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THE TOP 100 MOST VALUABLE BRANDS IN 2024

This visual chart showcases the most valuable global brands split by vertical in 2024. The brands' value was calculated by the degree to which they generated profits for the company.

THE 17 BEST FREE ONLINE SURVEY TOOLS FOR 2024

This article rounds up 17 free survey tools and gives an overview of their features. It also compares the number of forms, questions, and answers supported.

12 LINKEDIN SUMMARY EXAMPLES & HOW TO SHINE IN YOURS

LinkedIn summaries appear in the "About” section of your profile. It’s a space to define your career, ambitions, the value you aim to provide, and a little bit about your personality.

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META REVEALS THEIR SERVERLESS PLATFORM PROCESSES TRILLIONS OF FUNCTION CALLS A DAY

Meta’s internal serverless platform called XFaaS processes trillions of function calls a day thanks to unique software optimizations. This article describes how XFaaS works and the optimizations Meta has performed to make its platform efficient, such as utilizing just-in-time compilation. XFaaS solves common problems that serverless platforms face, like lengthy cold start times, high load variance, and overloading downstream services, with creative solutions. The platform offers lessons for public Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) providers, like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions. It is useful for software engineers working with cloud providers to understand how to make serverless functions more efficient.

NEXT.JS APP ROUTER MIGRATION: THE GOOD, BAD, AND UGLY

The Next.js App Router allows for better flexibility of layouts, loading states, and initial data loading on the server. However, it has drawbacks such as the need to add client-side fetching for live UI updates, server-side errors being easily hidden, the inability to implement route exit animations, and issues with routing type safety. The Next.js App Router may not be fully production-ready yet as it still has memory leaks and lower dev server performance.

HOW TO DESIGN RESILIENT AND LARGE SCALE DATA SYSTEMS

Building a data system is incredibly complex, as each team, product, and company has vastly different needs and requirements. Architecting an efficient data system calls for considering three things: latency, correctness, and scalability. This article thoroughly examines these pillars of data systems while also exploring push vs pull architectures, the CAP theorem, and choosing the right data store.

HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE: PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AT BIG TECH

The primary reason for performance management in Big Tech is to address employees' concerns about fairness and equity in compensation. Many companies, including Google, have shifted to a peer-based evaluation system to improve transparency and fairness. However, this approach often leads to overly positive and vague feedback, making it challenging to differentiate between employees. Ultimately, managers still play a significant role in making decisions about promotions and layoffs, leading to perceptions of favoritism or opaque committee decisions.

HOW DO I NEGOTIATE SALARY WHEN I GET A JOB OFFER?

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FALCO

Falco is a Django toolkit made to improve the development experience. It offers a CLI with commands for initiating new projects, generating CRUD views for speedy prototyping, and much more. It also provides a collection of guides that aim to solve common issues with web development in Django.

OPEN SAAS

Open SaaS is a SaaS template that features Wasp, a React, NodeJS, and Prisma framework. It comes with Stripe for payments, OpenAI API integrations, Plausible for Google Analytics, various providers for email sending, TailwindCSS for styling, and more.

ONE OF THE INTERNET’S BIGGEST SOFTWARE ARCHIVES IS SHUTTING DOWN

New Mexico State University (NMSU) has announced that it will be closing its Hobbes OS/2 Archive on April 15. Hobbes, one of the oldest software archives on the internet, contains thousands of OS/2 games, applications, utilities, and software dating back to the launch of OS/2 in 1987.

THE OPENAI PRODUCT ECOSYSTEM - MODELS, INTEGRATIONS, AND OPPORTUNITIES

OpenAI has been improving GPT-4 and introducing new development-focused models, such as embeddings and moderation models. OpenAI has also launched various products for consumers, including the GPT store where users can discover custom instances of ChatGPT, and ChatGPT for Teams for small and medium businesses. OpenAI still faces challenges in 2024 - it needs to improve the accuracy of its GenAI models and ensure the alignment and diversity of AI applications in its ecosystem.

ALPHABET BANKED $3.0 BILLION BY STRETCHING SERVERS LIFESPAN

Alphabet stretched the life of its servers and networking kits to six years before replacing them.

ADDING TYPE SAFETY TO OBJECT IDS IN TYPESCRIPT

You can use template literal types and create a specific type for IDs to add type safety to object IDs in TypeScript. This approach allows for type checking and auto-suggestions for IDs while maintaining type safety, preventing the mixing of different entity types at both compile and runtime.

HTTPAREACODES

A funny website that matches HTTP status codes with the corresponding area code on a US map.

AN INTRODUCTION TO TEXT TO SPEECH AND SCREENREADERS FOR DEVELOPERS

This article explains what exactly screen readers are and what they can do alongside text-to-speech. It shows how developers can use both tools to create accessible websites.

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ELON MUSK’S NEURALINK IMPLANTS BRAIN TECH IN HUMAN PATIENT FOR THE FIRST TIME

Neuralink implanted a device in a human for the first time on Sunday. The patient is recovering well, according to a post on X by Elon Musk. Neuralink is developing a brain implant that aims to help patients with severe paralysis control external technologies using only neural signals. The technology could help patients with severe degenerative diseases communicate and interact with devices using their minds. Neuralink has not disclosed how many human patients are involved in its initial in-human trial.

APPLE HAS SOLD APPROXIMATELY 200,000 VISION PRO HEADSETS

A source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers says that the company has sold more than 200,000 Vision Pro headsets. Pre-orders for the headset began on January 19. Media reviews for the device are set to go live today, so that could increase sales, and there is also an expected uptick in purchases after actual consumers begin sharing hands-on experiences. Apple is prepared for a limited number of sales due to the Vision Pro's niche market and high price tag.

SCIENTISTS THINK THEY'RE ON THE VERGE OF BREACHING THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER

The brain and spinal cord are well protected by the blood-brain barrier, which stops almost all drugs from entering the central nervous system. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are testing the delivery of lipid nanoparticles, fat-soluble packages that can pass through the blood-brain barrier and carry proteins, antibodies, and messenger RNA with them. The technique is able to pass some drugs through the blood-brain barrier, but not all of the medicine made it into brain cells when tested in living mice. The researchers are using a new in vitro model that will help guide the future development of brain-targeted treatments.

SCIENTISTS DOCUMENT FIRST-EVER TRANSMITTED ALZHEIMER’S CASES, TIED TO NO-LONGER-USED MEDICAL PROCEDURE

A decades-old treatment for a number of conditions that caused short stature, which involved patients receiving growth hormone taken from the brains of human cadavers, has been tied to some people as young as in their 30s developing Alzheimer's disease. The treatment, which was banned 40 years ago, transmitted unwanted proteins into recipients' brains, including the beta-amyloid protein that later propagated into the disease-causing plaques that are the hallmark of the disease. These are the first documented cases of transferred Alzheimer's - the disease is not usually contagious. The cadaveric growth hormone treatment has been long replaced with a synthetic hormone treatment.

THE BIG LITTLE GUIDE TO MESSAGE QUEUES

Message queues are a way to transfer information between two systems. They allow systems to communicate with each other in structured ways they can both understand and at a controlled speed they can both handle. This article discusses message queues, their history, why they're useful, how they work, and more. It compares many popular systems available today. The article covers fundamental concepts that underlie message queues and how they apply to popular queuing systems available today.

NEW GITHUB COPILOT RESEARCH FINDS 'DOWNWARD PRESSURE ON CODE QUALITY'

A recent study on the quality and maintainability of AI-assisted code found disconcerting trends for maintainability. The percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored is projected to double this year compared to a pre-AI baseline. Using AI coding tools is strongly correlated with mistake code being pushed to repositories. While AI may be able to produce code faster, the code it produces needs to be cleaned up, potentially removing the benefits of fast code generation.

WHAT BIG TECH LAYOFFS SUGGEST FOR THE INDUSTRY

Microsoft's layoffs last year were worrisome because the company has a very good track record of predicting how its business will grow or shrink. Microsoft's business is incredibly diversified to the point where it can be pretty representative of the B2B tech industry, minus advertising. The company's decision to initiate layoffs suggested that the tech industry would stall growth-wise. Microsoft's announcements could have caused other large tech companies to follow suit and announce their own layoffs.

STARLINK'S LATEST OFFERING: GIGABIT GATEWAYS STARTING AT $75,000 PER MONTH

Starlink's latest new Community Gateways service for internet service providers can deliver gigabit speeds. For $1.25 million up front (and $75,000 per month), customers will receive help to build an entire facility dedicated to receiving up to 10Gbps in broadband speeds. ISPs will need to provide the land, power, and lifting equipment. The first Community Gateway was built on an island near Alaska. Pictures from the Community Gateway are available in the article.

IT TURNS OUT NASA’S MARS HELICOPTER WAS MUCH MORE REVOLUTIONARY THAN WE KNEW

Ingenuity demonstrated that powered flight is possible on other planets, forever changing the way humans will explore and settle other worlds.

META RELEASES ‘CODE LLAMA 70B’, AN OPEN-SOURCE BEHEMOTH TO RIVAL PRIVATE AI DEVELOPMENT

Code Llama 70B, one of the largest open-source AI models for code generation currently available, was trained on 500 billion tokens of code and code-related data and has a context window of 100,000 tokens.

GOOGLE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES RECAPTCHA FREE TIER, INTRODUCES NEW PRICING MODELS

Starting from April 1, Google's previous free reCAPTCHA service will be reduced from 1 million assessments to just 10,000 per month - a new reCAPTCHA standard plan will be introduced with 100,000 assessments for $8 per month.

TAKE THE ROAD MOST DOCUMENTED

Popular software is not always the most understandable - choosing programs with extensive documentation and active community resources makes solving problems much easier.

AMAZON ABANDONS $1.4 BILLION DEAL TO BUY ROOMBA MAKER IROBOT

The deal has no path to regulatory approval in the EU.

TIKTOK GOES FULL YOUTUBE

TikTok will boost horizontal videos that are more than a minute long within 72 hours of posting for creators who have been on the platform for more than three months, as long as the videos are not ads or from political parties.

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META RELEASES CODELLAMA 70B MODELS

Meta's new models have been fine-tuned and instruction-tuned on significantly more code. They achieve impressive performance on HumanEval, approaching GPT-4 in some respects. The models are available under the Meta license and on HuggingFace

RWKV LAUNCHES EAGLE 7B

RWKV is an architecture alternative to the dominant Transformer model. It uses a novel linear attention mechanism that makes it extremely efficient. This new checkpoint and configuration was trained on 1T tokens and surpases many other powerful 7B Transformer based models.

ITALIAN DPA TELLS OPENAI CHATGPT IS VIOLATING EUROPE’S PRIVACY LAWS

OpenAI is suspected of violating European Union privacy laws. Italy's data protection authority has given it 30 days to respond to allegations following an investigation into ChatGPT.

LARGE-VOCABULARY 3D DIFFUSION MODEL WITH TRANSFORMERS

One key challenge with 3D object generation is the diversity of items that can be created. This work uses a modified architecture to improve sample efficiency and scales up the system to work with a much larger set of objects in each 3D category.

SLICEGPT

Another potential distillation work. Importantly, this one can work on models as small as Phi-2. This means you can remove 90% of the rows and columns of weight matrices with minimal reduction to quality at almost all scales.

LEARNING UNIVERSAL PREDICTORS

Meta Learning is the process of training systems that learn to learn and can quickly adapt to new tasks. This work from Google improves Meta Learning with synthetic data generated from a Universal Turing Machine and analyzes the results experimentally and theoretically.

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TRANSFORMING ARTISTIC IMAGE EDITING WITH AI

CreativeSynth is a method for artistic image editing by seamlessly integrating text and image inputs. Its diffusion model, equipped with customized attention mechanisms, enables precise style and content manipulation while preserving the original artwork's essence.

IMAGE SEGMENTATION WITH INCONSISTENCY MASKS

Inconsistency Masks (IM) are a new method for image segmentation that works even with limited data. This approach, tested on the ISIC 2018 dataset, beats traditional techniques and even outperforms models trained on fully labeled datasets.

BIOMETRIC SECURITY WITH IMAGE DISTORTION

A new image distortion technique makes facial images unrecognizable to humans but still identifiable by AI, striking a balance between privacy and accuracy in biometric systems.

ENHANCING HAND IMAGE GENERATION IN AI MODELS

Researchers have improved the ability of generative models like GANs and diffusion models to create realistic hand images by adding three extra channels to training images for hand annotations.

NOVONIMBUS IS HIRING A CLOUD SOLUTIONS SALES SPECIALIST (NYC OR REMOTE)

Looking for technical sales specialist interested in AI/LLMs with 3+ years of sales experience in cloud computing/infrastructure to help drive adoption of our NVIDIA GPU cloud. Apply here [18].