Subj : Microsoft AI PCs ¨, Android Find My Device ¨, using LLMs in products ¨¨ To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Tue Apr 09 2024 10:39:00 --JxTUbx9U Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Microsoft will unveil its vision for AI PCs at an event in Seattle on May= 20=C2=A0 Sign Up [1] |View Online [2]=20 =09=09TLDR =09=09TO= GETHER WITH [Dollar Flight Club] [3] TLDR 2024-04-09 LAST CHANCE= : SPEND $1 TODAY, SAVE UP TO $2K ON YOUR NEXT VACATION (SPONSOR) [3]=20 = Ready to save up to $2,000 on every vacation for life? Dollar Flight = Club has your back=E2=80=94TRY THE CLUB FOR JUST $1 IF YOU SIGN UP IN THE= NEXT 12 HOURS [3]. Join over 1 million members saving on travel this y= ear. You just missed out on 2024 flight deals like: =09* Paris: $282= roundtrip =09* Hawaii: $173 roundtrip =09* Barcelona: $247 roundtrip= =09* Miami: $98 roundtrip Never miss a deal again when you're ready= to take your next adventure. 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The Android Find My Device network can use the = millions of existing Android devices to track down lost, stolen, and miss= ing Android products. The network uses Bluetooth and works even when An= droid devices are offline and do not have a cellular or Wi-Fi connection.= The network will also work with third-party Bluetooth trackers starting = in May.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY ELON= MUSK JUST GAVE ANOTHER MARS SPEECH =E2=80=94 THIS TIME THE VISION SEEMS = TANGIBLE (6 MINUTE READ) [6]=20 Elon Musk gave a 45-minute speech at Sp= aceX's Starbase facility in South Texas last weekend about making life mu= ltiplanetary, the booster for Starship, the upper stage, and SpaceX's pla= ns to ultimately deliver millions of tons of cargo to Mars for a self-sus= taining civilization. SpaceX has now completed 327 successful launches, w= ith 80% of those involving used boosters. This performance has given Musk= confidence that reusability can be achieved with the Super Heavy boost= er that powers Starship. While SpaceX's goals seem audacious, the company= has proven that rocket reusability is a very viable thing, so its other = goals appear a lot more achievable.=20 A SECRET CLIMATE EXPERIMENT IN A= LAMEDA (7 MINUTE READ) [7]=20 A group of scientists launched a stream o= f microscopic salt particles off the deck of a decommissioned aircraft ca= rrier last Tuesday in Alameda, California, as part of an experiment to li= mit global warming by increasing cloud cover to reflect sunlight away fro= m Earth. Very few people knew about the project beforehand as geoengineer= ing projects are controversial and the team was concerned that critics = would try to stop them. The experiment will run through the end of May, a= nd visitors are able to view the experiment.=20 =F0=9F=92=BB PROGRA= MMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE SENTRY=E2=80=99S NEW AI-POWERED AUTOFIX = IS HERE TO FIX YOUR BROKEN CODE (SPONSOR) [8]=20 There are many genAI= tools that can help you write code. But do they have the contextual data= to help you fix errors in production? Sentry=E2=80=99s Autofix [8] under= stands what your users are doing when an error occurs, analyzes the error= , generates a fix and even opens a PR. It=E2=80=99s like having an extra = junior developer. Join this virtual session [8] to see a live demo of = Autofixing a frontend and backend issue, and how Sentry is using ML to be= tter prioritize issues and alerts [8] =E2=80=94 including more intelligen= t issue grouping and alerting. Watch live [8] (or sign up for the pr= ivate beta [8]) META=E2=80=99S X COMPETITOR THREADS INVITES DEVELOPER= S TO SIGN UP FOR API ACCESS, PUBLISHES DOCS (3 MINUTE READ) [9]=20 Me= ta's Threads has introduced developer documentation and a sign-up sheet f= or interested parties ahead of its API's public launch planned for June. = The documentation details the API's current limitations and endpoints. De= velopers can use the API to track analytics and publish posts and media, = among other things. Threads accounts are limited to 250 API-published pos= ts and 1,000 replies every 24 hours, with a text post limit of 500 charac= ters.=20 OPEN PARSE (GITHUB REPO) [10]=20 Open Parse lets users eas= ily chunk complex documents the same way a human would. It provides a fle= xible library capable of visually discerning document layouts and chunkin= g them effectively. Open Parse supports Markdown and tables. It is extens= ible, intuitive, and easy to use and learn. Sample notebooks are availabl= e.=20 =F0=9F=8E=81 MISCELLANEOUS HOW CAN I ACCELERATE MY PERS= ONAL GROWTH? (3 MINUTE READ) [11]=20 Growing quickly requires a job tha= t surrounds you with people who are smarter than you and gives you opport= unities to fail, with a company that has a history of giving massive resp= onsibility to people similar to you. Choose companies that are selective = with hiring and target positions where success is not guaranteed. Look fo= r people in the company who have similar profiles as you and see if they = have been given outsized responsibility in the company to see if you have= a chance to get promoted quickly. These selection criteria are heavily= weighted towards startups.=20 NOTES ON HOW TO USE LLMS IN YOUR PRODU= CT (17 MINUTE READ) [12]=20 It's easy to make an argument that large la= nguage models can improve internal efficiency in companies somehow. It's = much harder to describe a believable way for them to make products more u= seful to customers. This article discusses ways to meaningfully integrate= large language models into existing products. It covers how to think abo= ut the technology, revamping workflows, different ways to implement model= s, and more. 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Microsoft is confident Wind= ows on Arm could finally beat Apple (5 minute read)

Microsoft will unveil its vision for AI= PCs at an event in Seattle on May 20. The company is confident that its ne= w Arm-powered Windows laptops will beat Apple's M3-powered MacBook Air in b= oth CPU performance and AI-accelerated tasks. The laptops will feature Snap= dragon X Elite processors from Qualcomm. Microsoft is planning to ship cons= umer models of its Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 with Snapdragon X El= ite processors instead of the Intel Core Ultra processors that the business= -focused versions have.
Google Launches Android Fin= d My Device Network (2 minute read)

Google has launched the Find My Device = network for Android-based products. The Android Find My Device network can = use the millions of existing Android devices to track down lost, stolen, an= d missing Android products. The network uses Bluetooth and works even when = Android devices are offline and do not have a cellular or Wi-Fi connection.= The network will also work with third-party Bluetooth trackers starting in= May.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

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Elon Musk just gave another= Mars speech =E2=80=94 this time the vision seems tangible (6 minute read)<= /strong>

Elon Musk gave a 45-minute speech at Sp= aceX's Starbase facility in South Texas last weekend about making life mult= iplanetary, the booster for Starship, the upper stage, and SpaceX's plans t= o ultimately deliver millions of tons of cargo to Mars for a self-sustainin= g civilization. SpaceX has now completed 327 successful launches, with 80% = of those involving used boosters. This performance has given Musk confidenc= e that reusability can be achieved with the Super Heavy booster that powers= Starship. While SpaceX's goals seem audacious, the company has proven that= rocket reusability is a very viable thing, so its other goals appear a lot= more achievable.
A secret climate experiment= in Alameda (7 minute read)

A group of scientists launched a stream= of microscopic salt particles off the deck of a decommissioned aircraft ca= rrier last Tuesday in Alameda, California, as part of an experiment to limi= t global warming by increasing cloud cover to reflect sunlight away from Ea= rth. Very few people knew about the project beforehand as geoengineering pr= ojects are controversial and the team was concerned that critics would try = to stop them. The experiment will run through the end of May, and visitors = are able to view the experiment.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

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Sentry=E2=80=99s new AI-pow= ered Autofix is here to fix your broken code (Sponsor)

There are many genAI tools that can hel= p you write code. But do they have the contextual data to help you fix erro= rs in production?

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Join this virtual session to see= a live demo of Autofixing a frontend and backend issue, and how Sentry is = using ML to better priorit= ize issues and alerts =E2=80=94 including more intelligent issue= grouping and alerting.

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Meta=E2=80=99s X competitor= Threads invites developers to sign up for API access, publishes docs (3 mi= nute read)

Meta's Threads has introduced developer= documentation and a sign-up sheet for interested parties ahead of its API'= s public launch planned for June. The documentation details the API's curre= nt limitations and endpoints. Developers can use the API to track analytics= and publish posts and media, among other things. Threads accounts are limi= ted to 250 API-published posts and 1,000 replies every 24 hours, with a tex= t post limit of 500 characters.
Open Parse (GitHub Repo)

Open Parse lets users easily chunk comp= lex documents the same way a human would. It provides a flexible library ca= pable of visually discerning document layouts and chunking them effectively= .. Open Parse supports Markdown and tables. It is extensible, intuitive, and= easy to use and learn. Sample notebooks are available.
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Miscellaneous

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How can I accelerate my per= sonal growth? (3 minute read)

Growing quickly requires a job that sur= rounds you with people who are smarter than you and gives you opportunities= to fail, with a company that has a history of giving massive responsibilit= y to people similar to you. Choose companies that are selective with hiring= and target positions where success is not guaranteed. Look for people in t= he company who have similar profiles as you and see if they have been given= outsized responsibility in the company to see if you have a chance to get = promoted quickly. These selection criteria are heavily weighted towards sta= rtups.
Notes on how to use LLMs in= your product (17 minute read)

It's easy to make an argument that larg= e language models can improve internal efficiency in companies somehow. It'= s much harder to describe a believable way for them to make products more u= seful to customers. This article discusses ways to meaningfully integrate l= arge language models into existing products. It covers how to think about t= he technology, revamping workflows, different ways to implement models, and= more. The article also covers potential issues such as copyright law, data= processing agreements, and provider availability.
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Quick Links

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llm.c (GitHub Repo)

llm.c trains large language models in C= /CUDA.
Interviewing my mother, a m= ainframe COBOL programmer (14 minute read)

Some banks would go under in a matter o= f weeks if their COBOL programmers were to quit.
Xbox President Sarah Bond h= as set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibili= ty (8 minute read)

The new team will ensure that Microsoft= 's games remain accessible long into the future.
What it=E2=80=99s like to r= un HTMX in Production - Stories from Experienced Software Engineers (11 min= ute read)

HTMX provides most of the capabilities = of a Single-Page Application with the simplicity of a Multi-Page Applicatio= n.
Big Tech passkey implementa= tions are a trap (8 minute read)

Big Tech is using passkey technology to= lock people into walled gardens rather than to provide a secure solution t= o everyone.

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