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.
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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
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