The Daily Index — Tuesday, October 17, 2023 · TLDR Index

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Today’s Index

TLDR

ESTIMATES ARE ABOUT TIME, SO LET'S CUT TO THE CHASE

It's much clearer and easier to handle estimates when using time rather than abstract points.

ntietz.com · 8 min

TLDR AI

TABLIB 800B TABULAR TOKEN DATASET

Dataset of tabular tokens to encourage the community to build Large Data Models that better understand tabular data. It is the largest publicly available tabular dataset - a compilation of 627 million tables together with 867 billion tokens of contextual information. TabLiB is available on Hugging Face.

approximatelabs.com · 2 min

TLDR Web Dev

WHY AREN'T THERE MORE 80% JOBS?

“80% jobs” have employees work four days a week instead of five. The benefits of 80% jobs include increased employee satisfaction, reduced burnout, lower attrition, and the opportunity to leverage the combined experience of more employees. Offering 80% jobs should be presented as a choice to employees and could be a valuable option for companies.

evertpot.com · 4 min

TLDR Design

HOW TO CHOOSE BETWEEN DESIGN OPTIONS

10 questions to help decide which design option to proceed with.

anthonyhobday.com · 1 min

TLDR Marketing

THE VALUE OF LOCALIZED PR

Location-specific PR campaigns are effective at generating news coverage and backlinks.

buzzsumo.com · 5 min

TLDR AI

BOOSTING LIDAR-CAMERA DETECTION

The authors of this paper have created a new technique called SupFusion to make LiDAR and camera systems work together better for detecting things like cars or pedestrians.

arxiv.org · 14 min

TLDR AI

ADVANCED HEAD POSE ESTIMATION

Figuring out the direction someone's head is turned is important for lots of tech applications. These researchers have developed a new way to estimate head positions from any angle.

arxiv.org · 16 min

TLDR AI

NEW CONFERENCE FOR LANGUAGE MODELING

With the dramatic increase in interest in language modeling. Many existing ML conferences have been inundated with papers. This new venue, organized by many prominent scientists, will be a great option for publications.

colmweb.org · 3 min