The Devkit Dispatch: Wikipedia's Origin, Reddit Backlash, Google's AI Warning and Defiance Against Government Pressure
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Fun Fact 🤯
Did you know that Comic Sans is the most hated font in the world?
Comic Sans was designed to be an unserious, handwritten style font to use in comic books.
Although everyone loves to hate this tasteless font (including myself!), it is actually very useful for dyslexic people.
Because of its asymmetrical style, the letters are much easier to discern.
Tech News 📰
Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is facing backlash from the community over API changes and charging third-party apps. Protests and moderator issues have arisen, with Huffman defending the decisions. The CEO plans to make changes to moderator policies and expressed willingness to work with developers.
Google warns its own employees to not use code generated by Bard
Google warns employees against using code generated by its AI chatbot, Bard, due to potential issues. Nuance, backed by Microsoft, faces a lawsuit for recording voices without consent. OpenAI cautions Microsoft about releasing Bing chatbot quickly.
Japan to force Apple to permit app sideloading next year
Japan has joined the EU in pressuring Apple to allow app sideloading, aiming to promote competition and lower prices. Apple may be developing a secure sideloading system while maintaining its curated App Store.
Twitter sued by music publishers for $250m
The NMPA has sued Twitter for enabling copyright violations with nearly 1,700 songs, seeking $250 million in damages. Twitter has not responded to the allegations.
Reads and Resources 📚
Elixir v1.15 released
Elixir v1.15 has been released, focusing on improvements in compilation and boot times. It also integrates with Erlang/OTP logger, providing new features like log rotation and compression. The release introduces convenience functions in various modules and welcomes a new member to the Elixir Core team.
Neural Networks in the 1990s
The tweet highlights the observation that many older papers used neural networks with a small number of units, despite the availability of optimized linear algebra libraries. The response suggests that using larger networks could have been beneficial without significantly increasing training difficulty, considering the hardware performance of the time.
Bit Hacking (with Go code)
Looking to perform efficient bit manipulation in Go? This blog post covers a range of topics, including rotating and reversing bits, counting set bits, and indexing bits. It provides code examples and techniques to help you optimize your bit manipulation operations in the Go programming language.
A Glimpse in History
They were used as an amusement performance and they were quite common. The use of fire is out of the question here, otherwise everything would catch fire in a jiffy, and fires, in those days, were feared no less than the plague.
Looking at the engravings, there's no doubt that this is electricity. And the light is not coming from individual candles, but from the entire structure as a whole, in places with the highest concentration of electric field. The incandescent lamp was invented only at the end of the 19th century (1878), but what was lit in the 18th century is incomprehensible.
GitHub repositories to check out 📈
KernelSU: A Kernel based root solution for Android devices.
SerenityOS: Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86-64 computers.
CodeEdit for macOS: CodeEdit is an open source code editor as light as text edit and with features like xcode.
Get Hooked: Podcast of the Week!
Welcome to "Get Hooked," where we share our top podcast of the week for you to listen to. Enjoy (:
About the podcast:
Jimmy Wales(co-founder of Wikipedia) discusses the origin of Wikipedia, its collaborative nature, and its defiance against government pressure. He emphasizes the fun and geeky hobby of contributing to Wikipedia and highlights the use of wiki data for automatic information updates.
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