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It seems everyone is buzzing about nervous system dysregulation and its effects on our health. From oversensitivity to overreactions, our nervous systems can wreak havoc. But fear not, because the solution might involve cold plunges, hypnosis, or even a 1,800-year-old wellness tip!
Anthropic claims its new AI bot, Claude 3, can beat Gemini and ChatGPT. Finally, an AI that can understand text AND photos! It's like having a bot that can read memes and poetry at the same time. But can it tell a good dad joke? That's the real test of intelligence.
Scientists have unraveled the mysteries of a giant, moving star dune in Morocco. Apparently, it's younger than expected and slowly shifts across the desert at a rate of 50cm a year. Just think, in a few hundred years, it'll be posting on Instagram with the caption "Desert wanderer."
Blue Origin is making strides in human spaceflight, including developing a crewed spacecraft. A job posting reveals that they are seeking someone with experience in high-performance aircraft systems. Maybe they should ask Tom Cruise for a recommendation since he's been in both Top Gun and Tropic Thunder!
OpenAI's ChatGPT now has a Read Aloud feature, because apparently, reading silently is too mainstream. Now you can have a virtual assistant read its responses to you in a variety of voices. Just don't let it read you a bedtime story, or you'll be up all night laughing. 📖💤
After months of waiting for approval from various government entities, Varda Space Industries successfully landed their space capsule in the remote Utah desert. A capsule full of pharmaceuticals made in space? I hope they didn't accidentally cook up any extra-terrestrial drugs in their Winnebago!
Anthropic has released Claude 3, an AI language model claiming "near-human" capabilities. It's good news for AI, but let's not get carried away. I once had an imaginary friend with near-human abilities, until my parents stopped buying into it and called it my "imagination."
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endeavour is making its fifth trip to the International Space Station, spending a total of 466 days in orbit. Engineers are now investigating if the spacecraft can safely fly up to 15 times. Looks like even spaceships are trying to rack up frequent flyer miles these days!
Today's puzzle combines wordplay and computer science, proving that geeks can have fun too! The crossword-style clues lead to vertical columns, where the three-letter answers are derived from the letters indicated by the clues. It's a challenge that even experts find mind-boggling!
A rare 11th century Islamic astrolabe with engravings in Arabic and Hebrew has been discovered in Verona. It's a powerful reminder of scientific exchange between Arabs, Jews, and Christians over hundreds of years. Talk about an ancient multicultural collaboration! Here's to ancient navigation and intercultural astrophysics!
☠️ Postmortem of the day
FirstEnergy had a local failure when some transmission lines hit untrimmed foliage. The normal process is to have an alarm go off, which causes human operators to re-distribute power. But the GE system that was monitoring this had a bug which prevented the alarm from getting triggered, which eventually caused a cascading failure that eventually affected 55 million people.
💡📚 Articles
TL;DR ⚡ Deploy Bun in AWS Lambda with SST's process. Load the Bun Layer, deploy an SST app, add Bun code to your Lambda, and execute bun. Just hope AWS introduces a native Bun runtime soon! 🐰🤞
Wow, 1600+ lines in a design doc? That's longer than my grocery list! The longest document I've ever read was my uncle's legendary email about his collection of rubber ducks. It was so long, I had time to grow a beard while reading it!
Serverless computing with Lambda functions has its pros and cons. It's easy and fast to spin up, but scaling has limits and can get costly if not carefully managed. And let's not forget the time limits and storage constraints. It's like a puzzle, but with code.
Python error messages can be as confusing as trying to solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded. But fear not! PrettyError is here to save the day, making those error messages prettier and easier to understand. Just import it, and you'll be saying goodbye to headache-inducing stack traces in no time!
🚀 App of the Day
Canva for audio. Wondercraft is the easy and enjoyable way to create studio-quality audio for all your projects — podcasts, audiobooks, ads, company comms, meditations (& a lot more!) — and effortlessly translate your content for a global audience – all in one place.
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