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This reflection from Starknet's founder Eli Ben-Sasson highlights the difficulties of allocating tokens to real people who will contribute to Starknet's future. He emphasized the importance of creating a diverse, engaged community to secure and govern Starknet. The piece concludes by calling for research into better token distribution methods and “proof of personhood” solutions for future rounds.
Arbitrum's sequencer uses pipelining to build multiple blocks simultaneously.
Consensys has acquired Wallet Guard, a digital wallet security provider, to improve MetaMask's ability to protect users from theft, scams, and fraud.
Infrastructure has high valuations because of the potential for mass adoption, but money will ultimately flow to applications providing scalable value.
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake believes Bitcoin is insecure in the long term because of issuance and fee market dynamics.
Meta's new 3D Gen platform allows rapid text-to-3D asset creation, generating high-quality 3D models with advanced geometry and texture in under a minute. This system, which utilizes AssetGen and TextureGen, enhances content creation speed and quality. It has been deemed superior to prior state-of-the-art methods and is preferred by professional 3D artists. With significant control over mesh models and texture maps, 3D Gen supports iterative refinement, making it highly effective for real-world modeling and rendering applications.
Rumors suggest that the Apple Watch Series 10, set to release with a redesigned, thinner look and a new magnetic band system, might not debut until 2025. Recent leaks and reports indicate that the upcoming Apple Watch will resemble current models, with size increases but no radical design changes. This continuity in design disappoints those anticipating significant updates, yet it ensures compatibility with existing watch bands.
For content creators, Nvidia's Broadcast app offers AI-powered tools that elevate any room to studio quality. Features like virtual backgrounds, noise reduction, and auto framing enhance streaming and video conferencing. It is compatible with any RTX-powered device and provides studio-quality effects for popular apps like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.
Intercom updated its product designer job levels to provide clearer career progression, addressing issues like ambiguity in ratings and unclear senior levels. The new framework, based on principles of clarity, fairness, and alignment with company values, includes refined competencies and is shared under a Creative Commons license for others to adapt.
Elmwood created a visual identity for Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the U.S., featuring an O-shaped brandmark symbolizing its role in women's health. The design, with a rebellious color palette and approachable font, emphasizes inclusivity, playfulness, and empowerment, marking a critical advancement in reproductive health care.
With Figma's new AI features, there's a risk of losing focus on detailed design work. While these tools can quickly visualize concepts and gain stakeholder buy-in, they shouldn't replace the critical thinking and craftsmanship needed to solve user problems. Staying true to user-centered design principles ensures that products are visually appealing and highly functional.
The Simple Design System is a Figma UI kit with 400+ components, examples, and styles designed to jumpstart your projects. It supports web, mobile, and light/dark modes and includes commonly used icons.
Convert3D is a free, secure, offline tool for converting 3D models to various formats in seconds. It works on any platform and supports over 400 conversions, ensuring your files remain private.
A generative AI platform that helps businesses create video documentation like FAQs, SOPs, and training material 11x faster. It features AI-generated voiceovers, professional design tools, and smart sharing options, making producing high-quality, personalized video guides easy.
Jony Ive, former Apple design chief, shared seven songs that tell his life story on the "Life in Seven Songs" podcast. He also discussed his background, experiences at Apple, and Steve Jobs' impact. His song choices, which included "Now We Know" by Eric Clapton, reflect moving on to new chapters. The podcast is part of a new series recognized as a top new show by Apple.
Designers possess hidden superpowers, like investigative curiosity, that drive them to ask questions and seek more profound understanding. This instinct helps solve complex problems and reframes frustrations into opportunities.
An analysis of the cumbersome user onboarding in the Headspace app and how it could be improved with positive framing, endowment effect, and understanding of the customer's job.
Iceland's design scene is predominantly female, driven by strong gender equality and an experimental culture.
Mastering HTML and CSS can elevate your design skills, making your work more adaptable and user-friendly while enhancing developer communication.
The dominance of zero-click searches highlights the need for content that provides immediate value without requiring a click. With nearly 60% of searches ending without a click, it's important to optimize for featured snippets, knowledge panels, and other in-SERP content. Almost 30% of all clicks go to Google-owned properties, emphasizing the challenge of competing within Google's ecosystem. Despite this, the EU's Digital Markets Act appears to have had some impact, as clicks to the open web are slightly higher there compared to the US.
Human influencers earn an average of $78K+ per post compared to $1.7K for AI influencers - a 46X earnings gap. Human influencers dominate brand partnerships, with 37% generating income this way versus 8% for AI influencers. Engagement metrics also favor human influencers, who receive an average of 414.8K likes per post, 5.8X more than AI influencers. AI influencers are more likely to promote adult content, with 31% involved in such endorsements compared to 15% of human influencers. AI influencers still struggle to replicate the human touch that drives higher engagement and trust.
This article highlights Dovetail's journey to becoming a $1B insights hub and shares 15 actionable learnings. The company's mission is to improve product quality through customer research. Its platform consolidates and analyzes feedback, helping companies like Notion reduce workload by 90% and make better decisions. Its strategy includes leveraging user insights to build relevant features and maintaining a rapid cycle of prototyping and assessment to build solutions for key customer pain points. For example, Dovetail developed a transcription feature that clusters themes after hearing about how time-consuming it was, significantly aiding user researchers.
This post contains a breakdown of why Jung+'s homepage, “build your bundle” offering, content, and checkout process are so effective. The brand's core benefit is to rewrite the rules on aging. It positions its products as an essential tool for anyone serious about achieving longevity goals. It also offers enticing subscription incentives and uses real user testimonials and in-depth information about the science behind each product to enhance credibility.
A new app aimed at Gen Z has surged to the top of the App Store with its customizable, nostalgic social media experience.
Threads has cultivated positive user communities around interests like literature and sports. The absence of ads has given marketers and brands a window to build organic presence. Meta has been focused on growth over monetization, adding features like an API for automated content publishing and expanding integration with the decentralized fediverse.
Distinctive and memorable brand assets help a company stand out among an increasingly distracting world. Aim for 4-5 brand assets, which could include a color, shapes, storytelling, characters, taglines, font, or audio. Start by creating 1-2 assets first to build strong anchors before expanding to more. Avoid assets that are already connected to the competition or have strong non-brand meanings such as Coke's green can flop. Low-meaning assets, like Geico's gecko mascot, can be extremely memorable and effective. Anchor distinctive assets with the more memorable brand asset, such as your logo. Fight the urge to change your distinctive assets over time, which can harm your brand recognition as well as your bottom line.
The Empathy Gap explains why we often underestimate how much a buyer's emotional state can influence their behavior and decisions. People — including your customers — suck at predicting how they'll feel and act in the future. Avoid asking customers to predict what they'll want (or buy) in the future when doing customer research and instead find the answer in their past behavior patterns. Factor in “hot” emotional states, like hunger or frustration, in advertising while also framing your product as the solution. Leverage buyers' rational emotional state to sell subscriptions by framing the purchase as a way to prevent a future “hot” emotional state.
The fashion industry is at a pivotal moment, with luxury brands struggling, e-commerce floundering, and disruptors like Shein rising. Fast fashion's waste problem is being partly addressed by Shein's responsive manufacturing, though concerns remain about its transparency and labor conditions. Key areas to watch include AI integration in fashion, the growth of the Indian market, and the industry's efforts to address the climate crisis through waste reduction.
16 of McDonald's best, most recognizable ads.
Google will treat the URLs that you list in your sitemap.xml file as canonical pages if it doesn't have any strong signals to fall back on (redirects, canonical tags, etc.).
A brief history of the search engines that have come and gone since 1990.
This guide explores profiling techniques to pinpoint high CPU usage in Node.js applications. It covers using built-in profilers, Chrome DevTools, the Node Inspector API, and the perf tool. The guide also mentions continuous profiling for ongoing monitoring and explores memory leak detection.
A poor Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) score can often be caused by backend issues. While tools like Page Speed Insights and Google Lighthouse are helpful for frontend analysis, tracing user journeys and examining spans help uncover more issues. By doing so, developers can pinpoint problematic database queries or other backend operations that contribute to slow LCP scores.
Teams should focus on fewer tasks and allow for more downtime, which counterintuitively leads to faster feature delivery and increased value. When working on too many things at once, teams may actually deliver things slower because there are too many things that are in a work-in-progress state. Smaller, faster completions keep momentum going.
This author switched teams to AI/ML Training Infra due to the fast growth and opportunities in the AI space. They were also motivated by curiosity about the technical challenges in AI compute efficiency and the opportunity to work with talented engineers.
json.bash is a command-line tool and bash library that creates JSON.
fast-json-stringify is a library that converts JavaScript objects to JSON strings. It's faster than JSON.stringify, especially for small payloads.
A collection of Vue tools that help make development easier. This includes a type-check command line tool, TypeScript plugins, VSCode extensions, and more.
Property-based testing is a technique that originated from academic research. It has seen widespread adoption in various programming languages. However, most current libraries lack advanced features like stateful and parallel testing, which were established as state-of-the-art fifteen years ago. This lack of progress is due to the perception that pure function testing is more valuable, the need for specialized training for stateful modeling, and the success of closed-source solutions in industry adoption.
Choosing the right embedding model for search and RAG applications requires considering your specific needs and evaluating different models on your own data. The MTEB Leaderboard is a helpful starting point, but validation on your own use case is necessary for the best results.
Canva's experimentation analysis platform started with a data scientist-focused Python package and a command-line interface. It then transitioned to an interface that could be used by all employees and a separate microservice for analysis components. This allowed it to manage experiments much easier in-house.
Lots of people have pivoted into AI/ML development by doing courses on the side, transitioning within their company, and/or getting into data engineering.
One million particles rendered with the GPGPU technique using WebGL, with source code and explanations provided.
Palico AI is an LLM development framework for fast iteration.
Projects fail due to resource scarcity, multitasking, and siloed teams.
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Apple Fellow Phil Schiller has been selected for an observer role on the OpenAI board. He will be able to observe board meetings but will not have any voting power. This will allow Apple to gain insights into how decisions are made at OpenAI. The arrangement will take effect later this year - details of the situation could still change.