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Mark Zuckerberg has revealed the Meta Quest 3, which supports mixed reality and full-color passthrough. This enables users to see a color version of the physical space around them via the external cameras. The headset will be able to blend augmented reality elements into the outside world. Zuckerberg says it's "the first mainstream headset with high-res color mixed reality."
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fastgron is a high-performance JSON to GRON converter. It transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep and see the absolute path to it. fastgron makes exploring APIs with terrible documentation easier.
This repository contains a collection of Server Component safe React Hooks. It includes hooks for tracking user battery status, managing and manipulating lists, tracking variables, responding to changes to documents, managing counter values, and more.
The Phillips Sonicare toothbrush contains an NFC tag that communicates with the toothbrush handle to remind users when it is time to buy a new one.
QR code designer is a web app that allows users to create QR codes with arbitrary designs in the middle section.
macro-ts is an ergonomic TypeScript compiler that enables typesafe syntactic macros.
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South Korean internet giant Naver plans to provide foreign governments with tailored versions of its latest ChatGPT-like AI model, focusing on localization to address political and cultural needs. The company is also set to launch HyperClova X, an upgrade to enhance its domestic services.
A statement from leading AI researchers imploring society to treat the risk of extinction from AI similarly to pandemic and nuclear war.
Multimodal training of more than one data type has been gaining popularity recently. Usually, the model architecture requires complicated and somewhat brittle solutions. Gill is a cool new project that interleaves text tokens with image tokens to allow for truly multimodal input and output. The reported results are compelling although there are still limitations.
ControlVideo is a new way to edit videos based on written instructions, making the video more faithful and consistent with the text while maintaining the original video's structure. It achieves this by combining advanced techniques. ControlVideo improves upon previous methods in terms of accuracy and realism. It offers a lot of flexibility in how much of the original video information to use.
Large language models sometimes have trouble remembering things and thinking through multiple steps. A new method lets these models take notes on their own, helping them remember better and solve more complex problems.
It is challenging to compare the performance of multiple models to one another. Traditional automated measures aren't robust and human evaluation isn't scalable. Recently people have been turning to GPT4 as a proxy for human preference. After all, it was trained with RLHF. However, doing this naively results in miscalibration. This work proposes a few simple fixes that aligns GPT4 evaluations more closely with those of humans.
Gorilla, a refined model based on Large Language Models (LLMs), significantly outperforms existing models like GPT-4 in writing API calls. It helps language models use tools more effectively. Combined with a document retriever, Gorilla adjusts well to updated documents, minimizes inaccurate creations, and maintains the reliability of outputs, as demonstrated using a new comprehensive dataset called APIBench.
ProlificDreamer is a new method for improving text-to-3D generation. It solves problems like over-saturation and low-diversity found in the earlier Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) approach by treating the 3D parameter as a random variable. This Variational Score Distillation (VSD) framework can produce higher quality and more diverse results, allowing the creation of highly detailed and photo-realistic 3D images from text, including complex effects such as smoke and drops.
Edtech groups such as Duolingo insist that AI will enhance their business, despite the possibility that cheap platforms undercut their business.
Binance is reportedly in talks to allow institutional clients to hold their trading collateral in banks rather than on the platform to mitigate counterparty risk. This move comes in the wake of concerns over custody and segregation of assets following the FTX collapse. Under this arrangement, bank deposits could serve as collateral for margin trading. Banks that are reported as being involved in the program include Swiss-based FlowBank and Liechtenstein-based Bank Frick. This proposal aims to provide clients protection from potential exchange failures and align with new Asian and European regulatory standards.
Fantom has launched a gas monetization initiative designed to spur developer adoption. The program offers a 15% kickback on all gas fees generated by high-quality dApps. The funding comes from a reduction in the FTM token burn rate from 20% to 5%. To qualify, a dApp must have completed at least 1 million transactions and been live on Fantom for a minimum of three months. Since the program's launch just a few days ago, dApps have already generated over 11,000 FTM in rewards. The initiative is an interesting approach to increase developer retention and attempt to build a sustainable network.
The big news this week was China’s web3 white paper, which indicated plans to thoroughly develop web3 tech and embrace concepts like NFTs and the Metaverse. The government plans to encourage the development of its own version of web3 through a "whole-of-government" approach, similar to its Web 2.0 strategy. The paper does not endorse Bitcoin or Ethereum, but shows a deep understanding of web3 tech. This could be a signal that while China acknowledges the potential of web3, it may not lift restrictions on cryptocurrency trading.
This thread gives a brief overview of why and how crypto users should utilize a multisig. A multisig program relies on multiple private keys to secure on-chain assets, offering better protection against compromised keys and reducing single points of failure, compared to traditional hardware wallets that rely on single seed phrases or keys. The article suggests a 2-of-3 or 3-of-5 key setup for a balance between security and transaction convenience, and emphasizes the importance of using multiple wallets stored on separate devices.
Gemini, the exchange co-founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, has been facing a series of challenges including regulatory scrutiny, dwindling market share, and the potential loss of a banking partner. To make matters worse, a critical loan repayment deadline that could aid in the recovery of $900 million from the exchange's defunct Earn product has been missed. As they attempt to navigate the convergence of these crises, the twins seem to have been eyeing a couple of different options, such as moving the company overseas and/or leveraging interest in derivatives trading to get traction in that market and drive more trading volume.
This tweet explains how depositing USDC into the largest Uniswap ETH/USDC pool as one-sided liquidity with an unlikely-to-be-touched price essentially allows for safe, blacklist-resistant handling of USDC.
Nansen announced yesterday that it has made the decision to lay off 30% of its staff. With a leaner team, Nansen will be reducing its product surface area and creating more runway for the company.
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15-year-old Eric Zhu broke into the venture capital world with his daring methods and intricate knowledge. He is now co-managing Bachmanity Capital and has raised $1m for his company Aviato.
The author provides strategies on finding talent, onboarding and HR processes that can help startups reach their goals.