ByteBrew

Walking the tightrope of learning and doing.

[ByteBrew @Elixir_Exchange]

I finally wrote my first #blog post:
"Catching Trailing Spaces - A Superhero's Story!"

#DEVCommunity

https://t.co/zIUbsXaVBf

[Aliaksandr Valialkin @valyala]

Slides from my talk at FOSDEM about the specifics of working with storage in time series databases.

https://t.co/76PHYQzqFF

[Aliaksandr Valialkin @valyala]

@Elixir_Exchange @eatonphil It should be available at https://t.co/XpthIx1LjX

[ByteBrew @Elixir_Exchange]

@valyala @eatonphil Cool stuff 🙌
Any idea when the recording of the talk will be available?

[ByteBrew @Elixir_Exchange]

If you have an #Android tablet, do NOT install the @NotebookLM app. It is the WORST way to experience an otherwise great product.

It's a poor use of a large screen real estate and doesn't allow to select parts of a response.

You're better off using the website via #Chrome.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Introducing the next generation: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4.

Claude Opus 4 is our most powerful model yet, and the world’s best coding model.

Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, delivering superior coding and reasoning.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

At #GoogleIO, we shared how decades of AI research have now become reality. 

From a total reimagining of Search to Agent Mode, Veo 3 and more, Gemini season will be the most exciting era of AI yet. 

Some highlights 🧵

[NotebookLM @NotebookLM]

You weren't dreaming— the @NotebookLM mobile app started rolling out this morning! We were eager to get the app into your hands, so this initial version has an MVP feature set with more functionality coming soon!

Here are a few of the features we're most excited about: 🧵🧵🧵

[Gwen (Chen) Shapira @gwenshap]

Photon is Databricks' C++ engine hiding under Spark SQL — and the SIGMOD '22 paper is full of 🔥 for engine nerds. They explain:

- Why they ditched JVM for native code
- Vectorized interpreted execution (not codegen!)
- Runtime tricks like SIMD ASCII checks and UUID rewrites
- Benchmarks: TPC-H 4× faster, Q1 23× faster

Worth reading for the design decisions and a bunch of useful optimization techniques.

Section 3 does a great job explaining design considerations and real-world tradeoffs. Sections 4–5 offer a collection of engine-level optimizations you’ll want to borrow.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

I wrote a book on TypeScript.

It took 9 months of my life.

And I gave it away for free.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing a research preview of Codex in ChatGPT

https://t.co/EOvjGJrHbj

[Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen]

After a few weeks of phased testing, Deep Research on Qwen Chat is now live and available for everyone ! 🎉

Here's how to use it: Just ask something you're curious about — like "Tell me something about robotics." Qwen will then ask you to narrow it down — maybe history, theory, or real-world applications. You can pick one, or just say "Not sure… Surprise me!" 😄

Then, while you grab a coffee ☕ or take a quick break, Qwen will put together a clear, helpful report just for you.

AI is getting better every day, and Qwen is here to help make your life a little easier — whether it’s for work, learning, or just satisfying your curiosity.

Why not give it a try? You might find something cool! 💡

🔗：https://t.co/hoTLmJiDSP

[Distributed Bytes @DistribSystems]

Concurrency bugs in Lucene: How to fix optimistic concurrency failures
https://t.co/rwS6AvaM8O
Debugging concurrency bugs is no picnic, but we're going to get into it. Enter Fray, a deterministic concurrency testing framework, that turns flaky failures into reproducible ones.

[JetBrains @jetbrains]

In C++, one wrong move can cost you a leg. CLion helps you walk away.
You can now use CLion’s full functionality for free for learning and teaching, developing open-source projects, creating content, and programming as a hobby.

[ByteBrew @Elixir_Exchange]

@MattJamesBoyle Continuing work on my text file indexer.

I finally ran into the challenge of parallelising the creation of indexes 🔥

I'm also planning to investigate Apache Lucene in depth to better understand advanced indexing techniques.

[Distributed Bytes @DistribSystems]

Parallel, Concurrent and Distributed Programming
https://t.co/z0nuE8ZmYX
This course on basic concurrent and parallel algorithms has been taught by Ilya Sergey at Yale-NUS College in 2019-2024.

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

After 6+ months in the making and burning over a year of GPU compute time, we're super excited to finally release the "Ultra-Scale Playbook"

Check it out here: https://t.co/dekxY4BQZO

A free, open-source, book to learn everything about 5D parallelism, ZeRO, fast CUDA kernels, how and why overlap compute & communication – all scaling bottlenecks and tools introduced with motivation, theory, interactive plots from our 4000+ scaling experiments and even NotebookLM podcasters to tag along with you.

- How was DeepSeek trained for $5M only?
- Why did Mistral trained an MoE?
- Why is PyTorch native Data Parallelism implementation so complex under the hood?
- What are all the parallelism techniques and why were they invented?
- Should I use ZeRO-3 or Pipeline Parallelism when scaling and what's the story behind both techniques?
- What is this Context Parallelism that Meta used to train Llama 3? Is it different from Sequence Parallelism?
- What is FP8? how does it compares to BF16?

In this book, our goal was to gather, in a single place, a coherent, easy to read yet detailed story of all the techniques that make today's LLM scaling possible.

The largest factor for democratizing AI will always be teaching everyone how to build AI and in particular how to create, train and fine-tune high performance models. In other word making accessible to everybody the techniques that power all recent large language models and efficient training is possibly one of the most essential of them.

What started as a simple blog-post ended up becoming an interactive writing piece containing 30k+ words. So we've decided to actually print it as a real 100-pages physical book as well: the physical ultrafast playbook –containing all the science of distributed and fast AI training.

We plan to send free copies as gifts to the first readers of the online version so feel free to add your email in the form linked in the blog post.

[NotebookLM @NotebookLM]

We have heard you LOUD & CLEAR that you want an app like... yesterday. We're a few weeks from the beta launch, but in the meantime you can join the app waitlist TODAY ⬇️

It will auto-download to your device at launch, so you can be one of the first have our app in your pocket 🏆

[Kamran Ahmed @nilbuild]

AI Agents Roadmap

[ByteBrew @Elixir_Exchange]

@DominikTornow @resonatehqio Thanks! Looking forward to it 🙌