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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

Ars Technica

The teacher model generates data which then trains a smaller student model, helping to quickly transfer knowledge and predictions of the bigger model to the smaller one. Read full article Comments Through distillation, companies take a large language modeldubbed a teacher modelwhich generates the next likely word in a sentence.

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Recap: Wheel of Time’s third season balefires its way to a hell of a finish

Ars Technica

Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's Wheel of Time books, and they previously brought that knowledge to bear as they recapped each first season episode and second season episode of Amazon's WoT TV series. Read full article Comments

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Wheel of Time recap: The show nails one of the books’ biggest and bestest battles

Ars Technica

Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's Wheel of Time books, and they previously brought that knowledge to bear as they recapped each first season episode and second season episode of Amazon's WoT TV series. Read full article Comments

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Google lays off hundreds, impacting Android and Pixel teams

Fast Company Tech

Alphabet’s Google laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit, The Information reported on Friday, citing a person with direct knowledge of the situation. Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

Starting today and through August 5, 2023, we are making the proposed changes available for public comment. In all, we received over 600 recommendations from nearly 30 organizations, as well as from Candid staff with extensive knowledge of the taxonomy. These recommended changes then went through multiple rounds of internal review.

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Top 12 Social Media Insights for Nonprofits in 2012

NetWits

These insights were gleaned from over 3,500 respondents to a survey sent out by Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge. Share your thoughts in the comments below … If you’re a nonprofit who has some idea of how you measure up to the below I’d LOVE to hear from you.

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Kickstarter will now hide reported comments pending review

TechCrunch

Kickstarter announced today it will now automatically hide from public view comments reported by creators until its Trust and Safety team has reviewed them and made a decision as to whether the comment should remain or be deleted, in an effort to curb the number of abusive comments visible on the platform.

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