This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

NEW: Trump says he's letting "lifesaving" foreign aid continue, but sources tell WIRED that DOGE is still blocking HIV/AIDS relief.

Musk brags he's "feeding USAID into the wood chipper."

A USAID worker tell us: “At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV now do."

By @knibbs.bsky.social

Oracle won't relinquish JavaScript trademark, so the JS community prepares for court battle
- Yet another tech feud that could go on for years

The human 🧠 has two halves that make our behaviors and thoughts more efficient. How the asymmetry of the brain halves contributes to human cognition, examined @wanb.bsky.social & @sofievalk.bsky.social in their study in Nature Communications: www.cbs.mpg.de/2316389/2024...

I wouldn't say I'm tired of AI/ML, but tired of this LLM hype cycle.

Thankfully I'm only a consumer of #Fintech now, but it did take up ~15 years of my UX/Engineering career, Telerik hits some #DataViz tips on the head for fintech and gets past the typical Figma fluff posts.

arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14831
HippoRAG: Neurobiologically Inspired
Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models

Cheaper and faster #RAG #Neuroscience #LLMs

This paper analyzes "open" claims in the #AI world. It examines how ostensibly open AI models, such as open-source projects, may exhibit proprietary characteristics in access, data usage, or community engagement.

#hai #artificialintelligence

Quality long read. One of the many takeaways is that these companies are often lead by people who are in no way equipped to deal with the social and ethical ramifications of their products.

@hf.co is offering a new open and free course on tuning small models using SmolLM2.

With small LMs there's several advantages, but my main interest is #privacy for myself and customers.
#localai #artificialintelligence #localfirst

Tomorrow (Monday) reading group session: Michael Galkin presents "Towards Foundation Models for Knowledge Graph Reasoning" arxiv.org/abs/2310.04562!

I predict there will be at least 1 meme slide🙃

Join us on Zoom at 11am ET / 5pm CET / 4pm UTC: portal.valencelabs.com/logg

It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle.

We’ve submitted a formal petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark: it is generic, Oracle has abandoned it, and Oracle committed fraud on the USPTO during the last trademark renewal.

It's time to #FreeJavaScript.

deno.com/blog/deno-v-...

Building typesafe APIs have never been simpler than with Deno, @trpc.io, and Zod

👇

deno.com/blog/build-t...

Not all VPN's are created equal, here's the Freedom of the Press Foundation guide on selecting the most private VPNs.
#privacy #democracy

The wait is over, Svelte 5 went stable. Appreciate they kept some backwards compatibility so you can still use v4 compatible libraries.
#svelte #javascript
svelte.dev/blog/svelte-...

In today's Learn Deno tutorial, we show how to build real-time applications with WebSockets:
⭐️ web standard APIs
⭐️ no dependencies
⭐️ zero config

youtube.com/watch?v=FC4I...