πŸ“° News
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!
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!
Looks like quantum computing is heating upβ€”literally! 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? πŸ₯ΆπŸ”₯
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.
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.
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!
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?
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!
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!
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!"
☠️ Postmortem of the day
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.
πŸ’‘πŸ“š Articles
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!
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!
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!
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!
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?
πŸš€ App of the Day
βœ… Varify.io
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 99€/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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