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CIRCLE SEEKS TO REGISTER IN FRANCE, RAMPING UP EUROPEAN PLAY

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THE CRYPTO VC LIST - 2023

WHY CBDCS ARE NGMI

A DEEP DIVE INTO POLYTRADE

Polytrade is a Dubai-based trade finance platform utilizing blockchain technology to streamline receivables financing, connecting buyers, sellers, insurers, and investors to overcome traditional financing challenges. It offers low-interest, fast financing and employs DeFi to bring transparency to the industry through Proof of Trade. Polytrade is set to launch an RWA Marketplace for trading tokenized assets, including invoices from major corporations. The platform also developed Polytrade ID to securely onboard companies and institutions to web3 and DeFi, aiming to revolutionize the industry by enhancing transparency, security, and accessibility.

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MSIGNER: ORDINALS ATOMIC SWAP PSBT SIGNER

msigner is a secure, open-source Bitcoin PSBT signer library for marketplaces, featuring buyer-seller-friendly APIs, trust-minimized PSBT combining, and wide wallet support.

SONY TO INTRODUCE NFTS INTO PLAYSTATION GAMES

SUSHI DAO, KEY CONTRIBUTOR SERVED WITH SEC SUBPOENA

THIEF LAYS TRAP TO CLAIM 3 MILLION ARB TOKENS IN UPCOMING AIRDROP

30B INSTRUCTION TUNED MODEL

STABLE DIFFUSION REIMAGINE

CODEPS: ONLINE LEARNING FOR PANOPTIC SEGMENTATION

The paper proposes a solution to the challenge of robotic navigation in new environments by introducing CoDEPS, a continual learning approach that utilizes experience replay and domain mixing to mitigate catastrophic forgetting and adapt to changing conditions. The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results and addresses the limited storage capacity of robotic systems.

LION: IMPLICIT VISION PROMPT TUNING

The paper proposes LION, an efficient vision model that addresses the heavy computational costs of vision Transformers by using deep implicit models with stable memory costs. LION only inserts two equilibrium implicit layers in the pre-trained main backbone and prunes parameters according to the lottery hypothesis, reducing up to 11.5% of training parameter numbers while achieving higher performance than state-of-the-art baseline VPT on a wide range of datasets, especially under challenging scenes.

DIFFUSIONRET: GENERATIVE TEXT-VIDEO RETRIEVAL WITH DIFFUSION MODEL

The paper introduces DiffusionRet, a diffusion-based text-video retrieval framework that models the correlation between text and video as their joint probability, p(candidates, query), from a generative viewpoint. DiffusionRet optimizes the generator through generation loss and the feature extractor through contrastive loss, leveraging both generative and discriminative methods to achieve superior performance on five commonly used text-video retrieval benchmarks, even in out-domain retrieval settings, and bringing fundamental insights into the related fields.

TRANSFORMER REINFORCEMENT LEARNING V0.4.1 RELEASED

WHICH DATA MADE MY MODEL SMARTER?

Instead of using an additive scalar score to determine how much influence a data instance has on final model performance, what if we used a full training simulator? This enables counter-factual exploration around dataset construction and long term training performance. This method tends to underestimate performance, but does a good job of capturing general dynamics for large language model training runs.

LANGFLOW

A visual graph based editor for LangChain that runs in the browser.

HOW GPT MAY AFFECT THE LABOR MARKET

While GPT models may impact labor markets, the effect is not uniform across jobs. A preliminary look suggests physically active and mentally creative jobs are less likely to be affected by large language models. Not the most convincing methodology, but a good step at this early juncture to understand what our economic future might look like.

DUOLINGO AND OPENAI

Duolingo has introduced two new features powered by OpenAI's GPT-4: Role Play, an AI conversation partner, and Explain my Answer, which provides contextual feedback on mistakes, in a new subscription tier called Duolingo Max. Duolingo turned to GPT-4 after finding that GPT-3 could not confidently handle the complex automated aspects of chats. The team sees the potential of GPT-4 to provide a more effective and engaging learning experience than ever before, which should improve learning outcomes, and it has simplified the entire engineering process, making it faster to bring new features to users.

STANFORD COPIES THE CHATGPT AI FOR LESS THAN $600

BLOOP

Bloop is a code-search engine that uses GPT-4 to answer questions about your code.

SEMANTIC KERNEL

Semantic Kernel (SK) is a lightweight SDK enabling integration of AI LLMs with conventional programming languages.

MICROSOFT’S NEW COPILOT WILL CHANGE OFFICE DOCUMENTS FOREVER

INSIDE ELON MUSK’S COST-CUTTING DRIVE AT TWITTER

COMPUTER

TEMPLATE

Template is a lightweight JavaScript tool for building interactive web applications. It is a single class that provides a simple and efficient way to manage HTML templates. Template's primary focus is on using web-native patterns.

EIGHT GRAPHS THAT EXPLAIN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SALARIES IN 2023

BROWSER?

NAVIGATING THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF EVERYTHING

SVB WAS MELTING DOWN

BROWSER

PANDERA

pandera is a data validation library that provides an API for performing data validation on dataframe-like objects.

SOURCE ON MARCH 31

LAID-OFF EMPLOYEES

TRAIN A CHATGPT COMPETITOR FOR $85K AND RUN IT IN YOUR BROWSER

MIDJOURNEY V5 IS HERE!

COMPREHENSIVE PROMPT ENGINEERING

RESIDUAL CONNECTION IN TRANSFORMERS HAS A PRIVILEGED BASIS

COLT5: LONG-INPUT TRANSFORMER MODEL WITH CONDITIONAL COMPUTATION

The article presents COLT5, a new long-input Transformer model that uses conditional computation to allocate more resources to important tokens, achieving state-of-the-art results on the long-input SCROLLS benchmark with faster training and inference, and effective processing of extremely long inputs.

ALPACA LORA

Low Rank Adaptation is a method to fine-tune language models by updating only a small subset of the parameters. This repo contains code that assists in tuning the popular Llama models via instruction tuning on consumer hardware due to the reduced computational requirements of Lora.

ML COMMANDS

A list of extremely useful commands for ML research from a HuggingFace research scientist. It includes things like distributed training, environment set up, and configuration tasks. A useful reference for any practitioner.

GLUEGEN: EFFICIENTLY UPGRADING TEXT-TO-IMAGE MODELS WITH GLUENET

The article proposes GlueGen, a method that aligns features from different encoders with the latent space of an existing text-to-image (T2I) model using the GlueNet model and a new training objective. This allows for efficient integration of new functionality, such as multilingual language models and multi-modal encoders, into existing T2I models, enabling sound-to-image generation and upgrading the current text encoder for challenging case generation.

KHAN ACADEMY AND OPENAI

Khan Academy is a nonprofit that offers thousands of lessons in math, science and the humanities for students of all ages. Khan Academy announced that it will use GPT-4 to power Khanmigo, an AI-powered assistant that functions as both a virtual tutor for students and a classroom assistant for teachers. The nonprofit began testing the newest version of OpenAI’s language model in 2022 and will initially make the Khanmigo pilot program available to a limited number of participants, though the public is invited to join the waitlist.

SAM ALTMAN IS A BIT SCARED OF AI

VOICE CLONING AI LET’S YOU SPEAK MULTIPLE LANGUAGES

VALL-E X, a new AI model from Microsoft, can clone a voice from a short sample of 4-10 seconds and then use it to synthesize speech in a different language.