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Daily Edition · Page 2

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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SHOPIFY/LIQUID: PERFORMANCE: 53% FASTER PARSE+RENDER, 61% FEWER ALLOCATIONS

Shopify's Liquid is an open-source Ruby template engine somewhat inspired by Django. Its developer found dozens of new performance micro-optimizations using a variant of Andrej Karpathy's Autoresearch, a system that runs hundreds of semi-autonomous experiments to find new effective training techniques. Implementing the optimizations resulted in a 53% improvement on benchmarks, an impressive improvement for a code base that's been tweaked with hundreds of contributors over 20 years. The experiment shows how effective the Autoresearch pattern can be.

simonwillison.net · 2 min

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THE SHAPE OF THE THING

The market instability in February was a preview of what it feels like when the increasing ability of AI starts to interact with markets, jobs, and governments all at once. While feelings of uncertainty will likely spread further, uncertainty is not the same as helplessness. The choices that individuals and organizations make now matter because there is still time to influence the direction the technology develops. Every organization trying to figure out a good way to use AI right now is setting a precedent for everyone else.

oneusefulthing.org · 5 min

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THIS MIGHT BE THE LAST JOB YOU HAVE

A huge amount of modern work is already hollow. People sit in meetings that don't matter, produce things that won't last, and perform a version of productivity that everyone silently pretends is real. Most mass layoffs aren't really due to some AI revolution, but because those jobs were already obsolete. AI is bringing in an era where the constraints of work that told us what to do, who to be, and how to spend our days are dissolving. It will take us some time to learn how to deal with this freedom.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 7 min

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