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Use custom instructions in ChatGPT to avoid low quality outputs. This 21-line instruction to the AI tool helps produce high quality results, especially when creating content. Interesting excerpts from the prompt include “if you speculate or predict something, inform me” and “maintain neutrality in sensitive topics.”
Good content marketing provides consumers with engaging and thoughtful stories that they’ll gladly give their attention and business to. This article highlights 19 best practices, for example, developing in-depth knowledge about your audience, carefully picking the platforms to use, and giving readers a reason to share your content.
This case study outlines how a digital design tool brand improved its market position through a robust link-building strategy. Its actions included strategic partnerships that produced links, reverse engineering competitor backlinks, and directing links to high-value pages. The campaign earned over 630 high-quality links and put the site in a dominant position for high-growth keywords.
Canva surveyed over 4000 global marketing and creative leaders to understand how generative AI is transforming their roles. This article contains several stats from the survey that show how marketers are addressing AI tool overload, managing AI risks with privacy, and fueling creativity with AI.
Google's experts address key AI marketing questions, emphasizing the importance of human-AI collaboration, data optimization, privacy, copyright adherence, and insights utilization.
Google's search generative experience could have a significant impact on search traffic across various verticals, particularly for affiliate sites relying solely on keyword-rich content.
A guide on Instagram's Auto Reply tool, covering pros and cons, examples, and step-by-step instructions on how to set it up.
Many popular npm packages depend on 6-8x more packages than they need to. Most of these are unnecessary polyfills and it's one of the key reasons node_modules folders are so large. The ESLint ecosystem seems to be the most affected by this. This article dives into just how many unneeded polyfills are in people’s npm packages and how they take up so much space.
Databases execute expressions in different ways. Most databases use a tree-walking interpreter when receiving an expression, while some others use stack- or register-based virtual machines. For example, Postgres uses a virtual machine. This article explains expression execution methods, such as just-in-time compilers and vectorized interpretations.
Engineers should know how to evaluate a product roadmap because, after all, they aren’t there just to write code. They need to solve problems for the user, which means being able to understand how the product is going to evolve over time. This article presents a list of questions to evaluate a roadmap and provides advice on making one more clear.
This piece argues that XML is better than YAML because YAML is too error-prone. The YAML specification has many features that go unused and only make it harder to use properly. There are at least some cases where XML is good to use, such as document outlines.
SeaGOAT is a local search tool that leverages vector embeddings to enable you to search your codebase semantically. It is written in Python.
FlowerJS is a JavaScript framework for flower shapes and motion animations. It provides three types of flowers and easy-to-code motion properties. FlowerJS also provides easy actions to change the number of petals or flower color.
Loops is email for modern SaaS. With Loops, you can track events and contact properties. That information can be used to improve user experience.
Google released a new stable update for Chrome early last week. The update included a single security fix that was reported by Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) team. The issue, CVE-2023-4863, involved a heap buffer overflow in the WebP image library. The Google team acknowledged that an exploit for it still exists. This post attempts to explain what is known about the unusual circumstances of this bug. It provides a new technical analysis and proof-of-concept trigger for CVE-2023-4863.
The particle accelerator at CERN spews out around a petabyte of data daily. Monitoring the computing infrastructure that processes the data is crucial. CERN implemented an open source wide column time series database as backend storage for its monitoring database, Prometheus. After a while, it used the same database for its frontend database too.
A recent Google Search update that changed guidelines to permit AI-generated content is causing anger across the web. Some site owners say they are being pushed down in results with huge drops in traffic.
This is a snake game in assembly made for DOS. It is only 69 bytes in size.
A new feature in PostgreSQL 16 is the ability to group digits in numeric literals by separating them with underscores.
Cisco has acquired Splunk, a monitoring and analysis SaaS.
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DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s latest text-to-image generator, will be available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers in early October. OpenAI has yet to release any technical details about the model. DALL-E 3 refines small details like hands more effectively and can create engaging images without hacks or prompt engineering. Examples of images generated with DALL-E 3 along with their prompts are available in the article.
Amazon unveiled an all-new Alexa voice assistant powered by a large language model during its fall hardware event on Wednesday. The new Alexa can understand conversational phrases and respond appropriately, interpret context more effectively, and complete multiple requests from one command. It could take home automation to the next level. Amazon will roll out the new assistant slowly to customers in the US through a preview program in the coming months.
Researchers have successfully extracted and decoded RNA from a thylacine. The sample was taken from a roughly 130-year-old museum specimen. The research could help scientists in bringing the species back from extinction. It also helped transform the way scientists view museum and archive specimens.
Varda Space Industries’ satellite has been in orbit for two months longer than originally planned as it waits for government approval to return to Earth with its cache of pharmaceutical specimens. The satellite launched on June 12 without a reentry license. Its purpose was to demonstrate Varda’s technology for producing commercial materials inside a recoverable capsule designed to return the products to Earth. The FAA denied Varda’s reentry license as the company did not demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements. A request for reconsideration is pending.
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ElectricSQL is a local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps. It enables developers to build reactive, real-time, and local-first apps directly on Postgres. ElectricSQL makes apps feel instant as app code talks directly to a local database. It supports multi-user collaboration and conflict-free offline.
Svelte 5's runes unlock universal, fine-grained reactivity in JavaScript. They use function syntax to achieve the same things and more as let, =, the export keyword, and the $: label. Svelte 5 is not yet in production, but developers can test its new features through an interactive playground on its preview site.
Apple and Goldman Sachs were working on an investing feature that would let customers buy and sell stocks in 2020. The project was canceled as the markets went south last year. It was meant to roll out in 2022 and allow iPhone users to put money into Apple shares. The infrastructure for the feature is mostly built and ready to go, should Apple eventually decide to move forward with it.
This article explores what large language model-powered software might look like in the medium-term future. LLMs are going to significantly shift how we interact with computers. The current state of the technology seems rudimentary and it's increasingly clear that generative AI can't quite replace the other UX innovations that have been introduced over the last several decades. LLM UXes will likely evolve to have a memory of past interactions in order to provide more relevant responses.
Tesla received over 250,000 reservations for the Cybertruck within a week of its unveiling and continued getting hundreds more reservations every week since.
Idempotency refers to the property of an operation or function that produces the same result when applied multiple times as it does when applied only once.
The Signal Protocol added a layer of encryption using a post-quantum cryptography algorithm that the National Institute of Standards and Technology selected as a potential replacement for quantum-vulnerable forms of encryption last year.
Facebook’s new logo features a darker blue and a few other subtle tweaks.
This article covers how to overcome the two most common challenges when working with designers and product managers and how to build a working relationship that makes you one of their favorite engineers to work with.
XML is better than YAML as there are situations where XML is appropriate but there aren’t any situations where YAML is appropriate.
DALL·E 3 understands significantly more nuance and detail than previous systems, allowing users to easily translate your ideas into exceptionally accurate images. It will soon be integrated natively into ChatGPT.
GitHub is expanding the availability of its AI-powered coding chatbot, Copilot Chat. Previously in public beta for business users, Copilot Chat is now available to individual users in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is showcasing advancements in research that can teach a robot a new skill overnight. TRI utilizes traditional robot learning techniques and diffusion models similar to generative AI models. Its system has been trained on 60 skills, focusing on versatility in different environments, aiming to make robots that can operate effectively in diverse settings and adapt to new tasks.
This study introduces RenderIH, a massive collection of ultra-realistic images showing hands in various positions that tackles issues with older datasets that were too simple. It also presents TransHand, a new tool that reads these hand positions very accurately.
This study looks at how LLMs, which are revolutionizing many tech areas, can make sequential recommendations (like suggesting what song or movie comes next) even better.
This research focuses on making large language models, which are already great at understanding and generating text, even better at answering medical questions.
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DFormer is a unique way to study both color and depth in images. Unlike older methods, DFormer is designed especially for RGB-D images.
OpenPipe is a tool for model distillation based on few shot described behavior via prompting.
Language models regularly hallucinate details to factual queries. By retrieving the facts, we can reduce these inaccuracies. However, the naive form of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) of embedding a query and searching against a vector store often performs poorly. This post discusses how to dramatically improve performance with query objects and information retrieval techniques.
Generative AI’s first act of developing foundational models and novelty apps is coming to an end. In its place comes Act Two, where generative AI solves human problems end-to-end.
Google's Bard chatbot now offers a "double-check" feature, which evaluates its responses by checking the web for corroborating or contradictory information when prompted by users. This addition aims to enhance accuracy and accountability but may still require users to verify search results and interpretations themselves.
Truly great innovation comes in pairs. Technology innovation and business model innovation work together to deliver outlier results. AI is the next technology innovation, but have we found its counterpart on the business model side yet?
Google has developed Optimization by PROmpting (OPRO), a technique to improve the math skills of LLMs using human-style encouragement, such as “let’s think step by step”.