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• 1-Bit LLMs Could Solve AI's Energy Demands

  Binarized on the fly during the forward pass and never used for the inference process. In this case there are two areas to optimize for: training efficiency and inference efficiency. If I understand correctly, it stores the weights, gradients and second-moment estimates in FP32 like every other mixed-precision training (the Gopher paper has details on why storing them in FP32 is important), and quantized weights... - Source: Hacker News / about 16 hours ago

• Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3

  Related: https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1. - Source: Hacker News / about 11 hours ago

• Salesforce Shares Plunge by Most Since 2008 After Weak Outlook

  I was thinking of that a few weeks ago and wrote a (dumb) little story about it; I imagined Astro (SF mascot) is a ruthless mob boss controlling it all behind the scenes lol https://medium.com/@dannyisaphantom/benioff-astro-and-the-art-of-the-deal-692149f5dd36. - Source: Hacker News / about 23 hours ago

• Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search

  Thanks for sharing, I like the approach and it makes a lot of sense for the problem space. Especially using existing products vs building/hosting your own. I was however tripped up by this sentence close to the beginning: > we encountered a significant challenge with RAG: relying solely on vector search (even using both dense and sparse vectors) doesn’t always deliver satisfactory results for certain queries. Not... - Source: Hacker News / about 23 hours ago

• Julia Evans' Git Cheat Sheet [pdf]

  This is a better one: https://medium.com/@lordmoma/so-you-think-you-know-git-673f9c4b0792. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

Lumen Framework mentions (12)

• File-based routing (maybe) ... JSX?

  I think this was PHP version 5 or 4 at the time, but it's bad design back then has served to the downfall of PHP in active development (despite the fact that it powers most of the web). However, PHP 8 has brought a lot of new exciting features, so much so that Laravel doesn't even recommend use its lightweight version of Lumen anymore, it's unnecessary. Source: over 1 year ago

• Modern PHP features explained – PHP 8.0 and 8.1

  Lumen is being deprecated due to PHP and Laravel performance improvements that make it largely irrelevant. https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/9.x > Note: In the years since releasing Lumen, PHP has made a variety of wonderful performance improvements. For this reason, along with the availability of Laravel Octane, we no longer recommend that you begin new projects with Lumen. Instead, we recommend always beginning new... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• If I want to develop a CRUD API application with React.js client side why would I pick Laravel?

  Nah, even Lumen Documentation recommends starting new projects with Laravel. Source: almost 2 years ago

• can I use thecodeholic/tc-php-mvc-core framework for production?

  If you want to use a framework but avoid the "kitchen sink" you could use micro frameworks like Lumen, Slim or Symfony (with the symfony/skeleton starter) and then add packages as required. Source: about 2 years ago

• Which php-framework should I consider for rest-api?

  If you are just doing a rest api and not serving pages, you could also look into lumen which is a slimmed down version: https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/9.x. Source: about 2 years ago