Tired of coding forms? With SurveyJS UI components [9], you can generate and style dynamic JSON-based forms of any complexity right in your JavaScript application with no need for manual coding. The libraries utilize JSON objects for both form metadata and results, and support seamless integration with any backend system. You can render your custom forms and collect responses, while retaining full control over your data.
Semantic Autocomplete is a performant React component that extends Material UI's autocomplete component with a local, quantized ML model. The model is used to perform similarity search and helps match by meaning, not just letters. The component is full-featured and doesn't require any extending.
This author, who develops an app that controls monitor settings, has observed unusual monitor bugs over the years. These bugs include monitors randomly swapping positions after standby, turning monochrome unexpectedly, blacking out after receiving specific commands, and ignoring input switching or mute commands. Monitors often have faulty firmware and weird workarounds to these problems.
Researchers have discovered that overtrained neural networks can develop unexpected and innovative solutions to problems, a phenomenon they have termed “grokking". These grokked networks solve problems like modular arithmetic using mathematical manipulations that mimic trigonometric functions.
This author attempted to solve the One Billion Row Challenge using CUDA to much success. While a pure C++ solution took 16.5 minutes, the CUDA solution achieved a 60X speedup, completing in 16.8 seconds.
A cat woke up a developer in the middle of the night just as a DDoS attack was overwhelming their company's website, allowing them to handle it successfully.
Payment experts, finance leaders, and product professionals: Modern Treasury [3] is inviting you to join the biggest names in fintech for TRANSFER 2024 [3] — a one day conference happening in San Francisco and virtually. On the agenda [3]: new payment rails, innovations in financial infrastructure, the opportunities presented by AI, and how these catalysts will impact the global financial ecosystem. Highlights include:
A recent change to Apple's App Store Review Guidelines means that a rule that effectively banned the submission of console and classic game emulators for iOS and iPadOS has been reversed. The first wave of game emulators have now made their way to the App Store. Emu64 XL is a Commodore 64 emulator and iGBA is a Gameboy Advance and Gameboy Color emulator. Both are free to download without any in-app purchases. Under Apple's rule changes, emulators still have to filter objectionable content, follow all privacy guidelines, and not share data or privacy permissions with other software, but it is unclear how some of the rules will be enforced.
Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) is now $99 a month. The company is currently deploying FSD v12, a new version fully powered by AI that is supposed to be a significant advancement compared to previous versions. Tesla dealers were recently mandated to provide FSD demo drives for all new deliveries. Existing owners in North America are able to receive a one-month free trial of the system.
Max Space wants to launch expandable stadium-sized habitats into Earth's orbit by the end of the decade. It has designed habitats that minimize the mass and volume of the payload required to be launched into space, providing people with room to live both in space and on other planets or moons. The company plans to launch the scalable habitats on SpaceX's rockets in 2027 and 2030. It will launch its first off-Earth test in two years.
Project Red is a facility that uses geothermal energy to power a local power grid in Nevada. The facility pumps water thousands of feet into the ground, where it is heated by the Earth's super-hot core, and then sucks the heated water back up to power generators. It leverages techniques from the oil and gas industry to improve reliability and cost-efficiency and make geothermal power possible in many more locations. This article looks at how the facility works and the field of geothermal energy in general, including other projects and attempts at building the technology.
This article contains seven lessons learned by Truss, a startup that released a few LLM-heavy features over the last six months, that cover how to improve prompting, tooling and optimal usage, GPT's limitations, and more. The startup exclusively deals with text using a combination of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. While GPT is useful, the technology is still in its early days and probably won't result in everyone losing their jobs. It mostly lowers the barrier of entry to ML/AI that was previously only available to Google.
PostgreSQL Index Advisor is a PostgreSQL extension for recommending indexes to improve query performance. It supports generic parameters and materialized views and can identify tables and columns obfuscated by views.
Exponential growth can get out of control really quickly. The scaling law hypothesis says that AI systems are on a growth curve where their capabilities will continually grow exponentially as long as we keep feeding in more data and computing power. This interview with Dario Amodei, who led the team at OpenAI that created GPT-2 and GPT-3 before leaving OpenAI to co-found Anthropic where he is now CEO, discusses growth in AI, how AI is being adopted by society, the amount of energy the technology consumes and how to mitigate its effects on the planet, and much more.
The new AI craze may have some people considering moving to the Bay Area. The Bay Area is a place with a lot of knowledge and a culture around risk that can be valuable for founders and people who want to work in tech. While people can still find these things elsewhere, the network of companies, developers, and investors is unparalleled. People's opportunities for job search, networking, and career growth are significantly higher by being where the ecosystem is concentrated.
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Meta's goal for Threads is to build something Twitter-like, but for a billion users, so its app is being designed for users who mostly lurk, comment, and like and don't want to understand how any of it works.
Google's new AI chip, Cloud TPU v5p, is now available. It boasts nearly triple the training speed for large language models compared to its predecessor, TPU v4. This release underscores Google's position in the AI hardware race alongside competitors like Nvidia. Google has also introduced the Google Axion CPU, based on Arm's chip infrastructure, promising better performance and energy efficiency.
OpenAI has reportedly fired two researchers who were allegedly linked to the leaking of company secrets following months of leaks and company efforts to crack down on such incidents.
OctoAI just launched OctoStack, the GenAI serving stack that lets you run AI models in your own environment — ensuring data privacy and efficient utilization. Join OctoAI's live event [11] on April 17 to learn how you can run super-efficient inference, customize model usage, and deliver reliable GenAI at scale.
This project introduces a dual-branch diffusion model, PanFusion, that crafts 360-degree panoramic images directly from text prompts. The method merges the Stable Diffusion approach with a specialized panorama branch, enhanced by a unique cross-attention mechanism to reduce image distortion.
Meta AI research's embodiment hypothesis suggests that true intelligence requires a physical form for sensory and environmental interaction. AI Habitat 3.0, Meta's updated simulation platform, aims to bridge the sim-to-real gap by training AIs with virtual bodies in simulated environments. It now has human avatars. Real-world testing is underway, with companies like Agility Robotics and Apptronik deploying robots alongside humans in various research and industrial settings.
AI currently falls into the micromanage category, where motivation is high but the skill level is relatively low, requiring users to define tasks, review work frequently, and guide progress at each step, similar to managing high-school interns.