Planeteer launches new pre-seed and seed-stage climate fund
Sophie Purdom is an experienced early-stage climate investor, with investments in Remora, WeaveGrid, Amogy, Sinai, and Patch under her belt. Today, she announced Planeteer Capital, focusing on startups that want to work on challenges related to climate change. The firm won’t comment how big the fund will be, but suggests
Read moreCrypto startup Pillow, backed by Accel and Quona, to discontinue all services
Singapore-headquartered Pillow plans to discontinue all its services and app in the coming weeks, it warned customers Friday, citing regulatory uncertainty that has claimed countless other crypto startups in recent quarters. Pillow allowed customers to invest in Bitcoin, stablecoins and altcoins, and promised returns of up to 18% — a
Read moreDemystifying SQL Query Execution: Scan Types, IOs, Indexing
Photo by AltumCode on UnsplashWith increasingly stronger hardware, relational databases nowadays are usually stupid fast, even when drudging through millions of records, which might make one think that knowing the fine art of SQL Tuning is no longer needed. However, if you are building any non-trivial application with large data sets,
Read moreYouTube Chatbot using LangChain and OpenAI
Unlock the power to interact with YouTube videos from your command linehttps://medium.com/media/11286a6d5e9681199d073294b92e775d/hrefThese days creating a chatbot based on a YouTube video’s content is easy work. How cool is that! Just a few months ago, before the release of powerful LLMs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it would have sounded impossible, or at least
Read moreAgile Retrospectives for Rigid People
Retros are boring, aren’t they? Probably because you are doing them wrong. Get the most out of them!Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreAI Systems: Bloated Backends and Tiny Hearts
A crumbly snowball made entirely of Dockerfiles, Python, and YAML (and a tiny shard of AI)To most people, Artificial Intelligence Systems look like they exist very much in isolation, and appear quite compact. You open your web browser and navigate to https://chat.openai.com/, for example, and there’s ChatGPT in your little rectangular
Read moreCreating a Joystick Control in SwiftUI
Photo by Andreas Haslinger on UnsplashIn this tutorial, we will create a joystick-like control using SwiftUI. The control consists of a larger circle that can be dragged around the screen at your desire and a smaller circle representing the joystick that can move only in the blue circle region. The smaller
Read moreApple looks to resume talks for Apple Pay launch in India
Apple plans to engage with NPCI and other authorities in India in the coming weeks for the launch of its payments service Apple Pay in the South Asian market, according to two people familiar with the matter, eyeing an entrance into a crowded space that is dominated by Walmart’s PhonePe,
Read moreIndia ordered an investigation into Byju’s days before auditor and board members resigned, report says
India’s corporate affairs ministry ordered an investigation into edtech startup Byju’s last week, television news channel CNBC-TV18 reported Friday, further complicating matters at the most Indian valuable startup that lost both its auditor and three board members on Thursday. The ministry has taken cognizance of “various corporate governance lapses” at
Read moreHow to Center a Div Using CSS Grid
Learn five simple ways to horizontally and vertically center a div (or any other element) using CSS Grid, with fully interactive demos. Continue reading How to Center a Div Using CSS Grid on SitePoint.
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