The Daily Index — Thursday, May 11, 2023 · TLDR Index

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TRANSFORMERS AGENTS

Hugging Face has released Transformers Agents, a fully multimodal API that allows developers to control over 100,000 models by talking to Transformers and Diffusers.

threadreaderapp.com · 3 min

TLDR AI

ENHANCING LANGUAGE MODELS WITH ALGORITHMS FOR SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE

Recent research shows that incorporating algorithms into large pre-trained language models (LLMs) can significantly improve their capabilities, without the need for fine-tuning. An example of evidence-supported question-answering demonstrates a 6.4% improvement over the standard baseline, suggesting the potential advantages of this innovative, cost-effective method.

arxiv.org · 13 min

TLDR Web Dev

EXTENDING WEB APPLICATIONS WITH WEBASSEMBLY AND PYTHON

This article discusses how Python programs can be run within an application that uses a WebAssembly runtime, allowing for bi-directional communication between the two. WebAssembly is a sandboxed environment for extending applications, allowing for secure and portable code to run within the same process as the main application. Python can be interpreted by a WebAssembly module, and this article presents a sample application that guides developers on how to implement bindings for bi-directional communication between the WebAssembly host and the Python code.

wasmlabs.dev · 10 min

TLDR Crypto

BINANCE SLAMS US CRYPTO CRACKDOWN AND MAKES BID FOR UK OVERSIGHT

Binance is apparently struggling to operate in the US due to increased regulatory scrutiny. Its chief strategy officer, Patrick Hillmann, expressed the company's interest in being regulated in the UK, despite past clashes with London-based regulators. Binance has faced multiple lawsuits from US regulators, including the CFTC and the DOJ. While it is difficult to operate in the US now with its unclear regulatory framework, Hillmann believes the US will eventually follow Europe’s lead.

archive.ph · 3 min

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‘NEARSHORING’ PUSH IS FUELING TECH JOB DEMAND IN LATIN AMERICA

Nearshoring is when companies hire or outsource to workers in locales closer to home.

archive.ph · 6 min

TLDR AI

MODELS

This paper systematically evaluates methods for generating images from diffusion models and their benefits for data augmentation in downstream tasks. The study reveals that personalizing diffusion models towards target data is effective, but using the training data of the diffusion model alone through a simple nearest neighbor retrieval procedure results in stronger downstream performance, highlighting the potential and limitations of diffusion models in data augmentation.

arxiv.org · 16 min

TLDR AI

SAM ALTMAN TO TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will testify to Congress for the first-time next week, the latest sign that policymakers in Washington are ratcheting up scrutiny of artificial intelligence as the technology booms in Silicon Valley.

archive.ph · 2 min

TLDR Web Dev

BET ON GROWTH

When it comes to changes in the tech industry, the best way to navigate them is to bet on growth. When something suddenly starts getting good, the question is not, “How good is it?” Rather, the valuable question to ask is, “How long will it improve?” A growth mindset can change how you see the future of tech and can help you navigate your career in a smart manner.

tidyfirst.substack.com · 1 min

TLDR Web Dev

DART 3

Dart 3 was announced today and it’s the largest Dart release to date. Dart is used widely for developing cross-platform mobile and web applications in Flutter. New features in Dart 3 include 100% sound null safety, new language features like new data structures, more native interoperability, compilation to WebAssembly, and more.

medium.com · 10 min