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Like to chat about #devtools? Join Megan Reynolds 👩‍💻 & friends for a fun🧠 evening in NYC.

In this episode of Neural Notes, our ongoing series of interviews w/ key AI researchers in academia, we discuss a big challenge w/ long contexts in language model (LM) apps: performance degrades w/ longer contexts 📉 youtu.be/UTsHoRuVbcw Why does this matter? Read on... 🧵

Join Megan Reynolds 👩‍💻 Chase Roberts Vertex Ventures and some special mutuals for devtools + drinks :)

Attention is all you need...if your context is short enough. Why? Transformer architectures don't scale efficiently for long contexts On this episode of Neural Notes, we dive into new architectures that perform well for long sequences w/ Dan Fu youtu.be/ULILmoHjWkU

Vertex Ventures US joins the international community in condemning the recent terrorist attacks in Israel and mourning the needless loss of innocent life. Our thoughts go out to our friends, family, and colleagues in the area. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Heading KubeCon in Chicago next week? We’re hosting our Vertex Ventures US Happy Hour (Wed 8 Nov) ft. an all-star panel discussing the shift from cloud native to AI native🔥 with MVPs Justin Cormack Kenneth Rose Phillip Carter - we have a few spots left, apply here! 🚀lu.ma/vvuskubecon23

Who's in #Chicago for KubeCon? We're at BackstageCon today and Kenneth Rose is joining an all-star lineup on Wednesday evening. Details 👇

Amazing what really motivates SF politicians.

Gotta love this arriving at 6pm on the Friday before New Year’s Eve … as if there weren’t enough SBF conspiracy theories.

Always pack my own snacks.

Today is a RAD day for software supply chain security! KSOC just released the first standard for verifiable, cloud native workload fingerprints with RAD security. Start with the online catalog for fingerprints of popular open source images! rad.security/catalog #radsecurity

This is a CT scan of Heinz’s new ketchup cap. It represents a $1.2 million engineering investment over 8 years. Here’s why it’s significant… 🧵

What I do isn’t hard, I just don’t give up.

We are all beginners at something.

Well said. Being more competitive brings out more competition.

The best infra software talent in NYC came out in force last night!! 💥Thank you so much to everyone who made it to the infra.nyc spring fling 🌸🍻 I was blown away by the amazing conversations + so many new people 🥹 Big summer party in the works - stay tuned 🫶

Our infra.nyc summer fiesta was out of this world 🔥🚀🫶 last week we hosted well over 100 of the city’s best infra founders, operators + enterprise engineering leaders for a party in Brooklyn 🥳 the quality of talent here is insane 💥 can’t wait for the next one!

Building an infra software startup in NYC? Join 200 friends for drinks and pizza 🍻🍕 on 7/31 from companies like Datadog, Inc. MongoDB Vantage Knock Temporal CockroachDB PlanetScale Convex 🫶 just a few spots left, apply here lu.ma/08qw671d

🎙️ My Vertex US colleague Sandeep Bhadra and I had a fascinating conversation with Kawin Ethayarajh from Stanford AI Lab about KTO (Kahneman-Tversky Optimization). KTO blends Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics, using insights from Kahneman and Tversky to align AI with human