The Daily Index — Tuesday, August 29, 2023 · TLDR Index

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ELON MUSK DEMONSTRATES TESLA FSD 12 IN A LIVE STREAM ON X

Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) V12 will not be a beta version. The company rolled out FSD Beta v11.4.7 earlier this week. Tesla has been criticized for not being able to demonstrate FSD for several years now, despite Elon Musk's claims about the software back in 2016. Musk recently live-streamed himself driving his personal Tesla Model S using FSD V12 on the streets of California. A recording of the full live stream is available in the article.

teslaoracle.com · 6 min

TLDR AI

CHATGPT ENTERPRISE

A secure and private version of the massively popular language model is now available for enterprises. It seems to be 2x faster, with a 32k context length and no usage limits, and has significant security improvements with SOC2 compliance. An interesting statistic of the article is that 80% of all Fortune 500 companies have had employees sign up to use ChatGPT.

openai.com · 5 min

TLDR Web Dev

CSS SELECTORS: A VISUAL GUIDE & REFERENCE

CSS selectors are patterns in CSS that can select and style HTML elements on the page. There are more advanced usages of selectors, such as pseudo classes and elements, which let you define style for elements based on their state or relation with other elements. This is a comprehensive visual guide of all sorts of ways you can select elements from CSS, from basic class selectors like .my-class to interesting patterns like the lobotomized owl.

fffuel.co · 12 min

TLDR Crypto

BLOBSPACE 101

Proto-danksharding, or EIP-4844, is coming to Ethereum soon to address scalability issues. It introduces a concept called blobspace, which can reduce transaction costs by simplifying the data commitment process. Blobspace helps to verify that all transaction information is available for block validation without every node needing to download all data, making the process more efficient. This upgrade will particularly benefit L2 solutions like rollups.

domothy.com · 28 min

TLDR Design

HOW AI WILL TRANSFORM THE UX OF ANALYTICS & PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT

AI's potential is often exaggerated. It likely won't revolutionize every product. Nevertheless, AI stands to revolutionize analytics and performance measurement products, enhancing user experience by providing precise, contextual insights for better business decisions.

arpyd.medium.com · 6 min

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ZUCK SAYS HE CAN TYPE 100WPM INSIDE A VR HEADSET

Mark Zuckerberg claims that Meta's new VR keyboard is capable of 120WPM speeds. The software is able to turn any flat surface into a virtual keyboard. Meta achieved 73WPM typing speed with its 'surface touch typing' software in 2020. The new virtual keyboard appears to require a QR-code-like symbol as a positional anchor. A video of Zuckerberg typing on the keyboard is available in the article.

theverge.com · 1 min

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ROCKET

SpaceX has completed a second hot fire test of its Super Heavy booster. All 33 Raptor engines ignited during the test and all but 2 ran for the full six-second duration. SpaceX still needs to receive launch approval from the FAA before it can begin its second test flight of the Starship rocket. It is possible that the launch could take place as soon as two or three weeks from now, but further delays are probable.

arstechnica.com · 4 min

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THE FIRST OBSERVATION OF NEUTRINOS AT CERN'S LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

Physicists have managed to observe neutrinos inside a particle accelerator for the first time. While neutrinos are produced abundantly inside particle accelerators, they have so far been difficult to observe due to their very weak interactions with other particles. The neutrinos observed in the study had the highest energy ever recorded in a laboratory environment. The research could pave the way for in-depth studies of the properties of neutrinos and aid in the search for other elusive particles.

phys.org · 8 min

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THE END OF THE GOOGLEVERSE

Google search has reshaped the web into a place for robots. The emergence of AI is a threat to Google's existence. A growing number of users are complaining about the quality of Google's search results. Google's position as the largely invisible force that determines the ebb and flow of online content is being seriously challenged for the first time in two decades. This article looks at Google's past, the company's role in shaping the web, and how things are changing.

theverge.com · 21 min