Development Fatigue
Are you feeling drowned by the endless wave of new tech or finding it tough to log off post-work? You’re not aloneThe feeling of being a cog in a systemSo, I’ll start by stating that I will be talking about the kind of fatigue that I personally experience, though I’m hoping that
Read MoreReddit goes down just as a site-wide protest against its unpopular new API policy kicks off
Just as thousands of Reddit communities went dark to protest the company’s controversial new policy that will put third-party apps out of business, the website itself has gone down. Reddit confirmed to TechCrunch a planned protest against its new policy has caused the outage. According to user reports, Reddit.com first
Read MoreVCs remain confident alternative protein has a real future despite public-market woes
How well have alternative-protein companies done in the past year? It depends on who you ask. The industry has had an interesting go of it between the U.S. getting comfortable with cultivated meat production, layoffs and countries banning production. Yet, startups and investors are hanging in there. To get the
Read MorePushing numerical integration routines to their limits
The previous post discussed the functions as test cases for plotting. This post will look at using the same functions as test cases for integration. As you can see from the plot of f30(x) below, the function is continuous, but the derivative of the function has a lot of discontinuities.
Read MoreRex’s new app makes it easy to discover and share recommended places with friends
A team of Twitter alumni is today launching a new consumer social app, Rex, aimed at helping people share their personal recommendations of places to visit — like restaurants, bars, museums, and other businesses, even trails and parks. Using a combination of AI and computer vision technologies, the app aims
Read MoreTeam GPT: Simulating Multi-agent Collaboration With Role-playing Prompts
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Read MorePlotting a function with a lot of local minima
Stefan Steinerberger defines “an amusing sequence of functions” in [1] by Here’s a plot of f30(x): As you can see, fn(x) has a lot of local minima, and the number of local minima increases rapidly with n. Here’s a naive attempt to produce the plot above using Python. from numpy
Read MoreIntentful Computation
It’s time to revisit Web Intents.“The ability to imagine is the largest part of what you call intelligence. You think the ability to imagine is merely a useful step on the way to solving a problem or making something happen. But imagining it is what makes it happen.”— Sphere, by Michael Crichton.Last
Read MoreOpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic to give UK early access to foundational models for AI safety research
Following the UK government’s announcement last week that it plans to host a “global” AI safety summit this fall, prime minister Rishi Sunak has kicked off London Tech Week with another tidbit of news — telling conference goers that OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic have committed to provide “early or
Read MoreSlack’s Cal Henderson and Sir Richard Branson back firstminute Capital’s third fund
Despite some typically British (or, more accurately, English) doom-mongering about the UK’s VC ecosystem lately, there’s no denying it’s capability for re-invention. Witness Moonfire’s recent new $115 million fund, IQ Capital’s $200 million fund, and Seedcamp’s new $180 million fund. And there is fresh good news on the horizon in
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