Recipes that provide a "wow factor" for minimal effort is the topic of a recent question posted on MetaFilter.

Bruno Aziza and Matt Turck discuss the shifting data landscape in machine learning and AI, including cost considerations and the differences between SLMs and LLMs. via VentureBeat.

Simon Willison's latest blog post covers updates for working with Llama 3, AI tools for data journalism, and new projects like llm-evals and datasette-secrets. via Simon Willison's Weblog

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending usable engineering data back to Earth, indicating its systems are healthy after the team devised a workaround for a problem in the flight data system. via The source of this content is the NASA Voyager blog.

Harvard is hosting a database with interesting biological measurements ranging from the duration of an eye blink to the mass of a fruit fly. via kottke.org

AutoCrawler is a new two-stage framework that uses the hierarchical structure of HTML to improve web automation and crawler generation for information-rich web pages.

via Hugging Face.

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