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Big Tech & Startups

There’s now an open source alternative to ChatGPT, but good luck running it (3 minute read)

PaLM + RLHF is an open source text-generating model that behaves similarly to ChatGPT. It isn't pretrained, so users will need to compile the data from which the model can learn from and find hardware that can handle the training workload. Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback is an AI training technique that involves receiving feedback from human volunteers. Training RLHF models is an expensive process and running a trained model is also very costly.

Google seems to be ramping up Fuchsia development going into 2023 (4 minute read)

Google's Fuchsia project is an effort to make an entirely new operating system and kernel. The Fuchsia team hosted an SDK Bootcamp event earlier this month. Part of the preparation for the bootcamp included releasing an official Visual Studio Code plugin for Fuchsia, which has been downloaded around 500 times. While much is unknown about the event, it could be a sign that Fuchsia is approaching its big reveal moment.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

Could getting rid of old cells turn back the clock on aging? (16 minute read)

Senescent cells are older cells that have stopped dividing but don't die. They can account for up to 36% of cells in some organs in aging mice. Senescent cells can release compounds that prime tissues for chronic illness. Several studies looking into drugs that kill senescent cells are already underway. While there is evidence that shows that senescent cells play a crucial role in the body, mice studies have shown that removing them results in longer average life spans.

First "virovore" discovered: An organism that eats viruses (2 minute read)

A ciliate called Halteria has been found eating viruses. Viruses are made out of nucleic acids and contain a lot of nitrogen and phosphorous, making them a good source of raw materials. Halteria is the first known vivovore, but it is unlikely to be the only one out there.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Hyper Fetch (GitHub Repo)

Hyper Fetch is an easy-to-use data-exchange framework for any JavaScript environment. It is backend and framework agnostic. Hyper Fetch's features include a typesafe design, request cancellation, queuing, automatic caching, SSR support, authentication, and prefetching.

Sailboat UI (Website)

Sailboat UI is a UI framework for Tailwind CSS. It features over 150 open source components. The components include avatars, badges, buttons, dropdown menus, and input fields.

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Miscellaneous

Inside Matrix, the protocol that might finally make messaging apps interoperable (13 minute read)

Matrix is an open standards-based communication protocol that aims to bring interoperability to messaging apps. Its network, made up of mostly enterprise communications, now has over 80.3 million users. Mainstream consumer platforms, such as Reddit, are now considering using Matrix. This article goes through the history of Matrix and discusses how it plans to bring interoperability to all messaging apps while still preserving features like encryption.

How China is building a parallel generative AI universe (8 minute read)

This article looks at China's generative AI tools. These tools are characterized by the domestic data they are trained on as well as local laws. The models filter out politically sensitive keywords and user behavior is more restrictive as prompts can be traced to real identities. The US' restriction of exports of high-end AI chips to China has pushed companies to invest into building their own chips.

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Quick Links

Draw SVG rope using JavaScript (8 minute read)

This tutorial gives readers an overview of the process of transforming an SVG path into a vector rope drawing.

Meet Stable Horde, the crowd-powered Folding@Home of AI art (4 minute read)

Stable Horde is essentially a distributed version of Stable Diffusion that uses network participants' CPUs to create AI-generated art.

nanoGPT (GitHub Repo)

nanoGPT is a repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs.

NASA images showcase eerie beauty of winter on Mars (3 minute read)

A new video shared by NASA, linked in the article, shows what winter looks like in Mars' Northern Hemisphere.

It's the end of programming as we know it -- again (4 minute read)

The rise of machine learning and AI in software development will allow engineers to work on more challenging applications.

A new weight loss drug could become the best-selling drug of all time. Who can afford it? (6 minute read)

Tirzepatride, a drug that helped patients in a trial lose 22.5% of their body weight on average, will likely get approval by the FDA sometime next year.

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Open source ChatGPT alternatives 👨‍💻, China's parallel AI universe 🤖, new weight loss drug 💊

Daily Update 2023-01-02

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