The Daily Index — Thursday, July 6, 2023 · TLDR Index

Repositories, courses and useful tools

Resources & Tools

TLDR · GitHub repository

LINESELECT

LineSelect is a shell utility that allows users to interactively select lines from stdin and output them to stdout. It effectively pauses the pipeline for the selection. LineSelect makes it easier to select files with ls, manage docker containers, grep log files, and more.

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THE ENGLISH SDK FOR APACHE SPARK

This tool takes English instructions and compiles them into PySpark objects like DataFrames.

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LESSONS FROM KEITH RABOIS

This page contains a collection of interviews, podcasts, posts, books, and other resources from Keith Rabois, a general partner at Founders Fund.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

KOSMOS-2 CHECKPOINTS RELEASED

One of the top multimodal models today was developed by the UniLM team at Microsoft. They have now released demo code, weight checkpoints, and more for you to play with and integrate into your systems.

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NEW VECTOR DATABASE, WRITTEN WITH METAL SHADERS

There's a lot of excitement around using vector databases to augment the memory of different language models. This vector database has a simple interface and is primarily used for ChatGPT plugins. It runs many times faster than competitors while maintaining simplicity. It doesn't have the bells and whistles of many other offerings, but it performs the task well for plugins.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

EFFICIENT NIGHTTIME UAV TRACKING

This research introduces SAM-DA, a new system that improves real-time tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at night. By using the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to generate detailed training samples from limited nighttime images, it significantly enhances the tracking ability while using fewer resources.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

WEBGLM: A COST-EFFECTIVE ONLINE Q&A TOOL

WebGLM is a new online tool powered by artificial intelligence designed to answer questions by searching the web and providing the most relevant information. It improves upon previous models by offering increased accuracy and efficiency, and studies show that it performs as well as, if not better than, more complex systems.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

NANOT5

We’ve covered this in previous newsletters, but it just got an upgrade. Inspired by Andrej’s great NanoGPT repo, the NanoT5 repo can train a model to equivalent T5 paper performance 150x faster. It’s definitely worth checking out if you care about training models from scratch.

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TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

SYSTEM DESIGN COURSE

A complete deep dive into system design, teaching readers how to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews.

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