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SPOTIFY CEO SAYS AI IS “COOL AND SCARY”

SELF SUPERVISED LEARNING COOKBOOK

It could be argued that a lot of the recent success with deep learning has come on the back of self-supervised tasks. There's not a clear boundary between unsupervised and self-supervised, but where it does exist this paper is a really nice exploration of the methods and all of the various hyperparameters that need to be taken into consideration. Self supervised learning is a really powerful technique and this is a cool way to learn more

FULLY SPARSE FUSION FOR 3D OBJECT DETECTION

This paper investigates the integration of image modality into fully sparse architecture for efficient long-range 3D detection, using instance queries to fuse 2D instance segmentation with LiDAR-based 3D segmentation. The resulting framework achieves state-of-the-art results on nuScenes and Argoverse 2 datasets, while being 2.7 times faster than other multimodal 3D detection methods.

INTERACTIONS FROM SINGLE MONOCULAR VIDEOS

HOSNeRF is a 360° free-viewpoint rendering method that reconstructs neural radiance fields for dynamic human-object-scene interactions from a single monocular video, addressing challenges like complex object motions and varying interactions. The method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on two datasets, with a 40%-50% improvement in LPIPS, and provides compelling 360° renderings from single videos.

TRACK ANYTHING

Based on segment anything and XMem, track anything is a flexible and scalable way to track objects and videos. You can then use the masks for automatic video editing, style transfer, or video recognition tasks.

SEGMENT ANYTHING IN 3D

SA3D is a novel framework for one-shot 3D segmentation using neural radiance fields, enabling users to segment target objects in rendered views with minimal manual prompting. The iterative process uses 2D masks, density-guided inverse rendering, and cross-view self-prompts for accurate 3D mask learning, completing segmentation in about 2 minutes without optimization.

HEALTHGPT

HealthGPT is an experimental iOS app that allows users to interact with their health data stored in the Apple Health app using natural language.

GPT-4 COST $43 MILLION TO TRAIN?

While we don’t know exactly how much it cost to train the newest flagship model from OpenAI - this report breaks down a few potential pieces of information to try and guess how much it might have cost. The amount is mind-blowing (it’s not a lot in absolute terms, but an expensive model nonetheless). There are other nice tidbits in the report around compute usage and an estimate of when we’ll run out of data!

WHAT AMERICANS THINK ABOUT THE IMPACT OF AI ON WORK

OPENAI IMPROVES CHATGPT PRIVACY

REPUBLICANS RELEASE AI-GENERATED POLITICAL AD

US REGULATORS WARN THEY ALREADY HAVE THE POWER TO GO AFTER AI BIAS

MINIGPT-4

MiniGPT-4 enhances vision-language understanding using advanced large language models.

BINANCE BAILS ON $1B VOYAGER ASSET DEAL

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GOOGLE PUSHES FORWARD IN WEB3 WITH CLOUD STARTUP PROGRAM

A NEW CHAPTER FOR WEB3 DATA

Dune has launched its API for all users, enabling them to turn query results into API endpoints. The company has also revamped subscription plans with increased flexibility, API access, and unlimited collaboration. The free user experience is now more powerful, featuring 10 private queries, a private dashboard, CSV downloads, 2500 credits, and API access. These changes make Dune more accessible for both free and paid users and open the world of blockchain data up even further.

HOW TO BECOME A SMART CONTRACT AUDITOR

MONTHLY UPDATES LAUNCHED FOR ELECTRIC CAPITAL’S DEVELOPER REPORT

COMPARING THE TOP 5 CHAINS BY ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

GENSLER SUING CHUCK E. CHEESE

UNISWAP NEW POOLS WATCHER - A DUNE API DEMO

As we mentioned above, the Dune API has been released but it’s new, so you may have trouble diving in and figuring out how to apply it. This project was designed as a tutorial to teach you how to use the Dune API.

WANT SOME DESIGN IDEAS FOR YOUR CRYPTO APP?

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COINBASE TRADING VOLUMES FALL AS REGULATORY UNCERTAINTY WEIGHS

Coinbase has been facing declining trading volumes despite bitcoin's rally, further intensifying pressures amid an SEC investigation. Meanwhile, competing DEXs like Uniswap have surpassed Coinbase in trading volume.

FEATUREVISOR

Featurevisor is a solution for managing your feature flags and remote config. It introduces a workflow that's fully git-based, where configuration is stored as YAMLs and changes are reviewed and merged via pull requests. The workflow results in datafiles (JSON files) that contain feature configurations, which can then be fetched by your applications and evaluated using Featurevisor SDKs.

PHASELLM

PhaseLLM is a framework designed to help manage and test LLM-driven experiences, such as products, content, or other experiences that product and brand managers might be driving for their users. PhaseLLM makes it incredibly easy to plug-and-play LLMs and evaluate them against each other.

SUPERGLUE

Superglue is a React Redux starter and library designed to complement classic Rails. You can enjoy the benefits of Redux state management and React components without giving up the productivity of Rails form helpers, UJS, tag helpers, cookie auth, and more.

EXPLAINING TECH'S NOTION OF TALENT SCARCITY

The tech industry has a notion that there is a scarcity for “top talent”. The article takes a closer look into what people and companies in the industry really mean by this, showing that each employer has different needs and defines “top talent” differently.

CANDIDATES

This article argues why live coding interviews are a terrible proxy of accessing candidates’ abilities. It dives into various reasonings, such as the emphasis of speed, irrelevant domain knowledge, and the application of unnecessary pressure. The author also suggests alternative interview methods that are potentially better than live coding.

PLACES TO WORK

W. Edwards Deming is known as one of the leading management thinkers and the author of the “Deming Philosophy”. His rules for management often include being data-driven, but the author here lays out the ways being solely data-driven can be counterproductive. Instead, policies must also be humanistic in nature in order to be maximally effective.

NINE WAYS TO SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE FOOT WITH POSTGRESQL

THE URL IS THE ULTIMATE GLOBAL STATE MANAGEMENT TOOL

The Web History API is the only state management tool that's built into the browser, and supported by every browser. It doesn't require any libraries or frameworks, and it outperforms every other state management tool. The more your URL reflects the data that needs to be loaded, the more you can optimize your data fetching strategy. This is a detailed guide to using the URL effectively as a state management tool.

USING REACTIVE VARIABLES WITH APOLLO CLIENT

Managing state in modern web applications is crucial, and GraphQL's Apollo Client offers a solution for state management in client-side applications. Reactive variables are a powerful tool for managing local state within a JavaScript framework application, allowing for greater freedom and control over how to manage an application's data and state. With Apollo Client, reactive variables can be updated automatically, providing seamless, real-time updates to an app's UI without manual intervention.

WILL CODING JOBS CEASE TO EXIST IN THREE YEARS?

MEET THE PEOPLE USING NOTION TO PLAN THEIR WHOLE LIVES

A COMPLETELY NON-TECHNICAL EXPLANATION OF AI AND DEEP LEARNING

WHAT DOES '$' MEAN IN REGEX?

The ‘$’ symbol is one of the most commonly used symbols in RegEx as it is used to match the end of a string. This article explains what ‘$’ does with a couple of code examples.

45 WAYS TO BREAK AN API SERVER

ZEDUX

Zedux is a multi-paradigm state management tool that takes the unique approach of separating the state layer (stores) from the architecture layer (atoms). This allows for a powerful Dependency Injection model, conceptually similar to Angular's but simpler and more dynamic.

GOOGLE’S PIXEL FOLD IS REAL! FIRST-EVER LIVE FOOTAGE SURFACES

PAYMENTS, SAYS APPEALS COURT

A JAPANESE COMPANY IS ABOUT TO ATTEMPT A MOON LANDING

CHINA MAKES MAJOR PUSH IN ITS AMBITIOUS DIGITAL YUAN PROJECT

RYE

Rye is a tool that can manage Python installations, pyproject.toml files, dependencies, virtualenvs, monorepos, and tools. Its virtualenvs are completely void of dependencies. Dependencies are managed in pyproject.toml without exposing pip. Rye uses indygreg's Python builds instead of system Python.

BETWEEN

Bill Gates talked with Jessie Woolley-Wilson, a leader in the field of education technology, during this year's ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego. During the talk, they discussed the state of education technology, what the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is doing, and the impact AI will have in the months and years ahead. This article contains a transcript of the conversation. A video of the talk is also available.

‘THE FLATTENING’: TECH SECTOR CALLS TIME ON MIDDLE MANAGERS

The flattening is a phenomenon where tech companies are cutting out the middle managers that they hired in droves during the pandemic boom. Tech companies are focusing on the role as they aim to improve efficiency and cut costs. The bloated middle management positions have led to inefficiencies and drawn out decision-making at some companies. These inefficiencies became more obvious after the shift to remote work during the pandemic.