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This article looks at the habits of successful engineers and explains how these habits make those engineers more successful. Examples include sticking to a consistent standard and style of coding to make code easier to read and understand, deep domain knowledge in at least one field, and good self-marketing. The article delves deep into coding habits and how to write good code.
The health of the creator economy is judged by the likelihood of someone being able to earn a minimum viable living through being creative. There has never been a better time for creators to be creators. While it may be harder than ever for a creative to earn millions every year, it's easier than ever to make $50,000. Technology has driven the costs of tools down and platforms make it easy to monetize content. It may still not be easy, but there has never been a better time to try.
Nvidia's top spot in the AI world is far from secure. It is currently winning as almost nobody is running large machine learning apps, the competition hasn't matured, researchers have the purchasing power, and because of the focus on training models. In the near future, inference with CPUs will dominate over training with GPUs, engineers will have more purchasing power, and the focus will be on application costs. The winners of this shift will likely be traditional CPU platforms like x86 and Arm.
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This repository contains a curated list of resources related to Bun, an incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler, and package manager all in one.
The McDermitt Caldera could contain around 20 to 40 million metric tons of lithium.
It would be better to improve code integrity/provenance/auditability for end-to-end encrypted web applications rather than trying to isolate plain text from application code.
Vale is a cross-platform and highly customizable command-line tool that brings code-like linting to prose.
A look at the relationship between two people who have both held the title of 'Richest Person in the World'.
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We’ve all tried every project management tool under the sun… And we’ve all given up on most of them at one point or another.
In collaboration with Microsoft, thousands of open-domain books have been transcribed with state-of-the-art text-to-speech. They're available on most streaming platforms. Information about the process is included in the link.
Meta has been snapping up AI training chips and building out data centers in order to create a more powerful new chatbot it hopes will be as sophisticated as OpenAI’s GPT-4.
Language model inference is generally slow because these models are heavily memory-bound. So people have introduced speculative decoding using a smaller draft model to “run ahead” and offer suggestions to the large model. This works well, but it’s complicated to implement, and finding a good draft model is tough. Instead, you can create a Medusa model that acts as its own draft by splitting off activations from various internal stages. This speeds up Llama 2x without compromising performance.
The authors of this study have created a way to test how well vision-language models can also think logically about what they see.
This project introduces NuPrompt, a new set of instructions in everyday language that helps self-driving cars understand and track objects around them better. It works really well!
RestGPT aims to construct a large language model-based autonomous agent to control real-world applications, such as movie databases and music players.
PointLLM is a tool that helps language models understand 3D objects, not just text and 2D images.
The debate surrounding large language models concerns whether they possess human-like reasoning abilities or rely on memorization and pattern-matching, with studies showing mixed results. Evaluating LLMs for true abstract reasoning is challenging due to their tendency to excel in tasks related to their training data, necessitating further research for clarification.
This article shares seven practical patterns for integrating large language models into systems: measuring performance, adding recent knowledge, fine-tuning for tasks, caching to save time/cost, ensuring quality output, managing errors, and harnessing user feedback.
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from writers alleging illegal use of their copyrighted works to train ChatGPT. They argue that ChatGPT's capabilities to summarize and analyze their content indicate direct training on their works, constituting copyright infringement. This follows similar suits from other authors against OpenAI.
OpenAI has confirmed that AI writing detectors are ineffective.
The estate of the defunct crypto exchange FTX is looking to sell $3.4 billion in assets, pending approval from the Delaware Bankruptcy Court. Galaxy Digital, led by Mike Novogratz, is managing the sale. FTX's holdings include significant amounts of Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins. The potential sell pressure these liquidations could put on the market has been weighing heavily on the charts over the past week.
Coinbase halted new user registrations for its exchange product in India in June, but the company recently reaffirmed its long-term commitment to the nation. The announcement follows an incident where Coinbase had emailed some users who didn't meet their updated standards about ceasing operations, causing confusion about Coinbase’s plans for operating in the country. Coinbase currently has a strong technology hub in India and continues to provide its Coinbase Wallet service there. Despite struggling to gain regulatory approval, it is actively seeking ways to grow its presence in India.
Sushi, a popular EVM-based DeFi exchange, is expanding to the Aptos blockchain, a first for the project in terms of integrating a non-EVM-compatible blockchain. The launch on Aptos will include Sushi’s v2 of its AMM. This partnership is a pivotal advancement for Sushi's roadmap, signaling bigger cross-chain, non-EVM ambitions.
PayPal has expanded its crypto service offerings to include off-ramps, giving customers the ability to convert their crypto into fiat. This update aims to facilitate web3 platforms in expanding their user base by using PayPal's reliable and quick payment process. The feature is live on MetaMask and offers services like fraud management, chargebacks, and dispute resolutions, subject to applicable state laws.
This post discusses the lessons learned from the first month or so of FriendTech, particularly the advantages of getting involved early, and the difficulties of valuing an airdrop. The author remains cautious regarding their outlook for FriendTech, as its airdrop might devalue future earnings for farmers and fatigued buyers might reduce demand.
Visa outlines in this deep dive why it believes that the Solana blockchain network has the potential to become a mainstream payment medium. Solana’s fast transaction speeds, scalability, and low transaction costs make it suitable for effective blockchain settlement using stablecoins like USDC. Its unique features, such as parallel transaction processing and predictable transaction costs, are also highlighted as benefits. Solana also offers transaction finality, a vast number of nodes for availability, and multiple validator clients for resilience, positioning it well to meet modern payment demands.
This post from Coinbase preempts today’s oversight hearing and highlights how the G20 group of countries have agreed to create a standard set of regulations for cryptocurrency amid global movement towards the regulated use of digital currency. This comes as the US Congress prepares to pass relevant legislation, while the SEC persists with an enforcement-only approach to regulation. In contrast to global trends, this approach threatens to cost the US millions of jobs and an opportunity to lead the digital asset market.
Crypto firm Polygon Labs has suggested treating crypto staking similarly to oil and gas taxation in a letter to U.S. senators. It recommends that staking rewards should be taxed only when tokens are sold to prevent over taxation. Its argument draws on the legal tradition of not taxing dominion and control over items without previous ownership. Polygon Labs believes taxing staking rewards upon disposition would be the easiest administrative option.
BananaGunBot’s contract had a bug in which its 4% sell tax wasn't deducted correctly due to a transfer function error. Instead of the sell tax going to the project’s treasury, it would actually just get returned back to the seller.
A Bitcoin wallet paid a $499,171 fee for a $1,865 transfer, 270x the transaction value. This was likely a software bug in an enterprise's withdraw-only hot wallet.
FTX’s collapse erased many investors' savings. However, professionals like lawyers and consultants have earned over $700 million in fees from these bankruptcies, sparking outrage.
While Coinbase made its own comments preempting today’s oversight testimony, SEC Chair Gary Gensler reiterated his critical stance towards crypto.
Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman, the co-founders and owners of the Nielsen Norman Group, chose Kara Pernice as the person to lead NN/g into the future after 25 years of running it themselves.
Charlie Wen is Epic's new Chief Creative Officer. He'll be responsible for driving the creative direction of Fortnite. Wen was the visual development supervisor for Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers.
Glassmorphism is a design style known for its glass-like effects, featuring translucent/transparent elements on colorful backgrounds. It adds a touch of minimalism and modernity, popularized by tech giants like Microsoft and Apple, to web and app interfaces.
Fontjoy, an AI-powered tool for pairing fonts comes up with compatible font pairs based on their visual parameters. ChatGPT can make more meaningful font pairing recommendations. The AI’s capabilities for pairing fonts are at the level of a junior designer. To improve, it would need to be trained on knowledge and experience of senior designers, instead of all related content on the internet.
Research shows that, on average, users read about 20% of the words on a web page. Long text can intimidate users, making them likely to click away or skip the content entirely. Some useful advice for shortening content: distance yourself from your work, remove unnecessary words, remove unnecessary determiners and modifiers, use adjectives instead of nouns, and avoid passive verbs.
Basics of color theory, concepts like the color wheel, harmony, properties, and its role in design systems. Steps for creating a comprehensive color palette for design systems and Figma plugin for creating color variations.
Putting together products that feel real is a considerable advantage for product designers. This website lists more than 350 no-code tools organized into 23 categories.
Underneath the deceptively simple chatbot interfaces we’ve all been talking to is a huge mathematical model of human language. These language models can be deceptive or plain wrong, yet still treated like geniuses by most people. Transparency on how these models work and increasing the predictability of their results are key to improving the interactions with these models.
It's unlikely that a company will build a user-centric product if its roadmap isn't built with that in mind. Ongoing user research, feedback, and design iteration must be implemented as processes that feed your product roadmap.
Although design tools have been getting closer to how developers implement user interfaces, there's still a gap between what's designed and what's implemented. Surprisingly, it might be that developers should be the ones working more on closing the gap.
Proportio is a tool for creating proportional scales for typography, iconography, spacing, and components in design systems.
A beautiful effect of a glowing blurred background can be easily made with CSS’ clip-path: polygon() and filter: blur() functions. The animation is highly performant because it’s done with pure CSS.
A collection of effective email designs organized into many categories and use cases.
YPulse interviewed over 42,000 13-22 year olds within North America to rank the top 50 most authentic brands in 2023. Gen Zs define authentic brands as being “true to themselves” and staying honest and transparent about their business practices, messaging, and products. This post explains why Nike is #1 on the list, how Dove caters to young people via TikTok and video games, and how Coca-Cola built its cult following.
The search antitrust trial against Google focuses on the company’s popular search engine, alleging Google used its 90% market share to illegally throttle competition in both search and search advertising. If the DOJ wins, it could mean lower costs for advertisers or other changes. If Google wins, additional tech regulation may be harder to achieve.
Converting a higher percentage of users is a surefire way to increase marketing campaign ROI. Tactics to improve conversion rate include minimizing required fields, displaying social proof, and optimizing web vitals.
This article highlights and rates 10 free Chrome extensions and apps for content creators to increase productivity. It provides key features for each tool. For example, Loom - screen recording, Scraper - web data extraction, and Evernote Web Clipper - content organization.