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Generative AI Experiments: LLM Knowledge Freshness & GSUTIL vs GCLOUD – The Dangers Of LLMs For Fast-Moving Fields

As LLMs are increasingly positioned as "coding copilots" for developers, we've been exploring their potential utility to help with the…

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Generative AI Experiments: The Limits Of Advanced GenAI Coding Copilots For Writing Complex Code Like Networking

As we continue our evaluations of advanced LLM-driven generative AI coding copilots, we've found them to be useful for generating…

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GCP Tips & Tricks: Observations On A Decade Of Running Elasticsearch On GCP: Part 3 – Future Storage Options

We've run Elasticsearch clusters on GCP for almost a decade across many different iterations of hardware and cluster configurations. Earlier…

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GCP Tips & Tricks: Observations On A Decade Of Running Elasticsearch On GCP: Part 2

We've run Elasticsearch clusters on GCP for almost a decade across many different iterations of hardware and cluster configurations. Yesterday…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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….

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…