The Daily Index — Friday, April 19, 2024 · TLDR Index

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CHEMISTS INVENT DRUGS AND DRUGS SAVE LIVES

Drug development is an integrated team effort with crucial players from both the biology and chemistry disciplines. However, the design, synthesis, purification, and characterization of new drugs lies squarely within the domain of chemistry. Physicians administer drugs, but they don't usually invent them. The public needs to be more aware of chemists' involvement with the drug development process so that they can better help resolve the myriad of problems confronting humankind.

bit.ly · 23 min

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WHY YOU NEED A "WTF NOTEBOOK"

A 'WTF Notebook' can be a powerful tool for self-management and making changes in a team.

links.tldr.tech · 10 min

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DELTA TAKES FLIGHT: APPLE-APPROVED NINTENDO EMULATOR IS A GREAT IOS OPTION

A review of Delta, a Nintendo console emulator on iOS - get a real controller for the best experience.

links.tldr.tech · 8 min

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INSIDE AMAZON'S SECRET OPERATION TO GATHER INTEL ON RIVALS

Big River Services International, an operation that sells around $1 million a year of goods through e-commerce marketplaces, is an arm of Amazon that surreptitiously gathers intelligence on the tech giant's competitors, using its sales across multiple countries to obtain pricing data, logistics information and other details about rival e-commerce marketplaces, logistics operations, and payments services.

bit.ly · 18 min

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AMAZON CLOUD UNIT KILLS SNOWMOBILE DATA TRANSFER TRUCK EIGHT YEARS AFTER DRIVING 18-WHEELER ONSTAGE

The webpage devoted to AWS' Snow family of products now directs users to the company's other data transport services.

links.tldr.tech · 5 min

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STABILITY AI LAYS OFF ROUGHLY 10 PERCENT OF ITS WORKFORCE

Stability AI has laid off 20 employees a day after announcing the expansion of access to its new flagship model.

links.tldr.tech · 2 min

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MARK ZUCKERBERG - LLAMA 3, OPEN SOURCING $10B MODELS, & CAESAR AUGUSTUS

This is a transcript of an interview with Mark Zuckerberg that covers Llama 3, open sourcing towards AGI, custom silicon, synthetic data, energy constraints on scaling, Caesar Augustus, intelligence explosion, bioweapons, $10b models, and much more.

links.tldr.tech · 74 min