Daily Reading List – July 31, 2024 (#367)

Half of today’s list was about AI, which is probably par for the course right now. Even if you’re a skeptic of the applicability or staying power of generative AI, keep paying attention to the developments!

[blog] Sentiment analysis with few-shot prompting. Are you familiar with the ideas of no-shot prompting and few-shot prompting? This is about priming the LLM with good examples to follow. Here’s a post with a practical example.

[blog] Faster continuous integration builds at Canva. Giant post that will be interesting to folks that want to think their CI pipelines and are struggling with slow build times.

[blog] Smaller, Safer, More Transparent: Advancing Responsible AI with Gemma. We just shipped a new 2B open model, and launched a new tool that gives you insight into the model’s inner workings. Looks cool. Some news here.

[blog] Gemma Scope: helping the safety community shed light on the inner workings of language models. Here is that set of tooling. This is great for researchers or those simply wanting to explore. Also check out the tech paper.

[article] Is It Time to Pivot Your Strategy? Thinking of making a strategic shift? Why? This post looks at some questions to ask yourself.

[blog] Vertex AI Search: Leverage the Power of Google Search and Gemini for Your Information Needs. This is a powerful, underrated service. Holt explains some details of building your personalized search engine.

[blog] AI And The End Of Software Development As We Know It. And I feel fine? Diego has been on this topic for years and has good perspectives on where the industry is going.

[blog] Apache Flink® on Kubernetes. Learn how Airbnb runs this popular data stream processing platform atop Kubernetes.

[blog] Announcing IAM group authentication in Cloud SQL. The fewer sets of unique credentials, the better. Now you can authorize database users with IAM roles. And use AI assistance to observe and troubleshoot the database.

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