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This guide covers how to use Gemini to create images, write, and conduct research and analysis, along with its integrations within Google’s ecosystem. The guide contains templated prompts for writing social media posts, localizing content, and creating charts and simple designs.
A collaborative guide on product marketing tools categorized by marketing research, messaging, storytelling, launch planning, and analytics. Qualtrics, Hotjar, and Typeform are popular tools for conducting surveys and analyzing data. Hemingway Editor, Loomly, and CoSchedule Headline Analyzer help optimize headlines for SEO and readability. Animoto, StoryChief, and Spark help create and distribute content across channels.
This article reflects on the impact of Google and Yahoo's mass mailer updates. Outbound email is becoming increasingly challenging. Google's changes affect only @gmail domains, but the frenzy around these updates highlighted the issue of excessive outbound email volume. To face the issue of email volume, companies must reassess their email strategies, focus on reducing quantity, and prepare for more restrictions in the future.
The “Willy Wonka experience” that took place in Scotland last month garnered attention for promising a grand experience. However, in reality, it was a disastrous letdown for many — an empty warehouse with minimal offerings. This disparity between marketing portrayal and reality sparked widespread discussion about the implications of using generative AI in advertising. It raised concerns about misleading consumers with unrealistic depictions. Legal experts stress that existing regulations against misleading advertising extend to AI-generated content.
This post includes a one-pager of GPTs categorized by SEO, social media, analysis, email, design, and more.
A LinkedIn cheat sheet that covers the best posts for growth, the best tools to aid in content creation, and profile optimization tips.
Freemium and free trials are both common product-led growth models, but reverse trials are actually the most effective at balancing acquisition and monetization.
Legend State is a React state management library optimized for offline-first persistence. Expo is a React Native mobile app development framework. Offline-first applications have challenges like conflict resolution to deal with. This tutorial walks readers through how to deal with offline sync, offline conflicts, real-time collaboration, and other common offline-first challenges.
The Performance API is a set of standards for measuring and evaluating performance metrics with JavaScript. This article demonstrates how to use the Performance API to generate performance metrics directly in the DOM to create your own reporting. Chromium-based browsers have the best support for all Core Web Vitals (CWV) properties. Firefox offers partial support.
LinkedIn's user profile views created a massive read workload that pushed the limits of its existing document database, Espresso. To solve this, its team introduced Couchbase, a distributed NoSQL database, as a caching layer to reduce the read load on Espresso. They designed the caching layer to be independent of Espresso to avoid cascading failures if Couchbase experienced issues. The entire profile dataset is cached in every data center for quick access.
Various commenters write about how to learn about performance optimization better. It’s important to start with fundamentals, such as the sources of performance issues and how CPU cycles are wasted. Further techniques can be studied depending on the tech stack and use case. Concepts like parallelization, data structure optimization, and latency versus throughput are mentioned.
Big tech companies often release products with issues like unintuitive UIs, outdated code, unfixed bugs, and poor developer experience. This focus on quantity over quality stems from a prioritization of short-term stock gains driven by flashy new features, rather than investments in long-term product improvement. This strategy involves intentionally degrading product quality after establishing user dependence.
Software engineers should propose solutions, not just problems, and focus on team goals over just personal goals. Collaboration trumps code perfection. Software engineers should build relationships for influence, as building trust makes it easier to get buy-in and support for one’s ideas.
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Waku is a minimal React framework designed for small to medium-sized React projects.
Hancho is a build system written in Python designed for small to medium-sized projects.
Continue, an open-source code copilot, now provides support for tab autocomplete in VS Code based on local models, which means that there are no server costs or online server calls.
Google's recent AI debacle with its Gemini image and text generation tool has sparked an internal crisis, with plummeting morale and calls for CEO Sundar Pichai's resignation. While the public focuses on potential bias in the tool, the root cause lies in organizational chaos: unclear ownership of Gemini's development and a lack of accountability within Google teams. This dysfunction led to hasty decision-making and insufficient coordination, resulting in the tool's problematic outputs.
Apple planned to disable Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in iOS for European users, citing EU regulations as a cause. However, these changes sparked criticism and threats of investigation by the European Commission. Apple has now reversed course, restoring PWA functionality, but states that PWAs will still need to be built on WebKit to comply with Apple's security and privacy standards.
Observable Framework is a new open-source tool for building interactive data apps and dashboards. Framework projects are built from Markdown files with embedded JavaScript, enabling the usage of standard text editors and version control. Everything is still reactive, ensuring updates flow seamlessly throughout your document.
The Google SRE Book is a comprehensive guide on how Google manages reliability for its production environments.
Microsoft has released a cybersecurity course for developers unfamiliar with the space.
Hacker News commenters post ways for developers to test their SQL skills.
The Deno Audio Duration package races two asynchronous file searches to find audio file duration.
Humanoid robots could be working alongside human manufacturing workers in only a few short years. Figure, a prominent company in the humanoid robot space, recently raised $675 million and struck a new agreement with OpenAI to develop next-generation AI models for its robots. The funding, which was reportedly over $150 million more than the amount Figure had initially sought, will help scale up the company's AI training, robotic manufacturing, and add on new engineers, speeding up the company's timeline for making its product available commercially. OpenAI's technology will help improve Figure's robots' semantic understanding, making them more useful in work scenarios.
Astro Mechanica's new jet engine is efficient at every speed. It uses electric motors to drive a compressor, allowing it to spin at any speed. The jet engine could be used in the first stage of an orbital vehicle to get payloads to orbit dramatically cheaper than other all-rocket systems. A video of a demonstration from last year is available in the thread - Astro Mechanica is already working on a new engine with 10x the thrust.
Sanctuary AI's Phoenix humanoid robot has robot hands that work totally autonomously at near-human speeds. The robot's hands are hydraulically actuated - while hydraulics technology is expensive to develop, it enables the robotic hands to gain a combination of precision, speed, and strength. Sanctuary AI trained Phoenix by using teleoperation to show it how to do things and then letting it figure out more in simulations. A video showing Phoenix manipulating objects is available in the article.
Nushell is a non-POSIX shell for working with structured data. It features redefined common shell commands that output structured data. Nushell's commands and pipes allow users to transform data from within the shell. It is able to replace many database query tools.
VersionFox is an extendable cross-platform tool for managing SDK versions. It allows users to quickly install and switch between different versions of SDKs using the command line. VersionFox supports Global, Project, and Session scopes when switching versions. It has a simple plugin system for adding language support.
An extra day in the year can have interesting consequences. This Hacker News thread discusses bugs that users observed on February 29. Bugs were seen in card payment systems, parcel delivery websites, and daily post bots. China's app for scheduling marriage certificates apparently has a leap-year bug that prevents people born on February 29 from making appointments as it marks them as too young to marry legally.
The fediverse will likely become as decentralized as email: a bit, but not that much. Personal instances will be pretty rare. This article explains why the fediverse won't be distributed and examines ideas for a distributed social system. It may be possible to get more decentralized than the fediverse using a simple extension on RSS, which can already incorporate a lot of popular content. Compared to the fediverse, RSS has a lower barrier to entry and cleaner separation of concerns and responsibilities.
AI/ML will eventually be able to do some useful things, maybe even a lot of useful things, but it likely won't generate the kind of profit explosions required to justify the current bubble.
The Overflow API will be previewed at Google's upcoming Cloud Next conference in April and made available within the first half of 2024.
Implementing AWS Sigv4 as a middleware allows developers to emulate AWS APIs and AWS-compatible services.
While RocketLab's executives are optimistic about the self-imposed deadline, federal officials think the company will not be ready in time.
This post shows readers how to get a legacy C++ codebase to an acceptable state in terms of security, developer experience, correctness, and performance with the least amount of effort.
Large context sizes for AI models will significantly change how people work with them.
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Figure, a robotics company, has raised $675M from several large investors, including OpenAI, to continue building humanoid robotics.
Modular created a toolkit, MAX, to dramatically simplify and speed up AI deployments. It is now available.
Google DeepMind's Genie is a foundation world model trained on Internet videos that can generate an endless variety of playable (action-controllable) worlds from synthetic images, photographs, and even sketches.
UniVS is a unified architecture for video segmentation that tackles the challenges of various segmentation tasks with a novel prompt-based approach. By leveraging prompt features as queries and introducing a target-wise prompt cross-attention layer, UniVS eliminates the need for heuristic inter-frame matching, seamlessly adapting to different video segmentation scenarios.
The Coarse-to-Fine Latent Diffusion (CFLD) method introduces a new approach to Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis that overcomes the limitations of existing models by avoiding overfitting through a deep semantic understanding of images.
Post-training quantization can make large language models like OPT and LLaMA2 more memory- and compute-efficient.
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Create synthetic data from your existing unstructured data to train models without exposing your sensitive data to LLMs. With Tonic Textual [12], you can automatically identify, redact, and synthesize named entities and sensitive data [12] so that you can leverage the
This project introduces a new approach to 3D mapping and localization that uses a lightweight neural network to process both point and line features, significantly enhancing pose accuracy with less memory and computational demand.
Bonito is an open-source model designed to convert unannotated text into tailored training datasets, enhancing the adaptability of large language models to specialized tasks without requiring pre-existing annotations.