6. Reduce GVisor Cold Starts with GPU Snapshotting (cerebrium.ai)

Cerebrium is a serverless AI infrastructure platform for real-time, high-performance applications. Deploy globally, reduce latency, scale instantly, and maintain data sovereignty with region-aware infrastructure.

9. Ray Tracer in SQL (github.com)

Ray tracer in SQL. Contribute to ClickHouse/RayTracer development by creating an account on GitHub.

18. Flavor Graveyard (www.benjerry.com)

Even great ice cream flavors must come to an end. Pay tribute to your favorite de-pinted Ben & Jerry’s flavors in the Flavor Graveyard.

19. Hengefinder (hengefinder.com)

Discover stunning moments when the sun or moon aligns perfectly with city streets and buildings. Find henges near you with Hengefinder.

20. A deep dive into SmallVector:push_back (maskray.me)

tl;dr This blog post describes a recent SmallVector::push_back optimization for approximately trivially copyable element types. SmallVector is LLVM's most-used container, and push_back its hot operati

22. Deriving SVD without even aiming at it (stillthinking.net)

Most books state the Singular Value Decomposition as a finished theorem. Here we arrive at it naturally, without even aiming for it — letting the structure of any linear map hand us the factorization for free.

23. Are readers generating fiction with AI models? (arxiv.org)

Some professional authors are beginning to use AI tools to help produce their fiction writing. Are readers using AI to generate fiction, too? Drawing on over 500,000 anonymized, English-language ChatGPT-user conversations (arXiv:2405.01470), we find that more than one third of the conversations involve some form of fiction generation -- including original stories, roleplay, fanfiction, and erotica. This AI-generated fiction is notably dominated by power users. We identify common fiction generation patterns and profiles among these users, including what we call "infinite story demanders," who repeatedly request and revise variations of the same or similar narratives over extended periods of time. We show that users especially gravitate toward fanfiction and erotica, and that they are broadly drawn to generic forms, repetition, immediacy, and niche combinations of story elements. Our findings motivate two theoretical provocations. First, we argue that AI technologies may lead to a shift in the conventional relationship between the author and reader, potentially producing what we call a "solipsistic reader-writer," who both generates and consumes fiction within a closed conversational loop, interacting with a machine rather than a human other. Second, we note that LLMs enable interactivity, play, and permutation in ways that are seemingly pleasurable for users, raising questions about where AI will fit into contemporary storytelling and entertainment ecosystems. We situate these developments within broader transformations in literature and media, including self-publishing, fanfiction, and pornography, and suggest that AI-generated fiction shares structural affinities with on-demand, personalized, and repetitive cultural forms.

25. US feds are actively hiring "person who decides which models to ban" (www.usajobs.gov)

CAISI is a center of AI expertise in the U.S. government. Its Frontier Assessment team is hiring a Member of Technical Staff to develop novel means of evaluating AI, track strategic competition and threats to national security, assess economically important capabilities, produce briefings, build technical infrastructure, and track AI diffusion. This notice is issued under direct-hire authority to recruit new talent to occupations for which NIST has a severe shortage of candidates.

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