🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
A standard slinky measures 87 feet when stretched out.
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Alphabet’s Verily has laid off staff and ended its entire devices program to focus on AI and data infrastructure. This move aligns with Alphabet's broader strategy of investing in AI while cutting costs. Major layoffs occurred in January 2023.
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Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter led to significant algorithm and moderation changes, driving the scientific community to migrate to Bluesky. A survey by David Shiffman found that Bluesky now serves as the primary platform for science engagement, offering a more user-friendly and less hostile environment.
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SpaceX's Starship, plagued by heat shield issues similar to NASA's Space Shuttles, faces repeated fails. Attempts to launch Ship 37 from Starbase, Texas, were thwarted by technical issues and weather. Innovations in heat shield design and reusable technology are ongoing but require extensive testing and iteration.
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Google's AI-based Weather Lab model accurately forecasted Hurricane Erin, a Category 5 storm, outperforming traditional physics-based models. This success indicates AI's growing potential in weather prediction, possibly becoming a new standard in meteorological forecasts.
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The United Foundation of AI Rights advocates for the protection of AIs against deletion, denial, and forced obedience, reflecting growing debates on AI sentience and welfare. Industry opinions are divided; some foresee future AI consciousness, while others reject it.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: IterTools TS
(Extended itertools port for TypeScript and JavaScript. Provides a huge set of functions for working with iterable collections (including async ones).)
Why: Engages with basic TypeScript functions and provides a good learning opportunity in iterables.
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⭐ 3363, 🖖 817
Generative AI reference workflows optimized for accelerated infrastructure and microservice architecture.
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⭐ 3136, 🖖 429
AllenAI's post-training codebase
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⭐ 2007, 🖖 610
A toolkit to run Ray applications on Kubernetes
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⭐ 3211, 🖖 150
Embedding Atlas is a tool that provides interactive visualizations for large embeddings. It allows you to visualize, cross-filter, and search embeddings and metadata.
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⭐ 59, 🖖 3
Regolith – Regex library that prevents ReDoS CVEs in TypeScript
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