AI scares the bejesus out of me
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Saturday morning. Something really scary is happening. It’s an internet-powered horror story unfolding in front of us in three interwoven acts: (1) AI technology is improving fast enough that I recently had a bit of an
Read moreDeal Dive: Why this startup chose to sell itself over raising a Series A
Not all startups are built for a billion-dollar exit — or to grow as a stand-alone company at all. The appearance of easy-flowing subsequent funding likely led to the intense funding swell of the few years leading up to 2022. This is not to say all these companies are bad
Read moreThis week in AI: AI heavyweights try to tip the regulatory scales
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week, movers
Read moreWhen Scaling Is Not An Option: A Simple Asynchronous Pattern
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Read moreNvidia VXGI + Unity: Voxel-based Rendering Demo Using Direct3D 12 Graphics Backend.
Nvidia VXGI + Unity: Voxel-based Rendering Demo Using Direct3D 12 Graphics BackendImage by authorVoxel-based global illumination is a set of techniques that exploits the voxel representation of the scene. Voxels can contain different metrics: for example, the amount of light reflected off the geometry they represent.When voxels are stored in mipmap-like data
Read moreThe Overflow #179: Brag about your code
Welcome to ISSUE #179 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: chatting about OWASP ZAP, computing with rolling stones, and jQuery lives. From the blog Keep ‘em separated: Get better maintainability in web projects using
Read moreInstant classic
“Instant classic” is, of course, an oxymoron. A classic is something that has passed the test of time, and by definition that cannot happen instantly. But how long should the test of time last? In his book Love What Lasts, Joshua Gibbs argues that 100 years after the death of
Read moreHow the creator of Angular is dehydrating the web (Ep. 574)
Miško Hevery, creator of Angular and longtime Googler, tells Ben about building the future of web applications in his new role as CTO of Builder.io. Episode notes: Angular is an open-source web framework used by millions of developers. Explore the Angular community. Miško is currently CTO at Builder, an API-driven,
Read moreThe FDA will apparently let Elon Musk put a computer in a human’s brain
Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The Verge Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink says it has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to launch its first in-human clinical study. If this is true, it means that actual humans could be getting a device from Neuralink implanted in their heads.
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