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The evolution of segmentation models has been pretty wild. Especially SAM. What felt experimental not long ago is now genuinely usable. SAM-3 is getting close to human-level performance in a lot of real-world cases. That changes the math: -Less manual labeling -Faster iteration -Smaller teams doing work
As recently as 2020 , a simple image, blueberry muffin and Chihuahua grid, could completely confuse ML and AI vision models. To humans, the difference is obvious. To models back then, not so much. Fast forward to today, and that same image is trivial.
First, market share. OpenAI had an enormous first-mover advantage, but it’s been losing ground quickly. Depending on how you measure it, it’s gone from roughly 86% to closer to 65% in traffic share. That’s still dominant, but the direction matters more than the
Over the years, I’ve learned that if you want Engineering to move with confidence and build real systems with LLM/AI/ML embedded, you need evals. There’s no way around it. Evals are what turn “we think this is better” into “we know
Some basic steps on setting up Plutus on Ubuntu. 1) Make sure you have git installed sudo apt-get install git 2) Clone Plutus git clone git@github.com :input-output-hk/plutus.git The following steps can be found here ( https://nixos.org/learn.html ) 3) Install Nix `curl
I am currently working at a start-up that is using Scala and Play Framework -- both have their pros and cons. I come from a more traditional programming background of Java style languages so it's been an adjustment. Recently while analyzing some code, I ran into some strange
The plain Ubuntu image that is often used with AWS is very under-configured. Here are a few things to change. Timezone This is annoying... the default timezone is set to UTC. sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Swap There is no swap configured, so lets put it on SSD ephemeral driver.
We've been successfully using Codeship and Stackdriver for the last few months. If you haven't hear of these two Boston companies I would seriously consider taking a closer look. Stackdriver has grown up fast and provides very compelling monitoring-as-a-service product that integrates seamlessly
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know about Bootsrap -- powerful mobile first front-end framework that enables web development with responsive design inmind. One of the most popular elements on any website is the top navigation bar and the search widget. Bootstrap provides all the necessary
I've been using Play framework for a few months and I am really starting to like it. For all its great features and simplicity, it still lacks some of the advanced features. Recently I was facing a problem of enabling basic auth -- some framework have this as a
Here is an example of how to forward HTTP to HTTPS using Play Framework Filter. This is a setup for AWS Elastic Load Balancer. A few points: This is for Play Framework 2.2.x, the API is a bit different for older versions of Play. Scala Filters Play lower-