Embeddings are integral to various natural language processing (NLP) applications, and their quality is crucial for optimal performance. They are commonly used in knowledge bases to represent textual data as dense vectors, enabling efficient similarity search and retrieval. In Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings are used to retrieve relevant passages from a corpus to provide context for language models to generate informed, knowledge-grounded responses. Embeddings also play a key role in personalization and recommendation systems by representing user preferences, item characterist ..read more

Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, Galco is a leading e-commerce distributor that specializes in providing a wide range of industrial and commercial electrical and electronic products, focusing on maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO).  Known for strong expertise in sourcing hard-to-find, high-quality products and guaranteeing exceptional customer service – including cross-referencing, free in-house technical support, same-day shipping on in-stock products and repair services both on-site and send-in – they are able to provide customized control panel so ..read more

Our newest RTK tool and our smallest stepper motor driver are now available! Make sure to stick around for another set of new iFixit tools, too! Favorited Favorite 0 Hello everyone and welcome back to another Friday Product Post here at SparkFun Electronics! This is a big week for us because we are finally releasing our latest enclosed GNSS surveyor, the RTK Torch! You may have seen this kit on our site last month as a beta version, but thanks to your feedback from that, we have made a few upgrades and adjustments to the full release. Needless to say, we are extremely happy with the results ..read more

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Meta Llama 3 inference on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia based instances in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The Meta Llama 3 models are a collection of pre-trained and fine-tuned generative text models. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 and Inf2 instances, powered by AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia2, provide the most cost-effective way to deploy Llama 3 models on AWS. They offer up to 50% lower cost to deploy than comparable Amazon EC2 instances. They not only reduce the time and expense involved in training and deploying large lan ..read more

Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That care is necessary to maintain the beautiful sandy havens that we all want to enjoy, but it requires a lot of labor. A capstone team of students from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Creative Technology & Design program recognized that fact and they create the Seaside Sweeper beach-cleaning robot to lighten the load. Seaside Sweeper is like a Roomba for beaches. Either autonomously or through manual control, it can patrol a coastline for up to 15 hours on a battery charge and scoop up a ..read more

Personalized customer experiences are essential for engaging today’s users. However, delivering truly personalized experiences that adapt to changes in user behavior can be both challenging and time-consuming. Amazon Personalize makes it straightforward to personalize your website, app, emails, and more, using the same machine learning (ML) technology used by Amazon, without requiring ML expertise. With the recipes—algorithms for specific uses cases—provided by Amazon Personalize, you can deliver a wide array of personalization, including product or content recommendations and personalized ran ..read more

As more powerful large language models (LLMs) are used to perform a variety of tasks with greater accuracy, the number of applications and services that are being built with generative artificial intelligence (AI) is also growing. With great power comes responsibility, and organizations want to make sure that these LLMs produce responses that align with their organizational values and provide the same unique experience they always intended for their end-customers. Evaluating AI-generated responses presents challenges. This post discusses techniques to align them with company values and build a ..read more

When we think about air quality and pollution, it’s easy to conjure up images of smog-filled cities and power plants churning clouds of poison into the atmosphere. And while all this is still important, and has massive consequences for our health, it’s all too easy to overlook the air pollution that takes place within our homes. Indoor air quality is incredibly important for our health and quality of life, and taking steps to improve the air quality in our homes — while also saving energy — is one of the best things we can do. It’s also surprisingly easy and can be achieved even with DIY dev ..read more

We just wrapped up our AI Innovation Challenge with NVIDIA and Hackster and are so excited to share the projects! Winners feature an interactive GLaDOS Robot, a Gen AI-enhanced virtual try-on experience, and more! Thanks to the developers who made their ideas a reality! by Chowdah May 1, 2024 9:35 pm UTC 0 Favorited Favorite 0 We just wrapped up our AI Innovation Challenge with NVIDIA and Hackster and are so excited to share the projects! These projects showcase the power of creative and innovative thinking, and we were blown away by quality of entries we received. Thanks to everyone who p ..read more

Large language models (LLMs) are making a significant impact in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Their impressive generative abilities have led to widespread adoption across various sectors and use cases, including content generation, sentiment analysis, chatbot development, and virtual assistant technology. Llama2 by Meta is an example of an LLM offered by AWS. Llama 2 is an auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture and is intended for commercial and research use in English. It comes in a range of parameter sizes—7 billion, 13 billion, and 70 bil ..read more