Peak’s Post

About 3-4 decades ago the notion of having a 'mission' made its way into the world of schooling. Before that (and some of us are old enough to remember!), to be called a 'school' seemed to be enough for us to understand our purpose and, more or less, what to do each day. Today, as we have learned more and more about how learning happens, about how to maximize opportunities for learning, and understand better how we in schools must contribute to the many major global issues we as humanity face, a more precise mission has become essential. We at the GTC see 'mission' as a set of promises - promises we are making for today to our families, promises that we intend to keep. How do we know we are keeping them? We diligently measure our achievement of those promises. That is the most essential role of SCHOOL GOVERNANCE. Join us in practicing 'Measuring Your Mission. https://lnkd.in/giP7N2vE

Some numbers from the day: - 1.2 trillion tokens sent to the models - Over 300 hours of collective problem solving - Highest score was 75.6% - Avg. score was 61.3% - Cost and Quality were the metrics including (faithfulness, answer correctness, context relevancy, context recall, context precision, and cost efficiency) Measuring and benchmarking are critical for great systems engineer when incorporating LLMs and other new models!

Alessandro Stolfo joined our team this summer and made strong progress on steering LLMs for better instruction following https://lnkd.in/g6pcBVQt The work directly leverages internal representations of open-weights LLMs to improve, compose, and transfer such capabilities in models like phi, gemma, mistral. I am particularly excited about directions in this space, as they continue to demystify how tangible functionalities in transformers work, and how to meaningfully control them, beyond prompting. Instruction following is one of those cross-cutting capabilities that is important to understand for improving a broad range of other capabilities like reasoning, planning, creative writing, as complex forms of constrained text generation tasks. Together with: Vidhisha Balachandran Safoora Yousefi Eric Horvitz

Done with the most interesting project so far.

Hollywood's loss is our gain! After leaving Eastern Michigan University where he studied 3D simulation and animation, Darian Hogue took advantage of free online courses in software engineering from Harvard University. Now, Darian is a software engineer with Mcity where he incorporates traffic light data into the UMTRI Smart Intersections Project, makes upgrades to Mcity OS, and creates a 3D map for the development of a simulated test facility. Learn more about Darian and how he juggles his creativity in software development and being a father: https://myumi.ch/N6kEV

What do you think of this thesis, related to Cagan's feature versus product teams thinking: 1) in order to start a natural transition from a feature team to a product team the first thing that you should start doing is measuring impact of the changes you make in the most objective way possible. This will lead to a sequence of events that will - for the right reasons start a transition to a product team. Probably not a controversial statement - but, here's an interesting thought experiment: 2) could it also be that if you operate like a product team and start measuring properly a transition to a feature team follows - for the right reasons?

"Excited to share a major milestone in my engineering journey!🎓 Yesterday, wrapped up my first presentation for my Final Year Project, diving into "Computer Vision based Assistance System for Visually Impaired People" . It's been a challenging yet rewarding journey, and I'm grateful for the support of my mentors, peers, and faculty. I will be sharing my FYP journey with you continuously. Can't wait to continue pushing boundaries and making an impact in the world of engineering! #FYP #EngineeringJourney #Innovation"

I just completed Electronic Arts's Software Engineering on @[Forage](urn:li:organization:68514998). In the simulation I: * Proposed a new feature for the Sims 4 and wrote a Feature Proposal describing   it to other stakeholders. * Built a class diagram and created a header file in C++ with class definitions   for each object. * Patched a bugfix and optimized the Sims 4 codebase by implementing an   improved data structure.Check out the simulation here: https://lnkd.in/dCnsSVw3

Discover the exciting progress Julia has made in 2024! From new language features to an evolving package ecosystem, and a vibrant community, this video captures it all. Watch the State of Julia 2024 to stay updated and celebrate these advancements with us! https://lnkd.in/dDFtrfe6 #JuliaLang #StateOfJulia #Juliacon #programming 

It was an honour to be part of the judging panel for the Grid for Good university challenge. What tough competition! Chinemelum, Ikuni and Glory are deserving winners. The future is bright for these Generating Genius’. What is clear is that we need to champion all aspects of engineering careers. Without planning, procurement, commercial management, resource management, finance management, ICT and many more, the “nuts and bolts” wouldn’t make it off the design drawing. We also need to celebrate the many routes to engineering via diploma, apprenticeship, degree, masters, life experience. And where better to start than https://lnkd.in/eMqGRYVW? National Grid “You never know if you don’t try”.