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YOUTUBE IS EXPERIMENTING WITH NOTES, A CROWDSOURCED FEATURE THAT LETS USERS ADD CONTEXT TO VIDEOS

The feature will help minimize the spread of misinformation on the platform.

UIKIT

uikit enables developers to build performant 3D user interfaces for Three.js using react-three-fiber and yoga.

THE CASE AGAINST MORNING YOGA, DAILY ROUTINES, AND ENDLESS MEETINGS

A tiny number of high-upside tasks will drive the most impact in your life - this article discusses how to create an environment where these tasks are more likely to come up.

HOW REACT 19 (ALMOST) MADE THE INTERNET SLOWER

The React team has decided to hold off on a change that disables parallel rendering of siblings within the same Suspense boundary.

RUNWAY'S GEN 3 VIDEO MODEL

Runway has trained an extremely powerful new video generation model. It will power many of the existing features on its platform. Examples are available in the provided link.

DEEPMIND'S NEW AI GENERATES SOUNDTRACKS AND DIALOGUE FOR VIDEOS

DeepMind is developing an AI technology called V2A to generate synchronized soundtracks for videos. It uses diffusion models trained on audio, dialogue transcripts, and video clips to create music, sound effects, and dialogue.

GIANT CHIPS GIVE SUPERCOMPUTERS A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY

Cerebras, a California-based company, has demonstrated that its second-generation wafer-scale engine is significantly faster than the world's faster supercomputer in molecular dynamics calculations. It can also perform sparse large language model inference at one-third of the energy cost of a full model without losing any accuracy. Both achievements are possible due to the interconnects and fast memory access enabled by Cerebras' hardware. Cerebras is looking to extend the applications of its wafer-scale engine to a larger class of problems, including molecular dynamics simulations of biological processes and simulations of airflow around vehicles.

DEPTH ANYTHING V2

The new Depth Anything model was trained primarily on synthetic data and has dramatically improved performance on complex scenes.

DEEPSEEK CODER V2

DeepSeek Coder is a powerful model that gets 90+ on HumanEval while matching GPT-4 Turbo performance on many other challenging benchmarks. It is available through an API and free for commercial use.

HELPSTEER2: OPEN-SOURCE DATASET FOR TRAINING TOP-PERFORMING REWARD MODELS

Nvidia has released a dataset and recipe along with a high quality paper about training reward models to align model output to human preferences.

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DIFFERENTIABLE RASTERIZATION

Everything should be differentiable. This post walks through how to write differentiable SVG lite.

LARS

LARS is an application that enables you to run LLMs locally on your device. Upload your own documents and engage in conversations where the LLM grounds its responses with your uploaded content.

HALLUCINATIONS IN DIFFUSION-BASED IMAGE MODELS

This paper investigates why diffusion-based image generation models create "hallucinations" — images that never appeared in the training data.

DEEP DIVE: BEYOND THE BASICS OF RAG (48 MINUTE VIDEO)

The creator of RAGatouille gave an excellent talk discussing how to dramatically improve RAG performance, some of the open challenges, and COLBERT.

LOGICAL REASONING IN LANGUAGE MODELS

Chain of Preference Optimization (CPO) is a method that improves the logical reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). By fine-tuning LLMs using search trees from the Tree-of-Thought (ToT) method, CPO aligns the reasoning steps of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) decoding with ToT's optimal paths.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

What would it take to make a generally intelligent agent and what are we missing? This post explores the 3 ideas needed to make an agent and posits that we are only a few years away. The author is a researcher at OpenAI.

TOKENCOST

TokenCost helps calculate the USD cost of using major LLM APIs by calculating the estimated cost of prompts and completions.

MINDMATRIX (PRODUCT)

MindMatrix is an AI-powered mind map generator that simplifies the creation and visualization of complex concepts.

GAIANET-NODE

Install and run your own AI agent service.

SEC'S HEAD OF CRYPTO ASSET AND CYBER UNIT DEPARTS AFTER NEARLY NINE YEARS

David Hirsch has departed from his role as the SEC's Head of Crypto Asset and Cyber Unit in the Division of Enforcement. He spent nine years with the agency. Ladan Stewart, who brought cases against Ripple and Coinbase for the SEC, left earlier this year.

ZKSYNC AIRDROP SUMMARY

The ZK token was released at 3 am on the morning of April 17. 45% of tokens were claimed by over 225,000 addresses within two hours. There was degraded performance on the network immediately after the launch. The token has dropped 20% since launch, a common trend with recent airdrops, and has an FDV of $5 billion.

COINBASE ANNOUNCES PRE-LAUNCH MARKETS

Coinbase has introduced pre-launch markets, allowing users to trade tokens before their onchain creation and participate in price discovery. Pre-launch markets uses a perpetual derivative model, basing the token price off the exponential moving average of the market's mark prices every four hours. The first token supported will be EIGEN and trading will be open to Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced users.

ALLOY – TETHER'S GOLD STABLECOIN

Tether's new stablecoin, aUSDT, is a dollar-denominated token backed by the value of gold. Over-collateralized by onchain gold reserves, aUSDT is the first in a series of Tethered Assets that track the reference of another asset through stabilization mechanisms. Tether has hinted that future assets may be yield-backed.

DUNE ANALYST 101

Understanding Ethereum transactions requires one to read complex logs and traces shown on block explorers like Etherscan. These tools display detailed interactions within a transaction, including functions called, contracts interacted with, and changes made. By mastering these insights, one can analyze data directly related to any smart contract on Ethereum, enhancing transparency and auditability in Dapps.

DAO LEARNING RESOURCES (1 HOUR READ)

a16z crypto compiled various resources for learning about DAOs. These include articles and videos about decentralized governance, human behavior, and incentive systems.

COINBASE'S QUEST FOR LONG-LASTING PROFITABILITY

A VISION OF CELESTIA (2030)

The bull case for Celestia sees it as the global place for data availability, with rollups from across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana ecosystems using it for low costs and high security. Users will be running light nodes within their wallets, allowing Celestia to increase its block size to 1GB and support 100k+ rollups. Since Celestia can move faster than Ethereum, it may outpace its DA ability and start having rollups use TIA as its native token, serving use cases like fully onchain games, social networks, and full sovereignty.

TOKENIZING TIME

Time.fun allows you tokenize and sell your time in minutes by creating a tradable asset on Base where fans can buy, sell, and redeem your time for ETH.

BINANCE AIRDROPPING 10M ZK

Binance is airdropping 10 million ZK tokens to users who performed transactions but were previously excluded from the $ZK airdrop.

BLAST'S USDB THE #5 MOST-TRADED STABLECOIN

The Blast L2's yield-bearing stablecoin, USDB, is the fifth most traded stablecoin.

UPCOMING SOLANA ‘THINGS'

Solana will soon introduce new consumer features, ZK compression, a superfast client, and sovereign rollups.

DOODLES STOODIO MIGRATING TO BASE

NFT collection Doodles is moving its activity hub, the Stoodio, to Base in July.

NEXT-GEN APPLE CARPLAY ANNOUNCED - FUTURE OF IN-CAR UI SYSTEMS?

Apple CarPlay's next-generation in-car UI system will enhance the driving experience by integrating both infotainment and instrumentation screens and any third or fourth display if one is available. The company also plans to incorporate dynamic data, including navigation data, ADAS information, and TPMS data. OEMs will also be able to show specifics, such as the car's name or image, on the screen.

THE LATEST IN CSS AND WEB UI: I/O 2024 RECAP

The web is buzzing with innovation. New CSS and UI features are reshaping how we create beautiful and engaging web experiences. Highlights from Google I/O 2024 include scroll-driven animations, view transitions, and anchor positioning, each offering exciting possibilities for web development. These advancements can simplify complex interactions, boost performance, and elevate the user experience.

DINAMO UNVEILS A NEW CUSTOM TYPEFACE FOR SPOTIFY

Dinamo, the Berlin-based type foundry, has designed a new custom typeface named Spotify Mix in collaboration with Spotify's in-house creative team. The font aims to enhance Spotify's brand identity and user experience. This versatile, variable font blends geometric, grotesque, and humanist elements, symbolizing the diversity of Spotify's content. It is set to appear across all its platforms and marketing materials.

APPLE'S AI WILL ERODE HUMAN CREATIVITY ONE PROMPT AT A TIME

The new AI features showcased at Apple's WWDC conference stifle creativity rather than promote it. The tools offer gimmicky solutions that lack inspiration like Lensa-style AI image generation, ChatGPT-powered email writing, and handwriting correction. Rather than empowering creativity, Apple Intelligence appears to standardize and homogenize user output, contradicting the company's original "Think Different" philosophy.

WHAT DESIGNERS CAN LEARN FROM PLUMBERS

Designers should focus on solving problems and effectively communicating their solutions to stakeholders, emphasizing how their designs address specific issues. Success comes from creating user-friendly designs that solve real problems, articulating these solutions clearly, and reframing problems as actionable challenges.

THE FUTURE IS BUILT ON SOLID FOUNDATIONS

Establishing solid foundations and comprehensive design systems is crucial for digital organizations to adopt emerging technologies like AI, ensuring consistent user experiences, scalability, and efficiency. Forward-thinking organizations that have successfully integrated AI into their design systems have seen increased user engagement and sales.

TRANSFORM IDEAS TO DESIGN AND CODE

UIImagine lets you create and generate user interfaces by describing components or adding screenshots. It supports iteration with preferred design libraries and AI models and outputs code.

PROTOTYPE YOUR DESIGN SYSTEM IN 30 SECONDS

Bordly enables rapid prototyping of design systems. It can generate style guides for typography and color schemes in just a few seconds.

A FONT COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF COLORED CIRCLES

The Color Dot Font is a unique typeface where each Latin character is replaced with a colored circle. Available as a TTF file, the font can be installed and used on any computer operating system.

A SHORTCUT FOR BUILDING CONFIDENCE IN MY PRODUCT OPINION

Building confidence in product opinions quickly is crucial for effective decision-making. Discovering personal methods is a shortcut to building this confidence. Focusing on one or two methods that match personal strengths — such as qualitative customer info, product experience, or internal data — is more efficient than mastering all methods and allows for quick iteration and further refinement.

HOW TO AVOID THE STRUCTURE TRAP

The success of a product is influenced by organizational structure, research value, resource allocation, and balancing business development with marketing. Companies should prioritize product focus while avoiding bloat, use cross-functional teams effectively, and apply the Pareto Principle to maximize customer value.

DESIGN OUTSIDE THE COMPUTER

Working with physical media is rewarding. Quirks of the medium show up in ways that would require a large effort to reproduce digitally — the edges that aren't straight, the lines that aren't perfectly even. To make it work, designers must know how their layout will flow, use a flatbed scanner, be mindful of color contrast, and incorporate some randomness.

STATE-BASED UI IS AN ANTI-PATTERN

While it might seem handy, State-based UI is often overcomplicated and less resilient than traditional DOM manipulation or Web Components.

HOW TO USE REM UNITS IN CSS FOR ACCESSIBLE DESIGN

Using rem units in CSS improves accessibility and scalability as it adapts to user settings, making web designs more responsive and user-friendly, especially for those with visual impairments.

RYAN TODD'S 365 DAYS OF DRAWING DELIVERS A WITTY COLLECTION OF INVENTIONS, AND SOME THOUGHT-PROVOKING OBSERVATIONS

Ryan Todd committed to drawing daily for a year to foster spontaneous creativity.

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE GETS WORSE. AGAIN

Customer experience in the U.S. has declined for the third consecutive year, reaching its lowest average score of 69.3 out of 100. The decline was influenced by inflation, shrinkflation, and ineffective customer-service chatbots. Consumers feel they are not getting value for the higher prices they are paying despite pandemic-era issues like shipping delays and understaffing being resolved. Companies that hastily implemented AI chatbots have worsened the situation.