How to beat Doom in just 600 years
A theory explores how to play DOOM inside a human cell. Fair warning, you'll need about 600 years to complete the game.Looking for a good prompt builder to help you get the most out of your LLM? Try this one or explore this huge collection of prompts.Startup Twin Labs wants to build a product that automates repetitive tasks by letting AI take over your cursor.Harvard Medical School researchers published a study showing that the CRISPR system can encode information in living cells “as complex as a digitized image of a human hand.” Read more.Three cheers for Max Lybbert, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering Python faster than C++? How does this happen?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2 Feb 202415min
Inside Intuit's generative AI system, GenOS
Intuit shares more about their generative AI operating system (GenOS) in this Medium blog. Learn more about Intuit technology here.Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Mohsin Naeem for answering the question How can I extract metadata from an MP3 file?Connect with Merrin on LinkedIn or X. Connect with Shivang on LinkedIn.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
31 Jan 202431min
Agile works great...to a certain size
The estate of the late comedian George Carlin is suing the creators of an hour-long AI-generated comedy special that mimics Carlin’s distinctive delivery and material. [Ed. note: not actually AI, still lawsuit.]Prefer your AI more Freudo-Marxist? Here’s a never-ending, AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek. You’re welcome.Google’s Bard surpassed GPT-4 to claim the second spot on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard.Agile development is faltering at big companies, and a recent report cites developer burnout as a factor. But maybe the problem lies in companies’ (mis)understanding of agile.Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Emil Laine, who earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to How can I include all of the C++ Standard Library at once?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
30 Jan 202415min
Compression is understanding
Find out what’s new with ML in production.Machine learning models must learn to unlearn.Open-source game engine Godot now has a free Nintendo Switch port for game developers.We’ve previously hosted Godot cofounder and lead developer Juan Linietsky on the podcast.Stack Overflow user areller earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to How to call a destructor.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
26 Jan 202416min
Hacking the hamburger: How a pentester exposed holes in hundreds of fast-food chains
A white-hat hacker uncovered security vulnerabilities in an AI-powered hiring system used by fast-food chains and hourly employees around the world. Read the blog post or watch this explainer.Mariposa is a programming language with time travel.Want to be an individual contributor (IC) who still amplifies the performance of everyone around you? Be a radiating programmer.Congratulations to onmyway133, winner of a Stellar Question badge for What does the suspend function mean in a Kotlin Coroutine?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
23 Jan 202417min
Sending bugs back in time
Mariposa is a toy programming language that has time travel as a primary feature. Bugs are a thing of the past (literally)!Miss having a physical keyboard when thumb-typing on your phone? Well, you’re in luck. Over at CES, LG Electronics wants your devices to have “affectionate intelligence.” Whatever it takes to make AI more human-centric and empathetic.Omar used to work on the Backstage project at Spotify, so we quoted him in our article on it. Now he works on personalization, including Discover Weekly, which drops a new mixtape on you every Monday like a hipster with a crush.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
19 Jan 202426min
Letting algorithms guide our path to the next great invention
Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered assistant you can keep in your pocket (but it’s not a phone).How will AI impact scientific research? A new collaboration between Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is focused on energy storage solutions.A US Senate hearing questions whether tech companies should be allowed to train their AI models on content produced by journalists without paying licensing fees.Learn how to build a mechanical computer from Legos.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
16 Jan 202418min
How to build a role-playing video game in 24 hours
Now you know: The human body can serve as a resonance chamber for remote car keys, effectively extending their range.A hackathon team used GenAI can create a fully playable D&D-style game in just one day.Skybox AI from Blockade Labs allows users to generate 360° skybox experiences from text prompts.A significant advancement in the brain-computer interfaces (BCI) space: a novel framework called DeWave integrates “discrete encoding sequences into open-vocabulary EEG-to-text translation tasks” without the need for “eye-tracking fixations or event markers to segment brain dynamics into word-level features.”Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Vineeth Chitteti, who earned a Favorite Question badge with Is it possible to hit multiple pods with a single request in Kubernetes cluster?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
12 Jan 202414min
