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Meet MAmmoTH: A Series of Open-Source LLMs for General Math
Modern large language models (LLMs) rely heavily on mathematical reasoning, which is the primary focus of this work. There is a clear divide between closed-source and open-source LLMs, even with the recent progress in this area; closed-source models like GPT-4, PaLM-2, and Claude 2 dominate popular mathematical reasoning benchmarks like GSM8K and MATH, while open-source… Read more
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‘Steam Deck and SteamOS are great for Linux as a whole’
By Liam Dawe – 22 September 2023 At the recent Open Source Summit Europe 2023, Alberto Garcia a software engineer at Igalia did a talk covering Valve, Steam Deck, SteamOS and how it all helps Linux as a whole. For people who understand Linux and open source, a lot of this would be pretty obvious… Read more
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OS alt to github: ‘Gitness’
Since its launch in 2017, Harness, the software delivery platform founded by AppDynamics founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal, expanded from being continuous code deployment to covering continuous integration, feature flags, cloud cost management, security testing orchestration, chaos engineering and more. But even though it focused heavily on GitOps, it never offered its own Git repositories.… Read more
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A Guide to Open Source Platform Engineering
Learn the steps to build a Kubernetes based, open source internal developer platform and why you should invest in platform engineering to beat ops sprawl. BILBAO — The rise of platform engineering in 2023 is part of a pendulum swinging back away from developer autonomy but not all the way back to Waterfall command and… Read more
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Faceoff: Open Source Security vs Commercial
Developers don’t want fragmented tooling, too many alerts or dashboards. Instead, they need to have immense trust in the quality of the results of their security tools. The shift-left movement has done wonders with advancing many engineering disciplines over the past decade, and none have seen more progress than the security discipline, with regards to… Read more
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Proton 8.0-4 is now in testing with a Release Candidate
Valve snuck out a Release Candidate build for Proton 8.0-4 last week, which brings with it many improvements to the main stable version of the Windows compatibility layer for Steam Deck and desktop Linux. It’s in the RC stage, as Valve are looking for feedback on any issues that weren’t present in 8.0-3. Currently there’s… Read more
