What is Google Cloud’s generative AI evaluation service?
As part of Clarify, AWS offers enterprises a feature, dubbed FMEval, which is an open-source LLM evaluation library to help data scientists and ML engineers evaluate LLMs before deciding to use it for a specific use case. “FMEval provides the ability to perform evaluations for both LLM model endpoints or the endpoint for a generative […]
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White House opts to not add regulatory restrictions on AI development – for now
The Biden Administration on Tuesday issued an AI report in which it said it would not be “immediately restricting the wide availability of open model weights [numerical parameters that help determine a model’s response to inputs] in the largest AI systems,” but it stressed that it might change that position at an unspecified point. The […]
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Google Cloud Spanner adds graph processing, graph RAG
Olofson explained that this is why Spanner might not “really be in a position to challenge” specialty graph databases, such as Neo4j, OrientDB, TigerGraph, and Aerospike Graph, supporting pure graph deployments in terms of performance. Multi-model databases vs specialty databases Google’s move to add graph processing capabilities to Spanner is consistent with the trend of […]
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Who should own cloud costs?
Why does giving engineering control over cloud costs make such a difference? For one, engineers are typically closer to the actual usage and deployment of cloud resources. When they build something to run on the cloud, they are more aware of how applications and data storage systems use cloud resources. Engineers can quickly identify and […]
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Full-stack development with Java, React, and Spring Boot, Part 2
// src/main/java/com/example/iwreactspring/service/TodoService.java package com.example.iwreactspring.service; import java.util.List; import java.util.ArrayList; import com.example.iwreactspring.model.TodoItem; import org.springframework.stereotype.Service; import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; import com.mongodb.client.MongoClient; import com.mongodb.client.MongoClients; import com.mongodb.client.MongoCollection; import com.mongodb.client.MongoDatabase; import org.bson.codecs.configuration.CodecRegistry; import org.bson.codecs.pojo.PojoCodecProvider; import org.bson.Document; import com.example.iwreactspring.repository.TodoRepository; @Service public class TodoService { @Autowired private TodoRepository todoRepository; public List<TodoItem> getTodos() { return todoRepository.findAll(); } public TodoItem createTodo(TodoItem newTodo) { TodoItem savedTodo = todoRepository.save(newTodo); […]
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How to get started with MySQL
Long a staple of open source computing, MySQL serves as the database back end to a massive array of applications, from network monitoring frameworks to blogging applications like WordPress to social networks like Facebook. To those uninitiated in how databases work, setting up MySQL for the first time can be daunting. Nevertheless, with a few […]
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Why Apache Iceberg is on fire right now
While Iceberg solves this problem, open standards are needed in other areas as well. We’re now seeing a new battlefield emerging in the area of data catalogs, which play a critical role in a multi-engine architecture. Catalogs make operations on tables reliable by supporting atomic transactions. This means that data engineers and the pipelines they […]
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TypeScript takes aim at truthy and nullish bugs
Microsoft has released a beta of TypeScript 5.6, an update to the strongly typed JavaScript variant that disallows nullish and truthy checks on syntax that never varies on nullishness or truthiness. The TypeScript 5.6 beta, which follows last month’s production release of TypeScript 5.5, was announced July 26. TypeScript 5.6 can be accessed through NuGet […]
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BMC report examines DataOps practices
Systematic data management investment and effort is associated with outsized returns on data-driven initiatives, according to a newly released report on DataOps from BMC Software. Further, large amounts of organizational data frequently remain underutilized for insights due to challenges with active data management, the report states. Released July 24, the report, titled “Putting the ‘Ops’ […]
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Build and manage LLM prompts with Prompty
The resulting functions use the Prompty prompt description to build the interaction with the LLM, which you can wrap in an asynchronous operation. The result is an AI application with very little code beyond assembling user inputs and displaying LLM outputs. Much of the heavy lifting is handled by tools like Semantic Kernel, and by […]
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