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Credit: internet At Alan, we’ve always been committed to providing the best user experience possible, and this extends to our own engineers, through what we call the developer experience. We believe that a great developer experience is essential for building high-quality software and that it’s a key factor in attracting and retaining top talent. We’ve …

Posted by Han Zhou, Student Researcher, and Subhrajit Roy, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research Prompting large language models (LLMs) has become an efficient learning paradigm for adapting LLMs to a new task by conditioning on human-designed instructions. The remarkable in-context learning (ICL) ability of LLMs also leads to efficient few-shot learners that can generalize from …

OCaml with Jane Street extensions is available from our public opam repo. Only a slice of the features described in this series are currently implemented. In part one, we discussed how OCaml’s locality mode enables safe stack allocation. In part two, we explored how the uniqueness and linearity modes represent ownership. In this (final) post, …

This gif depicts the training dynamics of a neural network. Find out how by reading the rest of this post. A flurry of recent papers in theoretical deep learning tackles the common theme of analyzing neural networks in the infinite-width limit. At first, this limit may seem impractical and even pointless to study. However, it …

Listening to Daft Punk every now and then is a never aging event for me. Their albums have a variety of musical diversity, and you can always enjoy their fairly repetitive songs on boring household activities. ‘One more time, we’re gonna celebrateh! Oh yeah, Don’t stop the washing!’ Well, one of the most influential electronic …

TLDR: We believe CI/CD is overdue for revolutionary improvements, in build consistency, speed, and ease of use, and that everyone should have access to it. Today we launch Earthly Cloud with a 6,000 build minutes/month free tier to get that revolution started. Get started for free. The Birth of CI/CD: From Manual Pushes to Jenkins …

19 Jun 2023 Introduction Last time we talked about how we would approach building our RISC-V vector instruction implementation, here we’re going to talk a bit more about how we plan on doing it. Background We selected an initial design where the renamer breaks each vector instruction into multiple beats – issuing cloned copies of …

The next Blender Open Movie – Project Gold – is now officially announced. This project has a very strong artistic vision and is aiming at an extremely stylized look. Project Gold concept art by Blender Studio. The style is so integral to the story that the artists and developers are exploring new workflows. The idea …

Credits: Jetlinerimages At Alan, we have a structured onboarding in place. Our culture puts a strong emphasis on asynchronous work, which is crucial for our “work from anywhere” policy : many of our colleagues work remotely. Therefore, it’s very important that the newcomer feels surrounded and finds all the information they need for their first …

Saying goodbye to Studio, our free collaboration feature. Back in December, I made a commitment to you about our mission—to empower music creators to bring their ideas to life. Since then, we’ve been hard at work making these experiences better for our customers. We’ve improved our search experience, made browsing more powerful with updates to …