There have been a number of news stories about AI developers recently. While some developers are concerned that the technology may soon take over their jobs, these claims are likely just attempts at grabbing attention. AI may not remove the need for developers - it will likely just create the need for AI developers. The future of software development will likely still involve humans - the exaggerated claims made by startups today are just marketing.
2024.03.20·blog.pragmaticengineer.com·12 min read·TLDR PostgreSQL is a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. Using Postgres for everything is becoming a mainstream best practice. ParadeDB and DuckDB add more performance, propelling PostgreSQL's analysis capabilities to the top tier of OLAP. Pigsty is a PostgreSQL distribution that aims to harness the collective power of PostgreSQL ecosystem extensions and democratize access to production-grade database services.
2024.03.20·pigsty.io·17 min read·TLDR The government of Saudi Arabia plans to invest around $40 billion into artificial intelligence. It is in talks to create a tech fund through a partnership with Andreessen Horowitz and other financiers. The fund would make Saudi Arabia the world's largest investor in artificial intelligence. It will back an array of tech startups tied to artificial intelligence, including chip makers, data centers, and AI companies.
2024.03.20·nytimes.com·5 min read·TLDR Building a company is not a trick for avoiding work, but it avoids many of the annoying things that come with a job. You need three things to build a successful startup: technology skills, an idea, and cofounders. This article talks about how to get all three. Making things for friends is a great source of ideas for young founders, who have the least amount of knowledge about what other people want and whose own wants are most predictive of future demand.
2024.03.20·paulgraham.com·14 min read·TLDR Sponsored
If you’re pre-Series B, you should take 30 seconds to apply to Zendesk for Startups. You might be eligible for 6 months of free
An overview of Jensen Huang's keynote at Nvidia's annual GPU Technology Conference on Monday.
2024.03.20·stratechery.com·15 min read·TLDR Section 174 is a US tax law code amendment that kicked in last year that requires companies to amortize R&D costs over five years, or fifteen if it was tied to foreign workers.
2024.03.20·tanayj.com·6 min read·TLDR FeatUp, a new system created by MIT researchers, lets algorithms capture all of the high- and low-level details of a scene at the same time, boosting the resolution of any deep network without compromising on speed or quality.
2024.03.20·news.mit.edu·8 min read·TLDR jnv features an interactive JSON viewer and jq filter editor.
2024.03.20·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR Nvidia's technology is an essential ingredient in AI progress.
2024.03.20·fastcompany.com·15 min read·TLDR 2024.03.20·macrumors.com·2 min read·TLDR Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan are leaving Inflection to start Microsoft AI. Sean White is joining as the new CEO. A few senior team members from Inflection are also joining Microsoft AI.
2024.03.20·inflection.ai·4 min read·TLDR AI Lilac joins Databricks to continue building their system for unsupervised language dataset construction.
2024.03.20·databricks.com·6 min read·TLDR AI A collaboration between IBM and NASA has resulted in the development of advanced transformer-based language models trained on scientific literature for improved performance in natural language understanding tasks within the scientific domain. These models are open-sourced on Hugging Face.
2024.03.20·research.ibm.com·2 min read·TLDR AI An article from a former OpenAI scientist about Sora and the potential costs of generating videos.
2024.03.20·factorialfunds.com·12 min read·TLDR AI Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a way to inject knowledge into a potentially stale language model. Unfortunately, the current paradigm of “frozen RAG”, where only part of the pipeline is trained and the actual model itself isn’t updated, performs poorly outside of demos. This blog outlines the next generation of RAG where everything is tuned specifically for the task. An open model like Mistral 7B can outperform traditional GPT-4 RAG in this system.
2024.03.20·contextual.ai·8 min read·TLDR AI Stable Diffusion 3 is a powerful image generation model. This paper introduces Latent Adversarial Diffusion Distillation, which reduces the number of diffusion steps down to 4 while maintaining image generation quality.
2024.03.20·arxiv.org·27 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
OctoAI [10] is the GenAI inference API that makes the most popular models faster, cheaper, and more reliable at scale. You can switch to OctoAI [10] in three lines of code and future-proof your app to leverage the newest LLMs that keep improving.
Quiet-Star is a reasoning framework that improves language models' abilities to generate correct output. Its code has been released along with an 8 step per token model.
2024.03.20·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Poster Dataset Distillation is a new method that condenses entire datasets into a single 'poster', enabling AI models to learn from fewer than one image per class.
2024.03.20·vision.huji.ac.il·3 min read·TLDR AI Researchers have developed a new framework to help vision-language models learn continuously without forgetting previous knowledge using a system that expands the model with special adapters for new tasks.
2024.03.20·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI MineDreamer is an AI agent that excels at following complex instructions in the Minecraft world thanks to its innovative use of advanced language and vision models.
2024.03.20·sites.google.com·6 min read·TLDR AI AI advancement poses a significant threat to the adtech industry, with its ability to filter out ads, potentially reducing the $1 trillion in annual revenue that companies like Google, Meta, and TikTok currently enjoy. This series explores how AI disrupts the crucial ad inventory by appealing to consumers' desire for ad-free content and questions the stability of Big Tech's business models. The analysis delves into AI's effects on ad consumption, which has implications for major players like OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, and Alphabet.
2024.03.20·12challenges.substack.com·7 min read·TLDR AI Elon Musk's lawsuit highlighted OpenAI's departure from its original open-source ethos to a more closed, profit-driven model that contradicts its founding principles. An email between OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever and Musk from 2015 suggests that OpenAI knew early on that it would deviate from its stated mission. Criticism mounts as OpenAI faces accusations of failing to correct public misperceptions, enabling potentially harmful AI outputs and veering away from its nonprofit origins.
2024.03.20·garymarcus.substack.com·4 min read·TLDR AI Google and Fitbit are developing a Gemini-based large language model to offer personalized health recommendations and advice in the Fitbit app,
2024.03.20·pcmag.com·1 min read·TLDR AI Fine-tune LLM agents with online reinforcement learning.
2024.03.20·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Evidence suggests that we may be approaching hardware scaling limits - LLMs like GPT-4 show diminishing returns despite increased resources.
2024.03.20·mindprison.cc·3 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
The best web3 developers don’t trust themselves. They protect their source code and smart contracts with 3rd-party security audits [4]. If you’re ready to get serious about security, get in touch with Coinspect [4]. A team of blockchain security experts will examine your software through the eyes of an attacker, find vulnerabilities and exploits, and work with your developers to remediate critical issues.
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has filed a form with the SEC for its first tokenized asset fund: the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund. The fund will have a minimum investment of $100,000, be tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain, and be offered by U.S. digital assets securities firm, Securitize.
The trillion-dollar Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan is exploring alternative "illiquidity assets" such as Bitcoin for potential investment opportunities. This comes after Bitcoin's recent all-time high and a 130% surge in price over the past year. Although no commitment was made towards investing in cryptocurrencies, this inquiry suggests that the fund at least has some interest in digital assets.
Bitcoin Virtual Machine, a layer 2 project, is set to launch Truly Open AI, a platform where users can launch AI models on the blockchain for use in crypto apps. Developed in partnership with Filecoin, Near, Avail, Polygon, and Syscoin, this design allows for monetization when other people utilize their AI models.
Aavegotchi is set to launch Gotchichain, a Layer 3 rollup chain for blockchain gaming, in 2024. The new gaming console will run on top of Base, an EVM-compatible L2 developed by Coinbase. Besides offering lower transaction fees, Gotchichain aims to provide a dedicated block space for application-specific facilities in a bid to maximize scalability.
Coinbase’s L2, Base, has been gaining traction after the Dencun upgrade leveraging lower fees, account abstraction, and Coinbase’s enormous user base. The team is developing a smart wallet that simplifies wallet creation with non-custodial, exportable keys and traditional login methods. This new service aims to make web3 interactions via Coinbase more user-friendly, enhancing its utility and impact on the crypto market.
This report sheds light on salary, equity, and token compensation trends within the crypto industry. Based on a survey of 49 portfolio firms, it uncovers key insights, including that U.S.-based companies offer higher salaries and equity/token packages compared to those internationally. It also highlights that most companies pay in fiat currency, although international organizations tend to utilize crypto, primarily for cross-border transactions. The data also outlines that most crypto startups consider adopting tokens, especially international firms.
2024.03.20·dccr23.dragonfly.xyz·17 min read·TLDR Crypto Cryptocurrency could be the future of the attention economy as it offers a more efficient market compared to the current web2 model. New "attention assets" like memecoins, NFTs, and tokens capture real-time attention value. These enable users to invest in and own assets that represent beliefs about a particular meme, media, or network's future attention. This system allows everyone in the value chain to benefit.
Grayscale's GBTC had its largest day of outflows yet, contributing $642.5 million to a total net outflow of $154.4 million across all spot bitcoin ETFs. This occurred despite the $451.5 million inflow into BlackRock's IBIT ETF. The total net inflow into these ETFs currently stands at over $12 billion.
Grayscale Investments submitted a revised Ethereum ETF application for NYSE listing amidst SEC delays and debate on the viability of Ethereum ETPs.
MicroStrategy acquired more bitcoin via another note offering, bringing its holdings to over 1% of the Bitcoin supply.
Risky memecoin presales on Solana have drawn legal and ethical concerns after traders sent hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets to unverified addresses, sparking scams and drawing regulatory attention.
Backpack survived a harsh crypto winter and managed to generate $27.5 billion in trading volume in its beta, despite FTX being one of its main backers.
Pentagram rebranded Monterey Bay Aquarium for its 40th anniversary. The rebranding effort created a cohesive new identity that honors the institution's past and looks to the future with an updated kelp symbol, typographic harmony, and a broader ocean-inspired color palette. It streamlined the iconic kelp symbol for scalability, incorporated typography that echoes the kelp's dynamics, and expanded beyond traditional blue to include a range of oceanic colors.
Apple has unveiled the newest Apple Store in Shanghai's Jing'an District, featuring a unique circular design and a curved glass facade. The Jing'an store offers an outdoor plaza for community events, an innovative interior architecture, and Apple's latest products.
Banksy has revealed a new piece of street art in Islington North, London, featuring a stencil of a person spray-painting green foliage onto a wall behind a pruned, leafless tree. The artwork, which plays on the interplay between the tree and the mural, remains in a vacant building, with the owner intending to preserve it.
A UX case study of how Gett, a taxi booking platform, leveraged insights from Netflix to implement a profile selection feature, significantly improving user experience and doubling business conversions. The critical takeaway is not solely to seek inspiration from obvious sources but instead to think outside the box, even within everyday products that may not be directly related to your product’s natural field of activity.
The backbone of design systems consists of coded components, design libraries, design tokens, and guidance documents, which ensure visual, behavioral, and semantic consistency. However, consistency outside the product regarding the user's ecosystem is also possible. Problems can result when the user's ecosystem is unbalanced against internal consistency, especially for systems still at an early stage of maturity.
2024.03.20·articles.redesigningdesign.systems·7 min read·TLDR Design Like its more popular counterpart, brainstorming, question storming revolves around group collaboration to explore a topic from various angles with one goal — generating as many questions as possible. This technique harnesses the power of curiosity to promote critical thinking, gain deeper insights, and uncover hidden dimensions of a problem or topic.
Generate linear, radial, and conic gradients interpolated in various color spaces, yielding richer, more brilliant gradients.
Create random, unique, and organic-looking SVG shapes. Customize the complexity and contrast of the blobs and download or copy the code.