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The Future of Frontend in 2025: Server-First, AI-Powered, and Closer to the Metal

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Let’s be real: frontend has changed. A lot. It’s not just HTML and buttons anymore. In 2025, being a frontend developer means thinking like an architect, rendering content at the edge, writing smart CSS, and pairing with AI tools that generate code before you’ve finished your coffee. If you haven’t checked in with the frontend … Read more

Proxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A

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Commercial nuclear fusion power isn’t a reality yet. But venture capital is flowing into startups that promise that clean, safe, and virtually limitless energy is no longer just a distant dream. Most fusion companies that have raised over $100 million are based in the United States. Not Proxima Fusion, a German startup that has just … Read more

Large Language Models: Inference Process and KV-Cache Structure

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background 2.1 Large Language Models 2.2 Fragmentation and PagedAttention 3 Issues with the PagedAttention Model and 3.1 Requires re-writing the attention kernel 3.2 Adds redundancy in the serving framework and 3.3 Performance Overhead 4 Insights into LLM Serving Systems 5 vAttention: System Design and 5.1 Design Overview … Read more

vAttention: Contiguous KV-Cache for Faster, Simpler LLM Inference

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background 2.1 Large Language Models 2.2 Fragmentation and PagedAttention 3 Issues with the PagedAttention Model and 3.1 Requires re-writing the attention kernel 3.2 Adds redundancy in the serving framework and 3.3 Performance Overhead 4 Insights into LLM Serving Systems 5 vAttention: System Design and 5.1 Design Overview … Read more

LLM Training Hyperparameters: Detailed Overview

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Method 3. Experiments on real data 3.1. Benefits scale with model size and 3.2. Faster inference 3.3. Learning global patterns with multi-byte prediction and 3.4. Searching for the optimal n 3.5. Training for multiple epochs and 3.6. Finetuning multi-token predictors 3.7. Multi-token prediction on natural language 4. … Read more

Why Learning a New Programming Language as an Experienced Developer Feels Harder Than Starting From Scratch

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When people talk about learning programming, they often assume that experienced developers will pick up new languages faster than beginners. On the surface, that makes sense: if you’ve already written code for years, how hard can it be to pick up another language? But here’s the twist — sometimes, it’s actually harder for experienced developers … Read more

Google is offering employee buyouts in Search and other orgs

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Google is starting to offer buyouts to US-based employees in its sprawling Search organization, along with other divisions like marketing, research, and core engineering, according to multiple employees familiar with the matter. The buyouts, which Google is referring to as a “voluntary exit program,” are currently not being offered to employees in DeepMind, Google Cloud, … Read more