The Daily Index — Friday, November 17, 2023 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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NAVIGATING AROUND IN YOUR SHELL

Terminal is great for getting things done fast. This blog contains a guide on how to navigate through the shell quickly. It covers the basics, useful aliases, globs, how to use bookmarks, and more.

blog.meain.io · 7 min

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A FAILED AI GIRLFRIEND PRODUCT, AND MY LESSONS

Inspired by Stanford's Western Town paper, which used a framework combining memory, reflection, planning, and action to facilitate interactions between GPTs, this developer decided to use a similar framework to build an experience similar to what's depicted in the movie 'Her'. This blog post details the lessons the developer learned throughout the process. In the end, the project failed due to several reasons. The chatbots would just wait for users’ inputs rather than reaching out and content moderation policies crippled the bots’ functionality.

mazzzystar.github.io · 7 min

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WE ARE DROWNING IN GOOGLE'S MAGNANIMITY

The idea of Objectives and Key Results seems simple - any problem can be made solvable by the careful setting of Os and KRs. However, many startups fail to implement the system. The system may work fine for a large company like Google, with its particular needs and structure, but it causes confusion for everyone else. This may be by design: OKRs may in fact be a subtle ploy to keep startups off balance.

kpassa.me · 5 min

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THE LACK OF COMPENSATION IN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS UNSUSTAINABLE

Companies can contribute to open source projects with money, developer time, or both.

trstringer.com · 7 min

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GOOGLE’S REVISED CHROME EXTENSION STANDARD LOOSENS RESTRICTIONS ON AD BLOCKERS

Google will transition to Manifest V3 with some key changes, one being improved content filtering support for the Declarative Net Request API used by ad-blocking extensions.

theverge.com · 2 min

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RETOOL STATE OF AI REPORT 2023

Retool surveyed over 1,500 tech people in a variety of industries to find out how they're actually using and building with AI.

retool.com · 32 min

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MICROSOFT TEAMS IS ABOUT TO GO 3D WITH VR MEETINGS

Microsoft Mesh, the company's mixed reality platform, is being integrated into Teams to allow coworkers to meet together in a virtual space - VR headsets are not required.

theverge.com · 4 min

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WHAT IF MONEY EXPIRED?

A look at what money is and what would happen if currency expired.

noemamag.com · 34 min