The Daily Index — Tuesday, November 28, 2023 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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MY TODDLER LOVES PLANES, SO I BUILT HER A RADAR

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jacobbartlett.substack.com · 28 min

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VITALIK BUTERIN'S TECHNO-OPTIMISM

Vitalik Buterin believes in a future that is vastly brighter than the present thanks to radically transformative technology. He rejects the idea that we should keep the world roughly the same as today but be less greedy with more public health care. Some technologies will reliably make the world better than other types of technology - we need active human intention to choose the directions that we want as the best outcome will not be achieved automatically.

vitalik.eth.limo · 72 min

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WHY DO COMPANIES HIRE PEOPLE TO BE IDLE A LOT OF THE TIME?

Big Tech employs a lot of engineers, some of whom do very little. Some say that companies do this to keep talent off the market, but that might not be the case. Large projects sometimes require a lot of people to be idle - even if they don't seem like they're doing anything at the moment, they might play a critical role in the process later. Prestige and budgets are also factors that can also lead to idle engineers.

ntietz.com · 3 min

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REDDIT MIGHT ONCE AGAIN BE FLIRTING WITH AN IPO

Reddit is considering going public as early as the first quarter.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPERS SPENT A RECORD $9.8 BILLION IN U.S. ONLINE SALES, UP 7.5% FROM LAST YEAR

Consumers have become more strategic over the past year with their spending so they can maximize discounts.

cnbc.com · 2 min

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HOW TO BUILD A BETTER SOCIAL NETWORK

Create a market economy so that the best content gets promoted, not just content from large accounts or shallow engagement bait.

every.to · 13 min

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GOD HELP US, LET'S TRY TO UNDERSTAND AI MONOSEMANTICITY

Towards Monosemanticity claims to have gazed into an AI and seen its soul - this article looks at how the AI company/research lab recently out of Anthropic achieved this.

astralcodexten.com · 17 min

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RESHAPING THE TREE: REBUILDING ORGANIZATIONS FOR AI

It might seem too early to consider changing an organization to accommodate AI, but there is a strong possibility that it will quickly become too late.

oneusefulthing.org · 13 min