The Daily Index — Monday, March 25, 2024 · TLDR Index

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CUDA IS STILL A GIANT MOAT FOR NVIDIA

Nvidia controls both its GPUs and CUDA, giving it a killer advantage. CUDA makes it easy to reap the benefits of the hardware that Nvidia makes. One of the reasons for Nvidia's dominance is its years and billions of dollars in investment into the CUDA ecosystem. It may be possible in the future for competing projects to take over, but it will take quite a while for the impacts of Nvidia's heavy long-term strategy to go away.

weightythoughts.com · 8 min

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BYD’S NEW EV, STARTING AT LESS THAN $10,000, IS STOKING FEAR ACROSS THE INDUSTRY

BYD's new EV, the Seagull EV Honor Edition, starts from as low as $9,700 - while BYD has no plans to enter the US passenger EV market, the release is pushing pressure on US automakers to slash prices.

electrek.co · 4 min

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UNEXPLANATIONS: SQL IS SYNTACTIC SUGAR FOR RELATIONAL ALGEBRA

Syntactic sugar refers to common operations that could also be expressed in alternative, more verbose forms.

scattered-thoughts.net · 13 min

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MAGICK.CSS

magick.css is a mostly classless CSS framework, designed to be easy to use and understand, that retains its look and functionality across all devices and screen sizes and works entirely without JavaScript.

css.winterveil.net · 7 min

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IOS 18 LETS USERS CUSTOMIZE LAYOUT OF HOME SCREEN APP ICONS

App icons in iOS 18 will likely remain locked to an invisible grid system on the Home Screen, but users will be able to create blank spaces, rows, and columns between them.

macrumors.com · 1 min

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BLOOMBERG SPENT OVER $10M TRAINING A GPT-3.5 CLASS AI ON ITS OWN FINANCIAL DATA LAST YEAR

GPT-4 8k beat Bloomberg's model on almost all finance tasks without specialized finance training.

threads.net · 1 min