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10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU COULD DO WITH GITHUB PROJECTS

WHAT IS A FRONT END DESIGN SYSTEM, AND WHY IS IT NECESSARY?

C++ PAPERCUTS

IS LARAVEL THE HAPPIEST DEVELOPER COMMUNITY ON THE PLANET?

INTRODUCING CHATGPT ENTERPRISE

SVGR

SVGR takes a raw SVG and transforms it into a ready-to-use React component.

PRISONERS OF GOOGLE ANDROID DEVELOPMENT

A FEW INTERESTING WAYS TO USE CSS SHADOWS FOR MORE THAN DEPTH

GOOGLE AND META PAY THE BEST

5 AI TOOLS FOR DEVELOPERS TO HELP BOOST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY

MORE DEVELOPERS ARE USING THE RUST LANGUAGE

WITH BIGGER TRACKPAD

Apple is planning a major update to the iPad Pro for next year. The new iPad Pros will have slightly larger OLED displays and a revamped Magic Keyboard. They will feature M3 chips. The new Magic Keyboard will have a larger trackpad to make the iPad Pro more like a laptop. Apple will release the new iPad Pro in the spring or summer of next year. No updates to the devices are planned between now and then.

IN LA

Tesla has won permit approval for its Diner and Drive-In Movie Supercharger in Los Angeles. The site will house 32 Supercharger stalls, a restaurant, rooftop seating, and two movie theater screens. It was originally going to be built in Santa Monica. A copy of the approval documents is available in the article.

IBM’S AI CHIP MAY FIND USE IN GENERATIVE AI

IBM's latest AI chip is more than a dozen times as energy efficient as conventional microchips on automated transcription tasks. It is capable of 12.4 trillion operations per second per watt. When tested on speech recognition tasks, the chip was able to perform as accurately as neural networks run on conventional hardware while completing the job seven times as fast and up to 14 more efficiently. The chip can support transformers and may be beneficial for many types of AI systems.

WE ARE NOT EMPTY

There are no empty spaces within an atom. The empty atom picture often shown in popular science is incorrect. It is unclear who created the myth, but it was popularized in Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series. This essay explains why the idea of an empty atom is wrong by carefully interpreting quantum theory.

GITHUB PROFILE TEMPLATE

This repository contains a GitHub profile template that can be forked for personal use. The template provides a quick overview of the user's skills and activity across GitHub and other platforms using animated graphs and other components.

WITH ONLY 32 ENGINEERS

This post outlines the engineering techniques that WhatsApp used to scale quickly. WhatsApp was able to support 50 billion messages a day from 450 million daily active users with only 32 engineers. The company focused on messaging, its core feature, and eliminated feature creep at all costs. With this focus, the team was able to prioritize reliability over everything else.

THE STRANGE, SECRETIVE WORLD OF NORTH KOREAN SCIENCE FICTION

This article looks at the history of North Korean Sci-Fi and how it changed throughout the decades. North Korean Sci-Fi has its roots in Soviet literature. Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea, thought that literature could be used to push propaganda and recommended that authors translate Soviet works. They were also told to write their own stories depicting a thriving communist society.

WORDPRESS NOW OFFERS A 100-YEAR PLAN FOR DOMAINS

WordPress has a new plan that allows users to register and host their websites for a century. It is aimed at providing companies and families a way to preserve content beyond a generation. The plan includes unmetered bandwidth and 24/7 personalized support. It costs $38,000. WordPress will keep multiple backups of the content across distributed data centers.

TECH ELITES PLOT NEW INVENTION: A NORTH BAY CITY

The group had plans to transform tens of thousands of acres to create a city that would generate thousands of jobs and be as walkable as Paris.

X OFFICIALLY TAKES ON LINKEDIN WITH ITS NEW JOB POSTING FEATURE

X has rolled out its Hiring feature in beta and job postings are already showing up on some accounts.

THE FIRST OBSERVATION OF NEUTRINOS AT CERN'S LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

Neutrinos are tiny and neutrally charged particles that are estimated to be some of the most abundant particles in the universe, but observing them has so far proved to be highly challenging.

MARKET

Instacart's IPO may be the first significant venture-backed tech IPO since December 2021.

COULD SAND BE THE NEXT LITHIUM?

Sand is abundant and able to store energy with almost no limits.

PREPARING FOR COMMERCIAL CHIPLETS

This article contains excerpts from a live discussion about the path to commercialization of chiplets with several major figures in the industry.

FINE-TUNED LLAMA CODE MODEL BEATS GPT-4 ON CODE BENCHMARK

Companies with stores of high quality internal data have released fine-tuned versions of Llama that are extremely adept at code just days after Meta released its new programming language models. It is important to note that the current version of GPT-4 is still better than any open-source model at coding. This article compares the new Llama models with the March version of GPT-4.

PHOTOREALISTIC UNREAL GRAPHICS (PUG) FROM META

Meta AI has unveiled a series of datasets that harness the power of Unreal Engine for photorealistic imagery. The released datasets include PUG: Animals for foundation model research, PUG: ImageNet to assess image classifier robustness, and PUG: SPAR for vision-language model evaluation.

CAPTCHAS ARE USELESS

RECONSTRUCTION

New research from Apple shows amazing performance on the challenging problem of 3D object reconstruction.

A DYNAMIC NETWORK FOR SHARPER IMAGE FUSION

Scientists have designed a new system called MGDN that merges multiple images into one clear picture, fixing the issues older methods had in using varying images. The special tools inside MGDN help in understanding the different parts of images better and blending them smoothly.

A BETTER TEST FOR DETECTING BIAS IN LLMS

Researchers have developed a new test called CALM to check if AI language tools are biased. After collecting a lot of data from different sources and testing various AI models, they found that some big AI models can be more biased than smaller ones.

TRAIN LONG CONTEXT MODELS WITH DEEP SPEED

APPLE'S ULTRA FAST VIT

Running at less than 1 ms latency, this super fast vision transformer from Apple is a case study in edge deployment.

ENHANCING DETECTING OF HUMAN-OBJECT INTERACTIONS

While the DETR framework is popular for human-object interaction (HOI) research, current two-stage transformers overlook critical contextual details, like pose and orientation, leading to issues in identifying complex interactions. Enhanced predicate visual context (PViC) improves HOI recognition by better integrating image features and spatial information.

ANOTHER EVEN BETTER OPEN-SOURCE CODE MODEL

CODE MODELS LOSE LANGUAGE SKILLS, BUT WE CAN FIX IT

The reason closed source models like Claude or GPT-4 are so impressive is because they are incredibly good at reasoning AND have general purpose language ability. Many open alternatives focus on an extremely narrow niche of skills and neglect others. The OpenLemur project aims to balance language model skills across many different tasks similar to closed models.

WORLD

OPENCOPILOT

An open source AI copilot for your SaaS product.

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION UNVEILS NEW CRYPTO TAX REPORTING RULES

The US Treasury Department is proposing a new rule to place tighter requirements on brokers to report user transactions to the IRS. The way it’s written also seems to include decentralized exchanges and NFT marketplaces, meaning those entities would be required to collect customer information. The proposed Form 1099-DA is said to help simplify the process for users to report their gains and losses. This proposal comes as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and is expected to take effect in 2025.

BINANCE DROPS SANCTIONED RUSSIAN BANKS FROM PEER-TO-PEER SERVICE

Binance has cut off user access to a number of sanctioned Russian banks for peer-to-peer transactions. This comes in the wake of media reports suggesting the platform was enabling Russians to transfer money overseas. Binance is purportedly in the process of strengthening compliance policies, reinforcing its commitment to operate within global regulatory standards. However, some users said in a group chat they were still able to use the blacklisted banks by exploiting other available payment options.

HASHKEY TO START CRYPTO RETAIL TRADING SERVICE IN HONG KONG TODAY

HashKey Exchange is launching crypto trading services for retail clients in Hong Kong starting today. It will initially offer trading of BTC and ETH. HashKey is the first crypto business in Hong Kong to receive a license to offer such services. It is looking to partner with at least 5 brokerages to offer crypto trading services through its platforms.

CHAINS

Paradigm has announced the alpha release of a developer-focused open-source wallet tool called Rivet. Rivet is designed to improve the web3 frontend development experience by allowing developers to examine, modify, and handle state changes on a local Ethereum node. The project seeks to enhance productivity and encourage robust testing and debugging against a local node, tapping into a kind of functionality inaccessible in regular consumer wallets.

BRIDGEKIT - THE EASIEST WAY TO BUILD MULTICHAIN DAPPS

This repository contains a plug-and-play React library called BridgeKit that enables in-app cross-chain bridging and swaps in decentralized applications. It describes the simple setup process. BridgeKit provides an array of different bridging options for users to utilize in apps.

8 AIRDROPS IN ONE STRATEGY

This thread lays out a step-by-step guide to making transactions that could qualify you for eight different airdrops. Projects include familiar names such as LayerZero Labs, zkSync, Scroll, and Zora. Several of these airdrops like LayerZero, zkSync, and Scroll have been highly anticipated based on the vast amounts of funding the companies have raised.

COLLECTING THE ALGORITHM: A PRIMER FOR ON-CHAIN GENERATIVE ART

This blog explains how on-chain generative art is seen as the new frontier for many collectors. Generative art’s value as a digital asset has begun to move beyond speculation to legitimate appreciation and collectibility. It offers benefits including verifiable provenance, no deterioration over time, instant ownership transfers, and trustless sales. The post also articulates how this new form of appreciating and collecting art could attract new generations of collectors, most of whom are digitally native.

KITE OR BOARD

This essay discusses the concept of fiscal dominance, where the central bank is forced to prioritize government debt funding over maintaining low inflation. It references a paper by Dr. Charles Calomiris, which suggests that the Federal Reserve and US Treasury may resort to such a strategy to address the high levels of government debt and deficits. The essay argues that this could lead to the Fed reducing interest rates, increasing bank reserve requirements, and pushing capital out of the banking system and into alternative assets like crypto.

ON OP’S SUPERCHAIN MODEL AND POTENTIAL CHALLENGES

This post walks through some of the incentives issues that could plague OP’s Superchain model. It specifically focuses on Base’s share of OP tokens and how there are seemingly no restrictions on its sales of those tokens.

This thread is the first part in a series by a former Alameda Research Engineer that gives an inside look into FTX and Alameda and the nature of the relationship between the two companies.

OVER

Jerome Powell continues to hold the position that the fight against inflation is not over and that more rate hikes will likely be necessary.