Matt Alldian

Researchers are proposing “Dynamic Typography,” which uses neural networks to create animated and deformed letters based on meaning for expressive, readable text. via Hugging Face.

Simon Willison summarizes Andrej Karpathy's review of Meta's Llama 3, noting the increase in training tokens and tokenizer size but also the disappointingly small context length.

via @simonw

Wired's Steven Levy details how eight Google employees invented the "transformer" concept, leading to a recent tech breakthrough. via kottke.org

The future of non-alcoholic beverage retail is explored following the bankruptcy of Boisson, highlighting emerging trends. via Modern Retail.