Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (October 03, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for October 03, 2023 :</p>
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PicoCalc: A Fully-Functional Clone of VisiCalc
Summary: PicoCalc, a fully-functional clone of the 1979 classic VisiCalc, has been released for the Pico-8 platform. The high-precision spreadsheet application offers enhancements over the original, including increased integer/fractional precision and granular error reporting.
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Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks
Summary: MIT-Han-Lab has introduced StreamingLLM, a framework that enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to handle infinite-length inputs without sacrificing efficiency or performance. It retains only the most recent tokens and attention sinks, allowing the model to generate coherent text without cache resets. Ideal for streaming applications like multi-round dialogues, StreamingLLM outperforms sliding window recomputation baselines with up to 22.2x speedup.
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