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pgvecto.rs is a Postgres extension that provides vector similarity search functions. It is easy to use and can be integrated into existing workflows and applications. pgvecto.rs is written in Rust, so it offers benefits such as improved memory safety, better performance, and reduced maintenance costs over time compared to similar products.
The 'Next Next Job' framework involves reflecting on what job you want to be your next next job and why you can't get it right now. After identifying what you want, you can work backwards from that and plan your career accordingly. We often don't know what our next next job might be, but thinking about it helps when making major decisions as you know what you are working towards. It can also help you realize that you might already be qualified for what you want to do, or help you figure out what gaps you have to cover to get where you want to go.
While investors were optimistic enough to bet on self-driving cars back in 2016, most experts and people in tech thought it was pretty unlikely to be ready by 2023. People seem to treat self-driving as if it were an easy AI problem, but perceiving and quickly reacting to the world is something that we evolved to be good at, and driving sometimes requires complex problem-solving. There is a big gap between 'pretty good' and 'actually good enough'.
Sellers who don't use Amazon's fulfillment services may have to start paying a 2% fee starting in October.
Developers may soon be able to more easily bring crossplay multiplayer to their games with Epic Games' Online Services tools.
This article looks at 10 major problems in large language model research that still need to be solved.
This article discusses three recent experimental papers that show that AI can be creative in settings with real-world implications.
The value of a book differs from person to person depending on where that person is in life.
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You already know that sleep has a HUGE impact on mental and physical health. But it can feel impossible to improve the quality of your sleep without completely changing your lifestyle. Don’t give up just yet.
OpenAI acquired a team that has worked on a variety of products over the years including early functionality at Facebook, Youtube, and Riot. The team will help improve ChatGPT. This comes off the heels of several key product leaders leaving OpenAI.
Dependency management is one of the hardest parts of working in Python. Conda aims to solve that issue, but the underlying package manager in Conda hasn't seen much love. Pixi is a new manager that is, of course, written in Rust.
DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence research lab, has been testing new technology that could effectively turn generative AI into a personal life coach.
A new approach named L3DMC boosts the performance of continual learning by preserving prior knowledge and enabling better adaptation to new concepts. It accomplishes this by combining the benefits of different fixed-curvature spaces and operating in a higher-dimensional space.
10 open challenges in LLM research by the amazing Chip Huyen. The first two, hallucinations and context length, get discussed a lot today. But the most interesting may be multimodality, architecture improvements, and alternatives to GPUs. There are lots of smart folks working on these challenges, so we expect to see several of these improved upon in the near term.
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This research introduces Solo Performance Prompting (SPP), a method that uses multiple personas in LLMs to simulate cognitive synergy, a collaborative process that enhances problem-solving. By using several finely-tuned personas, SPP enables LLMs to tackle tasks that require deep domain knowledge and complex reasoning.
Sometimes computers see the same object multiple times in one picture. This project developed a method that helps the computer recognize and focus on a single complete version of the object.
Commit messages are vital in software development, but many are lacking in detail. This paper introduces a shift from simply generating commit messages to completing them using past commit history. The paper introduces a new dataset, CommitChronicle, and shows that using history can improve the quality of messages. It highlights the fact that the GPT-3.5-turbo model, while not always outperforming, has the potential for generating longer, detailed messages.
Reinforcement learning is probably the best tool for aligning large language models today (and even vision models). However, it is challenging when you need a bunch of human data to train a reward model. What if you can just “use prompting”? This is another great example of a trend of RLCF - C for computational.
An extremely deep dive into the viral Transformers Math 101 article and high-performance distributed training for Transformers-based architectures.
AI is extremely hyped, but there are multiple areas where it still needs a lot of work.
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Coinbase has approval from the National Futures Association to operate as a futures commission merchant. The endorsement allows Coinbase to offer eligible US customers access to crypto futures trading from its platforms. As of now, the company is able to provide BTC and ETH futures products. This is a huge win for Coinbase. It also discounts the SEC’s claims that Coinbase isn’t willing to register properly.
US-based crypto custody firm BitGo announced it raised $100m in funding at a $1.75 billion valuation. While many folks in the industry raised their eyebrows at this valuation, BitGo, which safeguards crypto assets, says its focus on regulatory compliance garnered investor interest. CEO Mike Belshe remained tight-lipped about the investors’ identities but revealed they were from the US and Asia. The funds will be used to fuel strategic acquisitions, with two deals already underway.
SUAVE-geth is the first step in the development process for a tool called SUAVE Centauri designed to decentralize the MEV supply chain. Its functionalities include confidential execution for smart contracts, transaction simulation, block building, and relay boosting. Users can deploy confidential smart contracts, execute transactions confidentially, and securely store and retrieve confidential data. SUAVE-geth operates via a Golang SUAVE client incorporating chain nodes and execution nodes.
Yield Protocol is launching a new open-source project called Cacti. Cacti allows users to trade assets and retrieve information from integrated web3 protocols using natural language. The aim of the project is to revolutionize the experience users have while interacting on-chain. Currently in alpha, the interface leverages OpenAI’s function calling feature. It is being developed under an AGPLv3 license to enable contributions from web3 developers, with integration possible through Javascript or Python.
This thread provides a good summary of a recent paper by Offchain Labs that discusses potential solutions to incentivize validators on rollups. The crux of the problem in the paper is that optimistic protocols generally have a “lazy validator dilemma” and that there is currently not a great solution addressing this.
The Solana ecosystem has been resilient, despite taking a significant hit from the collapse of FTX due to its close ties to the exchange, and developers have kept plugging away. Innovations such as isolated fee markets, stake-weighted QoS, and compression have been launched on Solana, fortifying its fundamentals. Solana itself outperformed as market conditions and the majors, BTC and ETH, rebounded. The strong fundamentals and the deployment of future liquidity mining programs could set the stage for a Solana 'DeFi summer' moment and its path to Valhalla.
Shibarium was supposed to be an Ethereum L2 that would utilize Shiba Inu for gas fees and also allow BONE, TREAT, and LEASH tokens to be used in the ecosystem. To kick off the launch, users had to bridge ETH to Shibarium. Unfortunately, the Shibarium devs botched the bridge contract and the ETH that was bridged, over $1.7m worth at one point, is now stuck and unretrievable.
Prosecutors intend to present Caroline Ellison’s personal notes and diary entries as evidence against Sam Bankman-Fried. The notes contain information about the operations of FTX and discussions between Ellison and Bankman-Fried about the company's activities. Bankman-Fried's lawyers have argued against these entries being admissible due to the delayed provision of information from the prosecution.
This post from Paradigm explains the challenges on-chain games currently face, including technical constraints and the inherent financialization that may alter game incentives and mechanics.
In this thread, Kyle Samani of Multicoin suggests an idea for a crypto-native bank. Ideally, this bank would allow users to keep 100% of their net worth on-chain while still providing the conveniences of autopay, credit card transactions, etc.
Better Markets made a comment on Fidelity's Bitcoin ETF to the SEC that seems suspect. This short thread outlines how it might have come from Gary Gensler or Elizabeth Warren.
Babylon proposed an intriguing concept in a new litepaper whereby L2s could operate a proof-of-stake model using Bitcoin instead of the native L2 asset to secure the chain. The idea is an attempt to solve the issue of L2 assets not having enough capital to properly secure a chain.
The City of New York has announced a TikTok ban on all city-owned devices after a review from the NYC Cyber Command labeled it a security threat to the city's technical network. This is yet another red flag for TikTok, which is also banned in Montana.
XPro, previously called TweetDeck, supports multiple accounts and custom feeds, making it a powerful tool for those who use X regularly. X previously announced XPro would become a paid feature at some point. Some users are now seeing a sales page for X Premium when they try to use XPro.
Previously, Amazon's Sponsored Products ads existed only on Amazon. Ads will now appear on other sites and apps, including Pinterest, BuzzFeed, and Hearst Newspapers. Advertisers do not need to take any action to appear on these external platforms.
A/B testing within Meta's Experiments section allows users to test 2-5 variations of already running campaigns or ad sets to determine which performs best based on a single variable. Learn step-by-step how to set up these experiments with performance goals and key metrics to track the winning variation.
It is now possible to export user-based data from GA4 to BigQuery. Previously, it was only possible to export event-based data. This article explains how to activate the data export and the benefits of doing so.
Customer reviews can have a great impact on a brand's reputation - 91% of online customers regularly check them. While good reviews can help build credibility, negative feedback can serve as an improvement opportunity by revealing customer pain points. It is critical to actively monitor reviews and take action on feedback.
Customer expectations have changed since 2015, requiring marketers to adjust their strategies. This article outlines several notable changes over the last 8 years, such as the importance of brand reputation and audience connection.
A new variation of multi-advertiser display ads is now appearing for some Reels users.
Google will offer one-on-one support to small business owners as part of a new paid pilot. A select number of agencies and advertisers have been invited to test the new program.
The chain ran TV ads for the first time in three years, which led to increased visits and gave the team confidence to invest up to $60 million more.
Fern is an open source tool to automatically generate idiomatic client libraries and Stripe-like API documentation. Find out why companies like Scale AI and Flatfile already use Fern to develop their APIs and generate their SDKs, learn more and star us on GitHub! [https://github.com/fern-api/fern?utm_source=tldr]
React’s official guide on integrating TypeScript with React. It covers the installation of necessary TypeScript definitions, the process of adding type annotations to React components and their props, and examples of using TypeScript with various React hooks like `useState`, `useReducer`, and `useContext`. The guide also introduces useful types from the `@types/react` package and concludes with recommendations for further learning resources.