The Daily Index — Monday, July 15, 2024 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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CAN CHATGPT DO DATA SCIENCE?

The challenges of using ChatGPT are worse for data science tasks. Data scientists often work with very large data sets that have quality issues on tasks that may require domain expertise. Using ChatGPT will mean that data scientists also have to understand the context, data, code, and assumptions in ChatGPT's responses. Data scientists are still undecided whether tasks in the field are suitable for ChatGPT or not.

austinhenley.com · 5 min

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OPENAI REVENUE

Sam Altman projected $3.4 billion in annual recurring revenue for OpenAI in June. This report takes a look at publicly available data to calculate whether this projection is accurate. Most of OpenAI's revenue comes from ChatGPT Plus subscribers, with around 21% coming from ChatGPT Enterprise and 15% from the API. The full report is available in the article.

futuresearch.ai · 6 min

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HERE'S HOW MUCH VALVE PAYS ITS STAFF — AND HOW FEW PEOPLE IT EMPLOYS

Valve employed just 336 staff in 2021. Its small number of staff across the board seems to explain why the company's product list is so limited despite its immense business. Its profitability per employee is higher than that of Google, Amazon, or Microsoft. A table containing employee pay data from Valve sorted by year and category is available in the article.

theverge.com · 4 min

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AT&T SAYS HACKER STOLE CELL, TEXT DATA ON NEARLY ALL ITS WIRELESS CUSTOMERS

The records included details about how different phone numbers interacted with each other but no contents of the calls or messages.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

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THE SIX DUMBEST IDEAS IN COMPUTER SECURITY

These ideas are usually misguided attempts to do the impossible by well-meaning people or companies who just don't fully understand the situation.

ranum.com · 25 min

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ELON MUSK'S X TO SUBLEASE S.F. HEADQUARTERS, TECH COMPANY'S FUTURE IN CITY UNCLEAR

The Mid-Market area has been struggling with rising vacancies, quality-of-life issues, and dropping real estate values since the pandemic.

sfchronicle.com · 6 min

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DEAR AWS, PLEASE LET ME BE A CLOUD ENGINEER AGAIN

AWS' obsession with Generative AI is causing it to neglect everything that made it the leading cloud provider in almost every metric.

lucvandonkersgoed.com · 5 min

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USE A WORK JOURNAL TO RECOVER FOCUS FASTER AND CLARIFY YOUR THOUGHTS

Using a work journal can help maintain focus while switching contexts all day long.

fev.al · 7 min

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X IS BUILDING A ‘DISLIKE' BUTTON FOR DOWNVOTING REPLIES

X is only considering allowing downvotes on replies to help showcase better replies while moving less-liked replies further down the thread.

techcrunch.com · 3 min