Sherlock Xu

May 15, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Sherlock Xu |Dan Kraemer |Agam Shah |Janakiram MSV

Consider an AI-powered image recognition app designed to identify and classify wildlife photos. You upload a picture taken during a hike, and within moments, the app not only identifies the animal in the photo but also provides detailed information about its species, habitat and conservation status. This kind of app can be built through model composition — a technique where multiple AI models collaborate to analyze and interpret the image from various perspectives.

May 2, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun |Sherlock Xu |Joab Jackson

SEATTLE — The free license that Redis offers under its new license is not a great deal, says the lead contributor to the Valkey project, the new Redis fork backed by The Linux Foundation. “So a lot of people just look at the fact that the new license that Redis is putting out is free for end users,” said Madelyn Olson, a former core contributor to the Redis project, in an interview for The New Stack Makers. The episode, which included Valkey maintainers from Google and Oracle.

May 2, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Jeffrey Burt |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun |Sherlock Xu

Developers already under siege by attacks on the software supply chain have another worry after researchers uncovered a high-severity security vulnerability in the popular open source R programming language. The discovery of the flaw by analysts with AI security company HiddenLayer would let attackers exploit a weakness in the deserialization process in R to execute arbitrary code in a victim’s systems, essentially enabling them to write code or commands into the system.

May 1, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun |Sherlock Xu

The Go language has a special command that is used to compile and install a binary package for your application into a path that is accessible to your application’s user. Let me explain it in a way we can all understand. First, let’s talk about the PATH. A PATH is a special list of directories that instructs the system where to find the necessary executable files to run commands.

May 1, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Kimberley Mok |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun |Sherlock Xu

Large language models (LLMs) have been making a huge impact during the last couple of years, in particular with the emergence of tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. However, the mammoth size of LLMs — many of which are now trained on billions (and sometimes trillions) of machine learning variables — makes them too computationally heavy for devices like personal computers, smartphones and other smart devices.