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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

MICROSOFT'S DESIGNER APP ARRIVES ON IOS AND ANDROID WITH AI EDITING
AND CREATION (3 MINUTE READ) [6]

Microsoft's AI-powered Designer app is now available to anyone with a
personal Microsoft account on Windows, iOS, and Android. The app
allows users to create custom images, stickers, greeting cards, and
more using templates. It uses AI to create and edit images on the go.
Designer can edit and remove backgrounds, remove people or objects
from images, and add text and branding to images. The app gives users
15 free daily 'boosts' that can be used to create or edit AI-powered
images and designs. Upgrading to a Copilot Pro subscription gives
users 100 boosts per day.

META WON'T OFFER FUTURE MULTIMODAL AI MODELS IN EU (3 MINUTE READ)
[7]

Meta will withhold its next multimodal AI model from customers in the
EU because of a lack of clarity from regulators. Apple has also said
it won't release its Apple Intelligence features in Europe because of
similar concerns. Meta plans to incorporate its new multimodal models
in a wide range of products, including smartphones and its Meta
Ray-Ban smart glasses. The upcoming larger text-only version of Meta's
Llama 3 model will be available in the EU.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

RESEARCHERS TRACK INDIVIDUAL NEURONS AS THEY RESPOND TO WORDS (5
MINUTE READ) [8]

A recent study into the mechanism of human language comprehension
aimed to figure out if there was any structure to the neuronal
response to language. It involved playing recorded sets of words to
patients who had implants that monitored the activity of neurons
located in their left prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain largely responsible for processing language. The study found that the neurons' responses changed based on context - neurons in certain areas would
light up if the patient heard specific words. Words presented with
context elicited a stronger response compared to when the context was
not available.

'SUPERMODEL GRANNY' DRUG EXTENDS LIFE IN ANIMALS (6 MINUTE READ) [9]

Researchers have discovered a drug that increases the life spans of
laboratory animals by nearly 25%. It works by lowering levels of a
protein called interleukin-11, which is associated with higher levels
of inflammation and other factors that control the pace of aging. Mice
with decreased interleukin-11 had lower levels of cancer, improved
muscle function, were leaner, had healthier fur, and scored better on
many measures of frailty. The drug is already being tested in people,
but it is unknown whether it will have the same anti-aging effect.

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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

HOW TO SET UP AN OBSERVABILITY FRAMEWORK (SPONSOR) [10]

This playbook [10] outlines the specific steps you should take to
establish a repeatable observability framework [10], including:

* Standardizing and surfacing core metrics
* Proactive monitoring and alerting
* Well-defined tagging and efficient FTE allocation

Get the playbook from Datadog [10]

THE PITFALLS OF IN-APP BROWSERS (9 MINUTE READ) [11]

In-app browsers have limited functionality, privacy and security
concerns, inconsistent UI/UX, and worse performance than normal
browsers. Businesses use in-app browsers to perform man-in-the-middle
attacks by injecting arbitrary JavaScript code and intercepting
network traffic. This allows them to watch what users are doing within
their in-app browsers. Websites can detect when in-app browsers are
being used and offer links to users to open them in the default
browser instead.

WHAT ARE THE WAYS COMPILERS RECOGNIZE COMPLEX PATTERNS? (6 MINUTE
READ) [12]

While there are a lot of techniques that could be used to apply to
certain types of optimization, sometimes compilers will opt to look
for a more-or-less hardcoded pattern. Compilers must consider many
tradeoffs when choosing what optimizations to perform and how to
perform them. Extremely sophisticated algorithms may be avoided
because they can be expensive, too complex, or not broadly applicable. Hardcoded optimizations are fairly cheap and the maintenance burden is
very low.

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MISCELLANEOUS

THE GREATEST EDUCATIONAL LIFE HACK: LEARNING MATH AHEAD OF TIME (18
MINUTE READ) [13]

Learning math early guards you against numerous academic risks and
opens doors to all kinds of career opportunities. It can make one
appear to be a genius in others' eyes and help them get a ticket to
those opportunities usually reserved for top students. Faster learning
leads to an earlier career start, which results in greater
productivity and accomplishments over the course of a career. It is a
myth that learning math early is inappropriate for students'
social/emotional and cognitive/academic development. A student is
ready for advanced mathematics once they have mastered the
prerequisites.

EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT HOW TO START A COMPANY (3 MINUTE READ) [14]

Factors that matter most for starting a company are market, team,
growth, cycle time, ideas, new technology, and competition. Startups
should build minimal viable experiments and make a list of unknowns.
The exact idea is unimportant as long as founders are talking to the
right customers, so pick markets over a specific idea. Fund only what
is needed to run your experiment. Start small - you will get good at
whatever you spend time on.

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QUICK LINKS

PANIC! AT THE JOB MARKET (72 MINUTE READ) [15]

Too much tech speculation tied to speculative funding caused the
funding and customers to go away, and now the jobs are gone.

GITHUB RIVAL GITLAB EXPLORING SALE, ALREADY ATTRACTED INTEREST FROM
DATADOG, SAY REPORTS (2 MINUTE READ) [16]

GitLab currently has a market value of about $8 billion, more than
the $7.5 billion Microsoft paid for GitHub in 2018.

SELF HOSTING 101 - A BEGINNER'S GUIDE (13 MINUTE READ) [17]

There are two ways to ensure that your data cannot be accessed by
anyone: using end-to-end encryption or self-hosting your own server.

WHY DATING APPS DON'T WORK WELL (4 MINUTE READ) [18]

The current dating app concept doesn't work well because of market
dynamics and business incentives.

HOW WE SPED UP NOTION IN THE BROWSER WITH WASM SQLITE (12 MINUTE
READ) [19]

This article looks at how Notion improved its performance in the
browser by using the WebAssembly implementation of sqlite3.

THE CASE FOR CONFERENCES IN 2024 (9 MINUTE READ) [20]

Conferences allow you to make connections that will propel your
career for years to come.

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