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Tommy Walker, founder of Content Studio, created a 7-minute-long survey to capture how content marketers feel about their work, careers, and how they manage their projects.
A POV on what a CMO's resume in 2030 will look like, with social media being the backbone.
Write better ad copy by creating scarcity, leaving letters out, and asking questions.
CrowdStrike caused a global outage by pushing a faulty configuration update to its Falcon product, resulting in the crash of 8.5 million Windows machines. The update aimed to enhance threat detection but contained a logic error that caused the CSAgent.sys process to crash the operating system. The recovery process was slow and manual, requiring physical access to each impacted machine. While CrowdStrike is primarily responsible, Microsoft's inability to restrict third-party software from running at kernel level due to a 2009 agreement with the European Commission also worsened the situation.
Canva's product analytics pipeline collects 25 billion events per day with high uptime, using Protobuf to define event schemas and Datumgen to generate code and enforce compatibility rules. The event collection process starts with analytics clients on various platforms, then events are validated and enriched in ingest-workers before being sent to a Kinesis Data Stream (KDS). KDS serves as the primary streaming platform, with SQS as a fallback for overflow protection and failover mode.
Ruby methods are "colorless," meaning there's no distinction between synchronous and asynchronous methods, allowing for asynchronous behavior without explicit markers. Ruby achieves this through independent call stacks, enabled by Threads and Fibers, which allow for switching between tasks without blocking the main thread. This concurrency model, similar to Go's, allows for efficient handling of blocking operations like file reading, HTTP calls, and database queries.
A good software engineer should automate repetitive tasks, which is not incentivized in most large tech companies. These companies tend to favor predictability and hire technicians who do well-understood work instead of engineers who tackle unpredictable challenges. This focus on predictability leads to over-hiring and reduced productivity.
This author loves Rust, but finds some of the syntax cumbersome, especially for library and application code. The orphan rule and the flexibility of the module system can make organizing code difficult. Compile times and IDE tooling are also slow, particularly for large projects.
Perplexity is useful thanks to its ability to choose between different AI models and a Pro Search function that asks clarifying questions. It can be integrated into daily workflows for tasks like morning briefings, fact-checking, brainstorming, and writing assistance.
GLHF Chat allows you to chat with any open-source large language model. You can use the chat UI or an OpenAI-compatible API.
Poku is a JavaScript test runner that aims to bring back the simplicity of JavaScript testing. It has high performance, a low memory footprint, and the ability to run tests across different platforms like Node.js, Bun, and Deno.
Notebooks that live on the cloud. They support SQL and Python. An AI assistant is included.
Mark Zuckerberg believes open source AI is the best way to develop AI technology for several reasons: it allows developers to customize models to their needs, avoids vendor lock-in, protects sensitive data, and is more cost-effective. Zuckerberg also believes that open source AI is safer and more secure because it allows for wider scrutiny and transparency.
Good UIs and knowledge transfer should have a smooth curve of incremental effort leading to incremental value. People learning should understand why the information is useful and apply it quickly in order to truly retain and understand it. Explaining things in context, rather than upfront, is the most effective.
This author asks for recommendations on fast data structures for disjoint intervals and a commenter suggests using a custom btree that understands ranges instead of singular keys.
Types can be used as interfaces in Haskell, but since they're not composable, devs can use typeclasses.
Cookies are small text files stored in your browser used for session management, personalization, and tracking, while tokens are self-contained JSON objects used for secure data exchange between applications and services.
A date-time SQLite extension based on the jiff library that will support timezones, complex durations, and daylight savings calculations.
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Authorization (AuthZ) often takes the backseat to authentication (AuthN), but it is just as important when scaling your B2B SaaS apps for enterprises.
xAI has activated a supercomputer cluster comprised of 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in Memphis, Tennessee. It is effectively the most powerful AI training cluster in the market today. The supercomputer is expected to be used to train Grok, the company's large language model. xAI is estimated to have spent about $3 billion to $4 billion on the project. xAI also recently announced that it is hiring to increase its human talent advantage.
While hundreds of millions of customers own Alexa-enabled devices, Amazon's bet that people would spend meaningful amounts of money to buy goods on its platform by talking to the voice assistant hasn't paid off. Customers mostly use Alexa to set alarms and check the weather. Amazon has lost tens of billions of dollars on its devices business. The company will launch a paid tier for Alexa as soon as this month as part of the plan to reverse these losses.
Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have successfully demonstrated a meltdown-proof nuclear fission reactor. The twin reactor design can generate 105 MW of power each. It can cool itself down without an external power source, reaching stable temperatures around 35 hours after shutdown. Construction of the facility started in 2016, with commercial operations beginning only in December last year. One drawback of the technology is that it can't be retrofitted onto existing nuclear reactors.
Powering spaceships using compact reactors could cut down Mars transit times by more than half. The technology also has military applications, with DARPA requesting a nuclear rocket demonstrator in June 2020. The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project aims to create space-based assets that can move quickly within space to deter strategic attacks by adversaries. This article discusses the DRACO project and the technologies that make it possible.
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Maestro is a general-purpose workflow orchestrator that can schedule millions of jobs every day and operate with a strict SLO even when there are spikes in traffic. It is highly scalable and extensible and provides a fully managed workflow-as-a-service. Maestro serves thousands of data platform users at Netflix for various use cases.
Jiff is a datetime library for Rust. It provides high level datetime primitives with reasonable performance that are difficult to misuse. Jiff supports automatic and seamless integration with the Time Zone Database, DST aware arithmetic and rounding, formatting and parsing zone aware datetimes losslessly, opt-in Serde support, and more. Its minimum supported rustc version is 1.70.0.
US regulators have approved spot exchange-traded funds that hold Ethereum. Bitcoin ETFs, which were approved in January, have attracted tens of billions of dollars of investment. Some analysts predict that inflows into ETH ETFs won't be nearly as high as for BTC ETFs. Ethereum doesn't have the first-mover advantage that Bitcoin had and it lacks a strong narrative.
There are many reasons technical cofounders will reject a startup. This article discusses some of these factors, such as unrealistic expectations from founders, putting too much value on an idea, or a lack of understanding of the market. Building a compelling case for a technical cofounder to want to join a founder involves providing proof that the idea or product will work and that the founder is able to bring the idea to life. Founders need to prove that they will be successful and that the train is departing.
Elon Musk says that Tesla will have genuinely useful robots in low production for internal use next year.
Software updates in the future will be effectively run in a sandbox that rejects unsafe code.
Google is introducing additional privacy controls into Chrome such as IP Protection in Incognito mode.
SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) defines a flexible set of rules for exchanging security-related messages in XML.
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TinkerBird is a Chrome-native vector database with a query engine written in TypeScript designed for efficient storage and retrieval of embeddings.
Cohere, a Canadian AI startup focused on large language models, has reached a $5.5B valuation following a $500M Series D funding round. The new funds aim to enhance its enterprise-grade AI tech for global business efficiency. Key investors include PSP Investments, Cisco, Fujitsu, AMD Ventures, and EDC.
Figma briefly rolled back its 'Make Designs' AI feature from its limited beta after realizing it generated UI designs that too closely resembled existing apps. The feature uses off-the-shelf AI models like GPT-4 and Amazon's Titan and it needs refinement to ensure originality. Figma aims to re-enable the feature with improved QA processes to better assist designers in leveraging AI for efficient design creation.
ElevenLabs has introduced a new model, Turbo 2.5, that unlocks high-quality low-latency conversational AI for nearly 80% of the world - Hindi, French, Spanish, Mandarin, and 27 other languages. For the first time, it supports Vietnamese, Hungarian, and Norwegian text-to-speech. English is now 25% faster compared to Turbo v2.
A new benchmark to assist in determining a model's agent-like abilities.
Bucketed Ranking-based Losses improve the efficiency of ranking-based loss functions in object detection.
SurvReLU is a deep survival model that uses rectified linear unit (ReLU) networks, bridging the gap between "black-box" neural networks and "white-box" tree-based models.
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Orch is a library for building language model powered applications and agents in the Rust programming language.
PlacidDreamer is a framework for text-to-3D generation that resolves issues with previous methods by unifying generation directions and addressing over-saturation.
Researchers developed the head Translation, Rotation, and face Geometry network (TRG) to improve head pose estimation, particularly focusing on head translations.
As large language models become more capable, evaluating them accurately remains challenging due to their diverse tasks. While human evaluation is the gold standard, it's costly and slow. Using LLMs themselves as evaluators offers a scalable, cost-effective alternative, despite potential biases such as positional and verbosity bias, which can be mitigated through techniques like randomizing output positions and using multiple evidence calibrations.
AI applications are evolving into three common archetypes: AI Copilots that assist with tasks, AI Colleagues that autonomously manage specific tasks alongside human workers, and AI-Native Services which offer end-to-end services that integrate AI with human input. GitHub Copilot and Devin exemplify AI Copilots and Colleagues, aiding in coding and engineering, respectively. AI-Native Services, such as Pilot for bookkeeping, compete with traditional service firms by offering automated solutions in areas like law and accounting.
California state Senator Scott Wiener's Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models bill requires companies training 'frontier models' that cost more than $100 million to do safety testing and be able to shut off their models in the event of a safety incident. The bill has received heavy criticism from the tech industry. It will affect everyone who does business in California, not just companies that develop their models in California. This article contains an interview with Wiener about the bill and its critics.
Shadow is a botless AI meeting assistant for automated productivity, from note-taking to action item completions.
Structured generation in language models is quickly being tackled by the open source community.