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THE NO. 1 WAY TO REBOUND FROM GETTING LAID OFF - HARVARD

DINOV2: STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPUTER VISION MODELS WITH SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING

Meta AI has built DINOv2, a new method for training high-performance computer vision models using self-supervision. DINOv2 delivers strong performance and does not require fine-tuning, making it suitable for use as a backbone for many different computer vision tasks. DINOv2 can learn from any collection of images and also learn features, such as depth estimation, that the current standard approach cannot. Meta has released a demo and open-sourced the model on GitHub.

KV.JS

KV.JS is a fast, in-memory data store written in pure JavaScript, heavily inspired by Redis. It is capable of handling multiple data types, including strings, lists, sets, sorted sets, hashes, and geospatial indexes.

KUBERNETES CHATGPT BOT

A ChatGPT bot for Kubernetes issues. Ask AI how to solve your Prometheus alerts, get pithy responses.

A FORTY-YEAR CAREER

A career usually lasts 40 years, but that’s not always thought about in Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture. What does a career look like if focused on growth and engagement, and if eras were measured not in equity and IPOs but instead in decades? The author argues for focusing on a small handful of things that build together, with each making the others more impactful as they compound over time. These things are pace, people, prestige, profit, and learning.

SOME THOUGHTS ON OPENSSH VERSUS SSH

OpenSSH is the dominant SSH implementation, but not the only one. While SSH is a protocol with multiple implementations, OpenSSH is the main project moving the protocol forward with its extensions for certificates. Other implementations still matter, as they are used in important and relevant places, even if OpenSSH is the only one evolving the protocol.

HOW THE METAVERSE CAN TRANSFORM EDUCATION

REACT CONTEXT: THE DETAILED GUIDE

Context can be used as an alternative to passing data using props. This guide gives you all the information you need to understand what React Context is and how you can implement it in your React code.

BROWSER, AND IT’S VERY IMPRESSIVE

Web LLM has been a hit since its debut. It allows you to run LLMs locally in your browser, instead of relying on an API. Simon Willison tries it out with many examples in this blog and expresses his thoughts on why Web LLM matters a lot.

ENGINE ON GALAXY PHONES

REDPAJAMA, A PROJECT TO CREATE LEADING OPEN-SOURCE MODELS, STARTS BY REPRODUCING LLAMA TRAINING DATASET OF OVER 1.2 TRILLION TOKENS

Foundation models such as GPT-4 have driven rapid improvement in AI. However, the most powerful models are closed commercial models or only partially open. RedPajama is a project to create a set of leading, fully open-source models. They have announced the completion of the first step of this project: the reproduction of the LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens.

OPENAI’S CEO SAYS THE AGE OF GIANT AI MODELS IS ALREADY OVER

HOW SLOW IS SELECT * ?

A technical dive into the not-so-obvious costs of using SELECT *

OPEN SOURCE IS FUELING THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS

Nuclear physicists have formed an unlikely friendship with open source software.

3 WAYS TO SET HEADERS WITH ASTRO AND NETLIFY

WEB-LLM: LARGE-LANGUAGE MODELS AND CHAT LOCALLY IN WEB BROWSERS

Web-LLM brings language model chats directly onto web browsers. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support and accelerated with WebGPU. It brings a lot of fun opportunities to build AI assistants for everyone and enables privacy while enjoying GPU acceleration.

ARCHIVE AND MORE

Wayback is a tool that supports running as a command-line tool and docker container, purpose to snapshot web pages to time capsules. It is a self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS and beyond.

NEW BEDROCK SERVICE

WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING AT UBER?

The recent Wall Street Journal profile of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, which featured him driving for Uber and discovering flaws in the product, has been criticized by analysts, investors and ex-employees. They are concerned about the timing of the CEO's revelation, the level of compensation he receives,S and the company's product management.

JUNIOR TO SENIOR: AN ACTION PLAN FOR ENGINEERING CAREER SUCCESS

Making the jump from junior to senior can seem daunting and unclear. This guide will help you to enhance your developer skills and take your career to the next level.

MANAGEMENT IN SHOPIFY POS

A real world example of how a team at Shopify was able to migrate their Redux stack. They considered tradeoffs for two approaches to refactoring, gave code examples of how they decided to implement Redux Thunks differently, and summarized learnings from the process.

BUILDING A BLOG WITH NEXT.JS 13 AND REACT SERVER COMPONENTS

Next.js 13 comes with support for their App Router (beta) and React Server Components (RSCs). This tutorial is useful for learning how to use the new App Router and RSCs in a real-world example of spinning up a blog. It also provides a good starting point for your own exploration and experimentation.

USING COCKROACHDB TO REDUCE FEATURE STORE COSTS BY 75%

AN EXAMPLE OF LLM PROMPTING FOR PROGRAMMING

An example of using chain-of-thought and general knowledge prompting with ChatGPT to write self-testing code.

WEBGPU FUNDAMENTALS

With the new addition of WebGPU in Chrome, there are new possibilities for browser-based applications. This website goes through the fundamentals of WebGPU.

AN ON-RAMP TO FLOW

The “Flow” state - time where you can process large amounts of information and “get stuff done” - is very valuable for knowledge workers like software engineers. This article gives tips on getting into and staying in the “flow” state.

5 COMMON WEB DEVELOPMENT MISTAKES AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

IMPACT ON PERSONAL GROWTH