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Traditional image-text matching models often mistakenly use highly similar but not matching samples, known as false negatives, which can misguide the learning process. This paper introduces the False Negative Elimination strategy, a novel method that carefully selects negatives by assessing their probability of being false negatives.
This repository introduces a new tool called U-CREAT, which uses event extraction to find relevant past legal cases faster and more accurately. It also presents the IL-PCR corpus, a vast collection of Indian legal cases, and shows how U-CREAT performs excellently not only in the Indian legal system but also in the Canadian system.
This repository introduces a multitasking strategy that improves the performance of vision-language models like CLIP specifically in tasks like detailed attribute detection and pinpointing locations within images.
Chidori is a reactive runtime for building AI agents. It provides a framework for building AI agents that are reactive, observable, and robust. It supports building agents with Node.js, Python, and Rust.
We’ve posted a lot about product-led growth (PLG) lately. This is another great example of a company nailing PLG. The key takeaways include being really thoughtful about who you’re building the product for, focusing on a defined persona, and then making their pathway to try your product as frictionless as possible. The traditional B2B marketing playbook didn’t land for Pinecone’s product.
Meta had one of the most prolific protein folding teams in the industry. However, the team was disbanded in the push towards the commercialization of AI systems. This, along with large labs reducing their publication output, is a sad side-effect of generative AI’s success.
SoftBank Group is establishing an AI-based warehousing joint venture with Symbotic Inc. called GreenBox Systems LLC with a combined investment of $100 million. SoftBank will also purchase $7.5 billion of Symbotic's AI systems for warehousing. This move strengthens SoftBank's commitment to robotics and AI-driven supply chain solutions.
An optimized version of the Llama 2 model from Meta.
The scrutiny on Worldcoin continues. The Argentine Agency for Access to Public Information (AAIP) has initiated an investigation to ascertain the legality of its data collection practices. It wants entities like Worldcoin to register with the organization, provide information about its data processing policies, and indicate the purpose for collecting sensitive data and the retention period for such data. The AAIP did not confirm whether Worldcoin complies with the standards.
Bitstamp is suspending trading of Axie Infinity, Chiliz, Decentraland, Polygon, Near, Sandbox, and Solana for US customers, with all seven tokens being named by the SEC as securities. Users will still be able to hold the seven tokens in their accounts and withdraw them at any time. The SEC’s allegations against the tokens have not yet been proven in a court of law. It currently alleges that 68 cryptocurrencies are securities.
TON, a blockchain system originally created by Telegram, announced the launch of its self-custodial crypto wallet TON Space that would be integrated in the prominent messaging app. It is now in a beta phase and available for developers. TON Space will provide users with full control over their assets. It will be able to seamlessly link to any app built on Telegram.
Silicon Valley venture-capital giant Andreessen Horowitz has released a pair of open-source software projects, Lasso and Jolt, with the goal of speeding up the core tech behind zero-knowledge proofs. Lasso and Jolt solve three crucial issues with SNARKs: performance, developer experience, and auditability. Lasso is a new lookup argument where the prover commits to fewer and smaller values than prior works. Jolt is a new frontend unlocked by Lasso's ability to use gigantic lookup tables. This article explains the projects and why they matter.
The open-source GitHub repository for Coinbase’s Onchain Summer project.
TFTUI is a textual GUI for terraform. It enables users to view and interact with their complete terraform state tree. Users can also taint or untaint resources directly from the GUI
Tool to detect and remediate misconfigurations, security, and compliance issues across GitHub and GitLab assets.
Checkpoint Software acquired Perimeter 81 for $490m. The deal will close in Q3 2023 and integrate Perimeter 81’s solutions into Checkpoint Infinity’s architecture. It follows Perimeter 81 getting accused of a botched disclosure process for a vulnerability found in its macOS application.
Tomasz slices-and-dices his thoughts on the Carta report on funding outlook based on data from the last few quarters. It contains some good news and some bad news. Must read for sure.
SoftBank tallies up its numbers, which show a cumulative loss of $6.3B in its Vision Fund business.
Block is shutting down the Cash App's Verse brand in the EU and its BNPL platform Clearpay in Spain, France, and Italy to invest into other areas.
We’ve posted a lot about product-led growth (PLG) lately. This is another great example of a company nailing PLG. The key takeaways include being really thoughtful about who you’re building the product for, focusing on a defined persona, and then making their pathway to try your product as frictionless as possible. The traditional B2B marketing playbook didn’t land for Pinecone’s product.
Atlassian has been focusing on upsells to its existing user base, acquiring large new logos, and improving operational efficiencies by hiring slower and reducing non-discretionary spending.
Pixar changed the animation game in movies. Generative AI tools are changing it once again by supercharging what everyday people can do with animations. What will be interesting to see is how IP owners license out content in a world of AI-powered creation.
It is infinitely easier to build a narrative around things in retrospect, but it’s fascinating how seemingly small decisions can have profound long-term consequences. These short stories are a nice reminder that there’s still an emotional human behind all the data and insights.
Oftentimes people who appear like a natural at something have simply spent a lot of time getting it wrong. Whether you’re pitching to investors, recruiting, or convincing your partner why this new startup idea is worth leaving your job, it all comes down to practicing how you deliver the message.
Now that YC is back in person, we see a little less content around what they’re up to. These short clips give some insight into YC's latest cohort and the founders in it.
An exploration into why people feel like the economy is bad, even though the metrics show that the economy is actually doing pretty good.
In 2021 and 2022, there were more than 60 EdTech companies that raised rounds of $100M or more. There has been no such financing in 2023.
Quora has over 300 million monthly active users with tens of thousands of questions posted per day. To serve this traffic, it makes heavy use of MySQL. Quora has a sharded configuration that stores tens of terabytes and can scale to serve hundreds of thousands of queries per second. This article goes over how Quora handles such a heavy database load using MySQL with a focus on scaling read volume, write volume, and data size.
This article discusses the efforts made by eBay to enhance the performance of its sites and apps for a faster user experience. Every 100-millisecond improvement in eBay’s search page loading time leads to a 0.5% increase in "Add to Cart" counts. The article delves into various optimization techniques employed by eBay, such as reducing payload across text resources, image optimizations, predictive prefetching of static assets, and edge caching strategies.
This article breaks down conclusions from thousands of discussions debating GraphQL vs REST. It’s good to start with REST as it’s simpler than GraphQL. Then, as a product scales, it might be worth it to switch to using GraphQL for optimization purposes.
Coding speed and efficiency is something many developers don’t spend much time optimizing, but it’s an important trait to produce more quality work and get promoted faster in one's career. This blog post breaks down tips on how to code faster, such as avoiding multitasking, making decisions based on goals, and batching tasks together.
Google has announced Project IDX, a browser-based development experience built on Google Cloud and powered by Codey, a foundational AI model trained on code and built on PaLM 2. Project IDX is designed to make it easier to build, manage, and deploy full-stack web and multiplatform applications with popular frameworks and languages. There is currently a waitlist to try Project IDX.
Google has released Typograms, a lightweight image format useful for defining simple diagrams in technical documentation. Like Markdown, Typograms is heavily inspired by pre-existing conventions found in ASCII diagrams. Typograms uses a small set of primitives and rules to connect them to build larger diagrams.
This blog provides steps and strategies for repositioning a product that isn't meeting its intended goals. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the root cause of a product's failure before making drastic changes. The article outlines various tactics for repositioning, such as targeting a different persona or addressing a different use case, and underscores the significance of customer feedback in guiding the repositioning process.
Traffic is down at Stack Overflow, but Stack Overflow claims that the drop is not as big as recent reports say it is. Search engine traffic and Q&A activity is down, presumably due to coding assistants like GPT-4.
id Software has re-released the source code to Quake 2 on GitHub.
Slack is about to roll out its biggest-ever redesign, changing both the look and the layout of the app to hopefully make things easier to find and easier to manage.
Documents are the core of Amazon meetings. While documents can take time to produce, they increase meeting quality.
The PAIR group at Google has released a lovely explainer that goes deep into the topic of Grokking. Grokking is the dynamic process a model goes through during training that may point to a shift from memorizing to understanding. It isn't well understood in general, but this is a lovely introduction that covers much of the groundwork for this strange phenomenon.
Don't have millions of photorealistic images to train your algorithm? Maybe you can generate them using PUG from Meta AI. It uses the powerful unreal game engine in a controllable way to generate synthetic image data for downstream training.