🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
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Chinese lab DeepSeek released an updated R1 reasoning AI model that excels in math and coding benchmarks. Allegations arise that the model may be trained on Google’s Gemini outputs, a method OpenAI previously linked to DeepSeek via distillation. Security measures tighten to prevent such practices.
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The U.S. FDA has launched an AI tool named Elsa to enhance efficiency in tasks like scientific reviews and operations. Trained without sensitive industry data and stored on GovCloud, Elsa aids in summarizing, coding, and identifying high-priority tasks. Despite concerns over AI inaccuracies, Elsa promises to optimize FDA functions amidst recent layoffs.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT now offers integration with Google Drive, Dropbox, and other storage services, allowing users to query stored documents. Additionally, it introduces a "record mode" for meeting notes, enhancing its appeal to businesses. ChatGPT currently has 3 million paying business users.
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Obvio, a San Carlos startup, aims to improve pedestrian safety by installing solar-powered cameras at stop signs, funded by a $22 million Series A round. Founders emphasize limiting surveillance, ensuring local processing of footage, and community cooperation to avoid overreach.
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The IRS's free tax filing software, Direct File, faces potential cancellation by the Trump administration. However, its code has been made open source on GitHub under the SHARE IT Act. This move enables public scrutiny, invites improvements, and assists other tax administrators.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: FastAPI
(A modern, fast (high-performance) web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.)
Why: Addresses metadata handling and validation, foundational concepts ideal for beginners to understand request parsing.
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⭐ 2089, 🖖 178
Meltano: the declarative code-first data integration engine that powers your wildest data and ML-powered product ideas. Say goodbye to writing, maintaining, and scaling your own API integrations.
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⭐ 1, 🖖 0
Implementation of some Haskell Typeclasses in Kotlin
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⭐ 3807, 🖖 180
parrot.live
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⭐ 13268, 🖖 973
:electron: Another Mihomo GUI.
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⭐ 5206, 🖖 368
Open Source Alternative to NotebookLM / Perplexity / Glean, connected to external sources such as search engines (Tavily, Linkup), Slack, Linear, Notion, YouTube, GitHub, Discord and more.
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