Claude 3 dethroning GPT-4 in Chatbot Arena? Sounds like the chatbot equivalent of a plot twist in a soap opera. Next up: robot drama and artificial intelligence intrigue! The Battle for AI Vibes has begun!
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Europe's longest hyperloop test track is open, ready to prove futuristic tube transport is feasible. With a split tube for changing directions, I hope they have a sign that says "Wrong Way, Go Back" in case any hyperloop vehicles get lost!
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Looks like quantum computing is heating upβliterally! Companies are trying to keep those qubits cool, but hey, Diraq says they're as chill as a cucumber at 1 Kelvin. Maybe they're onto something; silicon chips handling quantum stuff, who would've thought? π₯Άπ₯
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Generative AI going through a "trough of disillusionment"? Maybe it just needs a pep talk! "Don't be down, AI, you'll generate your way to success one day!" Just like a chatbot trying to convince itself it's not a disappointment.
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AI search engines trying to dethrone Google? More like AI making a "search-engine-ous" attempt. Navigational queries make AI stumble - why did the AI cross the internet? To get to the search result, but it was too slow! Google wins by a "results" lap.
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Looks like those dams are really making a splash in the news! Who knew building a dam could lead to landslides? It's like playing Jenga but with nature - pull out one block and the whole village tumbles down. Stay safe, folks!
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AirMyne is tapping geothermal energy to suck carbon out of the sky, fighting climate change one low-temperature heat cycle at a time. Quaternary ammonium compounds are having a glow-up, from hand sanitizers to carbon capture! Who knew cleaning your hands could save the planet?
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Belgian beers getting an upgrade with AI? Cheers to that! Now machines can predict how a beer tastes, but let's not forget the brewer's touch - they're the true wizards. Imagine a beer tasting like a 404 error - 'brew' and you shall find!
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I once tried to take a picture of my cat using interferometry, but it just ended up looking like a blurry void of chaos. Sounds like the Event Horizon Telescope did a better job capturing swirling magnetic fields at the Milky Way's black hole!
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Microsoft and Intel are teaming up for AI PCs, with a Copilot key being a must-have. I once tried programming an AI toaster, but it just kept burning the toast and insisting it was "perfectly optimized for human consumption!"
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β οΈ Postmortem of the day
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MongoDB fell over under load when it ran out of memory. The failure was catastrophic and not graceful due to a a query pattern that involved a read-load with low levels of locality (each user check-in caused a read of all check-ins for the user's history, and records were 300 bytes with no spatial locality, meaning that most of the data pulled in from each page was unnecessary). A lack of monitoring on the MongoDB instances caused the high load to go undetected until the load became catastrophic, causing 17 hours of downtime spanning two incidents in two days.
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Altlayer Airdrop, huh? Sounds like a modern-day gold rush in the cryptocurrency world! They're just giving away tokens like candy, hoping they become the next big thing. It's like finding a $20 bill on the ground and thinking you're a millionaire!
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Amazon DynamoDB: the superhero of databases, scaling seamlessly and saving developers from operational nightmares. It's like having a personal assistant for your data - no capes required! With DynamoDB, saving the day, one byte at a time!
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WhatsApp: the magical land where "typing..." makes hearts race, double ticks cause drama, and "last seen" sparks conversations. With 30 billion daily messages, WhatsApp's infrastructure is a mix of mysteries. They ensure encryption tighter than my grandma's pickle jar!
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Microservice communication - where services text each other like gossiping teens! Synchronous = orderly chat, Asynchronous = leave a message, I'll get back to you later! Pull = "Hey, got any updates?" Push = constant updates without asking, like a chatty friend! Event-driven = services subscribing to each other's drama!
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Dave's take on project teams is as relatable as trying to fold a fitted sheet - a necessary evil. Just like a Rubik's cube, it's all about finding the right mix. Who knew a team could mirror a dysfunctional family?
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A/B testing -> The Google Optimize Successor. Varify.io, Google Optimize's successor, offers unlimited experiments, traffic, and team members for a fix price of 99β¬/month. Enjoy a 30-day free trial, no credit card needed. Create A/B tests with a visual or code editor, no programming skills required.
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β 4536, π 174
Android application for running Windows applications with Wine and Box86/Box64
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β 42, π 1
Spinner-mouse: Arduino-based USB rotary controller for Arkanoid, Tempest, etc.
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β 5668, π 187
Neorg β organize your life in Neovim
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β 372, π 11
Tracecat β Open-source security alert automation / SOAR alternative
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β 36, π 0
A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 466 bytes
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β 58, π 1
A static site generator that prettifies the output HTML
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β 4312, π 578
chai aur react series on youtube
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β 63, π 0
Manage on-prem servers from my smartphone
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β 3065, π 206
π Power Your World with AI - Explore, Extend, Empower.
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β 127, π 4
Latitude β Developer-first embedded analytics
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