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Vercel Blog

Designing the Vercel virtual product tour

If you've tried a new tech tool recently, this experience might sound familiar: you visit the website, skim the homepage content, but still struggle to understand what the tool will do for you. The is a key resource for prospective teams to interactively understand what Vercel can offer. It takes the breadth of information about Vercel and breaks the product down into the most relevant parts.Vercel virtual product tour First, we’ll talk about why we designed the tour the way we did. Then, for t

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PlanetScale Blog

Optimizing query planning in Vitess: a step-by-step approach

Introduction In this blog post, we will discuss an example of a change to the Vitess query planner and how it enhances the optimization process. The new model focuses on making every step in the optimization pipeline a runnable plan. This approach offers several benefits, including simpler understanding and reasoning, ease of testing, and the ability to use arbitrary expressions in ordering, grouping, and aggregations. Vitess distributed query planner VTGate is the proxy component of Vitess. It

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PlanetScale Blog

Pulling back the curtain: the new database overview page

Have you ever wondered what's actually under the hood of a PlanetScale database? Starting today, you no longer have to wonder! We just released a huge update to your database overview page in the PlanetScale dashboard. The power of PlanetScale Our goal at PlanetScale has always been to provide the most powerful, yet easy-to-use database that "just works." We've packed a ton of power under the hood, and with this newest release, we're pulling back the curtain to make it clear exactly what you're

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OpenAI News

Improving mathematical reasoning with process supervision

We've trained a model to achieve a new state-of-the-art in mathematical problem solving by rewarding each correct step of reasoning (“process supervision”) instead of simply rewarding the correct final answer (“outcome supervision”). In addition to boosting performance relative to outcome supervision, process supervision also has an important alignment benefit: it directly trains the model to produce a chain-of-thought that is endorsed by humans.

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