This Week I Learned - Week #37 2024
This Week I Learned - * Val Town is a social platform for writing and deploying JavaScript directly from your browser. You can create APIs and schedule functions, email yourself, and persist data. It offers a free tier * The Brave Browser is built on the open-source Chromium Web core and its own client code is released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. * In the last few weeks, AI coding really took off . Cursor, Cody, Replit Agents are FAR better than GitHub Copilot. * Enterprise use cases that Pixtral 12B, the first-ever multimodal Mistral model can handle : 1. Image captioning 2. Image-to-Text Transcription (OCR) including Transcription of scientific content 3. Data Extraction and Processing 4. Analysis of complex images 5. Personal Assistants (visual assistance) 6. Information Extraction 7. Reasoning over input images * Users everywhere can view archived versions of webpages directly through Google Search, with a simple link to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. To acce