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“Tech jargon” and “thought leaders” are recent phenomenons in engineering circles. This article debunks the credibility of these thought leaders and people who use excessive tech jargon. Instead, use your critical thinking muscles to challenge both of them. It’s an especially important skill as AI generated content becomes more prevalent. The article also gives some tips on how you can improve your critical thinking skills through small daily behavior changes.
Scrum and Kanban are both ways to establish processes in a team to get things done. However, the author argues that Kanban is better than Scrum because it’s faster and more efficient.
Ever have trouble remembering shell commands and flags for this or that? Ever wish you could just say what you want the shell to do? GitHub is building Copilot for CLI, which gives natural language assistance right in the terminal.
TinyBase is a reactive data store for local-first apps. It has many features, like support for both KV stores and tabular data, a powerful query engine, flexible UI reactivity to data updates, data sync between remote and local storage, and more. When compressed, TinyBase is less than 10kB and has zero dependencies.
RedisRaft is a Redis module that implements the Raft Consensus Algorithm, making it possible to create strongly-consistent clusters of Redis servers.
Contrary to the hype of AI agents and generative AI, this article argues that AI’s best use case is to serve as an interface between humans and machines. AI models are good at imitating stochastic systems, making them useful in language and art generation, but they struggle to follow rules and constraints because of their stochastic nature. Additionally, there isn’t a real way to deal with “bugs” in AI. AI may not truly understand us, but it can deliver our intentions to an API with reasonable accuracy and describe the results in a way we understand.
This article takes a look at the world of solar geoengineering. Solar geoengineering refers to various attempts to change the Earth's climate by reflecting its sunlight. This can be done through the use of balloons, clouds, sunshades, or by releasing gasses or small particles into the atmosphere from an aircraft. There is widespread opposition to studies and debates on the topic, given the potentially irreversible impact to the planet. Despite this, a few companies have already launched independent efforts.
Frappe is a full-stack web application framework designed for low code web development in Python and Javascript. It comes with integrated libraries and extensive modules. Frappe's single page application includes built-in forms, lists, searches, and navigation, with user roles and permissions applied out of the box on all interactions.
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The article argues that obsession is a positive force that drives people towards their goals and brings fulfillment. It suggests that working long hours on something you love is not unhealthy or unbalanced, but a choice that can lead to greater happiness and success.
As valuations drop, investors are increasingly looking to offload their shares, sometimes at a discount as deep as 80%.
A collaboration of researchers through the Wallenberg Wood Science Center have created the world's first wooden transistor. It is three centimeters across and switches at less than one hertz. The transistor works by electrochemically modulating conductivity within conducting channels inside the wood's pores with the help of a penetrating electrolyte. It could be used for specialized applications, including biodegradable computing and implanting into living plant material.
EVA is an AI-relational database system for building simpler and faster AI-powered applications. It can operate on both structured and unstructured data using deep learning models. EVA accelerates AI pipelines by 10-100x. It comes with a wide range of models for analyzing unstructured data.
A new study has figured out how fast and loud people should talk on Zoom. People rated as 'good conversationalists' were those who talked faster, louder, and more intensely. Good talkers varied their decibel levels more than the bad talkers did. Those rated as good conversationalists appeared to engage more. Data from the study is still being analyzed.