There's been work combining GA's and Architecture search for neural networks, the main keyword to search is NeuroEvolution, with NEAT being one of the first "good" algorithms for that (though scaling it up is hard)
TL;DR: Homa implements a novel and effective form of bipartite matching that allows it to achieve high network utilization while also respecting message priorities.
Julia is more for Scientific Computing than Data Science, think weather prediction and fluid simulations vs data visualization and gradient boosted trees. In that niche Julia is doing pretty well in fact. Also it's an interesting language in general, with a nice macro system and a powerful multiple dispatch one, it's definitely worth learning IMO.
It has friction because you're not working in a vacuum, pun intended. The more people you're working with, the more friction/overhead there is. The trick is trying to automate as much of it as possible, and to batch what's impossible to automate
Wasn't there a reduction in suicides? Not that that's the only factor when it comes to mental health, but it's probably something to take into account when you talk about the mental health toll of the past 2 years
It's not a vanity division, but I would definitely put Facebook in fourth, below Google Research, DeepMind and Microsoft, so definely not safely on second place
Christopher Alexander was the author of A Pattern Language, The Timeless Way of Building, and many other architecture books. His work has influenced Computer Science through the idea of design patterns, games by being the main inspiration for SimCity and also influencing Spore, among many other contributions.
Here's a tweet from an account dedicated to his book a pattern language about his passing: https://twitter.com/apatterntolearn/status/15048528809641328...
Definetely one of the giants of the last century, may his memory be a blessing.
There is much more rationalising about death being good in Christianity (with the notion of a heaven for the believers) than in Judaism (no set beliefs on the after life) or even many pagan religions of that time (Greek life after death is often depressing for non-heroes)
ADA is the company doing chatbots/conversational AI, cohere is providing them with language models to do it, that's not the same thing as cohere being a company in the chatbot field
While jax has those operations you don't always need them, it depends on what transformations you want to do (JIT or grad) and they have been working on making normal control structures compatible with all transformations