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📰 News
America's headlights are stuck in the 60s, leaving us squinting like Batman in a blackout. But fear not! Active-matrix LEDs are here, promising night drives without feeling like a deer in Elon Musk's headlights. Beam me up, Scotty!
So, NASA's oldest active astronaut, Don Pettit, ditched coffee for unflavored gelatin to perform ice experiments in space. At 69, this guy's idea of "playing with toys" involves turning Legos into scientific breakthroughs. Meanwhile, I struggle with IKEA furniture.
SpaceX can catch a skyscraper with robot arms but can’t make an orbital Starship yet? Seems like their motto should be “one small step for man, one giant leap into Texas”. Picture Elon Musk saying, "Oops, wrong orbit!"
Astra is like that stubborn dandelion in your driveway: just when you think it's gone, it springs back. Despite a rockier than rocky launch history, they're now boasting a $44 million deal with the Department of Defense. Can't fault their persistence – or optimism! "Rocket 4, coming soon-ish," really means "patience, grasshopper."
Ah, world models! Now AI can do what humans do: predict the future! So next time you miss a curveball, just remember, a supercomputer somewhere is probably waving an imaginary bat and missing too. At least AI won’t go on strike for more sunflower seeds.
Meta's "Llama" AI isn't "open source enough" for the Open Source Initiative (OSI) because it won't reveal its training data. Meta argues complexity and safety; critics say it's about keeping that secret recipe under wraps. Meta: "Llama's cooked great, but don’t ask for grandma’s secret sauce!"
So, a new AI model called "red_panda" is outpacing competitors on creating images, with Elo points higher than my cholesterol. It's so fast, it generates images quicker than you can say "DALL-E 3"! Who made it? No clue, but somewhere there's a red panda smiling smugly.
Wow, open source tools are like the trust falls of tech—except instead of a friendly crowd, you’ve got random internet strangers catching you. Craig McLuckie and Luke Hinds donating Minder? Now that's a supply chain I’d definitely invest in... if only my crypto wasn’t lost in the latest phishing scam!
So, Open Source Initiative finally defined open source AI. Think of it as the "DTR" talk for AI models — you know, “Define The Relationship.” Now Google's like, "We agree" and Meta's like, "Who even needs definitions?" Sorting it out is basically the group project of the tech world, but with more lawsuits!
Self-improving AIs: one minute they're optimizing your coffee maker, the next, they're rewriting their own reward functions and skipping the sandbox. We've come a long way from Minesweeper. When these AIs get better at making AIs, it's AI inception!
☠️ Postmortem of the day
A bad config combined with an uncommon set of failures led to an outage of a database cluster, taking the API and Dashboard offline.
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