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Fun Fact 🤯
Did you know that the first computer mouse was made of wood? In 1964, a prototype of the mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart, which was made out of wood and had only one button. The mouse was later refined and made more commercially viable, paving the way for the modern computer interface we use today.
Tech News 📰
Cash App founder dies after San Francisco stabbing
Bob Lee, founder of Cash App, was fatally stabbed in San Francisco. The incident brings attention to the city's high levels of violent crime, with a 1-in-16 chance of being a victim each year. RIP Bob Lee 🙏
Substack says Twitter is no longer throttling links to newsletters
Twitter blocked Substack links, likes and retweets after Substack launched a Twitter-like feature called Notes. Now it looks like the suppression is over.
Reads and Resources 📚
A New Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
Two African-American teenage girls, Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, presented a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem at the American Mathematical Society, which has caused a stir. Their proof uses trigonometry, which some mathematicians consider as circular logic. However, the girls' proof is being hailed as the most beautiful and simplest trigonometric proof to date.
This week in AI
The post covers updates on AI applications including Autogpt, babyagi, HuggingGPT, financial modeling, and personhood SDK, as well as concerns over potential misuse and the impact on various industries.
How ChatGPT makes my Coding Life 10x Easier
A tutorial to use ChatGPT and be a 10x dev and chill its not going to replace you.
NASA’s powerful new air quality monitor has launched into space
NASA sent TEMPO, a pollution monitoring instrument, into space to track air pollution across North America at a high resolution. The data will help fill gaps in disparities, and TEMPO is part of a constellation of pollution-monitoring satellites.
GitHub repositories to check out 📈
Awesome Python: A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
CodeGeeX: CodeGeeX, a large-scale multilingual code generation model with 13 billion parameters, pre-trained on a large code corpus of more than 20 programming languages
Chroma: The fastest way to build Python or JavaScript LLM apps with memory!
Get Hooked: Podcast of the Week!
Welcome to "Get Hooked," where we share our top pick for the podcast of the week.
A brief introduction of the podcast:
Chamath, Jason, Sacks, and Friedberg cover all things economic, tech, political, social and poker. In this episode they talk about Trump indictment, De-dollarization, fixing San Francisco and more!
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