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This author shares the lessons he learned from working on an LLM-based pair programmer called GPT Pilot. It is important to have a clear initial project description, detailed logging, modular code, and focused prompts. AI-driven coding is iterative in nature. The AI copilot was useful when making decisions.
LUTs are simple data tables that remap colors or values. They offer a powerful and efficient way to manipulate how images and videos are displayed. For example, in video games, they can be used to efficiently add color variations to objects in a scene. LUTs can also be used to optimize performance by precalculating expensive operations.
A Reddit user who used Netlify to host their static site received a $104,500 bill due to a DDoS attack.
MDN (Mozilla) has launched a curriculum for learning front-end development.
pql is an open-source pipelined query language that translates to SQL.
Organizations and individuals are protesting Apple's decision to remove Progressive Web Apps from iOS and Safari in the EU, claiming it violates the Digital Markets Act by harming users, developers, and businesses.
Apple has reportedly ended work on its electric car project. It will shift some of the staff to work on generative AI projects while laying off others. Project Titan, which had been in development for 10 years, was originally going to be a car with a luxurious limo-like interior and robust self-driving capabilities. Its ambitions were scaled back after multiple changes in direction and leadership. The project faced high startup costs and a difficult regulatory environment, making it hard for the company to find the profit margins it hoped for.
Meta may reveal a pair of augmented reality smart glasses at its Meta Connect event later this year. Orion will be a 'true' AR device. There is a lot of internal pressure at the company to produce a high-quality demo. Company insiders are now experimenting with advanced prototypes. The glasses likely won't be available to the public until 2027.
Intuitive Machines believes that its mission to land on the Moon was a complete success, despite Odysseus toppling over after touching down. The moon lander's range finders were discovered to be inoperable a couple of hours before it was due to attempt to land on the Moon, so the company rewrote its software to take advantage of three telescopes on a NASA payload for altimetry purposes. While the patch mostly worked, Odysseus' onboard flight computer was unable to process the data in real time - its last accurate altitude reading was more than 12 minutes before touchdown. This forced the lander to rely on optical data, resulting in it coming down much faster than planned.
Varda's Winnebago series is designed to bring pharmaceutical research specimens back to Earth for laboratory analysis and eventual commercial exploitation. The company's business plan involves producing pharmaceuticals and other goods in low-Earth orbit inside an automated laboratory for a fraction of the cost of a human space flight mission. Some goods benefit from being produced in a microgravity environment. The success of the mission may mean that the FAA will see the same increase in demand for reentry licenses that it has seen for launch licenses.
ingestr is a command-line tool that can copy data between databases with a single command. It can copy data from any source to any destination without any code. ingestr supports incremental loading with append, merge, or delete+insert.
Meta is hiring more engineers than any of the other FAANGs. Its centralized hiring process is completely divorced from the teams candidates might end up on. Interviews are conducted with people whom candidates might never work with again. After initial interviews, candidates will go through a team-matching phase, during which recruiters will likely down-level them. Candidates will then be made lowball offers with just a few days to make a decision. Meta will refuse to negotiate unless candidates can show other offers from comparable companies. This post shares tips on how to navigate the process and negotiate the best deal.
Wendy's will start testing dynamic pricing and AI menu features in 2025. Dynamic pricing means that prices for food items will automatically change throughout the day depending on demand. The company will invest approximately $20 million to install digital menus capable of displaying real-time variable prices across all of its company-operated locations in the US. Dynamic pricing is a common business practice for several industries, but its application in the fast-food sector is largely untested.
Wonder has opened its 11th location inside a Walmart in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The company plans to open two more locations inside Walmart stores in Ledgewood and Teterboro, New Jersey. Wonder is a 'fast-fine' food startup that until last year operated high-tech food trucks. The company achieved a $3.5 billion valuation after a $350 million capital raise in 2022. Its pivot away from its curbside delivery model netted a $100 million loss.
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Klarna has released data that demonstrates AI's ability to handle customer communications, make shoppers happier, and drive better financial results.
The brain is a prediction device that likes to pay attention to what's new and surprising - new surprises come less often as we age, so the brain notices and memorizes less as well.
This article tells the story of Browserless' battle with tech debt and how the company completely rebuilt its product.
Either you have something people want or you don't - you can't beat the market.
Researchers in China have developed an optical disc that can store up to 200 terabytes of data.
Litestar is a lightweight and flexible ASGI framework for building performant APIs.
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After a decade of effort and billions of dollars, Apple is canceling its unsuccessful attempt at building a car to rival Tesla. Many of the employees are expected to move to generative AI projects.
Function calling is when a language model can access tools via synthesized functions to complete its given instructions. This requires proper synthesis of arguments to pass to those functions. This leaderboard is designed to assess model capability on function calling tasks.
Music understanding typically relies on adding a modality-specific encoder to a language model. This is expensive and unstable. This work found that music understanding increased substantially without impact to base language ability when music was tokenized into ABC notation.
Bytedance has produced a system called MegaScale that can be used to train massively parallel large language models. It succeeded in training a 175B LLM on 12,288 GPUs with 55.2% Model FLOPs Utilization (MFU), which is extremely impressive. Bytedance plans to open source some aspects of the codebase.
ListT5 introduces a cutting-edge reranking method that not only improves the precision of information retrieval but also offers an efficient solution to the challenges faced by previous listwise rerankers.
EMIFF is an innovative camera-based 3D detection framework for vehicle-infrastructure cooperative object detection. It uses Multi-scale Cross Attention and Camera-aware Channel Masking to correct pose errors from camera asynchrony.
FuseChat introduces an innovative way to blend the strengths of various large language models into a single, more powerful model without the high costs of training from scratch.
ShieldLM is a safety detector for large language models that aligns with human safety standards, offers customizable detection, and explains its decisions.
This article reports on interviews with founders from companies at the forefront of AI, covering their views on the advent of AGI, how to think about LLMs, and simple tactics for founders on how to approach AI within their products.
MobiLlama is a fully open-source, transparent, small language model for use on mobile devices. Its performance is excellent for a small 0.5B parameter model - it even outperforms some larger models.
IR-QLoRA is a new approach that enhances the accuracy of quantized large language models, making them more suitable for use on devices with limited resources.
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Researchers from UCSD trained humanoid robot policies to be more expressive, socially inclined, and robust. Their videos of non-choreographed dancing on grass are very impressive.
Simulatrex is an open-source project focused on Generative Agent-Based Modeling (GABM). It utilizes large language models for more accurate simulations.
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Kraken has launched Kraken Institutional, a platform for institutional firms seeking exposure to crypto. This one-stop shop will include spot trading, OTC trading, and staking services. The platform is aimed at institutions, hedge funds, and high-net-worth individuals. It will be led by Tim Ogilvie, who joined Kraken after its acquisition of Staked. The announcement comes amid a battle between the SEC and Kraken on whether or not it is running an unregistered cryptocurrency exchange.
BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF had another big day, recording over $1.357 billion in volume, exceeding Monday's $1.3 billion. The other recently listed spot bitcoin ETFs also saw robust activity, with a total volume of over $2 billion between them. Bitcoin's breakout rally to $57,000 the night before likely stimulated the high trading volumes.
SYMMIO, a new global derivatives settlement layer, is aiming to become the leading infrastructure for derivatives. It offers optimized pre-market quotations and a secure settlement through its bilaterally isolated instances. With its aggregated liquidity, SYMMIO allows new solvers and frontends to connect seamlessly from day one.
Uniswap is launching three new tools to simplify crypto transactions: a browser sidebar wallet extension called Uniswap Extension, automatic transaction execution through Limit Orders, and trader-oriented Data & Insight pages. The latter two features are already available, while access to Uniswap Extension will be opened to waitlist users in four to six weeks.
Perpetual swap funding rates act as a tool that aligns contract prices with market prices. Market sentiment has recently become bullish, indicated by record-high funding rates of 19%+ on major cryptocurrencies and 30%+ on alternatives. The surge shows market participants are confidently going long, which shows optimism from traders. Now is a time to exercise caution as the market tends to test and flush leverage.
This post discusses the importance of divergence in trading. Divergences - situations when two things diverge from one another - can form the basis of many robust trade ideas. The post illustrates this principle using different variables like price and momentum, price and delta, price and premium, price and sentiment, price and news, and relative strength.
This article provides a good overview of the crypto wallet sector, focusing on three categories: self-custody wallets, embedded wallets (Wallet-as-a-Service), and smart accounts. The evolution from primarily self-custody wallets is paving the way for more user-friendly options that could significantly increase mainstream crypto adoption. The piece raises intriguing questions around the paths of adoption, user types, geographical influence, business models, and wallet form factors that might take shape as the crypto ecosystem evolves.