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GitHub's View on RAG 🧠, NASA's $11B Open Call 🚀, Boston Dynamics' Robot 🤖

Today's TechToks: NASA changes course, Boston Dynamics' business evolution, the impact of retrieval-augmented generation on AI, trending repos on GitHub and more!

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TechTok by João Martins
April 17, 2024

🤯 Game Changers

The most impactful articles of the day

NASA has scrapped its $11 billion, 15-year plan to collect and return samples from Mars, and is instead seeking proposals from the private space industry to accomplish the mission in a more affordable and timely manner, potentially benefiting startups and commercial space companies.

🧐 Daily Picks

Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today

Boston Dynamics has retired its hydraulic humanoid robot Atlas, a decade after its debut, as the company focuses on commercializing its technologies under new ownership by Hyundai, with the possibility of an Atlas successor for industrial applications.

Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB

The article discusses various methods for loading a trillion rows of weather data into a TimescaleDB database, including single-row inserts, multi-valued inserts, the COPY statement, and external tools like pg_bulkload and timescaledb-parallel-copy, ultimately recommending the use of psycopg3 to directly copy data into a hypertable for the best sustained insert rate of around 462k inserts per second.

A quick post on Chen's algorithm

This blog post provides a quick overview of Chen's algorithm, a cryptographic technique used in quantum computing, by the author who is a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Google's AI-powered spam detection is struggling to keep up with the increasing sophistication of spammers, leading to a decline in search engine quality and the need for more effective solutions to combat the growing problem of AI-generated spam.

✨ "Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

whisper.cpp is a high-performance, cross-platform implementation of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, written in C/C++ with optimizations for Apple Silicon, NVIDIA GPUs, and other architectures, providing a lightweight and efficient solution for integrating speech recognition capabilities into various applications and platforms.

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor developed by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, currently available for macOS with plans to support Linux, Windows, and the web in the future.

📱 Product Picks

Curated products from Product Hunt

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AI Avatars: A whole new way to create personalized videos with Vidyard. Create high-quality AI videos at scale with a hyper-realistic avatar that looks and sounds just like you. Generate personalized video messages in minutes with just a written script.

Today from Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

GitHub Blog discusses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a method used by some AI tools to improve the quality and relevance of their outputs by leveraging data beyond the model's training data, and how it differs from fine-tuning, as well as how it enhances an AI model's contextual understanding and enables semantic search capabilities.