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A new study by Apple engineers revealed that while LLMs may appear to reason mathematically, they are actually prone to failures when confronted with seemingly trivial changes to benchmark problems.
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SpaceX's Super Heavy booster was caught by a launch tower using arms that the company has nicknamed the 'chopsticks' at the completion of Starship's fifth flight test yesterday. The remarkable catch was an important step towards making the Super Heavy booster a fully reusable launch system. Starship splashed down in the Indian Ocean a little over an hour after launch. A short clip of the booster being caught by the launch tower is available in the article.
WordPress.org has taken over the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin, a popular WP Engine plugin. It claims the move was intended to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg claims that the move was related to WP Engine's recently-filed lawsuit against him and Automattic. Those who aren't WP Engine, Flywheel, or ACF Pro customers will need to go to the ACF site and download the genuine 6.3.8 version to keep getting updates.
Lucid dreams could unlock new dimensions of communication. Researchers at REMspace recently demonstrated that people can communicate in their dreams. Participants in REMspace's study were able to send and receive messages through a server that recorded their brain waves and other polysomnographic data during REM sleep. The company plans to release a device that accurately tracks all sleep stages for customers to view on a mobile app by 2025.
Waves tend to flow equally in both directions. This can cause interference, garbling signals or reducing efficiency. Researchers at ETH Zurich have figured out how to direct sound waves so that they only travel forward without weakening the sound's strength. This feat could have vast implications for future technologies, from communications systems to radar.
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Swarm is an educational framework that explores ergonomic, lightweight multi-agent orchestration. It makes agent coordination and execution lightweight, highly controllable, and easily testable. The project, created primarily for training purposes, aims to showcase the handoff and routine patterns explored in the 'Orchestrating Agents: Handoffs & Routines' cookbook. It is not meant to be used as a standalone library or in production.
zzz is a framework for writing performant and reliable networked services in Zig that focuses on modularity and portability. It allows developers to swap in their own implementations for various things, allowing for maximum flexibility. zzz can be used in standard servers as well as embedded/bare metal domains. While it is generally stable, it is still in alpha and there is still a lot changing.
In this post, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, talks about how AI could transform the world for the better. He sketches out what the world might look like with a powerful AI if everything goes right. The effects of powerful AI are likely to be even more unpredictable than past technological changes. The list of positive applications of powerful AI is extremely long - this post focuses on a small number of areas that have the greatest potential to directly improve the quality of human life.
While life expectancies have generally increased in the last few decades, the rate at which they are increasing is slowing down. This suggests that humans could be closing in on the limits of what's possible for average life span. The only thing that might radically lengthen life expectancy may be an intervention that slows the aging process itself, something some scientists are optimistic about.
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This post presents an overview and analysis of the Automattic vs WP Engine drama and predictions for the outcome of the situation.
The developers behind Asahi Linux, a project that is getting Linux working on Apple Silicon Macs, have managed to get PC games running on Macs, in Linux, on Arm processors.
The lower-end Apple Vision headset will allegedly use a less powerful chip and lower-resolution screens than the higher-end model.
This post discusses how to make many humans good at solving difficult problems.
Mastering the mind, the only thing we truly possess, is the key to a deeper kind of freedom.
Waymo has been offering fully driverless rides since 2020 - it reached 100,000 weekly rides in August.
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The first state space style model that outperforms transformers at the 7B scale. It excels at long context understanding and generation due to the linear time scaling of the Mamba 2 blocks.
OpenAI has released a lightweight framework for communication between agents. It won't be maintained going forward, but could serve as useful inspiration.
Debate over fully autonomous weapons continues as Anduril's Palmer Luckey expresses openness to them, contrasting with Shield AI's previous stance against AI making lethal decisions. The U.S. government remains non-committal, with no binding ban on such weapons, amidst fears that adversaries like China or Russia might develop them first. Defense tech companies, including Anduril and Palantir, are lobbying heavily to influence policy on the integration of AI in military systems.
EvolveDirector aims to create a competitive text-to-image generation model using publicly accessible resources, bypassing the restrictions of proprietary models.
Researchers introduce the Segmentation-oriented Evaluation Approach (SEA) to better assess Visible and Infrared Image Fusion (VIF) methods, which are crucial for tasks like object detection and semantic segmentation.
A gentle introduction and tutorial on deep generative models in transportation research.
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Trans4D is a new framework designed to tackle the challenges of realistic 4D scene transitions that offers improved text-to-4D synthesis.
DelTA, which is short for Document-levEL Translation Agent, is an online document-level translation agent based on multi-level memory.
Fast Compression of 3D Gaussian Splatting (FCGS) is a new model that skips the time-consuming per-scene optimization required by previous methods. FCGS uses a quick feed-forward pass, cutting compression time drastically from minutes to seconds.
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, is a prolific writer. He often writes internal memos. This one was published externally and imagines the extreme upside that could exist in the world if we succeed at building powerful AI systems.
Iprova's AI-driven software analyzes diverse technical literature to suggest patentable inventions by connecting previously unlinked ideas, aiding companies like Procter & Gamble and Panasonic. The tool uses semantic search and generative AI to identify novel inventions and relies on human insight for practical application, focusing on industries with rapidly changing technologies. Despite utilizing AI, Iprova emphasizes human creativity in refining and validating invention ideas.
AI excels at following defined rulesets, making it particularly effective for tasks like automating tax processes. Playbook-driven success limits human creativity, which AI can already surpass in formulaic tasks such as math tests and coding. By relying heavily on playbooks, we risk diminishing our unique human creativity and becoming more machine-like, reinforcing AI's strengths over ours.
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An AI-generated image related to Hurricane Helene has gone viral, despite viewers knowing it's not real.
OpenAI plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation to protect against hostile takeovers and maintain its mission of benefiting humanity.
"Off the Grid," an Avalanche-based battle royale shooter developed by Gunzilla Games, has reached the top of the Epic Games Store's free-to-play games list, even surpassing popular titles like Fortnite. The game, which uses blockchain technology for trading in-game items as NFTs, is also seeing high viewership on Twitch, illustrating the potential of blockchain to improve player ownership and game economies.
Global investment manager VanEck has launched VanEck Ventures, an early-stage fund operating in fintech, digital assets, and AI. VanEck is a prominent proponent of crypto in traditional finance and was the first asset manager to file for a Bitcoin ETF in 2017.
Crypto venture capital firm Paradigm announced that its CTO and General Partner, Georgios Konstantopoulos, will serve as CEO of the company. He will help build the full stack of products and tools that developers need to ship faster and that consumers need to have less and less friction. The Odyssey L2, built using Reth and the OP Stack, is live on testnet. To stand out in the competitive rollup space, Odyssey will first implement features from Ethereum's roadmap, including better smart contract wallets to reduce user onboarding friction.
LayerZero's Restaking DVN Framework built on EigenLayer introduces “Protocol Aligned Interoperability” by allowing protocols to integrate their tokens and governance into omnichain security infrastructure. It enables protocols to stake collateral to secure cross-chain communication and expand their influence beyond their infrastructure across multiple chains. Slashing conditions and trust assumptions become far more transparent. While this is promising for security and customization, the real-world implementation remains to be tested.
Recent crypto token launches have underperformed for retail investors. Data shows that listing on CEXs does not guarantee price appreciation despite high listing fees. Projects have been launching at inflated valuations, benefitting VCs but harming retail investors. Founders should prioritize lower initial valuations and user growth to create a stronger and more aligned community. A DEX-first approach with gradual CEX adoption is one option to create value for users and token holders before VCs.
This article introduces new financial metrics for evaluating crypto networks, including Total Economic Value (TEV), Real Economic Value (REV), and Token Holders' Net Income, emphasizing the distinction between network economics and token holder economics. It challenges common misconceptions about network profitability, particularly regarding proof of stake issuance, and indicates that L1 and L2 networks have similar profitability calculations for token holders. While the article focuses on income-generating aspects of blockchains, it also acknowledges additional value capture mechanisms like utility value and store-of-value properties, highlighting the complexity of a comprehensive and quantitative token valuation.
The Uniswap team is tackling the complex issue of user onboarding in a multi-chain DeFi environment, aiming to preserve the simplicity and interoperability that existed when DeFi operated on a single chain (Ethereum). They are developing comprehensive solutions across the entire tech stack, from front-end to smart contracts, to accelerate DeFi's growth and maintain its open, seamless nature.
Ethereum's extensive network effect (80% of crypto developers work in the Ethereum ecosystem) enables a competitive advantage over Solana, which, despite its high market cap and speed, lacks unique features and faces threats from both quicker low-cap L1s and Ethereum's Layer 2s, making ETH a safer long-term investment in the smart contract space.
Vitalik Buterin's address has reportedly sold a series of memecoins to receive ~257.1 ETH, worth around $636k, from various transactions.
Chris Larsen, co-founder of Ripple Labs, has donated $1 million in XRP to the Future Forward PAC supporting Kamala Harris' campaign.