Sun, Oct 27, 2024

Weekly Notes and Discoveries | S Anand

LanceDB is a more scalable alternative to ChromaDB. Written in Rust. Does not require a separate HSNW library.

Meta has a bunch of image embedding models: #embeddings #image-generation
- DINOv2 creates image embeddings (Apr 2023)
- ImageBind is an embedding model for text, images, audio, and more (Jun 2023)

Gemini has a code execution API! #ai-coding #code-agents

Anthropic's new Sonnet model is even better at code. Plus it has the ability to extract coordinates from images. Ref

Gemini sort-of supports diarization. Ref. I tried it and it's OK but not perfect. #impossible
- LLMs cannot diarize reliably yet. (Gemini just guesses the speaker differences.)

Replit is good for hobbyists, Cursor for developers, and Pythagora & Bolt for non-developers building business apps. Ref

0x0.st is an open API-based file upload + URL shortening service. You can dump files there temporarily. #hosting

noVNC is a JavaScript VNC client. You can control a remote (virtual) machine from your browser.

Friend is an always recording pendant that you can ask questions to. #future