Bluesky, a federated social network that began as a project funded by Twitter under Jack Dorsey, is now allowing anyone to run their own server. Its decentralized model uses a different protocol than the one that Mastodon uses. Federation allows users to host their own data and accounts and make their own rules. There is a growing interest in federated social networks as consumers want to have more control over their personal data.
2024.02.23·techcrunch.com·4 min read·TLDR A gallery of images generated by Stable Diffusion 3 is available in the article - the model appears to handle text generation very well.
2024.02.23·arstechnica.com·4 min read·TLDR Solano County, California, may be the site of the first new walkable city in the US in the last 100 years.
2024.02.23·devon.postach.io·2 min read·TLDR Gemini is able to generate Selenium code to replicate tasks from a recorded screen capture.
2024.02.23·twitter.com·1 min read·TLDR The first Starship launch of 2024 may be within the next three weeks.
2024.02.23·arstechnica.com·5 min read·TLDR Sam Altman controls an 8.7% stake in Reddit - 4.5% of its Class A shares and 9.3% of its Class B shares.
2024.02.23·hollywoodreporter.com·3 min read·TLDR This article presents an example of a simple analysis that flows nicely in R which becomes clunky and complicated when using Python and pandas.
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2024.02.23·fellow.app·Sponsor·TLDR AI Stability AI has announced Stable Diffusion 3, a Diffusion Transformer similar to Sora from OpenAI. The company trained a suite of models ranging from 800m to 8B parameters, a substantial leap in size from previous image generation models. The models will be released after a period of research.
2024.02.23·stability.ai·2 min read·TLDR AI Sierra aims to revolutionize customer interactions with brands through AI agents, positing conversational AI as an essential new technology category for all aspects of customer experience.
2024.02.23·techcrunch.com·4 min read·TLDR AI Phind's 70B code model scores 83% on HumanEval, matching GPT-4 performance. Crucially it has significantly fewer lazy responses and refusals. The 34B model will be released soon - the larger 70B model will be released in time.
2024.02.23·phind.com·3 min read·TLDR AI GradSafe is a new method for detecting unsafe prompts in large language models without extensive training. It can identify unsafe prompts more effectively than current methods by analyzing the gradients of specific parameters.
2024.02.23·arxiv.org·18 min read·TLDR AI Class-Aware Mask-guided (CAM) feature refinement is a new method that enhances text recognition in complex scenes.
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This codebase allows for inference on SIMD CPU architectures, similar to llama.cpp. It was developed by Google engineers and scientists. The tool's purpose is to encourage experimentation and usage of the Gemma models released yesterday.
2024.02.23·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI MMedLM 2 is a groundbreaking multilingual language model tailored for the medical field. It is trained on a new 25.5 billion-token corpus that covers six languages. MMedLM 2 outperforms other models, including GPT-4, in medical question-answering tasks.
2024.02.23·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI A new method for object recognition using a language decoder. The method involves predicting text tokens from image embeddings and utilizing a specialized non-causal attention mask. It enables efficient parallel sampling of multiple labels.
2024.02.23·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Mozilla acted as a scalable evaluator for the efficiency challenge hosted last year. It ensured that entrants complied with the rules of the competition and evaluated model performance. This post is a good introduction to language model evaluation and competitive training recipes.
2024.02.23·blog.mozilla.ai·6 min read·TLDR AI FunSearch, introduced in a recent Nature paper, is a method that uses large language models to make new discoveries in mathematics and computer science. It pairs a creative LLM with an evaluator to produce verifiable solutions, demonstrating success with the tough cap set and bin-packing problems. The approach yields human-interpretable solutions, marking a significant step in AI-driven scientific discovery.
2024.02.23·deepmind.google·7 min read·TLDR AI Vector search company Marqo raised $12.5M in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed to advance the adoption of its next-generation vector search platform. Marqo’s platform unlocks the massive value of unstructured data across business-critical applications like end-user search, retrieval-augmented generation, and more, helping enterprises realize the full potential of AI.
2024.02.23·pymnts.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
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2024.02.23·languages.oup.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI 2024.02.23·languages.oup.com·TLDR AI The World Volume-aware Multi-camera Driving Scene Generator (WoVoGen) is an innovative system designed to create realistic street-view videos for autonomous driving.
2024.02.23·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI TIER leverages both text prompts and images generated from them to assess the quality of the generated images.
2024.02.23·arxiv.org·16 min read·TLDR AI This article discusses evaluation metrics that rely on ground truth data. It explores general-purpose as well as RAG-specific evaluations. All metrics come with a Python implementation or a link to a Hugging Face model card.
2024.02.23·docs.parea.ai·6 min read·TLDR AI Reddit has announced plans to IPO under the ticker RDDT. It disclosed it had used excess cash for investments in Bitcoin and Ether to hold on the balance sheet in its filings with the SEC. In addition to holding crypto for investment purposes, Reddit also holds ETH and MATIC for sales of select digital collectibles.
The courts have approved FTX's proposal to sell its $1 billion equity stake in AI startup Anthropic. FTX had invested $500 million in Anthropic in 2021 and now aims to use the proceeds of this sale to help repay affected customers. The sale of Anthropic shares is part of FTX's court-supervised asset liquidation to compensate its customers.
Bitcoin miner Marathon is launching a new service called Slipstream aimed at expediting the processing of larger and more complex Bitcoin transactions. The service, the first direct transaction submission service offered by a Bitcoin mining company, is designed to encourage Bitcoin development and innovation. Users will be able to submit these large or non-standard transactions to Marathon and Marathon will process them via its proprietary mining pool, MARA Pool.
Conduit has announced the rollout of its L3 launchpad for Base and the OP Stack. Users can deploy L3 testnets in the Conduit app using L2 networks for settlement layers, utilizing Celestia for data availability to reduce costs further. The L3s give apps greater blockspace scale and allow for new user experiences with lower transaction fees. Aligning with established L2s allows developers to leverage existing liquidity and distribution channels.
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The Price Volume Momentum Trifecta is a framework for finding entries in altcoins in a trending environment. It involves observing the resetting of the Relative Strength Index, which indicates momentum. The framework emphasizes the correlation between resetting RSI, price dynamics, and volume. Traders should find key contextual levels in the market for confluence.
EigenLayer’s restaking mechanism has taken center stage recently, but there is quite a bit of confusion around how it works and how big of a role it might play in the Ethereum ecosystem. This post provides a good overview to get familiar with restaking. Unlike traditional staking, restaking allows users to secure one or multiple decentralized services, termed as Actively Validated Services (AVS). EigenLayer claims that this mechanism allows non-Ethereum protocols to tap into Ethereum’s security, but some fear that it could have unintended consequences.
Kraken is standing up to what it claims to be overreach by the SEC during a congressional hearing. The company argues that existing laws are insufficient to cover the crypto landscape and that concurrent principles limit creativity in the sector. The company vouched for Congress to define rules that cater to the specific risks and benefits of crypto. Kraken recently filed a motion to curb the SEC's lawsuit against it, citing jurisdictional issues and ambiguities in crypto investments classification.
This thread from Lattice Fund partner Regan Bozeman attempts to explain where we are in this crypto cycle, with a focus on where venture funds are and how they’re thinking about the cycle. Many venture funds were likely caught offside late last year as the market surged and they are now scrambling to deploy capital. Bozeman also discusses some of the market dynamics and eccentricities, such as memecoins, that venture funds and their LPs don’t have to consider in other industries.
Eigen Labs, the team behind EigenLayer, has announced one of the biggest fundraises of the year - $100 million from a16z Crypto.
Valkyrie's CIO McClurg believes that, because of its inherent differences from Bitcoin, a spot Ethereum ETF is unlikely to be approved soon - but it may be possible within 1-2 years.
An Ordinals team successfully inscribed a Nintendo 64 emulator on Bitcoin using Brotli Compression, making classic game preservation on the blockchain feasibly affordable.
Adam Back's email exchanges with Satoshi Nakamoto before Bitcoin's launch, which discussed papers Satoshi was using in his research and the general development of Bitcoin, were recently revealed in court records.
Dynaboard, a platform that aimed to streamline the process from idea to production, has announced its integration into Figma, a popular tool among designers and developers worldwide. The company expresses excitement about continuing its work within Figma's ecosystem as it appreciates Figma's innovative features and creative atmosphere. Dynaboard will cease its services on April 30.
Google Messages is introducing a new feature in its beta version that allows users to double-tap on a received message to send a quick thumbs-up reply. This feature simplifies responding to messages and removes the need to search for emojis. Long-pressing on a message will bring up options to copy, delete, or react with emojis. The feature is expected to roll out to all users soon.
McDonald's is launching a new campaign that rebrands itself as "WcDonald's" with upside-down arches. Inspired by its appearances in various anime shows since 1981, the campaign includes limited edition items with exclusive packaging, such as the "Big Wac," and a collaboration with Studio Pierrot to produce anime episodes and manga. McDonald's aims to embrace anime culture and engage with its fans creatively through this initiative.
Figma never cared about the design community. By ignoring its own UX problems for years, it normalized ignorance towards customers’ needs and bad design patterns, spreading its bad influence on a whole generation of designers.
Apple started the “touch = good” trend with the iPhone in 2007. Makers of all sorts of devices started replacing physical buttons with touchscreens or touch-sensitive elements. This trend led to thousands of products being made, including some that were simply unpleasant or outright infuriating to use.
GenAI can build a synthetic partnership layer into every product/service by mimicking the human support layer that the digital transformation removed. Rather than being alone on their journey, customers will be continuously assisted by an AI partner. A company seeking differentiated value for customers will have to increase the capabilities of its AI agents to solve more customer problems.