We store a LOT of images. Every single book has a cover image that we show and every reader has an avatar. With 800,000 books that’s already a massive amount of potential images – but it’s just the st
👋 Hey, this is Ben with a 🔒 subscriber-only issue🔒 of Ben’s Bites Pro. A weekly newsletter covering AI trends, ideas, business breakdowns and how companies are using it internally. I’m writing a serie
If you ever find yourself having endless technical debates and making things more complicated than they need to be, run! Go somewhere that makes you deliver user value. Preferably something users pay for.
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During a vacation in the rain forests of Queensland in 2001, we saw some strangler figs. These are vines that germinate in a nook of a tree. As it grows, it draws nutrients from the host tree until it
I got to spend about 30 minutes Monday afternoon using a Vision Pro and VisionOS at Apple Park, in a temporary “field house” building Apple constructed specifically for this experience. This was a one
Published on Mar 23, 2023 While there’s been a truly remarkable advance in large language models as they continue to scale up, facilitated by being trained and run on larger and larger GPU clusters, t
Mirin A mirin egy édesített szaké, létezik belőle főzésre és fogyasztásra való verzió is. Alapja a koji (nemes penészgombával oltott gabona), ebben pedig alapból van umami. Tudjuk, hogy a sós dolgokba
quantum gravity November 30, 2022 The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information, even as the work’s interpretation remains disputed. Re
Contents I'm a solo tech founder and almost from the beginning I have employed a 50:50 split between coding and marketing for my SaaS product Bannerbear. I've mentioned this working style in a few pla
🍁 Maple Diffusion Maple Diffusion runs Stable Diffusion models locally on macOS / iOS devices, in Swift, using the MPSGraph framework (not Python). Maple Diffusion should be capable of generating a re
Intel may not be the most obvious place to start when it comes to the China chip sanctions announced by the Biden administration three weeks ago (I covered the ban in the Daily Update here and here);
Have you ever noticed that as a whole, our society has its daily habits almost completely backwards? We’re generally so “busy” that we don’t have time to get much exercise. And then we spend countless
Hey Team, If I had an investment thesis, it would be this: - Make money with bits - Then diversify out into atoms. Having some steady income from real estate helped me transition my career from Big Te
Miért hagytuk el Németországot? 10 éve posztoltam utoljára, 10 éves a kislányom és 10 évet töltöttem Hamburgban. Ez egy bűvös 10-es. El sem hiszem, hogy így elrepült az idő. Annyi minden történt velün
In just a few years, TikTok has become one of the world’s most successful social networks. The company claims that its platform is used by over a billion people every month. TikTok’s role during the i
Bár a krémlevesek elsősorban az őszi-téli időszakban kerülnek az asztalra, a nyári szezon is felvonultat olyan fantasztikus zöldségeket és gyümölcsöket, amikből tökéletes, hűsítő fogás készíthető. Öss
No matter how hard you work, it still takes a little bit of luck for something to hit. That can be discouraging, since luck feels like a force outside our control. But the good news is that we can inc
The meteoric rise of front-end frameworks like React, Angular, Vue.js, Elm, etc. has made single-page applications ubiquitous on the web. For many developers, these have become part of their ‘default’
At the end of May, I took my son Jonah (21), his girlfriend Molly, and my daughter Hannah (16) to New York City for a long weekend. Jonah and Molly were leaving for Israel and Hannah and I decided to
Here’s something that should be obvious: People don’t like to have their grievances downplayed or dismissed. When that happens, even the smallest irritations can turn into an obsessive crusade. Imagin
Louie Bacaj has an impressive story. Coming from poverty, he put himself through college to become a software engineer, joined Jet.com as a senior engineer, and became the youngest Senior Director of
Note: All stats and figures below are true only at the time of writing, and will certainly change over time. Running a massively popular website and asset resource while being funded primarily by dona
Why the Russian military is bogged down by logistics in Ukraine Analysis by and Artur Galocha March 30, 2022 at 10:17 a.m. EDT Ambushed convoys and broken tanks. Generals killed close to the front. Ex
Since the 1990 disintegration of the Eastern bloc, all democratic governments of Hungary have made attempts to reconstruct the media sector according to their political interest. Yet, none had acquire
The hacks are the last straw. We need to exit Twitter. But you may be invested in Twitter! So what do you do? Here's one recipe for gradual exit. Step one is to set up an (optionally pseudonymous) new
Inflation is a monetary phenomenon , a function of money printing. But it is also in part a social phenomenon, a function of mass psychology. If enough of the right people believe that inflation is go
From 1930 to 2005, the world’s energy usage increased tenfold , from 50 exajoules to 500 exajoules. Looking forward, the world demand for energy is projected to rise by about 50 percent by 2030, and a
– Amikor Blanka megszületett, évekig képtelen voltam hozzászokni ahhoz az egyetlen érzéshez, hogy van ezen a világon valaki, aki egyértelműen, és annyira sokkal fontosabb nekem, mint én magam, hogy az
[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see y
W hen he was nine years old, my godson Adam developed a brief but freakishly intense obsession with Elvis Presley. He took to singing Jailhouse Rock at the top of his voice with all the low crooning a
This is a collection of software engineering and engineering management books that I have read and would recommend to others. See also my list of 100 tech book recommendations for software engineers,
If you’re reading this, I’m pretty sure you’ve seen the following pattern over and over again: Creative nonfiction pioneer John McPhee distilled decades of experience and first-hand learnings in a ser
Use IEX Cloud data to create a Python script that helps you write profitable cash-covered put options contracts. Options contracts can be a great addition to an investor's toolbelt. If options are und
In 2007, Charlie Munger gave the commencement address at USC Law School, opening his speech by saying, “Well, no doubt many of you are wondering why the speaker is so old. Well, the answer is obvious:
The Police-Station Basement ساقچىخانىنىڭ يەر ئاستى ئۆيى 派出所的地下室 On a Saturday morning in May 2017, my wife, my daughters, and I piled into the car and headed to Turpan, a nearby city, to relax for th
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The late Paul Kalanithi’s memoir, When Breath Becomes Air , has been heralded as an unforgettable piece of literature. Shortly after learning he had stage 4 lung cancer and the reality of the prognosi
In residency, there’s a saying: The days are long, but the years are short. In neurosurgical training, the day usually began a little before 6 a.m., and lasted until the operating was done, which depe
Átlagos olvasási idő: 9 perc Érezted már valaha tehetetlennek magad a közösségi média negatív hatásaival szemben? Amíg valamilyen probléma – pl. a cyberbullying – ki nem tudódik, addig sok szülő nem i
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