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Daily Update 2023-01-30
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Hire through TLDR's free job board (Sponsor)
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OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete (2 minute read)
OpenAI has hired around 1,000 remote contractors over the past six months from areas such as Latin America and Eastern Europe. Of these contractors, around 60% are responsible for data labeling and the other 40% are programmers creating data for OpenAI's models to learn software engineering tasks. It appears that OpenAI is building a dataset that includes not only lines of code, but also human explanations behind them written in natural language. The company's headcount is currently at 375 people, not including contractors.
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Apple's Headset Will Reportedly Let Customers Create AR Apps via Siri (2 minute read)
Apple is reportedly developing new tools that will enable both developers and customers to create augmented reality apps for its anticipated AR/VR headset. The tools would allow users to easily create AR apps without the need for coding. Apple already offers some AR creation tools on the iPhone and iPad that could be expanded to the headset. The headset is expected to be released later this year. The software tools for the headset could be revealed at Apple's WWDC in June.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scratch – and they work (2 minute read)
An AI-designed anti-microbial protein was tested in real life and shown to work. ProGen works similarly to other AIs that can create text. It was trained on the amino acid structure of 280 million existing proteins. Of the 100 molecules researchers synthesized, 66 reacted in ways that suggest that they could be effective in killing bacteria. The same approach could be used to create new medicines.
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Smaller, Cheaper Flow Batteries Throw Out Decades-Old Designs (3 minute read)
Flow batteries are a promising technology for making solar and wind power a regular part of the grid. They could theoretically be scaled up to megawatt-hours by increasing their tank size. Flow batteries have longer lifetimes and are safer than lithium-ion batteries. However, their capital cost is more than twice that of lithium-ion batteries, making them expensive. Researchers have managed to reduce the size of a flow battery cell by 75 percent by replacing flat electrodes and membranes with wire electrodes and tubular membranes. The new design could decrease the cost of flow-battery power modules by around half.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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carbonyl (GitHub Repo)
Carbonyl is a Chromium-based browser built to run in a terminal. It supports running almost all Web APIs, including WebGL, WebGPU, audio and video playback, and animations. Carbonyl starts up in less than a second and runs at 60 FPS with 0% CPU usage when idle. It is compatible with safe-mode consoles and can even be used through SSH. Carbonyl has only been tested on Linux and macOS.
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Start coding at the point of least certainty (4 minute read)
If there is a risk that a project cannot be done, you should start the project by addressing that risk. Build a quick and dirty prototype of the riskiest part of the project first. It is easy to build a platform, but it would be a waste of time if the actual task can't be accomplished.
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Bryan Johnson's Blueprint (9 minute read)
Bryan Johnson, the founder of Braintree, recently began a program called 'Blueprint' with the goal of slowing down (and potentially reversing) the aging process. Blueprint is a combination of diet, exercise, and supplements that may be beneficial to health and longevity. The evidence behind some of the supplements is not definitive. Johnson has made the entire program open source. People can view Johnson's dietary and exercise habits, as well as his biomarkers and how they have changed over time on the Blueprint website.
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Natural language is the lazy user interface (2 minute read)
It is lazy to expect users to primarily interact with software using natural language as it puts all the burden on the user to articulate good questions rather than allowing them to iteratively and incrementally explore problems and solutions in a variety of ways.
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The local-only web (3 minute read)
The File System API provides developers with file-system semantics in their web apps as well as the ability to access files and folders outside of the browser's sandbox, making it a game-changing primitive.
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