Labs Weekly Catchup #3

Our third weekly catchup. We organize an agenda the day beforehand and consolidate our findings, notable research progress, possibly new tech, insight or technique everyone should know.

Agenda:

• Rise on chatbot alternatives, LibreChat to use OpenAI and custom LLMs by @Tom
• Bypass reCaptcha using self-hosted AI model by @Toan
• Shared query processing through DuckDB WASM by @Tom
• Build desktop app with Tauri by @Vy

Output:

• Understand the research progress and passions of the labs team
• Understand any shortcomings or things to improve for the next weekly catchup

Notes from the catchup

weekly meeting #3 - 20/12/2023:

🧠 Rise on chatbot alternatives

• @Tom Investigated a few chat UIs, like LibreChat + Ollama Web UI to help simplify testing and personal usage and reduce costs from subscribing to ChatGPT

🔍 Shared Query Processing through DuckDB WASM

• @Tom demo’ed DuckDB over WASM to introduce use cases for infographics and real-time analytics
• @Tom’s first demo uses DuckDB to process and convert data to readable arrays to pass to Observable Plot to plot the chart
• @Tom’s second demo uses DuckDB inside Observable Notebooks to do real-time analytics inside the browser

🥽 Bypassing reCaptcha using self-hosted AI model YoloV8

• @Toan Demo’ed YoloV8 over Tensorflow.js, using WebGPU as the backend, to do object detection over recaptcha images

🏗️ Building Desktop apps with Tauri

• @Vy introduced Tauri, an app construction toolkit to help deploy frontend applications over multiple platforms
• @Vy Demo’ed a simple Tauri app with React + Tailwind and will open source soon
• He also mentioned an app called Spacedrive is desktop app built with Tauri
• (Vy) RSPC is also an interesting typesafe router to build APIs in Rust for React or TypeScript frontends to call on it

💭 Thoughts and actions for next week

• @An + @Vincent Will have an action + repository for passwordless next week
• @Hieu wants to apply GenState and a few other tools in Elixir to help with scalability, next week will have a demo to improve the alarm on NgheNhan