The Daily Index — Friday, September 29, 2023 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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CSS SUBGRID

CSS subgrid allows track sizing and the sharing of templates and names with nested grids. It allows for variably sized content. This article explains how CSS subgrid works. A list of resources for further reading is provided at the end of the article.

web.dev · 6 min

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AI, HARDWARE, AND VIRTUAL REALITY

This article looks at the most recent developments in technology and their implications. It covers ChatGPT's new voice and vision abilities, Meta AI, Emu, Meta Smart Glasses, the Quest 3, OpenAI's rumored device, and virtual reality.

stratechery.com · 13 min

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WORKING AT A STARTUP VS IN BIG TECH

Being in a startup can be good because it's very educational and you can make a lot of impact, but there is a lot of financial risk and stress involved and failure is always a possibility. Working in Big Tech feels more organized and benefits include internal transfers, financial stability, perks, and networking. However, employees may feel a lack of purpose, there is a lot of overhead and bureaucracy, and misaligned incentives around performance reviews can create pretty twisted political situations.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com · 15 min

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SAYS STUDY

Chinchilla 70B, a large language model by DeepMind, can perform lossless compression on images to 43.4% of their original size and audio data to just 16.4% of their raw size.

arstechnica.com · 5 min

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INFLATION BITES U.S. ENGINEERING SALARIES

Inflation has outpaced growth in US engineering salaries for the second year in a row.

spectrum.ieee.org · 2 min

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THE RASPBERRY PI 5 IS FINALLY HERE

The Raspberry Pi 5, starting at $60, is the first Raspberry Pi to come with in-house silicon.

theverge.com · 4 min

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OPEN SOURCE DOES NOT WIN BY BEING CHEAPER

Open source companies either have to surpass their competitors or need to have a concrete reason for why they are open source.

github.com · 6 min

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MARK ZUCKERBERG CAN’T QUIT THE METAVERSE

Mark Zuckerberg talked about how the technologies that combine the physical world and the physical world are still being built and how they will result in the concept called the metaverse at Meta Connect 2023.

theverge.com · 3 min

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The next iPhone SE, which will allegedly come out in 2025, will use the iPhone 14 as a basic template.

arstechnica.com · 4 min