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A feature platform that offers observability and management tools, allows ML practitioners to use a variety of data sources, while handling the complexity of data engineering, and provides low latency streaming.By: Varant Zanoyan, Nikhil Simha RaproluChronon allows ML practitioners to use a variety of data sources a...

CFEngine is 30 years old this year. For a piece of software, that’s been quite a long life. A lot has happened on its journey to arrive at where we are today, but most users have now forgotten how it emerged from a young lad’s dreams of artificial intelligence. I’ve written at length about the science in my book In ...

By Ilay Chen and Tomer AkiravAt PayPal, hundreds of thousands of Apache Spark jobs run on an hourly basis, processing petabytes of data and requiring a high volume of resources. To handle the growth of machine learning solutions, PayPal requires scalable environments, cost awareness and constant innovation. This blo...

My initial goal was to create AGI. I approached the problem by first attempting to solve a simpler problem: how can I get an agent to learn to walk towards food?The SetupI manifested this problem in the following way:The image depicts the following:There is a 2D grid.An agent exists in it (the green rectangle).Food ...

Don’t worry, he’s not madLarge Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI have completely dominated the AI and machine learning space in 2023. The results have been amazing and the public imagination is almost endless. That’s not to mention the progress made in generating creative works — the image above is generated ...

This is part I of a series of articles on using Mojo in Advent of Code.Go here for the introduction and table of contents.Performance overviewLet’s start with the headliner. Is Mojo actually as fast as the company advertises it to be? Well, it depends. It’s plenty fast when you spend some time optimizing. After gett...