The Daily Index — Friday, February 14, 2025 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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HOW I AUTOMATED MY COMPUTER ROUTINE WITH MACOS FOLDER ACTIONS

It's possible to use macOS folder actions to automate various tasks, including converting MOV to MP4 and images to WEBP, downloading videos from YouTube, and more. This article explains how to set these automations up. macOS folder actions turn folders into an interface for any CLI app, making the desktop even more useful than ever.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 5 min

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ARM IS LAUNCHING ITS OWN CHIP THIS YEAR WITH META AS A CUSTOMER

Arm has signed Meta as a customer and will start making chips this year. The first in-house Arm chip will be unveiled as early as this summer. The semiconductor company usually licenses its chip blueprints, so making its own chips is a notable change in strategy. This will turn some of Arm's existing customers into competitors.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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MY MODEL OF WHAT IS GOING ON WITH LLMS

People seem to be confused about what can be concluded about scaling large language models. At this point, it is not plausible to precisely predict how far we are from unlocking all of the remaining functions that large language models are capable of. We don't even know all of the component functions of human intelligence - every time we solve something previously out of reach, it turns out that human-level generality is even further out of reach. The invention of human-level artificial general intelligence will disrupt history, but that point is still pretty far off.

lesswrong.com · 14 min

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AI IS STIFLING TECH ADOPTION

The integration of AI has stifled the adoption of new and potentially superior technologies due to training data cutoffs and system prompt influence.

vale.rocks · 6 min

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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AND CORPORATE INFLUENCE

The large-scale engagement of corporations in open source needs to be treated seriously because it has and will continue to have negative consequences even if every individual involved is participating in good faith.

alilleybrinker.com · 34 min

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META CTO SAYS STAFF SHOULD QUIT IF THEY DON'T LIKE META'S NEW POLICIES

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said employees were free to quit if they think that it's okay to leak to the media because of policy disagreements.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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MYSTERIOUS NEW VISION PRO RETAIL APP APPEARS IN THE APP STORE

Apple may soon allow third-party retailers to sell its Vision Pro headset.

theverge.com · 2 min

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AI OR DIE

It may be possible to have 'a country of geniuses' within a data center by as early as 2026 - companies will need to be prepared for this future.

rkg.blog · 7 min

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HOW I BUILT AN AI COMPANY TO SAVE MY OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

This post tells the story of how a doomed open-source project was turned into a fast-growing AI company.

timefold.ai · 23 min