is designed from the beginning to run efficiently at very low precision. This reduces …

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Acknowledgements This research was co-developed by Google DeepMind and Google Research. Google DeepMind: Andrea Burns, Anton Raichuk, Arianna Manzini, Bart van Merrienboer, Burcu Karagol Ayan, Dominic Masters, Drew Purves, Jenny Hamer, Julia Haas, Keith Anderson, Matt Overlan, Maxim Neumann, Melanie Rey, Mustafa Chasmai, Petar Veličković, Ravi Rajakumar, Tom Denton, Vincent Dumoulin Google Research and Google …

Three ways Google scientists use AI to better understand nature — Google DeepMind Read More »

an interesting library the other day that I hadn’t heard of before.  PythoC is a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) compiler that allows developers to write C programs using standard Python syntax. It takes a statically-typed subset of Python code and compiles it directly down to native machine code via LLVM IR (Low Level Virtual Machine Intermediate …

Write C Code Without Learning C: The Magic of PythoC Read More »

Image by Editor   # Introduction  Python decorators are tailor-made solutions that are designed to help simplify complex software logic in a variety of applications, including LLM-based ones. Dealing with LLMs often involves coping with unpredictable, slow—and frequently expensive—third-party APIs, and decorators have a lot to offer for making this task cleaner by wrapping, for instance, …

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Embracing the opportunity ahead, responsibly We believe the promise of AI in education can only be achieved by developing it responsibly. One essential facet of this is doing so in close partnership with the entire education ecosystem. When my team and I met with Damian Harvey, Interim Head of C2k, he emphasized this point. He …

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of a series about distributed AI across multiple GPUs: Introduction In the previous post, we saw how Distributed Data Parallelism (DDP) speeds up training by splitting batches across GPUs. DDP solves the throughput problem, but it introduces a new challenge: memory redundancy. In vanilla DDP, every GPU holds a complete copy of the model parameters, gradients, …

AI in Multiple GPUs: ZeRO & FSDP Read More »

Image by Editor   # Introduction  Data science projects usually begin as exploratory Python notebooks but need to be moved to production settings at some stage, which might be tricky if not planned carefully. QuantumBlack’s framework, Kedro, is an open-source tool that bridges the gap between experimental notebooks and production-ready solutions by translating concepts surrounding project …

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Today, we’re introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model. Built for high-volume developer workloads at scale, 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers high quality for its price and model tier. Starting today, 3.1 Flash-Lite is rolling out in preview to developers via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and for enterprises …

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to be the state-of-the-art object detection algorithm, looked to become obsolete thanks to the appearance of other methods like SSD (Single Shot Multibox Detector), DSSD (Deconvolutional Single Shot Detector), and RetinaNet. Finally, after two years since the introduction of YOLOv2, the authors decided to improve the algorithm where they eventually came up with the next …

YOLOv3 Paper Walkthrough: Even Better, But Not That Much Read More »