Intriguing Stuff

Amazing video of self driving in India.

I wonder if the testimonials are real people.

Looks like it could be a useful app for tracking miscellaneous stuff but will I remember it exists when I need something like it?

The two companies are in active negotiations to let Apple license Gemini, Google’s set of generative AI models, to power some new features coming to the iPhone software this year

Spicy rumor! It's easy to speculate that this is being driven by Apple being behind the leaders in genAI capabilities. I assume Apple has observed Microsoft's strategic investments and see the value in following a similar path. With users likely to explore billions of different use cases on their devices, Apple could face increased regulatory attention from anything they launch using AI. It's possible that Apple aims to profit from this platform as they enhance their genAI features, potentially securing a lucrative new multi-year agreement in spaces they are not motivated to enter (yet) like search. But, who knows! Buttering my popcorn.

It’s not just that their customers want to make some of the money that Nvidia has been raking in — it’s that they can’t afford to keep paying so much. Microsoft “went from spending less than 10 percent of their capital expenditure on Nvidia to spending nearly 40 percent,” Luria says. “That’s not sustainable.”

That is serious money. One must assume MSFT and others are investing in alternative solutions.

Been meaning to understand the tech behind Passkeys better.

We discovered that by resting the battery in the discharged state, lost capacity can be recovered and cycle life increased.

Goes against guidance EV manufacturers often mention.

Sounds like useful parameters for folks trying to show apps hidden by the notch.

You can adjust MacOS whitespace settings from the command line to display more application icons in the top right section of the menu bar.

Didn’t realize Wikipedia published a weekly most read page.

VEA is an AI audio enhancer that takes any voice recording and makes it more powerful, more polished, and more professional.

Impressive how good the demo sounds.

Seems like the manual and automated checks the App Store employs needs hardening.

😋 Generate organic sounds using this new synth from Baby Audio.

Gen AI web design ideation platform.

DSPy is a framework for algorithmically optimizing LM prompts and weights, especially when LMs are used one or more times within a pipeline. To use LMs to build a complex system without DSPy, you generally have to: (1) break the problem down into steps, (2) prompt your LM well until each step works well in isolation, (3) tweak the steps to work well together, (4) generate synthetic examples to tune each step, and (5) use these examples to finetune smaller LMs to cut costs. Currently, this is hard and messy: every time you change your pipeline, your LM, or your data, all prompts (or finetuning steps) may need to change.

A framework for programming—not prompting—foundation models.

Super cool to be able to describe an electronic circuit in code and then configure the design and upload it to your fabricator.

Silca has a handy tire pressure calculator for cyclists looking to optimize their PSI.

A groundbreaking method to create dynamic scene views using gaussian splats featuring high quality, speed, and storage efficiency.

This was one of those NYC things that always boggled my mind. This 2 episode podcast researches this important question.

Create a static website for your album drop and upload to your hosting provider. Not exactly bandcamp in a box but close.

Simulate startup math and learn how ownership percentages evolve over common funding rounds.

A deep dive into the current state of the gaming industry.

Creative looking service to brainstorm, research, plan and take notes.