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This Week I Learned -  *  A practical
guide to building agents from OpenAI * "AI is a powerful genie that does what we ask it to do, which is not necessarily what we actually want. Every story about genies revolves around the inability of those given the magic wishes to wish for the right thing. The art of asking is everything. That is, the future belongs to those who are exercising the intelligence and insight that AI itself does not have." - Tim O’Reilly * Folksonomy is a user-generated system for classifying and organizing online content using metadata like electronic tags. Also known as social tagging, folksonomies are collections of user-defined metadata. They evolve naturally as users create or store content on specific sites and identify what they believe the content is about. "Tag clouds" highlight various identifiers and their frequency of use on a folksonomy site. This grassroots classification method, similar to blogs and wikis, is subject to vandalism a...

This Week I Learned -  * Never a dull day in the AI world - Offering sophisticated multimodal features, Meta has introduced Llama 4, their newest open-weight AI models comprising Scout, Maverick, and Behemoth. The models are based on a novel "mixture of experts" (MoE) architecture. Llama 4 is trained to operate with both text and visual inputs like photographs or videos. It uses a technique called early fusion, meaning it processes all input types through one combined system from the beginning. This lets it be trained all at once on a combination of text, image, and video data. Scout can operate effectively on one high-end graphics card—the NVIDIA H100. While Maverick has 17 billion active parameter models with 128 experts, Llama 4 Scout with the same 17 billion active parameters is constructed using 16 experts. In artificial intelligence, parameters are similar to brain cells in that they enable the model to learn from data, interpret language and make informed dec...

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