AUDIOCRAFT
Audiocraft is a library for audio processing and generation with deep learning powered by MusicGen, a state-of-the-art controllable text-to-music model.
2023.06.13
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14,500 matchesTHE MODERN WAY OF SERVING IMAGES
This guide covers responsive image techniques and introduces a novel technique that aims to make img tags work almost like picture tags.
2023.06.13
MODELS FOR AI SAFETY RESEARCH
The UK's AI safety task force will focus on AI foundational models to better understand the opportunities and risks of these systems.
2023.06.13
HOW TO BUY A SOCIAL NETWORK, WITH TUMBLR CEO MATT MULLENWEG
This interview with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg covers the technical, political, and social issues that come with purchasing a social network.
2023.06.13
THE OFFICIAL REDDIT APP
Some users were able to fix the issue by clearing Reddit site data and cookies.
2023.06.13
VARDA: THE SPACE DRUG FACTORY
Varda's space drug manufacturing factory will run tests while orbiting Earth for just over a month before coming back down to the Utah desert in mid-July.
2023.06.13
WORDPRESS HAS A NEW AI TOOL THAT WILL WRITE BLOG POSTS FOR YOU
WordPress has released a new AI writing tool called Jetpack AI. The tool can be used to generate blog posts, social media posts, and other types of content. Jetpack AI is powered by GPT-3, a large language model developed by OpenAI. The tool is still in beta, but it has the potential to make it easier for people to create content for their websites.
2023.06.13
AI GIANTS TO GIVE UK EARLY ACCESS TO MODELS FOR SAFETY RESEARCH
OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic have committed to provide “early or priority access” to their AI models to the UK to support research into evaluation and safety.
2023.06.13
LLAMAINDEX RAISES $8.5M SEED ROUND
LlamaIndex, an innovative platform aiming to connect LLMs and private data, has secured $8.5 million in seed funding in a round led by Greylock. The company’s solution aims to make it easier for developers to leverage the reasoning capabilities of LLMs over their own data. The funding is set to expand LlamaIndex’s open-source data framework and tackle data-related challenges for enterprises at scale.
2023.06.13
CAN FOUNDATION MODELS LABEL DATA LIKE HUMANS?
The recent hype in language models has led to statements like "our model is preferred to ChatGPT N% of the time". This statement usually hides the fact that GPT4 was the model doing the preferring. Wrapped up in that is all sorts of questions about calibration, reliability, and the plain fact that GPT4 prefers models that output more tokens per response. This blog dives into these details and the Open LLM leaderboard.
2023.06.13
DECODING BIASES IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
Understanding how AI language models react to slight changes in their inputs is vital for ensuring fairness and usefulness, but it's not an easy task. A new method called Contrastive Input Decoding (CID) has been introduced to shed light on these subtle differences by generating text that reflects the unique characteristics of two slightly different inputs, thus making the AI's responses more understandable and manageable.
2023.06.13
RL4F: IMPROVING AI PERFORMANCE WITH COLLABORATIVE FEEDBACK
RL4F is a new method that uses a smaller, critique-generating AI to help a much larger AI like GPT-3 fix its mistakes, much like how humans improve from feedback. By studying different tasks like planning, summarizing, and alphabetizing, researchers found that this approach improved the big AI's performance by about 5% on average.
2023.06.13
DATADM
DataDM is your private data assistant - a conversational interface for your data where you can load, clean, transform, and visualize without a single line of code. DataDM is open source and can be run entirely locally, keeping your data secrets fully private.
2023.06.13
FINGPT: AN OPEN-SOURCE LANGUAGE MODEL FOR FINANCIAL INNOVATION
This paper introduces FinGPT, an open-source artificial intelligence model designed for the finance sector. It aims to provide an accessible tool for financial research and development, offering features like automated data management and the potential for applications such as robo-advising and algorithmic trading.
2023.06.13
ADAPTING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS TO ENHANCE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS
This paper is a detailed review on how LLMs, known for their impressive abilities in natural language processing, can be adapted to improve recommender systems on the internet. It examines the possible roles of LLMs in various stages of the recommendation process and explores the challenges and future potential of integrating these models for more efficient, effective, and ethically-sound recommendations.
2023.06.13
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🚫DON'T LET COMPANIES EXPLOIT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Data brokers collect your personal information and profit off it at the expense of your privacy. Incogni
2023.06.13
IDEA
Trying to shape AI innovation to protect workers is a bad idea. Instead, we should focus on creating institutions that ensure that everyone can thrive in an automated economy.
2023.06.13
IMPLICIT CODE EXECUTION MAKES BARD SMARTER
Two cool new features are launching in Bard soon. The first is the ability to export responses into Google sheets and the second enables code to be run in the background to improve the reliability and accuracy of outputs. Bard will be able to detect if a question requires math, logic, or code reasoning and execute code in the backend to get answers.
2023.06.13
SALESFORCE TOUTS AI STRATEGY
Salesforce is elevating new generative artificial intelligence features in its products and doubling its investment in AI startups as the company banks on the emerging technology to help resuscitate sales growth.
2023.06.13
LOCALAI
Self-hosted, community-driven, local OpenAI-compatible API.
2023.06.13
CHATALL
A tool to converse with all chatbots simultaneously.
2023.06.13
CLAIMS
Binance.US is fighting back against allegations of fraud, market manipulation, and customer deception made by the SEC. It insists it has been fully cooperating with the investigation since December 2020. The SEC claims Binance.US, along with parent company Binance, funneled over $12 billion in customer assets to funds controlled by founder CZ. In its defense, Binance.US states that it keeps customer and corporate funds separate. This dispute occurs ahead of a hearing on an SEC-requested temporary restraining order, which would freeze all assets of Binance.US besides customer withdrawals.
2023.06.13
US CONGRESSMAN FILES LEGISLATION TO FIRE SEC CHAIR GARY GENSLER
Congressman Warren Davidson has proposed legislation aiming to restructure the SEC and dismiss its chair, Gary Gensler, citing his "tyrannical" leadership. This follows recent enforcement actions taken by the SEC against leading cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase and Binance, for alleged securities law violations. Davidson's move reflects growing concerns amongst crypto users and politicians about the potentially negative impact of the SEC's actions on the digital asset sector and broader US capital markets.
2023.06.13
ORC-20 > BRC-20?
The ORC-20 token standard, created by OrcDAO, is aiming to improve scalability issues that could hinder the BRC-20 standard by reducing transaction costs. ORC-20's operations or capabilities include Deploying, Minting, Sending, and Canceling, and it allows changes to a token’s properties, multi-recipient sending, and cancellation of partial transactions. It also features Orc Improvement Proposals (OIPs), aimed at further enhancing efficiency and functionality. While ORC-20 brings more features, BRC-20 already benefits from strong network effects, so it is tough to say which one will ultimately prevail as the standard.
2023.06.13
POLYGON 2.0: THE VALUE LAYER OF THE INTERNET
Polygon teased its 2.0 launch. The protocol aims to be the 'Value Layer of the Internet', providing a platform for value creation, exchange, and programming. With these proposed upgrades, the platform plans to revolutionize its protocol architecture, tokenomics, and governance, aspiring for limitless scalability and unified liquidity via ZK technology. It proposes to achieve this through a network of ZK-powered L2 chains, offering a seamless experience across numerous chains. The vision for Polygon 2.0 will be gradually revealed in future updates, some of which are on the roadmap in the article already.
2023.06.13
BRIDGES IN THE MULTI-CHAIN OF MADNESS
As the crypto ecosystem becomes more multi-chain, the total volume of bridged transactions is growing. This has been led by Stargate, which has facilitated 42.9% of the volume and dominates in users and transactions. Despite lower average transaction values, Stargate is the preferred choice for average users due to its low-fee structure. This Twitter thread explains how several blockchain bridging solutions are addressing the issue of isolated liquidity across different networks. The thread also compares some of the other bridging solutions with Stargate, breaking them down by volume, transactions, users, and fees (revenue).
2023.06.13
CRYPTO JOB HUNTING GUIDE
This guide provides an in-depth breakdown of various platforms and resources to use for job hunting in the crypto space. It suggests following VC funding, using platforms like Messari and Crunchbase for funding round insights, and exploring job boards such as Framework Ventures, Cryptocurrency Jobs, and ecosystem-specific job boards. Networking on Twitter and attending crypto conferences are also highlighted as effective strategies. Finally, being active in communities and contributing to DAOs can also lead to great opportunities.
2023.06.13
CRACKDOWN
Following the collapse of Silvergate Capital Corp. and Signature Bank, crypto firms are turning to smaller, regional lenders and Swiss and Asian banks for services. This comes as increased scrutiny and regulatory crackdowns in the US have led mainstream banks to be cautious about crypto causing the banking situation for crypto firms in the US to be worse than the pre-2018 era. It has led to the development of a new banking system for crypto, which is fragmented/decentralized, less US-focused, and less publicized. While this may be a challenge for the industry, it could lead to a more resilient system.
2023.06.13
INVESTORS HAVE PULLED $417M OUT OF CRYPTO FUNDS IN TWO MONTHS
Institutional investors have continued to pull out from crypto funds to the tune of $417 million over a two-month period. North America accounted for 87% of total outflows. Bitcoin led the outflows, while Ethereum also experienced significant sell pressure. Solana, Litecoin, and Ripple registered inflows. Market experts attribute the selling to ongoing monetary policy adjustments, particularly rising interest rates.
2023.06.13
BANK OF CHINA INVESTMENT ARM ISSUES TOKENIZED NOTES ON ETHEREUM
Bank of China's investment arm, BOCI, in partnership with UBS, has issued tokenized notes worth approximately $28 million on the Ethereum blockchain in Hong Kong. This event marks the first issuance of a digital note by a Chinese financial institution in the region, amidst Hong Kong's efforts to establish itself as a crypto hub.
2023.06.13
COMPETITIVENESS
In his prepared remarks for the House Financial Services Committee Hearing, Jeremy Allaire, Circle’s CEO, advocated for clear stablecoin regulations focused on protecting the US dollar's global dominance in the evolving digital and blockchain-based financial landscape.
2023.06.13
CUSTOMERS
In response to the SEC's lawsuits last week, eToro is limiting US customers' access to four cryptocurrencies: Algorand, Decentraland, Polygon, and Dash. Customers can hold and sell existing positions but can't make new purchases.
2023.06.13
SANDLER GLOBAL EXCHANGE & FINTECH CONFERENCE
Gary Gensler gave a talk at the Piper Sandler conference asserting that most cryptocurrencies qualify as securities and should comply with US securities laws. He pointed out what he viewed as extensive noncompliance in the crypto market, including illicit actions and misleading activities.
2023.06.13
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ENGINEERING ROLES AT TIER-1 COMPANIES
The current AI ‘arms race’ is expected to create explosive demand for skilled Machine Learning engineers. There are far fewer ML engineers than needed. Companies are hiring aggressively and offering top compensation, in many cases upwards of $300,000-$500,000
2023.06.13
HOW GOOGLE MEASURES AND MANAGES TECH DEBT
Over the past several years, Google has made a deliberate effort to better manage technical debt. A team at Google interviewed subject matter experts at the company, asking about the underlying causes of the technical debt they encountered as well as what mitigations would be appropriate to fix the debt. They identified 10 categories of technical debt, from incomplete or poor documentation to unstable dependencies. The team then came up with metrics to measure technical debt and brought it down through solutions like better tooling and management frameworks. As a result, Google was able to have better developer productivity.
2023.06.13
UNDERSTANDING DEEPMIND'S SORTING ALGORITHM
A few days ago, DeepMind published a blog post talking about how they discovered tinier kernels for sorting algorithms. They did this by taking their deep learning wisdom, which they gained by building AlphaGo, and applying it to the discipline of superoptimization. This article explains the optimization that was made more clearly compared to the actual blog post that was published.
2023.06.13
ARCHITECTURE?
Software architecture is the foundation that supports the digital world. Today, there are two contrasting architectural patterns that remain at the forefront: microservices and monoliths. This article explains the ins and outs of both methodologies and discusses each method’s pros and cons.
2023.06.13
A DEVELOPER'S VIEW OF VISION PRO
David Smith is an independent iOS developer with apps that have been downloaded millions of times. He was invited to try the Apple Vision Pro during WWDC and plans to be a “Day One” developer for it. In this article, Smith lays out reasons why he’s excited to develop for the Vision Pro and why he thinks it will be a successful product.
2023.06.13
THE CONTINUING TRAGEDY OF CSS: THOUGHTS FROM CSS DAY 2023
A common complaint regarding CSS today is that it has become too bloated. For example, the original CSS specification included 3 relative units for defining a length: px, ex, and em. Today, there are 36 relative length units in CSS. The constraints of CSS should be embraced rather than continue to be broken down and expanded.
2023.06.13
WHY HIGH PERFORMING DEVELOPERS THRIVE TOGETHER
Company culture and environment is a huge factor in growing and nurturing high performing developers. This article explains why it’s so important for developers to work on teams and on projects that will keep them learning and engaged. Read on to learn how you can become a high performing developer, even if your current role doesn’t offer the best culture or environment.
2023.06.13
HOW MUCH DOES THIS MEETING COST?
Levels.fyi has released a calculator that calculates how much a meeting costs to a company based on both the number of engineers in the meeting and the compensation of each engineer. For example, a meeting with 3 Senior Software Engineers at Meta costs $531.
2023.06.13
DEVCYCLE
DevCycle is a feature flag platform for teams of any size. It helps you reduce risk, experiment, and use data-driven insights to drive growth.
2023.06.13
SUPPORTCSS
Live, in-browser detection of modern CSS support for selectors, features, and at-rules. Applies support-based classes, exposes a results object, and allows custom tests. Inspired by the legacy of Modernizr, this script evaluates a user's browser for cutting-edge modern CSS support beyond the capabilities of @supports.
2023.06.13
FERN - THE FUTURE OF API DEVELOPMENT (GITHUB REPO SPONSOR)
Fern is an open source format for defining REST APIs. You can think of it like a programming language to describe your API - your endpoints, types, errors, and examples. Find out why companies like Scale AI and Flatfile already use Fern to develop their APIs and generate their SDKs, check us out on GitHub [https://github.com/fern-api/fern?utm_source=tldr].
2023.06.13
APPLE IS REPORTEDLY WORKING ON 2 NEW AR HEADSETS
Just last week, Apple revealed its first-ever augmented reality headset, the $3,499 Apple Vision Pro. But the company is already hard at work on multiple follow-ups. Apple plans to launch a cheaper variant of the headset and is reportedly also working on a follow-up to the Vision Pro with an even faster processor. It likely won't be any cheaper than the first one.
2023.06.13
FROM VSCODE TO VIM
Developers often make jokes about Vim, but it’s a useful tool that might be worth learning for you. This article aims to eliminate some of the initial roadblocks to using and working with Vim and teach you how to effectively use this tool. Vim has a few advantages over VSCode, including incredibly fast startup, minimal hand movement while typing, unmatched customizability, and more.
2023.06.13
KILLING COMMUNITY
Social media that is run on a venture capital often loses the charm that made it popular over time. Community is hard to support when needs for profitability start taking over. The forces that make profitability possible and the community great can work against each other.
2023.06.13
THAT
Microsoft Edge sends every picture you view online to Microsoft to perform enhancements to pictures seen. However, there is a way to turn this off.
2023.06.13
USEHOOKS
A collection of modern, server-safe React hooks.
2023.06.13
REDDIT API PROTEST CAUSES OUTAGE
Reddit reported a major outage across its mobile and desktop websites as thousands of Reddit communities went dark on Monday to kick off the start of a 48-hour protest over the API pricing.
2023.06.13