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AMAZON NFTS WILL BE TIED TO REAL-WORLD ASSETS, TOKEN POSSIBLE

TORNADO CASH FORK, PRIVACY POOLS, DEPLOYED ON OPTIMISM TESTNET

THOUGHTS ON CRYPTO RISK PREMIA

HOW TO SURVIVE IN CRYPTO LONG-TERM (WITHOUT GETTING LUCKY)

TO COMPLIANCE

BUSINESS

YUGA LABS' BITCOIN NFT COLLECTION FETCHES TOP BID OF NEARLY $160K

SHOCKING NEW CASE FILED BY THE SEC

THE ECONOMIES OF CRYPTO

A TWEET TO THE SEC STAFF FROM A FORMER SEC STAFFER

APPLE WILL REPORTEDLY LAUNCH AN M3-EQUIPPED IMAC LATER THIS YEAR

AMAZON PAUSES CONSTRUCTION OF SECOND HEADQUARTERS IN VIRGINIA

LLAMA-DL

This repository provides a high-speed download of Facebook's 65 billion parameter model, LLaMA. LLAMA is being distributed openly by Facebook via torrents. This repository offers a faster download at roughly 3.6 times the speed of the torrent. The download size for LLAMA is 219 gb (235164838073 bytes).

0BEQZ/REALISM-EFFECTS

This repository is a compilation of various effects for three.js that includes SSGI, Motion Blur, and TRAA. It also contains SSR and SSDGI for reflections and diffuse lighting from SSGI. A set of demos and resources are available.

THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW CHATGPT WAS BUILT FROM THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT

OpenAI released ChatGPT without expecting it to become a viral hit. However, it became the most popular internet app ever, and OpenAI has been scrambling to catch up and capitalize on its success. This article contains an inside look at the chatbot from the perspective of four individuals who helped build it. OpenAI is still bewildered by ChatGPT's success but has used the opportunity to improve its technology by monitoring how millions of people use it and fixing issues as they arise.

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Google Cloud's CEO, Thomas Kurian, has given a fiery call to arms to employees. Kurian vowed to build the best capability in artificial intelligence and urged all staff to remain committed to the cause, despite repeated criticisms from competitors. He said that the AI race is still in its early stages and this could be a historic moment in tech. Kurian urged for more teamwork, asking employees to step forward, work effectively as a team, and make Google successful against its customers.

BIG TECH JOB-SWITCHING STATS

USING METRICS TO MEASURE INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPER PERFORMANCE

FIRST LOOK AT GOOGLE CHROME’S BLINK ENGINE RUNNING ON AN IPHONE

BRAVE SEARCH LAUNCHES AN AI-POWERED SUMMARIZATION FEATURE

100 MOST CITED AI PAPERS IN 2022

200-YEAR-OLD MATH OPENS UP AI’S MYSTERIOUS BLACK BOX

Whether it’s designing microchips or dreaming up new proteins, sometimes it seems like neural networks can do anything. Infamously, however, these brain-inspired AI systems work in mysterious ways, raising concerns that what they are doing might not make any sense. New research suggests that 200-year-old math could help shed light on how neural networks perform complex tasks such as predicting climate or modeling turbulence, a new study finds. This in turn could help boost the accuracy of neural networks and the speed at which they learn, researchers say.

MAXIMIZATION

Diffusion is currently one of the best generative methods in terms of sample quality. This comes from the nice properties of the loss and denoising process. In the community, different weighting schemes are used for noise per step which leads to different empirical results. It turns out that these non-uniform weighting schemes can be understood from the lens of likelihood maximization. This is a great step towards a deeper theoretical understanding of this modern workhorse.

GUIDE TEXT GENERATION WITH GROUNDING FOR ROBOTIC CONTROL

Applying large language models to robots is challenging due to their lack of experience with the physical world. To overcome this, a guided decoding strategy is used to construct an action sequence that is both likely according to the language model and realizable in the environment. This strategy solves complex tasks in a robotic setting by leveraging the knowledge of both models. They compare their work to SayCan.

UNLIMITED-SIZE DIFFUSION RESTORATION

This paper discusses the use of diffusion models for zero-shot image restoration and proposes a method to handle images of arbitrary sizes while maintaining the excellent characteristics of zero-shot. The proposed method, called Mask-Shift Restoration, addresses local incoherence, and Hierarchical Restoration alleviates out-of-domain issues. These simple, parameter-free approaches can be used not only for image restoration but also for image generation of unlimited sizes.

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EARLY DROPOUT FOR MITIGATING UNDERFITTING IN NEURAL NETWORKS

The study shows that early dropout, applied only during the initial phases of training, can mitigate underfitting by reducing the directional variance of gradients and aligning them with the entire dataset’s gradient. The proposed method consistently improves generalization accuracy in various vision tasks and encourages further research on regularization in deep learning.

CONTEXT CLUSTERS: A NEW PARADIGM FOR VISUAL REPRESENTATION

This work introduces Context Clusters (CoCs), a new paradigm for visual representation that views an image as a set of unorganized points and extracts features via a simplified clustering algorithm. CoCs are convolution- and attention-free and only rely on clustering for spatial interaction. Despite not targeting state-of-the-art performance, CoCs achieve comparable or even better results than ConvNets or ViTs on several benchmarks.

THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW CHATGPT WAS BUILT

To get the inside story behind the ChatGPT — how it was made, how OpenAI has been updating it since release, and how its makers feel about its success — the author talked to four people who helped build it. They are Sandhini Agarwal (works on policy at OpenAI), Liam Fedus (scientist who worked on ChatGPT), John Schulman (cofounder of OpenAI), and Jan Leike (leader of OpenAI’s alignment team)

IS OPENAI MAKING MONEY OFF CHATGPT API

WHY AI WON’T CAUSE UNEMPLOYMENT

THERE’S AN AI FOR THAT

An extensive list of many useful AI tools being built today for various applications. A great place to gather resources or inspiration.

OPENAI-PYTHON

OpenAI-Python provides access to the OpenAI API from applications written in Python.

OPENAI PHP

OpenAI PHP is a PHP API client that allows you to interact with the OpenAI AI API.

MACHINE LEARNING NOTES

Machine Learning Notes is a collection of useful machine learning codes and snippets.

TEXTS FROM CRYPTO GIANT BINANCE REVEAL PLAN TO ELUDE U.S. AUTHORITIES

Texts from Binance have revealed a plan developed in 2019 to avoid potential prosecution from US authorities. The information indicates that Binance.US set up a corporation in the US that would license technology from Binance but maintain, or appear to maintain, independence to draw US regulatory scrutiny away from Binance. However, documents and interviews revealed that Binance and its US partner Binance.US could be more interwoven than the companies led authorities to believe, sharing staff, finances, and an affiliated entity. If regulators determine that Binance.US is actually a subsidiary of Binance and not an independent company, it could provide them with the firepower they need to bring Binance as a whole under the microscope.

THE RISE AND FALL OF SILVERGATE’S CRYPTO BUSINESS

ITS LAUNCH

SOVEREIGN ROLLUPS ON BITCOIN WITH ROLLKIT

ALL ABOUT ERC-4337

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BITCOIN STACKS & ORDINALS?