Author: Kalev Leetaru
GCP Tips & Tricks: Observations On A Decade Of Running Elasticsearch On GCP: Part 1
We've run Elasticsearch clusters on GCP for almost a decade across many different iterations of hardware and cluster configurations. What…
GCP Tips & Tricks: Comparing Extreme Persistent Disks & Hyperdisks To Many Small Disks For Search
One of the most critical questions in supporting IO-centric workloads is determining the right mix of storage devices. For some…
Generative AI Experiments: The Challenges Of Generative Search For Technical Questions & The Limits Of RAG
Generative search in the form of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has been widely hyped as the future of search, with…
IRINN: Coverage Of Soraya Satellite Launch
Iranian broadcaster IRINN devoted considerable coverage to the successful launch of its Soraya satellite and Iran's space ambitions, offering a…
Generative AI Experiments: What Machine Types Support What Disk Types On GCE?
Google's Compute Engine platform supports an ever-growing and more complex matrix of machine types and block storage options, including newer…
GCP Tips & Tricks: The Compute Engine Metadata Server
The GCP Compute Engine (GCE) metadata server is an extremely powerful and often underappreciated resource. Yesterday we examined how it…
Simple Experiments In GCP Performance: Getting Bearer Tokens The Fast Way On GCE
While nearly all GCP APIs offer library interfaces for many major programming languages like Python, there are many use cases…
Simple Experiments In GCS LS Performance: Comparing GCloud, Python & The GCS JSON API
There are three primary ways to access files in GCS: using the native GCLOUD CLI (replaces GSUTIL), using the GCS…
How Is Gaza Being Covered On Television News?
Hamas’ terrorist attack and hostage-taking in Israel on Oct. 7 led in return to large-scale Israeli military action throughout Gaza….
Simple Experiments In Scalable Queuing: Quickly Getting Started With GCP's Pub/Sub
For those interested in the scalable global queuing system that is GCP's Pub/Sub, but not sure where to start, here's…
Generative AI Experiments: Why LLM-Based Geocoders Struggle
Over the past two days we've explored how advanced LLMs like GPT 4.0 struggle significantly with both candidate extraction and…
Generative AI Experiments: The Surprisingly Poor Performance Of LLM-Based Geocoders, Geographic Bias & Why GPT 3.5 & Gemini Pro Outperform GPT 4.0 In Underrepresented Geographies
Last year we explored the potential of LLMs to be used as general purpose entity extraction models, finding that LLMs…
Generative AI Experiments: The Inability Of Advanced LLMs Like GPT-4 To Reason Spatially
One of the most important tasks that fulltext geocoders perform is disambiguation: taking a placename and determining, out of all…
Generative AI Coverage Steady In Business Press But Fall In Search Interest
Television news coverage of "generative AI" and "large language models" surged on business channels in April 2023, then entered a…
Tracking Media Coverage Of OpenAI On TV News Over The Past Year: Altman's Ouster Dominated Mentions
The largest burst of coverage on cable television news over the past year about OpenAI or its CEO Sam Altman…
How November 2012 Was The Moment When "Climate Change" Won Out Over "Global Warming"
The timeline below compares combined mentions of the phrases "climate change" and "global warming" on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News…
La Vanguardia: Uncertainty About Economic Policy Has Remained Stable Since The Start Of The Conflict In Gaza
La Vanguardia republished Servimedia's coverage of BBVA Research's latest "Big Data Geopolitics Monitor" report. Read The Full Article.
Servimedia: Uncertainty About Economic Policy Has Remained Stable Since The Start Of The Conflict In Gaza
Servimedia covers BBVA Research's latest "Big Data Geopolitics Monitor" report. Read The Full Article.
Visual Explorer: 5.9 Million Broadcasts Now Available
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, the Visual Explorer now spans more than 5.93 million broadcasts across…
The Achilles Heel Of GPT-4 As Data Scientist: It Writes Code But Fails As Multimodal Or Data Analyst
Multimodal generative AI systems like GPT-4, also known as Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), are widely touted in many evangelist communities…
Visual Explorer: Hungary's M1 Now Available
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we are excited to announce that Hungary's M1-1 is now available…
Visual Explorer: 65M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp Transcription Model
Our massive collaborative initiative to transcribe the entire Internet Archive Television News Archive has reached 65 million minutes of transcribed broadcasts…
Experiments With Speech Transcription: Comparing The Cost Of Running OpenAI's Whisper Vs Google's Chirp In Production
Over the past few months we've transcribed more than 65 million minutes of global television news coverage spanning more than…
An Example Of How Chinese Television News Is Covering Gaza
How are other countries around the world covering the situation in Gaza? Here is a glimpse from Chinese television news…