Chinese workers left terrified as bosses instructed them to train their AI replacements
Sign up today to see the future Cutting-edge innovations in science and technology cannot be forgotten For years, a busy Silicon Valley startup called Mercor has been hiring an army …
A coding implementation on Microsoft’s Phi-4-Mini for use with the Quantized Inference Logic tool for fine-tuning RAG and LoRA
import subprocess, sys, os, shutil, glob def pip_install(args): subprocess.run((sys.executable, “-m”, “pip”, “install”, “-q”, *args), check=True) pip_install((“huggingface_hub>=0.26,<1.0”)) pip_install(( “-U”, “transformers>=4.49,<4.57”, “accelerate>=0.33.0”, “bitsandbytes>=0.43.0”, “peft>=0.11.0”, “datasets>=2.20.0,<3.0”, “sentence-transformers>=3.0.0,<4.0”, “faiss-cpu”, )) for p in glob.glob(os.path.expanduser( …
Download: Chinese workers double down on fighting deadly ‘mirror’ bacteria, and AI
These microbes created in the laboratory will be organized like normal bacteria, but their proteins and sugars will be mirror images of proteins and sugars found in nature. Researchers believed …
5 Useful Python Scripts for Advanced Data Validation and Quality Checking
Image by author # Introduction Data validation doesn’t stop at checking for missing values ​​or duplicate records. There are problems in real-world datasets that basic quality checks completely miss. You’ll …
Moonshot AI and Tsinghua researchers propose PrfaaS: a cross-datacenter KVCache architecture that rethinks how LLMs are served at scale
For years, the way large language models handle inference has been stuck inside a box – literally. The high-bandwidth RDMA networks that provide modern LLM service limit both prefill and …
Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked
Vercel, a major development platform that hosts and deploys web apps, was compromised, and hackers are attempting to sell the stolen data. a person claiming to be a member of …
a matter of fixing everything
Brand is also right, that the maintainers do not get the respect they deserve. Over the past few decades, scholars have shown that tasks ranging from oiling equipment to replacing …
Wealth advisors made more than $2 billion from private capital fees
Unlock Editor’s Digest for free FT editor Roula Khalaf selects her favorite stories in this weekly newspaper. Wealth advisors at banks and independent brokerages earned billions of dollars in fees …