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The Flan Collection: Advancing open source methods for instruction tuning

Google Research AI blog

Posted by Shayne Longpre, Student Researcher, and Adam Roberts, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Language models are now capable of performing many new natural language processing (NLP) tasks by reading instructions, often that they hadn’t seen before.

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: A no-compromise CPU for demanding gamers

Engadget

The conflict between RISC and CISC chip instruction sets (ISAs) "reduced" designs versus "complex" ones rages on to this day with RISC-V. In the Geekbench 6 single-threaded CPU benchmark, it was 20 percent faster than the Ryzen 9 7900X I was previously using. Apple doesn't always come out ahead.

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Mitigating the impacts of a loss of a nonprofit revenue source

Candid

In the wake of last weeks news regarding the Office of Management and Budget memorandum instructing federal agencies to temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, many of us are trying to understand the potential impact of a freeze on federal funding on the nonprofit sector.

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FRMT: A Benchmark for Few-Shot Region-Aware Machine Translation

Google Research AI blog

In light of this data scarcity, we position FRMT as a benchmark for few-shot translation, measuring an MT model’s ability to translate into regional varieties when given no more than 100 labeled examples of each language variety. However, the vast majority of available training data doesn’t specify what regional variety the translation is in.

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Google Analytics and Benchmarks: HAWK

M+R

Hey data friends, it’s our favorite time of the year, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, you can sip your iced coffee outside and read Benchmarks ! If you’re not sure how to change this setting, you can follow the simple instructions here. This made the Benchmarks’ website data much more difficult to analyze.

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Unrestricted: The Gifts That Keep On Giving

Bloomerang

Donors have every right to expect benchmarks and reports on the impact of their gifts. Do stockholders instruct management how their money is to be directed? Unfortunately, too many nonprofit leaders have convinced themselves that donors wont support such gifts and have been reluctant to ask for them. When you dont ask, you dont get.

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AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X CPU reportedly hits 5 GHz in benchmarks

TechSpot

At least on paper, these come with a lot of improvements such as a unified L3 cache, 19 percent average throughput improvement in terms of instructions per clock over Zen. AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed the Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors based on the Zen 3 architecture earlier this month.

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