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BANKS ARE CLOSING CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS, WITH LITTLE EXPLANATION

Banks are taking a harder look than ever at customers' transactions due to increased fraudulent activity during the pandemic. Financial institutions filed 1.4 million Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in 2021, 70% higher than in 2014. However, a 2018 study found that only 4% of SARs warranted follow-up from law enforcement. The rise in account closures has caused significant disruption to customers, leading to twice as many complaints about closures in 2021 compared to 2017. Increasingly, those who have crypto activity into and out of their banks have been targets of these closures.

2023.04.12
archive.ph12 min readTLDR Crypto

SHAPED CRYPTO’S MOST POWERFUL FOUNDER

Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world's largest and most influential cryptocurrency exchange, has a dual persona: the affable, mild-mannered individual and the tough executive. Zhao's business practices have put him under scrutiny as governments, including the U.S., accuse Binance of deception and violating international sanctions and money-laundering rules. Binance now claims to prioritize compliance. Zhao's background, including experiences in Canada and China, have contributed to his ability to navigate the cutthroat early years of China's tech scene while maintaining a friendly, non-threatening public image.

2023.04.12
archive.ph30 min readTLDR Crypto

DEEP SCATTER

This library enables zoomable, animated scatterplots in the browser that scale over a billion points. It uses a custom quadtree format that only loads data when zooming to increase speed. The library also uses the Apache Arrow Feather format, which is quick to parse, compresses well, and can copy directly to the GPU without JavaScript transformation. It runs in completely static settings, making it possible to host million-point scatter plots over services such as GitHub Pages.

2023.04.11
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR

LUCIA

Lucia is a flexible library for user and session management. It was designed to create an easy-to-understand abstraction layer between applications and their databases. Lucia makes authentication simple and clean.

2023.04.11
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR

AS TECH JOBS DISAPPEAR, SILICON VALLEY VETERANS RESET THEIR CAREERS

Laid-off tech workers are expanding their horizons and landing jobs in smaller and midsize firms, freelancing, and nontech companies. Many are now considering tech jobs outside the industry or with startups that are more aligned with their values. The job market remains strong, with low unemployment rates and growing technical services and software development sectors. Many companies that were previously unable to compete with big tech for workers are now able to hire again.

2023.04.11
archive.ph8 min readTLDR

AMAZON TELLS EMPLOYEES IT ISN’T FALLING BEHIND ON AI

Despite Amazon's absence in the generative AI race, executives maintain that the company is actively involved in the AI space. Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon's VP of database, analytics, and machine learning, said that Amazon's 100,000+ machine learning customers are interested in using the company's technology for personalization, search engine results, and call center automation. While Amazon Web Services has partnered with AI companies like Stability AI and Hugging Face, the company has not launched a consumer-facing generative AI product, leading to speculation that it may be lagging behind its competitors.

2023.04.11
archive.ph4 min readTLDR AI

AGENTS ARE THE NEW PARADIGM

What happens if you use language models to simulate an entire town? They ask each other out on Valentine's dates. This paper explores what happens if you give language models open-ended tasks and shows that you can observe remarkable human-like social capabilities from these agents, such as keeping schedules, planning activities, and reminiscing about previous interactions. This is one step in a broader trend of language models moving more towards agent-like paradigms, which dramatically changes the safety considerations for true model alignment.

2023.04.11
arxiv.org26 min readTLDR AI

A TUTORIAL INTRODUCTION TO REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

The paper provides a brief survey of Reinforcement Learning (RL), with a focus on Stochastic Approximation (SA) as a unifying theme. The scope includes Markov Reward Processes, Markov Decision Processes, Stochastic Approximation algorithms, and widely used algorithms like Temporal Difference Learning and Q-learning.

2023.04.11
arxiv.org30 min readTLDR AI

LLMMAPS - A VISUAL METAPHOR FOR STRATIFIED EVALUATION OF LLMS

The paper introduces LLMMaps, a visualization technique that allows for the stratified evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) based on Q&A datasets, providing detailed insights into their knowledge capabilities and enabling comparative analysis of multiple LLMs. The approach was tested on state-of-the-art LLMs and evaluated through user feedback.

2023.04.11
arxiv.org13 min readTLDR AI

SEGMENT ANYTHING CHROME EXTENSION

Since the Segment Anything Model from Meta is so lightweight, it can run directly in the browser. As a result, we can copy items from images directly to the clipboard - in the wild. It works just like the demo from Meta, but instead of displaying the segmented object, that object is copied to the system clipboard for you to paste as needed.

2023.04.11
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR AI

OPENPLAYGROUND

Openplayground is an LLM playground you can run on your laptop.

2023.04.11
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR AI

UPTRAIN

UpTrain is an open-source framework to observe ML applications built for engineers.

2023.04.11
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR AI

WINKLEVOSS TWINS LEND $100 MILLION TO THEIR GEMINI CRYPTO PLATFORM

Billionaire twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss recently provided a $100 million loan to their embattled crypto exchange, Gemini, amidst a market downturn for digital assets. After failing to secure outside funding, Gemini has faced setbacks, including a decrease in global spot trading volume and an overall slowdown in all facets of the market due to bear market forces. Fallout from FTX's collapse and lawsuits from the SEC and CFTC have further impacted Gemini, which previously raised $400 million at a $7.1 billion valuation in November 2021.

2023.04.11
archive.ph2 min readTLDR Crypto

2023.04.11
barnabe.substack.com22 min readTLDR Crypto