Interactively fine-tune Falcon-40B and other LLMs on Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks using QLoRA

By Admin 29/06/2023

AWS Machine Learning Blog Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) allows you to adjust open-source foundational models to achieve improved performance on your domain-specific tasks. In this post, we discuss the advantages of using Amazon SageMaker notebooks to fine-tune state-of-the-art open-source models. We utilize Hugging Face’s parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) library and quantization techniques through bitsandbytes to […]Continue reading

10 Tips for Managing High Performers

By Admin 29/06/2023

15Five A high performing employee is every manager’s dream… right? Well, yes—everyone wants to work with talented people who do great things. But these employees aren’t necessarily easier to manage. It still takes a great manager to bring out their best, and keep them feeling appreciated, inspired, and engaged. The key to working with high […]Continue reading

Tate loans painting of Covid frontline staff to Alder Hey hospital

By Admin 29/06/2023

Coronavirus | The Guardian Aliza Nisenbaum’s work depicts staff in range of roles at Liverpool children’s hospitalThe Tate has loaned a painting to Alder Hey children’s NHS foundation trust in Liverpool depicting its staff who continued working on the frontlines during the Covid-19 pandemic.The group portrait, titled Team Time Storytelling, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Emergency […]Continue reading

Nicola Sturgeon: Scotland had ‘no set plan’ to deal with Covid-style pandemic

By Admin 29/06/2023

Coronavirus | The Guardian Former first minister also tells inquiry communication between UK and devolved administrations was too ad hocThere was “no set plan” in Scotland for dealing with a pandemic of the nature of Covid-19, Nicola Sturgeon has told the UK Covid inquiry.The former first minister said she accepted that the 2011 four nations […]Continue reading

First quarter economic growth was actually 2%, up from 1.3% first reported in major GDP revision

By Admin 29/06/2023

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Lockdown or loneliness? Covid brought on a ‘kind of stressful’ baby boom in Australia

By Admin 29/06/2023

Coronavirus | The Guardian New data shows the birthrate went up in 2021, after a record low in 2020 and years of declineGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA pandemic might not seem like the ideal time to have a baby, but new data backs up the idea that […]Continue reading

Computer vision system marries image recognition and generation

By Admin 29/06/2023

MIT News – Artificial intelligence Computers possess two remarkable capabilities with respect to images: They can both identify them and generate them anew. Historically, these functions have stood separate, akin to the disparate acts of a chef who is good at creating dishes (generation), and a connoisseur who is good at tasting dishes (recognition). Yet, […]Continue reading