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Initially skeptical about the value of unit tests, the author was assigned to create and run them for embedded software. After a year of successful runs, the tests suddenly started failing due to a race condition in the test framework's threading abstraction. This experience led the author to recognize the importance of unit tests in uncovering hidden defects, improving code quality, and adopting new development methodologies when necessary.
The top productivity killers include external distractions such as social media, email, and meetings, as well as poor time management and a lack of clear goals or expectations. Strategies for addressing these issues include setting boundaries around technology use, prioritizing tasks, and establishing clear communication channels.
TSDocs is a platform that allows you to browse type reference documentation for JavaScript packages. It even works for packages that aren’t written in TypeScript or for packages that re-export types from another package.
RE:DOM is a small UI library built to create DOM elements and keep them in sync with live data. It doesn’t use the virtual DOM and therefore uses less memory than other virtual DOM-based libraries. Developers can use pure JavaScript if needed, eliminating the need for complex templating languages.
Kanban-python is a terminal Kanban board built in Python with the help of pyscaffold. It comes with features like custom column creation, automatic scanning, and a customizable config file, all created to help you be more productive.
2023 was an exciting year for AI. We witnessed many impactful changes and unanticipated shifts including product releases, policy changes, and boardroom coups. This article summarizes 4 trends that shaped the trajectory of AI in 2023 and may continue to do so into 2024. Although we’ve discovered a lot this year, we still have so much to learn about AI.
Web privacy continues to improve with the latest announcement from Chrome: third-party cookies will be deprecated in 2024. Chrome joins its browser counterparts Safari and Firefox with this change. This article explains why third-party cookies pose a privacy risk, how Chrome will incrementally deprecate them in 2024, and how these changes will affect web developers and general product users.
The “cheap” web focuses on websites that are cheap to maintain, access, leave, participate in, explore, and contribute to.
Google gets a leg up in the AI race with its new AI tool, Gemini, which exceeds its competitors in 30 of the 32 academic benchmarks used to evaluate large language models.
This article highlights 3 modern CSS properties that can help make your website UI more seamless. It spotlights scroll-margin, color-scheme, and text-wrap and includes short code snippets that show you how and when to use each property.
Adobe has abandoned its acquisition of product design software company Figma as there was no clear path for regulatory approval for the deal. Both UK and EU competition regulators have probed the deal due to the impact it would have on the product design, image editing, and illustration markets. Adobe will pay Figma $1 billion as a termination fee as per the terms of the merger agreement.
Apple is pausing sales of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 starting on December 21. The products are facing a potential import ban until August 2028 as a ruling found that they infringe on patents from Masimo. The case is now under a Presidential Review Period after which the devices will be subject to an import ban if the ruling isn't vetoed. Apple is pursuing a range of legal and technical options to ensure that the Apple Watch remains available.
CRISPR therapies could potentially provide a one-and-done solution for forms of Alzheimer's disease caused by genetic mutations. There are several proposed strategies for using the technology to fight Alzheimer's, but CRISPR-based gene therapies still have a long way to go. Scientists are now laying the groundwork to start bringing CRISPR technologies to clinical trials. Transformative treatments are likely only a few years away, although they will be expensive.
Scientists from UC Davis, the Alaska Whale Foundation, and SETI teamed up to have a 20-minute conversation with a humpback whale in her own language. The scientists played a contact call to the whale, who responded each time closely matching the intervals, indicating that the whale was engaged in an intentional exchange. The interaction had elements analogous to how we may one day be contacted by extraterrestrial beings. The scientists hope to replicate the work with other intelligent animals.
Zilla is a multi-protocol, event-native proxy. It securely interfaces web apps, IoT clients, and microservices to Apache Kafka via declaratively defined, stateless APIs. Zilla has no external dependencies and does not rely on the Kafka Consumer/Producer API or Kafka Connect. It natively supports the Kafka wire protocol and uses advanced protocol mediation to establish stateless API entry points into Kafka.
codapi-js produces interactive code examples that can be embedded directly into product documentation, an online course, or a blog post. It automatically converts static code examples into mini-playgrounds that are lightweight and easy to integrate. codapi-js can create sandboxes for any programming language, database, or software. Most playgrounds require a Codapi server, but the JavaScript and Fetch playgrounds are able to work completely in the browser.
OpenAI has announced a new safety advisory group that will sit above the technical teams and make recommendations to leadership as part of an expansion of its internal safety processes to fend off the threat of harmful AI. The company has updated its Preparedness Framework to show a clear path for identifying, analyzing, and deciding what to do about catastrophic risks inherent to models they are developing. Leadership will be able to make decisions on whether to ship products, but the board has the power to reverse those decisions.
This article discusses a recent podcast that Jeff Bezos appeared in that focused on his leadership style and space company, Blue Origin. Bezos has made it clear that Blue Origin needs to speed things up. He has reconfigured leadership at the company and New Shepard is scheduled for its next launch as soon as December 18. Blue Origin predicts that its New Glenn rocket will launch next year with a NASA smallsat mission. New Glenn will pose a challenge to SpaceX as it will be used for cargo rather than for space tourism like New Shepard.
US senators have written to the Department of Justice over Apple's alleged anti-competitive conduct towards Beeper.
People pay around $0.50-$2.00 per hour for digital entertainment.
Tesla's wireless inductive home charger will likely be fairly expensive and require an inductive pad that needs to be embedded into concrete.
Transactions provide guarantees that developers can use as assumptions when writing code, greatly simplifying the code and improving its reliability - isolation levels address how concurrent transactions and queries affect each other.
Foxconn's plan to design and build electric cars will only work if it can achieve 5% of the global market by 2025.
Google could build the AI to win it all, but whether it wants to is yet to be decided.
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Intel has launched its 5th Gen Xeon processors, focusing on AI capabilities for cloud, network, and edge use cases. These chips are part of Intel's strategy to compete in the AI accelerator market dominated by Nvidia.
ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, has been secretly using OpenAI's technology against its terms of service to develop a competing language model named Project Seed. Internal communications suggest plans to "whitewash" evidence of this misuse.
Atlassian has launched its first set of AI-powered services across its cloud platform. Leveraging 20 years of data insights, Atlassian Intelligence aims to optimize teamwork by automating routine tasks, accelerating individual productivity, clarifying company jargon, and empowering data-driven decisions. Major features available include Generative AI in the editor, AI-powered summaries, and natural language automation.
Researchers have developed a new method called DSF to improve spectral graph neural networks. By introducing node-specific filter weights, DSF can better handle complex networks like the World Wide Web.
This article discusses a method for proactively evaluating the potential discriminatory impact of language models. The method includes generating a wide array of potential prompts for various decision scenarios and demographic information variations. Strategies for mitigating both positive and negative discrimination primarily involve careful prompt engineering.
This study introduces SmooSeg, a new approach that utilizes the principle that nearby features in images often share similar meanings.
Amphion is a new tool kit for media generation. It supports music and speech and the team is working towards adding more models quickly.
A study on UNet encoders in diffusion models reveals their stable behavior compared to decoders. This insight led to a new encoder propagation scheme, significantly speeding up the process for tasks like text-to-image and text-to-video generation.
A hidden gem of AI, the Big Vision project is a great library for research and production of state-of-the-art vision systems. They just added weight sharding to make it easier to train on multi-node systems.
Shape errors in ML are challenging to debug and are often only caught when you try running the model. By checking shapes as types you can eliminate much of this challenge and develop more quickly.
Lightspeed’s take on the legaltech landscape as it relates to AI is interesting and transparent from the view of what’s-good-for-VCs-is-good-for-everyone take. There are a few interesting insights and only time will tell if they are on the right track or not.
The creators of Mamba (and many more models) have released a cool blog post outlining basic sequence mixing architectures that give pretty dramatic speed ups relative to standard Transformers.
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Agents capable of self-editing their prompts and Python code.
AI-powered product research for DTC brands.
While things have been frothy in the AI space, we’re still barely a year into this new world order and the really interesting silicon has yet to hit. However, the competitive landscape is shaping up to be cutthroat and everyone is gunning for Nvidia.
The SEC has deferred its decisions on several proposed ether-focused ETFs, including those by Hashdex, Ark Invest, Grayscale, and VanEck. The agency stated it needs more time for a ruling and welcomes public comments on the proposals. The SEC previously delayed a decision on the Invesco Galaxy Ethereum ETF, but it anticipates a ruling, or an additional delay, by February 6. Decisions on proposed spot bitcoin ETFs by Ark Invest and 21Shares are expected by January 10.
Bitcoin transaction fees hit their highest levels since April 2021 in response to the increasing popularity of Ordinals. The surge in transaction fees derived from Ordinals benefits Bitcoin miners who are earning nearly $63 million daily from these fees, marking almost four times the two-year average. Consequently, stocks for Bitcoin mining companies like Marathon Digital, Riot Platform, and Cleanspark outperformed Bitcoin prices in December.
Metaplex has announced a new standard for fully on-chain and immutable digital assets on Solana called Metaplex Inscriptions and Engravings. Unlike other NFTs on Solana, which often store their data on external services, these inscriptions allow metadata and media to be stored fully on Solana. This standard could increase both security and composability, allowing for the creation of Solana's first truly immutable NFTs. Both programs are now available on devnet.
MilkyWay has rolled out the first liquid staking protocol for the Celestia network, featuring milkTIA tokens representing staked TIA positions. This offers users a more capital-efficient alternative to traditional staking options. The protocol uses smart contracts on Osmosis and is managed by a consortium of seven operators, ensuring security for staked assets. This development follows Celestia's mainnet launch in the Cosmos ecosystem, which has seen TIA's value increase by approximately 400% since October.
This post outlines Spartan Group’s predictions for 2024 for the crypto industry, with significant advancements expected in areas like web3 games, Bitcoin blockchain and consumer apps, and artificial intelligence's intersection with blockchains. The emergence of more robust and complex web3 games could attract millions of new users. Meanwhile, more sophisticated web3 interfaces and autonomous on-chain agents are predicted to enhance user experience and efficiency. Furthermore, the tokenization of real-world assets and progress in blockchain-based scientific contributions are also anticipated.