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An API for accessing random images where you can specify size or choose an image based on ID.

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GOOGLE’S BEST GEMINI DEMO WAS FAKED

The video demonstrating some of Google Gemini's best interactions may not be entirely real. While Gemini appears to be able to do the things that Google shows in the video, it isn't able to do them live and in the way the video implies. The video was a series of carefully tuned text prompts with still images selected to mislead viewers about the speed, accuracy, and fundamental mode of interaction with the model. A breakdown of the video is available in the article.

BEEPER MINI FOR ANDROID SENDS AND RECEIVES IMESSAGES, NO MAC SERVER REQUIRED

It is now possible to send iMessages without handing over Apple credentials or logging in with an Apple ID on a Mac server. Beeper Mini for Android allows Android users to send iMessages with all the typing, delivered/read receipt, emoji reaction, and most other iPhone-to-iPhone message features. The app is powered by a teenager's reverse-engineering discovery. This article looks at how the app works.

CHINA LAUNCHES WORLD’S ‘MOST ADVANCED’ NUCLEAR REACTOR THAT’S COOLED BY GAS, NOT WATER

China has begun operations at a nuclear reactor that uses gas rather than water for cooling. Construction of the plant started in 2012 and its first reactor was connected to the country's power grid in 2021. Interest in gas-cooled reactors is increasing globally as they can provide efficient and cost-effective electricity. They can also produce high-temperature process heat for industrial applications. Pictures of the power plant are available in the article.

DEFYING CAVITY: LANTERN BIOWORKS FAQ

Lantern Bioworks claims to have a cure for tooth decay. It has a genetically modified bacterium designed to infect patients' mouths to outcompete tooth-decay-causing bacteria, making cavities a thing of the past. One treatment with the bacteria is enough to infect users' mouths forever. This article contains an interview with Lantern founder Aaron Silverbook where he explains how the technology works, both in a biological and economic sense.

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JETS

Jets is a Ruby Serverless Framework that includes everything required to build and deploy an application to AWS Lambda. It maps code to Lambda functions and other AWS resources like API Gateway and Event Rules. Several live demos of Jets applications are available.

DATA ENGINEERING DESIGN PATTERNS (BOOK)

This is a book on Data Engineering Design Patterns that aims to dissect the evolutionary paths in data engineering and identify universal design patterns applicable across the spectrum of data engineering. It explores the concept of convergent evolution, its relevance to data engineering, and how the concept can guide engineering through the Data Engineering Lifecycle and enrich their understanding and practice.

BROWSING THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE PERSONAL WEB

The Japanese Personal Web, or as they call it, creative/doujin sites, are personal websites indexed on specialized search engines. The criteria to be listed on these search engines is strict as sites with more formal contexts (eg business sites) aren't allowed. This article takes a look at some of these Japanese personal websites and compares them to similar sites from the West. The Personal Web is still very alive in the East, with many sites surviving for over a decade or two.

JOURNEY TO THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE ELT, THE LARGEST OPTICAL TELESCOPE IN THE WORLD: ‘IT WILL BE A REVOLUTION’

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be the largest telescope on the planet that is able to detect visible and infrared light. It is the flagship project of the European Southern Observatory, an organization that comprises 16 countries. The telescope will allow scientists to see even the first galaxies from the dawn of the universe in greater detail. It will allow scientists to map the orbits of faraway stars in three dimensions and allow them to start developing theories based on three-dimensional models.

SPACEX REPORTEDLY SEEKING $175 BILLION VALUATION VIA TENDER OFFER

Starlink is the primary driver of SpaceX's valuation.

SUPERDUPERDB

SuperDuperDB allows for the integration, training, and management of AI models and APIs directly within databases and data.

LINUX IS GETTING ITS OWN BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

The latest release of systemd for Linux systems can generate full-screen error messages on Linux distributions.

THE COMING BOOM IN RARE EARTHS

The US Department of Defense has awarded well over $100 million in grants, investments, and initiatives aimed at increasing US access to rare earth elements over the last few years and now it has to deal with the environmental implications of a large-scale return of rare-earth processing.

THE STANDARD WEBHOOKS SPECIFICATION

This repository contains open source tools and guidelines for sending webhooks easily, securely, and reliably.

HOW TO THINK ABOUT THE OPENAI Q* RUMORS

Q* is unlikely to be the crucial breakthrough that leads to artificial general intelligence, but it might be an important step toward an AI with general reasoning abilities.

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META’S PURPLE LLAMA SAFETY PROJECT

Purple Llama, a new project aiming to level the playing field for building safe and responsible generative AI experiences, is launching with permissively licensed tools, evaluations, and models for both research and commercial use. Initial offerings include CyberSecEval for assessing AI system security, the Llama Guard model for detecting and preventing cyberattacks, and tools for insecure code detection and cyber attack compliance testing. This initiative democratizes access to essential resources, empowering developers to create secure and responsible AI experiences.

X BEGINS ROLLING OUT GROK

Grok, a new ChatGPT competitor developed by Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, has been launched on X for Premium Plus subscribers in the U.S.

ENABLING NEXT-GENERATION AI WORKLOADS: ANNOUNCING TPU V5P AND AI HYPERCOMPUTER

Google has announced Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful, scalable, and flexible AI accelerator yet. TPUs are used for training and serving AI-powered products. Google has also announced AI Hypercomputer from Google Cloud, a supercomputer architecture that uses an integrated system of performance-optimized hardware, open software, leading ML frameworks, and flexible consumption models. AI Hypercomputer employs systems-level co-design to boost efficiency and productivity across AI training, tuning, and serving.

LONG CONTEXT PROMPTING FOR CLAUDE

The recent release of Claude from Anthropic had 200k tokens in context. It seemed to suffer from the “lost in the middle” problem of language models in external evals, meaning it only had 27% retrieval performance on some standard problems. However, if you add the sentence “Assistant: Here is the most relevant sentence in the context” to the prompt the retrieval performance jumps to 98%.

ONELLM: A MULTIMODAL AI THAT UNDERSTANDS EIGHT DIFFERENT MODALITIES

A new AI model called OneLLM is making waves by understanding eight different types of data, including images, audio, and even brain activity, using a unique method that aligns all these modalities to language.

KANDINSKY 3.0: TEXT-TO-IMAGE WITH ENHANCED QUALITY AND REALISM

Kandinsky 3.0 is a text-to-image model that creates even more realistic images from text.

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MAMBA CHAT

Mamba is a non-transformer-based model with amazing performance. It has been chat-tuned with SFT and seems to have substantially better out-of-the-box retrieval ability than similarly sized transformers.

LLAMA IN MLX

Just a day after the MLX framework from Apple was released, folks have already enabled Llama 2 models to run on the new framework.

MISTRAL MLX EXAMPLE

An example of generating text with Mistral using MLX.

SINGLE-IMAGE 3D VIEW SYNTHESIS

Free3D is an innovative approach that creates 3D views from just one image, without the need for slow and bulky 3D models.

ML SYSTEM DESIGN: 300 CASE STUDIES TO LEARN FROM

This site contains a database of 300 case studies from over 80 companies that share practical machine learning use cases and learnings from designing ML systems. The database can be filtered by industry or ML use case. Tags based on recurring themes are available.

OPENAI COO BRAD LIGHTCAP TALKS ABOUT CHATGPT LAUNCH, DEV DAY, AND HOW SAM ALTMAN THINKS

OpenAI's achievements over the past year were recently eclipsed by a rollercoaster couple of weeks that involved Sam Altman being ousted and reinstated as well as a new board. This post contains an edited interview with OpenAI's COO Brad Lightcap where he discusses ChatGPT, OpenAI's Dev Day, and Altman.

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GOOGLE’S BEST GEMINI DEMO WAS FAKED

Google's recent "Hands-on with Gemini" video, which showcases the capabilities of its new Gemini AI model, has drawn criticism for being misleading. While the video demonstrates Gemini responding to various multimodal inputs, it was later revealed that the interactions were not live but rather carefully curated and prompted using still images and text, differing significantly from the real-time, intuitive interactions implied in the video.

UIDRAW

Draw and build a website from your phone.

SEO GPT (PRODUCT)

Boost your website’s SEO instantly right inside ChatGPT.

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EVEN SMALL-TIME JITO AIRDROPPERS ARE GETTING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN JTO TOKENS

Jito, described by some as Flashbots + Lido on Solana, conducted an airdrop yesterday that took all of Crypto Twitter by storm. Close to 10,000 Solana addresses were airdropped a minimum of 4,941 JTO tokens, which ended up being worth nearly $15,000 by the end of the day yesterday. This airdrop was reminiscent of the Uniswap airdrop that kickstarted the Ethereum ecosystem last cycle.

FOLLOWING UK EXPANSION, ROBINHOOD BRINGS CRYPTO TRADING TO EU

Robinhood is launching its crypto trading app to all eligible users across the EU, marking a significant step in its international expansion. This move took place a week after the firm’s debut in the UK. Robinhood Crypto will be in compliance with the EU's comprehensive crypto regulation framework. This expansion marks a change in tone after Robinhood delisted tokens like Cardano, Polygon, and Solana earlier in the year.

MAKING DEFI FRONTENDS GREAT AGAIN THROUGH LAPPS

This thread highlights the idea of lApps or local apps. lApps are frontends meant to be run privately on individual users’ local machines, offering stronger security, quick loading, no forced updates, and no frontend fees. lApps operate through third-party software, like browser extensions or desktop applications. The idea is for users to access DeFi projects on their own devices independent of external web servers through a simple click on a link. While the exact implementation is still to be determined, this is an innovative approach to web3 frontends.

WORMHOLE QUERIES LAUNCHES, BRINGING ON-DEMAND ACCESS TO ON-CHAIN DATA TO APPS ON ANY CHAIN

Wormhole has launched Wormhole Queries, a service aimed at simplifying app development through a decentralized system for instant cross-chain data retrieval. This latest innovation improves upon Wormhole's traditional "push" attestation model by reducing latency and data access costs significantly. Its flexible method promises simplified cross-chain development, rapid requests, cheaper gas fees, and flexible data retrieval. Expected use cases include DeFi platforms, gaming, and cross-chain digital identity.

HOW TO FARM MARGINFI AIRDROP IN 10MIN

This thread runs through a step-by-step guide on how to farm MarginFi’s upcoming airdrop within 10 minutes. The steps include logging into MarginFi, lending to the SOL module, borrowing USDC, converting that into SOL, and re-lending the SOL. The procedure can be repeated to increase the user's liquidation price, but the thread advises maintaining a health level of 20-30% and waiting for the airdrop.

THE 2023 SEQUENCING MAP

This thread explores the concept of sequencing in crypto, specifically its role in L2 scaling and MEV. It elaborates on how sequencing research is progressing, its crucial components, and the companies driving the change. It further discusses concepts like censorship resistance, centralized sequencing, consensus, data availability, and fair ordering.

THE STATE OF L2S: THEORY AND REALITY

L2s are one of the focal points of the space right now as the Ethereum network continues to grow and is attempting to address scaling issues. With this narrative heating up and L2s competing with one another, the space is getting to see how reality compares with the theory of L2s. This post highlights some of those differences.

FUTURE OF SOLANA'S HYPED SAGA PHONE IS 'UNDER INTERNAL DISCUSSION' AS SALES FIGURES FAIL TO WOW

The future of Solana's Saga Phone remains uncertain due to underwhelming sales, according to the company's founder Anatoly Yakovenko. The smartphone, which targets the blockchain industry, apparently requires a 25-50K user base to incentivize app developers. Yakovenko mentioned the growth of Progressive Web Apps and pass keys as significant factors narrowing the distinction between regular and specialized smartphones, potentially impacting Saga Phone's demand.

CRYPTO GAMING PLATFORM PORTAL ADDS ROCKSTAR CO-FOUNDER AMID AIRDROP FRENZY

Jamie King, co-founder of Rockstar Games, joined the Portal Foundation as an advisor to the crypto gaming project.

BITCOIN RALLY: IS EL SALVADOR'S BITCOIN BET PAYING OFF?

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele's Bitcoin reserve is finally in the green again, despite facing a couple of years of criticism and concerns about the high-risk investment and its impact on the country's economy.

LAYERZERO TO LAUNCH TOKEN IN 2024

On the backs of successful recent airdrops like PYTH and JTO, LayerZero officially confirmed it will launch its much-anticipated token in the first half of 2024.