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Trending ML repos of the week 📈

Rodrigo M.S. — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 18:26:37 +0000

Hey there! 👋 Welcome to #TrendingTuesday

This week we'll look into the fastest growing machine-learning repos of the week

Our weekly trending lists take into account the historical performance of similar repos and the repo's current growth stage. For this reason, you’ll find some gems here that you won’t see anywhere else 💎

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9️⃣ In the ninth place we have markprompt, a tool for creating GPT-powered prompts from Markdown files in your GitHub repo. It includes a React component for building the prompts, as well as analytics to track user interactions with your docs!

It was brought to you by the team at @motifland and has ~7 issues and ~5 contributors.

8️⃣ Next is ebook-GPT-translator, an OpenAI powered tool that translates text to multiple languages and even converts it to other file formats like PDF, DOCX, EPUB, and MOBI.

It was created by @jesselaunz and has ~15 issues and ~3 contributors.

7️⃣ In number seven we have opencommit, a GPT-powered program for the CLI that allows you to generate impressive commit messages in one second! You can configure it to preface commits with an emoji and post-face them with description of changes.

Really impressive (and useful) project by @io_Y_oi. It has ~42 issues and ~23 contributors.

6️⃣ Dolly is a large language model trained on the @databricks Machine Learning Platform, based on the GPT-J model.

It has been fine-tuned on a focused corpus of 50k records (Stanford Alpaca) to exhibit high-quality instruction-following behaviour. Dolly is intended exclusively for research purposes and is not licensed for commercial use 👀

The project has ~1 issue and ~4 contributors.

5️⃣ Next we havescrapeghost, a library for scraping websites using OpenAI's GPT API with the mission to make web scraping very easy. The repo includes a Python-based schema definition, HTML cleaning, CSS and XPath selectors, and auto-splitting.

The project has ~10 issues and ~1 contributor.

4️⃣ In number four we have xturing, a project that aims to provide an easy-to-use interface for fast and efficient fine-tuning of LLMs, such as GPT-J and GPT-2, with an aim to make it simple to personalise LLMs for your own data and applications.

It was brought to you by @stochasticai.

3️⃣ In the third place, we have BlenderGPT, an addon that enables users to use natural language commands to interact with Blender (a 3D modeling software). It's powered by OpenAI's GPT-3.5/GPT-4.

It has ~33 issues.

2️⃣ In second place we have Text2Video-Zero by @picsartai, which is the original repo for the Text2Video-Zero model. This model introduces a low-cost approach for zero-shot text-to-video generation without any training or optimisation.

The creators want to democratise AI and empower everyone's creativity, so they welcome external contributions. The repo has ~8 issues and ~6 contributors.

1️⃣ The top place goes to ZrrSkywalker/LLaMA-Adapter, which is the official implementation of the [LLaMA-Adapter], a new model that uses a small amount of data to turn a general language model into an instruction-following model. The method introduces a small number of learnable parameters and uses an attention mechanism to adaptively incorporate instructional signals, resulting in high-quality instruction-following sentences. A web demo is available.

The repo has ~6 issues and ~3 contributors.

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Trending Rust repos of the week 📈

Rodrigo M.S. — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:24:33 +0000

Hey there! 👋 Welcome to #TrendingTuesday

This week we'll look into the fastest growing repos written in RUST 🔩

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🔟 do-not-compile-this-code is a proof-of-concept that demonstrates how Rust macros can be exploited to execute arbitrary code during compilation. Specifically, the code in this repository defines a Rust macro, which reads the content of a file in ~/.ssh and deletes it. When the code containing the macro is opened in Visual Studio Code with the rust-analyzer plugin, or when cargo build is run, the macro is expanded, and the file is read and deleted.

The authors aim to highlight the fact that, during compilation, Rust macros allow for arbitrary code execution. It's worth noting that the rust-lang/rust-analyzer team has since responded to the repo and clarified that this behaviour is by design.

Thanks to @eleijonmarck for putting this together

9️⃣ nix-init is a repo that lets you generate Nix packages from URLs. Its purpose is to make it easier to create Nix packages from sources hosted online, such as GitHub repositories, tarballs, or zip files. The generated packages can be used with the Nix package manager.

The repo includes a bunch of features like hash prefetching, dependency inference, and license detection. It has ~11 issues and ~2 contributors.

8️⃣ libgsqlite contains a SQLite extension that allows users to load a Google Sheet as a virtual table and run SQL commands on it. It is important to note that the project is still under development and the interface is still read-only, so INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements are not yet implemented.

7️⃣ lencx/nofwl is a repo that aims to fix the problems that the unofficial ChatGPT's Desktop application lencx/ChatGPT has encountered since it exploded in popularity a few weeks ago, see 1️⃣ (below 👇) for context. The project hasn't officially launched yet, but it has acquired a lot of community support over the last few weeks.

Kudos to @lencx_ for creating this new project which undoubtedly will be very successful!

6️⃣ maciejhirsz/kobold is a Rust-based web framework that provides a declarative way to build web interfaces. Kobold leverages Rust's powerful type system to ensure safety and performance while using macros to provide a familiar JSX-like syntax for building web interfaces. One of its key features is its zero-cost static HTML generation.

The project has ~2 issues and ~2 contributors.

5️⃣ tui-rs-revival/ratatui is a fork of the original TUI (Terminal User Interface) project, which provides a Rust library for building rich terminal user interfaces and dashboards. The original maintainer explain in tui-rs that he couldn't continue development, which led to the community creating this fork to continue maintenance and development of the project.

There are updated contributing guidelines for anyone interested in contributing to this fork, and the community organises through a Discord server. It has ~5 issues and ~150 contributors.

4️⃣ sigoden/aichat is a repo bringing ChatGPT to the terminal - plain and simple!

It supports chat and command modes, dark/light themes, saved messages, syntax highlighting and much more! It counts ~7 issues and ~2 contributors.

3️⃣ zurawiki/gptcommit featured in the 10th place of our list over a month ago, so it's great to see it moving up the ranks to number three!

gptcommit is a git prepare-commit-msg hook for authoring commit messages with GPT-3. The tool allows you to easily generate clear, comprehensive and descriptive commit messages at the time you commit, and to edit them if you didn't like the output!

Congrats to @zurawiki for this fantastic project!

2️⃣ Place number two is for bloop, a code search engine that uses GPT-4 to answer questions about your code. It allows users to search both local and remote repositories with natural language, blazing fast regex, and filtered queries. At the time of writing this post, bloop supports syncs with both local and GitHub repositories, but support for more code hosts is coming very soon!

Great project from the team at @bloopdotai.

1️⃣ The top trending RUST repo of the week is lencx/ChatGPT, is an open source ChatGPT desktop application 🏆 We featured this repo in our first RUST trending list a month ago, so it is great to see it in the top place.

Since its creation the project has received a lot of attention, but unfortunately a few negative events have happened:

Some people have repackaged the project to sell it for profit.
A hacker has planted a Trojan horse after in one of the project's fork, which has probably infected computers that didn't use the official download link.

The contributors are taking steps to mitigate these issues, but they are also creating a fresh new project lencx/nofwl to account for all of them. This project took place 7️⃣ this week

Congrats again to @lencx_ for all the work he and his community are doing 🙌

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Trending CUDA repos of the week 📈

Rodrigo M.S. — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:08:30 +0000

Hey there! 👋 Welcome to #TrendingTuesday

This week we'll look into the fastest growing repos written in CUDA, a programming model for parallel computing with NVIDIA GPUs.

CUDA programmers form a niche but very active community. They're experiencing a lot of growth thanks to the recent boom in artificial intelligence applications. We're excited to show you the coolest and fastest-growing repos in this category 💎

6️⃣ In place number 6 we have a project form the company that brought you TikTok 📱.

bytedance/ByteTransformer is a high-performance inference library for BERT-like transformers that claims to deliver superior performance over other transformer implementations. This code has been actually deployed by ByteDance's inference pipelines! You can read the technical details here in their ArXiv paper.

5️⃣ The next two repos are brought to you by @nvidia.

NVlabs/long-video-gan is a video generation model that accurately reproduces object motion and changes in camera viewpoint over time. It improves upon other video generation models in that it is able to produce consistency in the dynamics and object persistence of the content being generated. 🎥

4️⃣ NVIDIA/FasterTransformer implements a highly optimised transformer layer for the encoder and decoder components in NLP models. This transformer layer is built on top of CUDA, cuBLAS, cuBLASLt and C++.

The project has ~93 issues and ~30 contributors.

3️⃣ ALIEN (Artificial LIfe ENvironment) is an artificial life simulation tool that aims to better understand the conditions for (pre-)biotic evolution and the growing complexity of biological systems. The authors ambition is to make the simulator user-friendly through a visually appealing and modern UI. They're certainly getting there 👽

Kudos to @chrxh for this wonderful project!

The project has ~5 Issues and ~4 contributors.

2️⃣ In second place we have bitsandbytes, a lightweight wrapper for 8-bit optimisers and other CUDA custom functions 👾. Check it out if you're looking to optimise your transformers or PyTorch models.

The project has ~95 issues and ~14 contributors.

Brought to you by @tim_dettmers.

1️⃣ The fastest-growing project of the week is ashawkey/stable-dreamfusion 🏆.

This is a PyTorch implementation of the text-to-3D model Dreamfusion, powered by the Stable Diffusion text-to-2D model. See here for the original paper.

The repo has ~90 issues and ~8 contributors.

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Trending Go repos of the week 📈

Rodrigo M.S. — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 13:24:24 +0000

Hey there! 👋 Welcome to #TrendingTuesday

This week we'll look into the fastest growing repos written in Go.

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🔟 In tenth place is highlight, a full-stack monitoring platform designed for modern developers. It offers a cohesive, fully-featured monitoring solution, including session replay, error monitoring, and logging. The authors have made installation very easy, so you have no excuse not to try it out.

We really love it when the community creates tooling for the upcoming generation. The repo has ~466 issues and ~13 contributors.

Kudos to @highlightio for creating this!

9️⃣ Next is optimism, which is low-cost and fast Ethereum L2 blockchain, which is serves as the technical foundation for the Optimism Collective.

Check out the repo to learn more about their vision. It's refreshing to see a well-intentioned and forward-looking web3 network at times when crypto is going through a low. This repo has ~75 issues and ~117 contributors.

A repo by @optimismFND.

8️⃣ In the eighth place is xc, a Markdown-based task runner designed to maximise convenience and minimise complexity. You can define tasks via human-readable Markdown thus transforming your README.md files a source of useful commands for your users.

The repo counts with ~3 issues and ~8 contributors.

7️⃣ Next is log, a project that defines itself as a minimal and colourful Go logging library. The library improves upon the standard Go logger by providing customisable, colourful, and structured human-readable logs via a simple and elegant API. The project is built with LipGloss, a library designed to build stylish terminal layouts.

Loggers are often plain, complicated, and monochromatic tools. It's really great to see a project reinventing them for the 21st century. The repo counts with ~6 issues and ~8 contributors.

Check out @charmcli for a bunch of other projects to make the terminal beautiful 💅

6️⃣ In place number six we have the arbitrum monorepo. Arbitrum is a Layer-2 cryptocurrency that interoperates with Ethereum and makes smart contracts scalable, fast, and private.

arbitrum is being used by 4.2k projects and counts with ~49 issues and ~50 contributors.

The project is maintained by @OffchainLabs

5️⃣ Next iskwok, a toolkit that allows users to set up a Kubernetes cluster of thousands of nodes in seconds without the use of Kubelet. kwok achieves this by simulating the lifecycle of fake nodes, pods, and other Kubernetes API resources.

The process is light enough to be run in your laptop! Do check it out - it has ~29 issues and ~36 contributors so far.

4️⃣ The fourth place is for usememos/memos a "memo hub" that can be self-hosted using Docker. The hub allows users to create and share memos in markdown format. Additionally, users can connect with each other giving it a social flavour 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

The UI is beautiful and the project is gathering contributor momentum. It's currently at ~96 issues and ~69 contributors.

3️⃣ Now the first AI repo of the list: go-openai
provides a wrapper for the OpenAI API for Go programmers, allowing them to easily access various OpenAI models, including ChatGPT, GPT-3, DALL-E, and Whisper.

OpenAI wrappers have been trending in most languages for the past few weeks. I'm glad that we found our go-to wrapper when we're programming in Go! The project has ~18 issues and ~31 contributors.

2️⃣ In second place we have XTLS/REALITY which is a server-side implementation of the REALITY protocol (a fork of tls in Go). If you're into security, tunneling, and anti-censorship, this project is for you. I should note, however, that at the time of writing this post it has no open issues.

1️⃣ The fastest-growing project of the week is DeepLX 🏆. This repo contains a server-side implementation of the DeepL API (a language translation service) that requires no tokens, thus allowing for unlimited requests to be made.

No open issues on the sight, but it has ~9 contributors.

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Trending Python repos of the week 📈

Rodrigo M.S. — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 22:23:32 +0000

Heya 👋

We're back with Quine's #TrendingTuesday. This week we created a list for the fastest-growing repos in Python!

It's really incredible to see that nine out of ten repos have to do with LLMs and Machine-Learning 🤯

🔟 In place number 10 we have ComfyUI, a user interface that allows users to create and execute complex Stable Diffusion pipelines without needing to write code!

It has a nodes/graph/flowchart interface that enables users to experiment with different workflows. It also works fully offline and starts up quickly!

9️⃣ In number nine, we have a repo by Microsoft.

LMOps is a dissemination repo for a new initiative that focuses on fundamental research and technology for building products that use LLMs and Generative AI models.

The initiative has a focus on developing tools for generating better prompts, developing methods for longer input contexts, and on theoretical foundations of LLMs.

8️⃣ Next is TensorLayerX which is an AI framework that allows users to run their AI code on different types of hardware such as Nvidia-GPU, Huawei-Ascend, and Cambricon. It also supports multiple backends including TensorFlow, PyTorch, MindSpore, PaddlePaddle, OneFlow, and Jittor.

The project is maintained by peeps from Peking University, Imperial College London, Princeton, Stanford, and a few other institutions!

7️⃣ text-generation-webui allows you to summon the power of the main LLMs from the comfort of your browser!

The project aims to be the leading UI to interact with LLMs via a web browser. Its interface was built with Gradio and supports GPT-J 6B, OPT, GALACTICA, GPT-Neo, and Pygmalion.

Users can switch between different models using a dropdown menu and generate text by entering prompts or questions 🙋

6️⃣ In place number six is the only non-AI repo of the list :)

NimPlant is an offensive security tool that lets "hackers" perform operations on a target machine. It encrypts and compresses all traffic to and from the target machine and supports a wide range of command-line like commands that can be used to perform early-stage operations like gathering information about the machine or interacting with files and the registry.

It's primarily written in the Nim programming language (22.8%), but it is also 20% Python.

5️⃣ In number five, we have a very fun application of LLMs and GPT-like technologies...

shyamsn97/mario-gpt is the official repo for MarioGPT - a GPT2-based model trained to generate game levels for Super Mario Bros! 🍄👸

If you're into LLMs, we highly recommend you look into the associated arxiv paper where the authors go into the details about Procedural Content Generation and novelty search.

4️⃣ Another GPT-related repo ❤️

picoGPT is a really small implementation of GPT-2, made entirely in NumPy.

It's so small that the forward pass code is only 40 lines long! While it's not very fast and doesn't have any training code or support for batch inference, it's incredibly easy to read. Check it out if you're interested in learning how GPT-2 works ✨

3️⃣ Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet is a work-in-progress extension for AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion web UI.

It enables the addition of ControlNet, a neural network that allows to generate more customised outputs (see next repo for more details 😉). The project is not yet fully functional, but is quickly gaining support from the community!

2️⃣ In second place we have lllyasviel/ControlNet which is the official implementation of ControlNet, a neural network structure that allows you to use pre-trained large diffusion models with additional input conditions, such as edge and segmentation maps.

ControlNet learns the specific conditions of a task in an end-to-end way, and can do so even if the training dataset is small (< 50k). Check out its arxiv paper for more details.

1️⃣ The fastest growing Python repo of the week is mm-cot 🏆

This repo contains the official implementation of the Multimodal-CoT model which combines both text and image data to generate intermediate reasoning chains to better infer answers. This model has less than 1 billion parameters and shows better performance than GPT-3.5 on some tasks!

Just like your books, this model is brought to you by Amazon

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Trending JavaScript repos of the week 📈

Rodrigo M.S. — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:53:46 +0000

Hey there 👋

In this week's #trendingTuesday we'll look at the fastest growing repos in JavaScript - one of DevTo's favourite languages.

Our methodology to compute trending is slightly different than GitHub’s, so in this list you'll stumble upon a few gems that you won't find anywhere else 💎

🔟 In the tenth place we have WebChatGPT, a new browser extension that enhances ChatGPT prompts with web results. It’s available on Chrome and Firefox!

Congrats to @hahahahohohe 👌

9️⃣ Next is another ChatGPT-related project…

ChatGPT-wechat-bot is a ChatGPT interface for WeChat that generates LLM chatter with your own OpenAI API key.

Contributions are welcome 👀

8️⃣ In the eight place is StatiCrypt an easy-to-use tool to keep the content of your public static HTML files safe without the need of any back-end!

Perfect for Netlify or GitHub pages!

7️⃣ Next is Atri, a new web development framework that also works with Python (and very soon with NodeJS)! Atri relies on an object model acting as a single source of truth, so there's no need to write REST APIs!

Brought to you by @atrilabs

6️⃣ Place number six is for motion-canvas!

This TypeScript library uses generators to program vector animations. Its editor lets you sync voice-overs and easily edit certain aspects of the animation to enhance the end result 🎬🎨

5️⃣ In the fifth place, we have another ChatGPT repo 😅

ChatGPT-API is, as the name suggests, a ChatGPT API client (for Node.js).

It's already used by 10.5k projects 🤯 and has over 90 contributors. Good stuff by @transitive_bs 🔥

4️⃣ Great to see LAION-AI’s Open-Assistant trending again!

OpenAssistant provides access to a chat-based LLM that can undestand tasks, interact with 3rd party systems, and retrieve information dynamically.

The project is accepting contributors 👀

3️⃣ The third place is for a web3 project! ⛓

Lenster is a decentralised, and permissionless social media app built on top of @LensProtocol
🌿

Its community is growing - let's hope they open good-first-issues soon! Brought to you by @lensterxyz

2️⃣ Place #2 is for core-js, the most popular and comprehensive polyfill library for the JS standard library.

With over 9 billion downloads, it allows you to use the latest ECMAScript features and proposals, and web platform features.

By @zloirock 👌

1️⃣ The top place is for AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui, a browser interface based on Gradio library for Stable Diffusion (a model for text-to-image generation).

It includes features like outpainting, inpainting, color sketch, and many, MANY others.

It has 336 contributors and counting 🏆

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Trending Rust repos of the week 📈

Rodrigo M.S. — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:46:43 +0000

Hey there 👋

In this week's #trendingTuesday we'll look at the fastest growing repos in the Rust programming language.

Our methodology to compute trending is slightly different than GitHub’s (we'll write a post on the stats behind it soon), so in this list you'll find a few gems that you won’t find anywhere else 💎

🔟 The tenth place is for GptCommit, which is a cool GPT-3 powered hook for authoring clear, comprehensive, and descriptive commit messages. This is an excellent application of LLMs for developer augmentation 🙌

9️⃣ Lance is a new columnar data format that claims to be 100x faster than Apache Parquet, allowing you to perform vector search in under 1 millisecond. It has ecosystem integrations for Apache Arrow and DuckDB! It was created by YC startup @etodotai

8️⃣ In place number eight we have another database-oriented project.

DriftDB is a real-time data backend for browser applications. It supports a number of messaging primitives like PubSub, Key/value storage with subscriptions, and ordered streams.

It’s brought to you by the team at @drifting_corp 🙂

7️⃣ In the seventh spot we have rtx which brands itself as an asdf rust clone.

In layman’s terms, rtx is a tool that helps you manage different versions of programming languages and tools and automatically switch between those versions depending on the project you’re working on.

The tool’s brought to you by @jdxcode

6️⃣ Next is touchHLE, an emulator that lets you play old games from the iPhone on your computer. So far, only Super Monkey Ball has been implemented, but many more are on the way.

Credits to @hikari_no_yume and three other contributors - we're looking forward to the implementation of Angry Birds 🐦

5️⃣ The fifth place is taken by the trustfall query engine, an extremely cool project that helps you query any data source or combination of data sources (from Databases, to APIs, to git version control) as GraphQL. You can plug (almost) any dataset just by writing a schema and implementing four functions 👌.

Great work by @PredragGruevski. You should also check out Predrag’s talk!

4️⃣ It’s not every day that you stumble upon an open source project that makes you go into the rabbit hole of a new set of ideas.

Have you heard of ordinal theory in the context of Bitcoin? It’s the theory that gives satoshis (the atomic currency of the bitcoin network) individual identity and numismatic value allowing them to be traded as collectibles.

ord is an index, block explorer, and command-line wallet with ordinal theory in mind.

A true gem in open source, not only the Bitcoin community. Kudos to @rodarmor for creating this gem 💎

3️⃣ The third places goes to glidesort, which is a comparison-based sorting algorithm that works exceptionally well on structured data.

It achieves an average and worst-case complexity of O(n (log n)^2) when given only O(1) memory. Cool to see a low-level fundamental algorithm trending on GitHub as an open source project.

2️⃣ The 2nd place in this week’s list goes to lencx/ChatGPT which is a ChatGPT Desktop Application.

The repo was also featured a few weeks ago in our #ML trending list, so great to see it growing in popularity over the weeks. Congratulations and kudos to @lencx_ for creating this and maintaining this project 🙏

1️⃣ The top place is for carbonyl, a Chromium-based browser that lets you surf the web from the comfort of your terminal 🤯

Carbonyl is snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage! Brought to you by @fathyb, very well deserved!

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Trending ML repos of the week 📈

Rodrigo M.S. — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:56:30 +0000

Hello everyone 👋 and welcome to #TrendingTuesday. Every Tuesday we'll post a list of trending GitHub repos in a cool and interesting topic.

There's lots of chatter around #ChatGPT, so this week we're bringing you a list of the fastest-growing ML repos on GitHub.

🔟 dair-ai/ML-Papers-Explained

In place number 10 we have repo that indexes some of the most important ML and NLP papers with pointers to open articles and blogposts that deconstruct them in a way that most developers can understand. Have a look if you want to gain a deeper understanding of the main technology behind today's most famous chatbot.

9️⃣ ahmedbahaaeldin/From-0-to-Research-Scientist-resources-guide

Next, in place number 9, we have another great educational repo that traces the learning journey to follow in order to become a research scientist. This guide is targeted to developers with basic programming or CS knowledge, but very motivated in deep learning or NLP research.

8️⃣ jerryjliu/gpt_index

In number 8 we have a GPT-related repo that is targeted to practitioners and ML engineers. GPT-Index consists of a set of data structures designed to make it easier to use large external knowledge bases with LLMs.

7️⃣ mage-ai/mage-ai

Mage-ai falls in the ML/data/infra category and claims to be the modern replacement for Airflow, a very popular open source workflow platform for data engineering pipelines. With 3.3k stars and 21 contributors, it's worth checking it out!

6️⃣ karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero

This is a relatively new repo by Andrej Karpathy who was formerly Director of AI at Tesla. The repo contains a series of YouTube videos where viewers code and train neural network. It's really cool to see two "zero-to-hero" type of repos in a single week. Jupyter notebooks are included in the box.

5️⃣ laion-ai/Open-Assistant

Place number five is an amazing project that envisions to replace ChatGPT by creating a personal assistant able to write emails, cover letters, use APIs, and much more. It's a really ambitious project that is also quickly onboarding new contributors. If you have some ML experience and you want to get your hands dirty by contributing to a new project, this might be a good place to start.

4️⃣ lencx/ChatGPT

In place number four we have a very sleek app to interface with ChatGPT from the comfort of your desktop. The project was built in Rust 👌

3️⃣ google-research/tuning_playbook

The third most starred repo was created by researchers at Google Brain and Harvard University, who created a playbook for tuning neural networks. This repo is helping ML practitioners get on top of the tuning process by sharing good tricks and best-practices from one of the best AI labs in the world.

2️⃣ karpathy/nanoGPT

Spot number two is also by Andrej Karpathy 🤯. This is a repo designed to to train and finetune GPT networks. It is a less educational version of his previous repo karpathy/minGPT. It is definitely worth studying to really understand GPT networks.

1️⃣ f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts

The top place is for f/awesome-chatgpt-promts which is an #awesome list that collects prompt examples to use ChatGPT like a PRO. Courtesy of the developer who also snapped the “@f” username on GitHub

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Which topics would you like to see trending repos for? Let us know in the comments :)

Understanding open source communities with Quine

Rodrigo M.S. — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 18:18:55 +0000

Hey there! 👋 This is Rodrigo from Quine!

Quine helps you accelerate your career as a developer by helping you find repos to work on and simplifying each step in your contributor journey.

In previous posts I showed you how you can use Quine in the discovery process of your journey, but what happens once you find an interesting repo card? You have to decide if you really like the repo and want to invest the energy to contribute to it.

In this post I will show you how you can use Quine to better understand the activity, metrics, and quality of an open source community you have just discovered. At Quine, we geek out on data, stats, and ML (and a few other things to be honest 😄), so we took a quantitative approach.

Our ambitions here are BIG and we'll write more about this very soon. For now, our starting point is what we internally dub as “Repo Detail Page”.

So what’s repo detail page? Clicking on a repo card in Quine directs you to a page with a unified view of the key information in the repository. This is what we call repo detail page (or RDP). At the top of the page you'll be able to find basic links and metadata about the repo. In this post we explain the components of RDP by considering four questions it can help you answer.

Q1. How popular is this repo?

One of the first things people look at when browsing repos on GitHub is its number of stargazers. This makes total sense! Stargazers are an indicator of popularity, which correlates with the amount of kudos and community support that a repo has earned over time. Our stargazer chart helps you visualise this by drawing the cumulative all-time stargazer growth of a repo. If you want a more granular view, its six months (6M) and one year (1Y) views are just a click away!

Q2. How quickly are PRs and Issues responded to?

Navigate the tab above the stargazer figure to get to the issue response time graph which charts the amount of time it takes for someone to comment on recently submitted issues. This chart can help you understand the responsiveness of a repo’s community and get a better understanding of whether the repo is actively maintained or not. The median response time is displayed in the bottom left corner.

By clicking on the PR merge label, your view will switch to the PR response time graph. This figure records the time that PRs have taken to be merged in the history of the repo. Use it to learn more about the availability of the repo's maintainers or the experience of previous contributors.

Q3. Are there any issues I can start working on?

Scroll all the way down to find a list of open good-first-issues. The rows are enriched with labels and timestamps to help you understand what type of work is available and how fresh the issue is. Click on the "Solve" button to open a new tab directing you to the official issue page on GitHub.

Remember that with great power comes great responsibility! Make sure you read the repo's contributing guidelines (found in the CONTRIBUTING.md file) before you attempt to solve an issue. Sometimes, you might have to explicitly express interest to be assigned to it. Maintainers are always very busy helping contributors get around, so be kind and be real when you interact with them 🙏

Q4. Are there any other repos like this one?

Maybe, after looking at all this information you have learned that this repo is not really for you. Maybe it's unmaintained or there are no good-first-issues that interest you. Whatever the case might be you need more options... so we're giving you options.

The right hand side of RDP contains a list of the most similar repos. These lists are computed in-house by crunching the metadata and content of repos on GitHub (we'll write a post about this at some point). So go ahead and scroll around to find potential alternatives to any repo in our index. You might be pleasantly surprised :)

Have you played around with RDP? Tell us in the comments what you think or what we could make a bit better for you 🙂

Introducing Quine to the Dev.To community

Rodrigo M.S. — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:19:48 +0000

Hello everyone 👋 I'm Rodrigo, founder of Quine. I would like to formally introduce ourselves to the Dev.To community 🤗

Quine is a developer reputation platform that helps you create an impressive open source (OSS) portfolio through good-first-issues (i.e. small well-defined GitHub Issues designed to help you get your feet wet with a new project). Finding GitHub issues to work on can be daunting given the sheer amount of repos with open contribution opportunities. Quine helps you overcome this and accelerate your journey in open source by recommending you the most relevant good-first-issues that match your language and topic preferences. Do you want to work on deep-learning repos that are written in Rust? Just type in the keywords and Quine will point you in the right direction.

Open source is set to become the de-facto arena in which developers learn, work, and interact with each other. It is well known how open source can be beneficial for codebases in terms of security, reach, and sustainability. What is not so talked about is how it can also be a goldmine for the personal and professional growth of developers. Quine is the missing OSS platform optimised for developers' professional growth.

Would you like to know more? We'll be posting new interesting content every week, so make sure you follow us on Dev.To or Twitter. In the meantime, sign-up to our platform and start building your PR portfolio. ✌️