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SVG icons are usually made up of a bunch of path elements, each with a cryptic d attribute. Understanding the d attribute's inner workings allows developers to make better SVGs, even animations. This guide is an interactive deep dive into the d attribute. It covers different types of path commands and how to use them to draw various icons.
While pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI is a generational change in what we can do with software, there isn't much agreement on anything else about the technology. Every time humans invent a new wave of automation, whole classes of jobs go away, but new ones are created. Over time, the number of total jobs doesn't go down and everyone becomes more prosperous. Right now, we can see which jobs will be going away but we can't predict what the new jobs will be. This article looks at different paradigm-breaking technologies in the past and tries to imagine how AI will change work in the future.
Reddit's r/IAmA moderators have announced that they will no longer perform many of the tasks that made the subreddit special, including active solicitation of celebrities or high-profile individuals to do interviews. r/IAmA helped popularize the social media platform. The subreddit allows users to interview anyone. There have been appearances by several notable public figures in the past. Its mods say that they are fed up with Reddit due to its history of disregarding users and moderators.
The Shoggoth was first introduced in H.P. Lovecraft's novella 'At the Mountains of Madness' - it landed in the AI world in December, a month after ChatGPT's release.
Sources close to Apple and its manufacturer for the Vision Pro headset say that the company is preparing to make fewer than 400,000 units in 2024.
A constantly updated board that watches a list of over 1,000 high-growth companies for software engineering internships.
This article looks at relational joins - different definitions, ways of thinking about them, and interesting ways to implement them.
Google's recently updated privacy policy says that the company reserves the right to scrape everything anyone posts online to build its AI tools.
Twitter has announced new 'temporary' limits on how many posts people can read per day. Unverified accounts will now only be able to see 600 posts per day, with new unverified accounts limited to just 300 posts per day. Verified accounts will be able to read up to 6,000 posts per day. The platform has started blocking access for anyone who isn't logged in. Elon Musk blames data scrapers and system manipulation for the new limitations.
Humane, a company started by former Apple employees that aims to create an AI-first post-smartphone future, has announced that its first gadget will be called the Humane Ai Pin. There is not much information about how the gadget will work, what it will do, or what it looks like. Humane has a partnership with Qualcomm to power the Ai Pin with an advanced Snapdragon platform. A video showing the company's co-founder demonstrating a device that could be the Ai Pin at a TED conference earlier this year is available in the article.
Microsoft's Analog Interactive Machine (AIM) uses both binary and continuous variables to solve problems of optimization at a lightning-fast pace. The system uses optics and electronics to process continuous value data and perform vector-matrix multiplications. Its components have been miniaturized to fit centimeter-scale chips - the AIM is no bigger than a rack enclosure. Optical computers could open up new fields of research while also reducing resources spent on performing complex calculations.
A Japanese research team is set to begin clinical trials in July 2024 on a medication that might allow people to grow new teeth. If everything goes to plan, the team plans to have the medication ready for general use in 2030. The medicine is intended for people who lack a full set of adult teeth due to a congenital condition called anodontia. It works by blocking a certain protein's function. If the drug works in humans, it will be a game-changer for the entire field of dentistry.
GPT-Migrate makes it easy to migrate a codebase from one framework or language to another. It is still currently in development alpha and not yet ready for production use. A video demo showing GPT-Migrate being used to convert Python code to JavaScript is available.
This article discusses how to quantify engineering performance. It covers how to track tasks, ranking, what metrics to measure performance with, complexity, bugs, and much more. Many maladaptive symptoms in the corporate environment are caused by not having good methods for quantifying engineering performance. There are tremendous advantages to getting this right as it holds the key to solving many of the dysfunctions that hold back engineering teams.
Thousands of Reddit communities locked down last month to protest platform changes that would force a variety of third-party apps and services to shut down. Most communities have now opened back up as the site told subreddit mods that it would replace them if their communities remained closed. Reddit has now exempted accessibility-focused apps from the new API pricing and it promises to make accessibility improvements to its moderation tools over the next couple of months. While Reddit has gotten things mostly back to normal, many parts of its community are still pushing the protest message.
This is a guide on how to do great work for anyone in any field. The factors in doing great work are ability, interest, effort, and luck. Finding work where ability and interest combine can lead to an explosion of new ideas. The only way to find the work you are most suited for is by trying. Many people are held back by modesty and fear. There are worse problems to have than experiencing failure.
Google's reputation for killing and abandoning products started with Google Reader, a feed-reading tool beloved by its users.
This article lists several ways in which decentralized systems could become effectively centralized.
AI should be an uncredited and formless modifier of other technologies that gives familiar behaviors magical effects.
Apple's stock has skyrocketed nearly 48% this year - it reached a $3 trillion market cap back in January 2022 but failed to close at that level.
The trend towards non-permissible licenses in open source AI seems clear - most startups in the LLM industry are likely building on top of non-commercially licensed technology.
AI engineers take AI advancements and shape them into real products used by millions, virtually overnight.
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YouTube is running a small global experiment that prompts users with ad blockers to allow ads or try YouTube Premium. Some users have reported that video playback is being cut off after viewing more than three videos when an ad blocker is active. YouTube says that users will receive multiple warnings before playback is disrupted. Users can dispute their bans if they feel that they have been falsely flagged as using an ad blocker.
Reddit has given its moderators deadlines to lay out plans for reopening. Subreddits will not be allowed to remain closed. The company claims that moderators are violating the Moderator Code of Conduct, which says that they need to be active and engaged. Many subreddits have switched from private to restricted, so while content can still be viewed by the community, only certain users are allowed to post or comment.
Virgin Galactic completed its first commercial spaceflight on Thursday. Galactic 01 took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico with a pair of pilots, four passengers, and 13 research payloads. The company plans to fly its spacecraft once a month after a second mission in August. It currently has a backlog of about 800 passengers, many who bought tickets for between $200,000 to $250,000 over a decade ago. Ticket sales reopened two years ago, with prices starting at $450,000 per seat.
A prototype reactor in Everett, WA is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion. Zap Energy's Fuze-Q prototype, which is an office-desk-sized device, is designed to reliably produce enough power for 30,000 homes all day and night, year-round. The system has no cryogenics, no superconducting coils, no auxiliary heating, and no magnets. Zap believes that gargantuan systems are unnecessary, undesirable, and impractical for fusion power. The company is betting that it will be easier to produce practical amounts of power by stringing together short pulses of fusion activity rather than trying to create a continuous fusion reaction.
GitLab's AI-assisted Code Suggestions helps teams create software faster and more efficiently. Developers can use the tool to complete entire lines of code, generate tests, and more with a single keystroke. The tool keeps source code secure - it is not used as training data. GitLab's AI-powered Code Suggestions supports 13 languages, including C/C++, Go, Java, Python, and Rust.
TypeID is a modern and type-safe global unique identifier. It is type-safe, K-sortable, and compatible with UUIDs. TypeID's encoding is URL safe, case-insensitive, clear, easily selectable, and compact.
Fern is an open source tool to automatically generate idiomatic client libraries and Stripe-like API documentation. Find out why companies like Scale AI and Flatfile already use Fern to develop their APIs and generate their SDKs, click here to learn more
Twitter's new CEO Linda Yaccarino is preparing a series of measures to bring advertisers back. The plans include introducing a video ads service, attracting more celebrities, and increasing headcount. Twitter's new ad format, which focuses on video, is still in a beta stage. Yaccarino, known as the 'velvet hammer' in the ad industry due to her tenacity in dealmaking, plans to make commerce easier on Twitter and will seek to mend relations with partners.
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z, has authored three seminal essays: 'Why Software is Eating the World', 'It's Time to Build', and 'Why AI Will Save the World'. This article contains a transcript from an extensive interview with Andreessen about these essays, with a particular focus on the most recent one about AI. There was also some discussion of a16z-related topics. A link to the audio is available.
Palmer Luckey is mostly positive about the Vision Pro, but thinks that he would have done a few things differently.
chatgpt.js is a client-side library that makes it easy to interact with the ChatGPT DOM.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch bet philosopher David Chalmers that humans would discover how the brain's neurons produce consciousness by 2023 - and lost.
The economic landscape doesn't look very good right now - venture capital is drying up and many startups don't have the cash to continue for much longer.
SAE International has announced support for Tesla's North American Charging Standard port, making it easier for electric vehicle charging station manufacturers and operators to implement the port.
Boba AI is an experimental AI co-pilot designed to augment the early stages of strategy ideation and concept generation.
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OpenAI's plans to market a personalized assistant for work would put it in competition with Microsoft. Microsoft owns an estimated 49% of OpenAI. It is likely that the issue of OpenAI releasing a work assistant was discussed prior to Microsoft's $10 billion investment into OpenAI in January. There is no doubt that OpenAI was planning to enter the enterprise market as it is quite lucrative.
An internal Microsoft presentation, revealed as part of the ongoing FTC v. Microsoft hearing, discusses a full Windows operating system streamed from the cloud to any device. Windows 365, a service that streams Windows to devices, has so far been limited to commercial customers. Microsoft has been working on bringing the service to Windows 11. Moving Windows to the cloud would enable improved AI-powered services and allow people to roam freely with their devices.
SpaceX's plans for upgrading its Starship megarocket include changing how the rocket's two stages separate, propulsion system improvements, and a beefed-up launch pad. Elon Musk estimates that there is a 60 percent chance that the next Starship test flight will make it to orbit. It may be some time before SpaceX obtains clearance for its next test flight. This article details the changes that SpaceX will make to Starship.
Scientists from Rice University have engineered drug-delivering microparticles that release their contents in timed delays that can span days or even weeks. The injections contain hundreds of tiny microplastic particles that each encapsulate a small dose of a drug. The microplastic particles are made of a polymer that breaks down safely in human bodies. Timing and dosage can be controlled by adjusting the molecular weight of the polymer used for each capsule. A long-active delivery strategy like this will help many people with chronic issues who are unable to follow their prescribed treatments.
Large language models are powerful general problem solvers. There are now several proof-of-concept demos of LLM-powered agents that can solve problems by themselves. This article looks at how LLM-powered autonomous agent systems work. It covers their general structures, how they complete tasks, different types of memory, and more. Several case studies of real autonomous agents are presented and discussed in the article.
macOS has a huge arsenal of standard Unix tools. It also has several macOS-specific command-line utilities. This article presents a list of advanced macOS command-line tools and shows readers how to use them.
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Many people append 'Reddit' to their search queries when trying to find helpful resources on specific topics. The tactic lost its effectiveness during the Reddit protest earlier this month as many pages were suddenly inaccessible or unhelpful. Google unveiled a new feature called Perspectives on Monday that will at least partially resolve the issue. Perspectives surfaces discussion forums and videos from social media platforms. The Perspectives tab is available now on mobile web and the Google app in the US.
Altos Labs, one of the best-financed startups in history, is on a mission to increase healthspan. It aims to find medicines to treat many diseases at once by targeting aging. This article takes readers on a tour of Altos' UK hub. While some argue that the quest for longevity benefits all humanity, there is no evidence that the benefits will trickle down to the non-billionaires.
A curated set of key AI forecasts - it is predicted that humans will achieve Artificial General Intelligence by May 11, 2032.
The limit may prove to be too restrictive for games and some commercial and industrial uses.