Nicolay Gerold

Pydantic Logfire — Uncomplicated Observability

From the team behind Pydantic, Logfire is an observability platform built on the same belief as our open source library — that the most powerful tools can be easy to use.

What sets Logfire apart:

• Simple and Powerful: Logfire's dashboard is simple relative to the power it provides, ensuring your entire

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Synapses are the gaps between the neurons. Memories are stored in patterns of energy in neurons, similarly to a piano, where the different keys combined together form a song. The keys (electrical activity) dictates our memories and experiences.

There is often a notable gap between state of the art research and what practitioners can reasonably use. However, I'm glad to say that attention sinks can be added to any pretrained LLM at near to no additional effort.

I have released the attention_sinks Python module, which acts as a drop-in replacement for the transformers API. This Python module... See more

• LLM Pro/Serious Use Comparison/Test: From 7B to 70B vs. ChatGPT! Winner: Synthia-70B-v1.2b


• LLM Chat/RP Comparison/Test: Dolphin-Mistral, Mistral-OpenOrca, Synthia 7B Winner: Mistral-7B-OpenOrca


• LLM Chat/RP Comparison/Test: Mistral 7B Base + Instruct


• LLM Chat/RP Comparison/Test (Euryale, FashionGPT, MXLewd, Synthia, Xwin) Winner: Xwin-LM-70B-V0.1


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the science problem. We’ve all spent the last year talking about ‘error rates’ or ‘hallucinations’ (indeed, I also wrote about them here). The breakthrough of LLMs is to create a statistical model that can be built by machine at huge scale, instead of a deterministic model that (today) must be built by hand and doesn’t scale. This is why they work,... See more

Elasticsearch at Twitter

Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It is a popular open source tool widely used in industry and is known for its distributed nature, speed, scalability, and simple REST APIs.

The Search Infrastructure team builds infrastructure to host search as a service. Since we are such a central... See more

You can use your customer mailing list to barrage me with up-selling “opportunities,” or you can send me interesting articles.

You can put your customer service number on every page on your website, or you can provide only a web form.

You can have a recorded message saying my call is important to you, or you can have someone else pick up the phone.

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