Subj : Google's open AI 🧠, Redditors get IPO access 💰, Gemini Pro's killer app 🤖 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Thu Feb 22 2024 11:36 am --h9FoJU1Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Google's new family of AI language models, Gemma, are free open-weights m= odels built on technology similar to Gemini=C2=A0=20 Sign Up [1]|Hire [2= ]|Advertise [3]|View Online [4]=20 =09=09TLDR =09=09TOGETHER WITH D= OLLAR FLIGHT CLUB [5] TLDR 2024-02-22 SPEND $1 TODAY, SAVE UP TO= $2K ON YOUR NEXT VACATION (SPONSOR) [5]=20 Ready to save up to $2,000 = on every vacation for life? Dollar Flight Club has your back=E2=80=94TRY = THE CLUB FOR JUST $1 IF YOU SIGN UP IN THE NEXT 12 HOURS [5]. That means;= Hawaii from $174, Iceland from $215, or Greece from $245 round trip. Joi= n over 1 million members saving on travel this year. 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This is Google's first signif= icant open large language model release since OpenAI's ChatGPT was reveal= ed in late 2022.=20 75K LOYAL REDDITORS CAN SNAG SHARES BEFORE REDDIT G= OES PUBLIC (4 MINUTE READ) [7]=20 Reddit hopes to entice its users to= become shareholders to help drive change and make the market more fair t= o individual traders. 75,000 of the most prolific Redditors will have the= opportunity to buy shares before trading starts when the company goes pu= blic later this year, possibly as soon as March. The privilege is usually= reserved for big investors. Reddit announced its IPO in December 2021, w= hen it was valued at about $10 billion. The site experienced widespread p= rotests in June last year after it killed off many third-party apps by = charging for access to its API. 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Astrobotic's Odysseus lander will attemp= t to land on the Moon on Thursday. No private company has successfully la= nded on the Moon yet. If the CLPS program is successful, in a few years, = NASA will have laid the foundation for a highway to the Moon.=20 = =F0=9F=92=BB=20 PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE READYSET (GITHU= B REPO) [10]=20 ReadySet is a transparent database cache for Postgres a= nd MySQL. It provides the performance and scalability of an in-memory key= -value store without requiring users to rewrite their apps or manually ha= ndle cache invalidation. ReadySet can turn even the most complex SQL read= s into lightning-fast lookups. It keeps cached query results in sync wi= th databases automatically by utilizing the database's replication stream= .. ReadySet can be used along with an existing ORM or database client.=20 = PARK UI (WEBSITE) [11]=20 Park UI contains components built on Ark = UI that work for any JavaScript or CSS framework. 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Google goes =E2=80=9Copen A= I=E2=80=9D with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family (2 minute read)<= /strong>

Google's new family of AI language mode= ls, Gemma, are free open-weights models built on technology similar to Gemi= ni. Gemma models can run locally on a desktop or laptop computer. There are= two models, one with 2 billion parameters and the other with 7 billion. Ea= ch model has pre-trained and instruction-tuned variants available. Google c= laims the 7 billion parameter model outperforms Meta's Llama 2 7B and 13B m= odels on several benchmarks in math, Python code generation, general knowle= dge, and commonsense reasoning tasks. This is Google's first significant op= en large language model release since OpenAI's ChatGPT was revealed in late= 2022.
75K loyal Redditors can sna= g shares before Reddit goes public (4 minute read)

Reddit hopes to entice its users to bec= ome shareholders to help drive change and make the market more fair to indi= vidual traders. 75,000 of the most prolific Redditors will have the opportu= nity to buy shares before trading starts when the company goes public later= this year, possibly as soon as March. The privilege is usually reserved fo= r big investors. Reddit announced its IPO in December 2021, when it was val= ued at about $10 billion. The site experienced widespread protests in June = last year after it killed off many third-party apps by charging for access = to its API. Users are still questioning the company's leadership over the d= ecision.
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A Peek at Intel=E2=80=99s F= uture Foundry Tech (8 minute read)

Intel has revealed new chip technologie= s for its foundry customers. The advances include more dense logic and a 16= -fold increase in the connectivity within 3D-stacked chips. Intel is moving= from being a company that only produces its own chips to becoming a foundr= y that makes chips for others. This article takes a look at the new technol= ogies that Intel will be offering in its new business model.
NASA faces a quandary with = its audacious lunar cargo program (9 minute read)

Flying to the Moon is expensive, so NAS= A decided to reach out to private companies for help. NASA's Commercial Lun= ar Payload Services (CLPS) program originally aimed to launch its first mis= sions by 2020. Years later, the first vehicles are now ready. Astrobotic's = Odysseus lander will attempt to land on the Moon on Thursday. No private co= mpany has successfully landed on the Moon yet. If the CLPS program is succe= ssful, in a few years, NASA will have laid the foundation for a highway to = the Moon.
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ReadySet (GitHub Repo)

ReadySet is a transparent database cach= e for Postgres and MySQL. It provides the performance and scalability of an= in-memory key-value store without requiring users to rewrite their apps or= manually handle cache invalidation. ReadySet can turn even the most comple= x SQL reads into lightning-fast lookups. It keeps cached query results in s= ync with databases automatically by utilizing the database's replication st= ream. ReadySet can be used along with an existing ORM or database client.
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Park UI contains components built on Ar= k UI that work for any JavaScript or CSS framework. The components have sen= sible defaults that can be easily customized. Park UI ships packages tailor= ed for each supported CSS framework, allowing developers to only install th= e components they need. Examples for inspiration are available.
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I Ran A Background Check On= A Startup (27 minute read)

Employers regularly run background chec= ks on potential employees. However, companies don't always make their histo= ry public - there's only so much you can learn from career pages and recrui= ter emails. This article presents an example of what a background check on = an employer might look like. The check goes through checking a company's fu= nding rounds, Glassdoor reviews, and court orders. Performing a background = check on a company can turn up interesting facts that could help you decide= whether you really want to work with them.
The killer app of Gemini Pr= o 1.5 is video (13 minute read)

Gemini Pro 1.5 is an enormous upgrade f= or the Gemini series. The model has a 1,000,000 token context size, much la= rger than Claude 2.1's 200,000 and gpt-4-turbo's 128,000 token context size= s. While the model can still miss things and hallucinate incorrect details,= it is able to process and extract text information from short videos. This= article contains an example where Gemini Pro 1.5 is used to extract book n= ames from a short video.
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