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Gentrace Raises $8M Series A to Revolutionize LLM Evaluation for AI Teams

2024-12-12

Gentrace, an LLM evaluation platform, announced an $8 million Series A funding round. Addressing challenges like siloed evaluation processes and poor team collaboration, Gentrace offers a collaborative testing environment. Teams can test directly through a user-friendly interface, eliminating the need for isolated evaluation code. Supporting model, code, and human evaluations, Gentrace provides experiment management, reporting, and debugging tools for efficient LLM development. Success stories from Webflow, Multiverse, and Quizlet highlight significant improvements in testing efficiency (e.g., a 40x increase).

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Google Unveils Android XR: A New Platform for Headsets and Glasses

2024-12-12

Google, in partnership with Samsung and Qualcomm, announced Android XR, a platform designed to extend reality for exploration, connection, and creation. Leveraging AI advancements, Android XR enables headsets and glasses to understand user intent and context, facilitating more natural interactions. The first device, codenamed Project Moohan and built by Samsung, will launch next year and features integration with Gemini AI, pre-installed apps like YouTube and Google TV, and seamless transitions between virtual and real environments. Future plans include support for glasses offering everyday assistance.

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Great Question (YC) Hiring People Operations Manager

2024-12-12

Great Question, a YC-backed startup simplifying customer research, is seeking an experienced People Operations Manager. This role will focus on streamlining recruitment, onboarding, compensation standardization, and enhancing company culture to boost employee engagement and retention. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in people operations, expertise in compensation and performance management, excellent communication skills, and a proven ability to thrive in a remote work environment. This is a crucial opportunity to contribute to a rapidly growing startup.

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AI Scaling Laws: Beyond Pre-training, a New Paradigm Emerges

2024-12-12

This article explores the evolution of AI scaling laws, arguing that they extend beyond pre-training. OpenAI's o1 model demonstrates the utility and potential of reasoning models, opening a new, unexplored dimension for scaling. The article delves into techniques like synthetic data, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), and reinforcement learning to enhance model performance. It clarifies that Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Opus and OpenAI's Orion weren't failures, but rather shifts in scaling strategies. The authors emphasize that scaling encompasses more than just increasing data and parameters; it includes inference-time compute, more challenging evaluations, and innovations in training and inference architecture.

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BlenderGPT: AI-Powered 3D Modeling in 20 Seconds

2024-12-12

BlenderGPT is an advanced AI program that generates 3D models from text or image prompts in approximately 20 seconds. It produces fully textured meshes, importable directly into Blender via a shortcut, or downloadable for use in any compatible software. Try it free today and experience the speed and ease of this revolutionary 3D modeling tool.

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Colorado Hunters Donate Wild Game to Fight Food Insecurity

2024-12-12

In Colorado, Meat Cleaver, a meat processor, partners with hunters to donate excess venison, elk, and other wild game to local food banks, combating food insecurity. Funded by Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH), the program reduces waste and provides healthy protein to vulnerable families. While currently limited to Meat Cleaver, the program has successfully donated thousands of pounds of meat, receiving community praise. Participating hunters, despite the competitive hunting license system, find fulfillment in assisting those in need.

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Middle Schooler Discovers New Compound in Goose Poop

2024-12-12

A middle school student, participating in a research program with a local university, discovered a novel compound, orfamide N, in a goose poop sample collected from a park. While not responsible for the initial observed antibiotic activity of the bacteria, orfamide N inhibited the growth of human melanoma and ovarian cancer cells in lab tests. This research demonstrates the success of combining educational outreach with natural product discovery, highlighting the importance of university-community partnerships. The project provided invaluable hands-on experience for the student, showcasing the potential of young scientists.

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Mullvad VPN App's 2024 Security Audit Report Released

2024-12-12

Mullvad VPN has released the report for its 2024 third-party security audit of its VPN app. The audit uncovered six vulnerabilities, ranging in severity from low to high, all of which have been addressed. Three high-severity vulnerabilities involved signal handlers and a virtual IP address leak and have been fixed in the latest version. The audit also noted some non-security issues that Mullvad is actively working to resolve. Overall, the Mullvad VPN app is deemed highly secure, but users are still advised to upgrade to the latest version.

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High-Performance Concurrent Iteration Library lfi Launched

2024-12-12

lfi is a lightweight functional programming library focused on synchronous, asynchronous, and concurrent iteration. It significantly outperforms libraries like p-map and p-filter in concurrent iteration by processing each item independently, resulting in substantial performance gains. lfi also features lazy evaluation, performing operations only when needed to save memory, and boasts a small size, making it easily tree-shakeable. Its clean API design, combined with the pipe function, leads to more readable and maintainable code.

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Programming Language Memory Models: Challenges and Solutions in Concurrent Programming

2024-12-12

This article delves into programming language memory models, specifically the behavior of shared memory in multithreaded programs. Using a simple C-like program as an example, it illustrates how compiler optimizations can lead to unexpected results, such as race conditions between threads. To address this, modern languages introduce atomic variables and atomic operations to ensure thread synchronization and avoid data races. The article compares the memory models of Java, C++, Rust, and other languages, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses and evolution, and points out the remaining challenges in formally defining memory models.

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Cambridge Blockchain Network Sustainability Index: Bitcoin Mining Map Reveals Energy Consumption Patterns

2024-12-12

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) released a mining map visualizing global Bitcoin mining energy consumption as part of the Cambridge Blockchain Network Sustainability Index. The map shows the share of Bitcoin mining hashrate by country and region, revealing a seasonal migration pattern of Chinese miners between ‘dry’ and ‘wet’ seasons to leverage cheaper hydropower. However, this migration pattern likely ended after the Chinese government crackdown on the mining industry in June 2021. The research is based on geolocation mining facility data collected in partnership with several Bitcoin mining pools and acknowledges contributions from BTC.com, Poolin, ViaBTC, and Foundry.

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Bizarre Particle's Mass Depends on Travel Direction

2024-12-12

Scientists have unexpectedly discovered a strange quasiparticle, a semi-Dirac fermion, in a ZrSiS material. This particle exhibits a peculiar behavior: it's massless when moving along a specific direction but gains mass when traveling in other directions. This discovery, stemming from research into the properties of quasiparticles within ZrSiS, relates to Einstein's mass-energy equivalence, E=mc². When moving at light speed in a specific direction, the quasiparticle is massless; changing direction and slowing down causes it to gain mass. The finding could potentially lead to novel applications for ZrSiS, similar to those of graphene.

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Math Error Sparks Unnecessary Panic Over Black Plastic Kitchenware

2024-12-12

A recent study in Chemosphere claimed that black plastic kitchenware contains cancer-causing flame retardants, causing widespread panic. However, a McGill University scientist discovered a simple mathematical error in the study, overestimating exposure levels by a factor of ten. Despite the error, researchers maintain concerns about potential risks associated with black plastic kitchenware remain.

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Fermat's Last Theorem Proof: Computers Tackle a Math Challenge

2024-12-12

A team is attempting to prove Fermat's Last Theorem using Lean, encountering unexpected challenges along the way. Instead of relying on the original proof, they're using a modern, more generalized approach. While formalizing crystalline cohomology, they discovered an error in a key lemma, leading to a re-examination of the theory's foundations. They ultimately found a workaround using an alternative proof. This experience highlights potential errors in modern mathematical literature and underscores the need for formalized proofs.

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French Anti-Piracy Battle Escalates: DNS Provider Quad9 Blocks Pirate Sites Globally

2024-12-12

In an escalating fight against online sports piracy, French media giant Canal+ secured court orders forcing DNS providers Quad9 and Vercara to block access to pirate streaming sites in France. Quad9, deeming this an absurd application of copyright law, plans to appeal but has globally blocked the domains for now. This action sparks a global debate about copyright and net neutrality, with Quad9 seeking public support for its appeal to maintain an open internet.

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Oasis Security Research Team Discovers Microsoft Azure MFA Bypass

2024-12-12

Oasis Security's research team discovered a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure's Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) implementation. Attackers could bypass MFA to gain unauthorized access to user accounts, including Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, and Azure Cloud. The vulnerability exploited the lack of rate limiting, allowing rapid session creation and code enumeration to exhaust the possibilities of a 6-digit code without alerts. Microsoft has since implemented a stricter rate limit to address the issue. This highlights the importance of enabling MFA and monitoring failed attempts.

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Jujutsu: A Game-Changing Version Control System

2024-12-12

The author daily drives Jujutsu, a Git-based version control system, and highly recommends it. Unlike other simplified Git alternatives, Jujutsu focuses on enhancing the workflow of power users, particularly in simplifying history editing. The author recounts a personal experience showcasing Jujutsu's ease in modifying past commits, eliminating complex Git commands. While Jujutsu has some shortcomings, like lacking support for git send-email and the Google CLA requirement, the author still uses it daily for personal projects.

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AI Color Palette Generator - Browse, Edit, Visualize and Generate Unique Palettes

2024-03-20

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we design with colors. Using AI algorithms, AIColors.co helps designers create color palettes that evoke desired emotions, enhance user experience, and align with brand identities. The website offers a user-friendly interface where designers can input keywords or images to generate unique color combinations. With a database of millions of colors and various customization options, AIColors.co empowers designers to explore and refine their color choices. Additionally, the website provides resources and tutorials on color theory and AI-driven design, making it a valuable tool for both novice and experienced designers.

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The rev.ng decompiler goes open source + start of the UI closed beta - rev.ng

2024-03-29

The provided website discusses the open-sourcing of Ren's Virtual Machine (VM) Decompiler UI as part of a closed beta. It highlights the benefits of open-sourcing, including community collaboration, transparency, and increased security. The article also provides a walkthrough of the decompiler UI, explaining its features and functionality. Additionally, it mentions the availability of the source code on GitHub and encourages developers to contribute to the project.

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MicroLaunch

2024-03-12

MicroLaunch provides investment solutions with a focus on high-quality, early-stage technology companies in the Midwestern United States.

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