The Daily Index — Tuesday, May 9, 2023 · TLDR Index

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HOW SHOPIFY TRIED AND FAILED TO CHALLENGE AMAZON IN LOGISTICS

Shopify is selling most of its logistics business, ending a nearly four-year effort to compete with Amazon's fulfillment services.

archive.ph · 9 min

TLDR AI

MILLION DOLLAR AI FINE-TUNING CHALLENGE

Think of this like Kaggle but for fine tuning a language model. We want to improve the safety of these models, and so we are relying on the community now to see if we can make progress. There are compute partnerships available and a reward model that you can use. The competition starts on June 10th.

chai-research.com · 3 min

TLDR Web Dev

PULL TO REFRESH FROM SCRATCH AS A REACT HOOK

The "pull to refresh" is a ubiquitous mobile UI pattern where a user pulls the page down and triggers the page refresh. This tutorial goes through the implementation steps of pull-to-refresh as a hook in React.

strictmode.io · 8 min

TLDR AI

LEARNING DECISION TREES WITH GRADIENT DESCENT

Decision Trees are a type of artificial intelligence that make decisions based on data, but the current method of creating these trees can sometimes give us less than perfect results. This paper talks about a new method using something called gradient descent, which helps us to build better Decision Trees and get more accurate results for tasks where the AI needs to categorize things.

arxiv.org · 14 min

TLDR AI

COMPOSE OBJECTS LOCALIZED WITH ATTRIBUTES

Compositional reasoning helps us understand complex visuals by combining objects and their features, but current AI models struggle with this. Researchers created a benchmark called Cola to test and improve these AI models, finding that a lightweight multi-modal adapter helps the models reason about images and language better.

arxiv.org · 29 min

TLDR AI

ENHANCING WEBPAGE UNDERSTANDING WITH A NOVEL ATTENTION MECHANISM

Webpages offer a lot of information for AI tasks, but they haven't been used to their full potential. The new Wikipedia Webpage suite (WikiWeb2M) helps study multimodal webpage understanding by introducing 2 million pages and a special attention mechanism that improves performance on tasks like generating descriptions, summarizing sections, and creating contextual image captions.

arxiv.org · 17 min

TLDR AI

AMERICA FORGOT ABOUT IBM WATSON. IS CHATGPT NEXT?

This article is a fun dive back into the days when IBM’s Watson was the next big AI thing, and then dives into the question of whether ChatGPT will meet the same fate of irrelevance.

archive.ph · 3 min

TLDR AI

CHATGPT IS GOING TO CHANGE EDUCATION, NOT DESTROY IT

This article dives into how teachers believe ChatGPT will enhance education.

archive.ph · 7 min

TLDR Web Dev

FIGHT BETWEEN BIG TECH AND BIG EUROPEAN TELCOS

In the EU, telcos are complaining about the investments they need to make to maintain the current network infrastructure. This is sparking a debate to make changes to the network charging fee, which may give Big Tech content a fast lane at the expense of giving a slow lane to everyone else.

blog.cloudflare.com · 7 min