The Daily Index — Thursday, April 18, 2024 · TLDR Index

MISCELLANEOUS

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MANUFACTURING BLISS

The jhanas is a growing meditation trend that has made its way into some corners of tech. Its practitioners claim that it can induce extremely blissful mental states that rival life's peak experiences. Jhanas could open the path to new inroads to understanding and improving how our brains work. This article takes a look at what jhanas are, what the experience is like, how the tech community is embracing the concept, and more.

asteriskmag.com · 37 min

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TESLA ASKS SHAREHOLDERS TO APPROVE TEXAS MOVE AND RESTORE ELON MUSK'S $56B PAY

Tesla is asking shareholders to approve a move to Texas and to re-approve a $55.8 billion pay package for CEO Elon Musk that was recently voided by a Delaware judge. The vote will be held at Tesla's 2024 annual meeting on June 13. Renegotiating a replacement compensation plan that Musk would agree to would likely take substantial time and incur new accounting charges of billions of dollars. Musk has not been paid for any of his work over the last six years at Tesla, where he helped generate significant growth and stockholder value, with the company's stock up more than 630% since March 2018.

arstechnica.com · 5 min

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TIKTOK FACES WASHINGTON RECKONING AS DIVEST-OR-BAN VOTE NEARS

TikTok divestiture legislation already passed by the House will be included in a fast-moving aid package for Ukraine and Israel that the chamber is set to clear on Saturday.

finance.yahoo.com · 3 min

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IS ATTENTION ALL YOU NEED?

Several new architectures have recently emerged that are designed to outperform full attention Transformers in long-context learning/generation and inference speed/cost.

mackenziemorehead.com · 29 min

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FINTECH MERCURY, WHOSE B2B BUSINESS IS CAUGHT UP IN REGULATORY SCRUTINY, EXPANDS INTO CONSUMER BANKING

The expansion is a natural move for Mercury, who serves more than 100,000 businesses, many of which are startups and have expressed interest in a personal banking product.

techcrunch.com · 7 min

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COMPUTE THRESHOLDS ARE INEFFECTIVE

Compute thresholds are a poor tool for policymakers because compute is a cost for AI developers and thus they are heavily incentivized to lower it.

hyperdimensional.substack.com · 12 min

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STOP ACTING LIKE YOU'RE FAMOUS

Focus on what makes you enjoy your leisure activities and stop optimizing for a non-existent audience.

ajkprojects.com · 2 min