Superconductivity research is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance fueled in part by the new capabilities of computer simulations to predict the existence and properties of undiscovered materials. Scientists have unearthed several families of materials over the past few years that could have revolutionary properties. This article covers some of the history behind superconductivity research and the current state of the field.
2023.11.20·nature.com·9 min read·TLDR Victor Mono is a monospaced font with optional semi-connected cursive italics and program symbol ligatures. It features a slender, crisp, and narrow typeface with a large x-height and clear punctuation. Victor Mono comes in seven weights and Roman, Italic, and Oblique styles. Examples are available on the site.
2023.11.20·rubjo.github.io·Tool·TLDR Empathy and communication are less obvious skills that are helpful for working as a software engineer. One of the ways software engineers communicate is through writing. This article takes a look at all of the writing that a software engineer working at the Cloud Gateway team at Netflix does in a single week. In a week, the engineer wrote zero emails, a few dozen lines of code, a handful of Jira tickets, a couple of investigation and debugging docs, a few technical docs, and hundreds of Slack messages. An ergonomic keyboard is a very worthwhile investment.
2023.11.20·alexanderell.is·7 min read·TLDR OpenAI's board has undergone numerous changes over the years, especially recently. These changes weren't big news, so they didn't spark the concerns that they maybe should have. This blog post goes through the Internet Archive and OpenAI's non-profit filings to try to make sense of OpenAI's governance. It attempts to chronicle the composition of OpenAI's board, point out conflicts, and show what led to Sam Altman being fired. It should be noted that the people involved in this act of corporate governance are roughly the same people trying to position themselves to govern policy on artificial intelligence.
2023.11.20·loeber.substack.com·7 min read·TLDR The path to achieving artificial general intelligence remains a topic of debate among scientists. A team of scientists from Google DeepMind has proposed a new framework for classifying the capabilities and behavior of AGI systems and their precursors. It is critical for the AI research community to explicitly reflect on what it means when discussing AGI. This article explores the framework, which includes criteria for measuring artificial intelligence, a matrix that measures performance and generality, and another matrix for measuring autonomy and risk.
2023.11.20·venturebeat.com·6 min read·TLDR Companies using noncompete agreements to trap workers in their jobs prompted New York legislators to pass a bill last June that bans noncompete agreements.
A look at what a post-Artificial General Intelligence or post-Artificial Super Intelligence world actually means.
2023.11.20·twitter.com·5 min read·TLDR This article takes a look at Apple's approach to iPhone security.
2023.11.20·independent.co.uk·8 min read·TLDR This page contains a collection of web components for readers to learn from.
2023.11.20·zachleat.com·5 min read·TLDR Workers with unlimited PTO arrangements feel safer taking less time off compared to employees in jobs with fixed vacation days.
2023.11.20·news.ycombinator.com·TLDR The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operation has filed a US Securities and Exchange Commission complaint against one of its victims for not complying with the four-day rule to disclose a cyberattack.
2023.11.20·bleepingcomputer.com·3 min read·TLDR Sponsored
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2023.11.20·na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI CEO Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI by the board, who stated that Altman’s departure followed a deliberative review process by the board and the board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI. Greg Brockman quickly quit along with many other senior researchers.
2023.11.20·openai.com·2 min read·TLDR AI After a weekend of negotiations to bring back Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO following his shock firing, the company’s nonprofit board has gone another way entirely and named former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as interim CEO. Microsoft is hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman.
2023.11.20·theverge.com·3 min read·TLDR AI Meta has reportedly disbanded its Responsible AI team, reallocating most members to its generative AI product team and others to AI infrastructure.
2023.11.20·theverge.com·1 min read·TLDR AI This project introduces a memory-based framework. This method overcomes the limitations of previous approaches by storing source instance features in a memory module, enabling better alignment with target instances.
2023.11.20·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI TopoMLP is a system designed to understand road scenes and determine drivable paths for self-driving cars by detecting and analyzing road centerlines and traffic elements.
2023.11.20·arxiv.org·18 min read·TLDR AI This paper explores different data optimization schemes that allow for knowledge transfer between models with minimal additional compute.
2023.11.20·arxiv.org·22 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
AI technology leader Clarifai turns ten and launches the first full stack generative AI platform, putting the power to build enterprise generative AI into developers' hands. Check out the engineering innovations [16] that paved the way and how Clarifai consolidates many complex layers so you can build AI faster. Start today [17].
2023.11.20·clarifai.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI StyleTTS 2 is a text-to-speech model designed to achieve human-level speech synthesis by combining style diffusion and adversarial training with large speech language models.
2023.11.20·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Neural-Cherche is a library designed to fine-tune neural search models such as Splade, ColBERT, and SparseEmbed on a specific dataset.
2023.11.20·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI This repo has resources that you may need as a data engineer.
2023.11.20·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI From governance matters to public safety, leadership changes at OpenAI prompt a lot of questions. This blog post breaks down some of the core elements we should be thinking about.
2023.11.20·exponentialview.co·10 min read·TLDR AI Former Atlassian CTO and current managing director of Coatue Ventures Sri Viswanath delivered a deep look at the state of artificial intelligence. It’s a 117-page document, but this blog nicely summarizes the highlights.
2023.11.20·newcomer.co·3 min read·TLDR AI Sri Viswanath and the team at Coatue studied how AI is beginning to impact the tech ecosystem, the modern tech stack, and our broader economy. This paper highlights four key considerations: AI has the potential to break through the hype and meaningfully improve our world, open source is the heartbeat of AI, builders and investors need to understand the new AI-centric tech stack, and the best of AI is yet to come.
2023.11.20·coatue.com·3 min read·TLDR AI Minimalistic interpretation of a GPT-like transformer using only Numpy.
2023.11.20·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Discord is shutting down Clyde, its experimental AI chatbot.
2023.11.20·theverge.com·1 min read·TLDR AI OpenAI is pausing ChatGPT Plus sign-ups due to a surge in demand.
2023.11.20·qz.com·1 min read·TLDR AI Fidelity has filed its own application for a spot Ethereum ETF. The move, which the firm says aims to offer safeguards to US investors dealing in the crypto space, comes in the wake of a court ruling criticizing the SEC's inconsistency regarding crypto ETFs. The SEC has so far permitted futures-based products but has rejected spot crypto ETFs.
Jump Trading has amicably parted ways with its crypto project, Wormhole. Several key figures from the project will operate Wormhole independently. This move is in line with Jump Trading's continuing withdrawal from the digital asset space. The exact reason for the separation or the number of employees who left due to it is not yet known.
ZKP2P, the first trustless fiat-to-crypto onramp powered by zero-knowledge proofs, has been launched in alpha. The platform will offer swift, affordable, and permissionless conversions from USD to USDC, with a limit of $250 every six hours. Built on a decentralized front end, it allows any smart contract to take liquidity. Users can opt-in for its proving service but it's not required. Future plans include expanding to more payment services and gasless onboarding.
Fhenix’s newly released whitepaper details a more scalable solution for executing confidential smart contracts known as Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Rollups. This system, which enhances the efficiency of confidential smart contracts, doesn't require all nodes in a network to execute FHE computations to reach a consensus over the encrypted state, unlike current methods. Fhenix's design adopts an optimistic rollup approach, avoiding the computational penalty caused by current verifiable FHE techniques. This development could enable the most commonly used smart contract ecosystems to be augmented with confidential smart contracts.
The anticipation of a Bitcoin ETF has been driving the mini-bull market over the past few months. An ETF could bring billions into the crypto ecosystem, akin to Gold ETFs which made gold access and storage easy for US customers. The market has been highly sensitive to questions around the timing and likelihood of these approvals going through. This guide breaks down the different relevant dates for each of the current Spot Bitcoin ETF applications under review at the moment.
NFT trading volume has spiked in recent weeks, with most of the activity happening on Blur, likely in anticipation of its upcoming season of airdrops. Research firm Revelo Intel provides an update on Blur and a thesis for its token in this thread. Blur's approach, focusing on professional NFT traders' needs, has led to improved overall NFT market efficiency and liquidity. The next step for Blur in improving token utility might be governance voting with discussions about using platform profits for token buybacks and burns.
Parallel Colony is pioneering a shift in gaming with a gaming experiment powered by AI on-chain. Based on Stanford and Google research, the game uses AI-powered avatars that evolve in a simulated colony using Parallel's native token, PRIME. Notably, these avatars, being NFTs, can function as wallets, accumulating and managing their own game assets. The avatars, created by customizing a large language model, have dynamic life histories affected by AI and human interactions.
The Solana ecosystem has shown real resilience through a brutal bear market, with the price of its token, SOL, 6xing from the lows so far. This comeback has been driven by a surge in developer and institutional interest, despite previous setbacks from a close association with FTX. Key indicators show Solana's resilience, including a significant rise in TVL and an increase in users. However, occasional network outages and potential security issues could be potential roadblocks in its path to challenge Ethereum as the main L1 ecosystem.
2023.11.20·cryptopragmatist.com·10 min read·TLDR Crypto This tool can help you check and see if any of your wallets are eligible for the upcoming Pyth and Jupiter airdrops on Solana.
This article provides a good summary of Rachel O'Dwyer's book, Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform, which explores the evolution of money, examining the shift from physical cash to digital tokens and the social and economic implications of this transformation.
This post explains how dollar alternatives like USDT and USDC cater to different demographics and markets. USDT tends to dominate in areas with capital controls, while USDC aligns more with institutional needs.
Sam Altman's departure as OpenAI CEO led to a 13% drop in Worldcoin's token value due to uncertainty about his future role at Worldcoin.
tldraw’s new feature, Make it Real, allows users to paint an image of software that AI then brings to life. OpenAI's GPT-4V API interprets the vector drawing into Tailwind CSS and JavaScript web code to produce a user interface. A live demo of Make It Real is available online. However, it requires OpenAI API keys, which poses a security risk.
Google Maps received a slightly altered color scheme as a limited test in August. It has been rolled out to a much wider audience this week, prompting complaints on Reddit and X. There is now a noticeable difference in the blue color for bodies of water. Compared to before, roads are now gray rather than white and forests are a darker green.
The world of design is evolving at a breakneck pace. Figma's latest report gives us a front-row seat to these changes. Designers must embrace collaborative product design, understand the business side of design, adapt to flexible and hybrid work styles, evolve with design tools, and prioritize effective group meetings to thrive in this new age.
Thomas Watson Jr. and Augustus successfully rebranded their respective domains, IBM and the Roman Empire. Watson Jr. transformed IBM into a modern, innovative technology leader, emphasizing design and customer-centric innovation. Augustus skillfully reshaped his image and Rome's, creating a stable autocracy under the guise of respecting the Republic.
You have done beautiful work if you followed your intent and exceeded your ability. You have experienced someone else's beautiful work if it makes you pause and marvel at what we humans are capable of.
Techniques like summaries, bullet points, callouts, bolding, and helpful visuals improve comprehension and engagement with content exceeding 1,000 words. These techniques help provide a helpful overview, create content chunks, disclose information progressively, and offer access to specific sections.
This site allows you to create a drawing, dynamically smooth it out, alter the result, and export the created SVG file.
This collection features hand-picked and daily web design inspiration organized into several categories.
Draw a UI with tldraw and turn it into a real functioning app.