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THE TINY CORP RAISED $5.1M

AND GUAM

NEW ALZHEIMER’S DRUGS OFFER SUBTLE BENEFITS — WITH REAL RISKS

MICROSOFT PAUSED PAY RAISES TO 'INVEST IN THE AI WAVE'

GROUPS

ELON WANTS TO CHALLENGE GOOGLE AND MICROSOFT

Elon Musk said he sees the need for an artificial-intelligence business to rival Google and Microsoft that could involve different parts of his corporate empire, including Twitter.

META RELEASES MEGABYTE

MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

QLORA 65B PARAMETER MODELS FINE-TUNED ON 48GB GPU

LoRA is a way to fine-tune models much more cheaply than full fine-tuning. It works by just updating a small, carefully selected, subset of the model. However, even then it is often too expensive to fine-tune large (more than 13B parameter) models on commodity hardware. Quantization reduces the precision of parameters in the model which in turn takes less space. More great open source progress.

SEAHORSE: A TOOL FOR EVALUATING MULTILINGUAL SUMMARIZATION SYSTEMS

SEAHORSE is a dataset created to assess the quality of summarization systems in multiple languages. It contains 96,000 summaries that have been rated by humans based on six important aspects: clarity, repetition, grammar, attribution, main ideas, and conciseness. This dataset not only serves as a benchmark for evaluating the performance of automated metrics but also provides a valuable resource for training such metrics, helping researchers advance the field of multilingual summarization evaluation.

MODELS

This paper introduces meta-in-context learning, a recursive self-improvement process for large language models. By studying regression and decision-making tasks, the researchers demonstrate that meta-in-context learning enhances the models' in-context learning abilities, modifies their strategies, and achieves competitive performance on real-world problems. This work sheds light on improving language models without relying solely on traditional fine-tuning approaches.

QUALITY

ControlVideo is a novel framework that addresses the limitations of generating videos from text by introducing a training-free approach. By leveraging structural consistency, enhancing appearance coherence, mitigating flicker effects, and employing hierarchical sampling, ControlVideo outperforms existing methods in generating high-quality videos that are both short and long. Importantly, ControlVideo achieves these results efficiently, generating videos within minutes using a single NVIDIA 2080Ti GPU.

CHAINFORGE

An open-source visual programming environment for battle-testing prompts to LLMs.

LOOPGPT

LoopGPT is a re-implementation of the popular Auto-GPT project as a proper python package, written with modularity and extensibility in mind.

AMAZON’S AI SEEN AS INCOMPLETE

Amazon’s cloud customers are clamoring to get their hands on the ChatGPT-style technology the company unveiled six weeks ago. But instead of being allowed to test it, many are being told to sit tight, prompting concerns the artificial intelligence tool isn’t fully baked.

NEURAL NETWORKS LEARN LANGUAGES SIMILARLY TO HUMANS

THE DIRE DEFECT OF AI CONTENT MODERATION

The article discusses the challenges of using artificial intelligence to moderate content across multiple languages. It argues that current AI systems are not able to accurately detect harmful content in all languages, and that this can have serious consequences. It finishes by calling for more research into how to improve the accuracy of AI content moderation systems, and for more transparency from social media companies about how they are using AI to moderate content.

ADOBE ADDS AI TO PHOTOSHOP

PRODUCT IMAGERY USING GENERATIVE AI

WHAT AN FTX REBOOT COULD LOOK LIKE — AND IS IT EVEN VIABLE?

APPLE, ANDROID COULD GET MOBILE VERSION OF WEB3 GAME GODS UNCHAINED

SUCCESS

STRATEG - AN OMNICHAIN SOCIAL YIELD INFRASTRUCTURE

WHY SNX HAS SURPASSED GMX IN VOLUME

Synthetix has surpassed GMX in trading volume, driven by several key factors. It lowered trading fees to as low as 0.02% for certain pairs, significantly increasing trade volume. Additionally, an airdrop program incentivizes traders with $OP tokens that essentially outpace the trading fees they incur on the protocol. Increased decentralization, with trades settled by incentivized keepers and the use of Pyth Network as a primary oracle, has given it greater trust and uptime. Further, decentralizing frontends has increased Synthetix's censorship resistance.

FRONTEND

Safer is a tool designed to help sign and submit transactions to a Safe without the need for interaction with Safe's backend or frontend. It is especially useful when the Safe App is down and only the chain can be trusted or used. Safer allows users to execute complex transactions without intermediaries, enhancing DAO resilience. The tool also supports various hardware wallets for signing and is an effective fallback for ensuring continuity when there are problems with Safe or any other application using these features.

A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CURVE ECOSYSTEM

The Curve ecosystem has unique tokenomics and a token emission model with incentives that have fostered a healthy ecosystem and attracted a range of key players including Convex, Yearn, Frax, Conic, Stake DAO, Pirex, Votium Protocol, Llama Airforce, and more. Each of these entities has unique interactions with CRV tokens, from aggregating them, leveraging them to generate yield, or using them as part of yield and governance strategies.

RUMORS OF MULTICHAIN TEAM BEING ARRESTED IN CHINA

TECH CONTRIBUTORS SEEK CLARITY

PATH TO BASE MAINNET

Base, Coinbase’s L2, is preparing for its mainnet launch and has outlined launch criteria including successful testnet stability and audit completion.

ZERO-KNOWLEDGE CRYPTOGRAPHY

COMPREHENSIVE RUST

Comprehensive Rust is a three-day course used internally at Google to teach Rust to experienced software engineers. Created by the Android team, it covers the full spectrum of Rust, from basic syntax to advanced topics like generics and error handling. It also includes Android-specific content on the last day. The course assumes no prior Rust knowledge.

HOW TO START A GO PROJECT IN 2023

This comprehensive guide goes over how to get started with Go in 2023. It covers all the topics needed to be set up with Go in a productive manner, such as unit testing, profiling, OS specific code, and useful tools.

HOW TO SET UP A DEV CONTAINER FOR A NEXT.JS APP

LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN TECH

USING ANTI-REQUIREMENTS TO FIND SYSTEM BOUNDARIES

Starting a new project in a company involves lots of meetings with business stakeholders to hash out initial requirements and canonical data models. To help decompose a complex domain, we can use anti-requirements to find attributes incorrectly lumped together on the same entity. Using anti-requirements is a powerful way to increase autonomy by breaking your domain into separate islands that can evolve independently.

WRITING PYTHON LIKE IT’S RUST

AUTOMATIC COMMENTS GENERATOR

Automatic Comments Generator looks through your code and adds comments using AI throughout to improve code clarity. It can also connect to a GitHub repository and create a pull request to do so automatically.

RIO

Rio is a terminal built to run everywhere, as a native desktop application by Rust/WebGPU or even in the browser powered by WebAssembly/WebGPU.

CHAINFORGE

ChainForge is an open-source visual programming environment for battle-testing prompts to LLMs. It is geared towards early-stage, quick-and-dirty exploration of prompts and response quality that goes beyond ad-hoc chatting with individual LLMs. With ChainForge, you can query multiple LLMs at once to test prompt ideas and variations quickly, compare response quality across prompt permutations and across models to choose the best prompt and model for your use case, set up an evaluation metric (scoring function), and immediately visualize results across prompts, prompt parameters, and models.

THE TINY CORP RAISED $5.1M

PYPI WAS SUBPOENAED

In March and April 2023, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) received three subpoenas for PyPI user data. All three subpoenas were issued by the United States Department of Justice. The PSF was not provided with context on the legal circumstances surrounding these subpoenas. In total, user data related to five PyPI usernames were requested.

APPLE IS ON THE HUNT FOR GENERATIVE AI TALENT

Apple has posted at least a dozen job ads on its career page seeking experts in generative AI. Specifically, it’s looking for machine learning specialists “passionate about building extraordinary autonomous systems” in the field. The job ads (some of which seem to cover the same role, or are calling for multiple applicants) first started appearing April 27, with the most recent of them getting published earlier this week.

IMPROVING PERFORMANCE WITH LAZY PATTERN

TYPESCRIPT OR KOTLIN FOR A BACKEND?

An experienced software engineer gives a thorough list of pros and cons for both TypeScript and Kotlin for developing a RESTful API.

OPEN SOURCING OUR RUST CRATE AUDITS

WHY BURNOUT AND LAYOFFS HIT SOME PEOPLE HARDER