The consulting firm came up with a methodology they claim can measure software developer productivity. But that measurement comes at a high price – and we offer a more sensible approach.

Despite its stock more than doubling in value in a year, the streaming giant is cutting 17% of its staff. But why? Also: Twitch shuts down in Korea and OpenSea’s revenue plummets 99% in 18 months.

Compute Resources That Make Everyone Look GPU-Poor

MI400 Broadcom + AMD Anti-Nvidia Alliance Coming With UEC and Open XGMI

The success of a software application often hinges on the choice of the right databases. As developers, we're faced with a vast array of database options. It is crucial for us to understand the differences between these options and how to select the ones that best align with our project's requirements. A complex application usually uses several different databases, each catering to a specific aspect of the application’s needs.

This week’s system design refresher: ByteByteGo’s TikTok / Instagram Reels Channel Why is JWT popular? (Youtube video) What does ACID mean? Internet traffic routing policies 😘 Kiss bugs goodbye with fully automated end-to-end test coverage (Sponsored)

Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max

The board promises to move quickly for a change — but is it focused on the right problem?

Your insider guide to AI and exponential technologies

A deep dive into AI-driven, autonomous vehicles.

A brief introduction explaining what "performance-aware programming" is, and what the course will be about.

The front end must decode instructions well ahead of computations that affect things like the flags register. How does it know what to do when it encounters a conditional jump instruction?

Data on Elo rankings, memory tokens, GitHub repos, domain registrations & more

Don't miss my conversation with Inflection CEO Mustafa Suleyman

Some classic (non-aggregation) monopolization!

Nvidia surprised everyone with a boring result! Applied Materials is an overreaction.

30 Maps to Rethink the World

Why does the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cause so much international rage compared to other conflicts? Why is it splitting the West, with some Westerners justifying Hamas’s terrorism while others stand unconditionally with Israel? Why is Muslim immigration so divisive in Europe? Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

One of Product’s ever-changing artifacts

The hardest product team out there

Dear reader, The world can be understood. This may seem obvious to the serial consumer of news, but for the wrong reasons. For the careful observer, the claim should be true, but only for the right reasons. After all, if you want to understand the news, it’s perhaps best

Geothermal heat is today a marginal source of renewable energy. Technological breakthroughs could make it an effectively limitless source of cheap electricity and heating, possibly anywhere on Earth.

Sundays, The Sequence Scope brings a summary of the most important research papers, technology releases and VC funding deals in the artificial intelligence space.

In this post, Jordan Burgess, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Humanloop, discusses the techniques for going from an initial demo to a robust production-ready application and explain how tools like Humanloop can help you get there. He covers best practices in prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and fine-tuning. Let’s dive in!

pirate wires #85 // summary and analysis of the twitter files, a dangerous alliance of powers, and technology's nature brings the industry home

how a holiday created by a LAPD-armed black nationalist and convicted torturer who advocated the genocide of all white people became mainstream

What McDonalds and Lyft have in common

Part II of the Low Code series looks at what people actually use it for

Also: some neat Switch data, follow-ups, platform news, and more.

That's a spicy 'day after', folks...

Here's what 24 hours inside of Threads has been like

Read to the end for the rare aquatic mall level

Amazon using Digit humanoids already, RedPajama-Data-v2 with 30T tokens, 28 new AI models, and much more!

'Best of' for all post-2020 AI tech, for full subscribers

Digging into the world of "pig-butchering" scams

Mailbag 12/08/23

To the supporters and friends of Social Capital...

Grade inflation in ivy league schools, a new FDA approved sickle cell treatment, and a slow EV charging rollout...

A message to the men who don't

Niche female feet, niche menstrual cycles, and niche female composers

Building Machine Learning Solutions

The Greedy Search Generation The Multinomial Sampling Generation The Beam Search Generation The Contrastive Search Generation Generating Text with the Transformers package by Hugging Face

January 14, 2022

This week on the show, a deeply personal investigation

Welcome to a Friday update. Below, the findings of The Takeovers Panel tell an ugly story about the battle for The Market Herald, and Seven’s ASX woes worsen. Don’t forget, the earlybird discount on REmade - Retail Media Unmade expires next week. Book today.

It's more than four years since James Warburton made his unlikely return to Seven.In 2011, he’d walked out on Seven West Media to become CEO of Lachlan Murdoch’s Network Ten, only to be dragged into a brutal court battle over his restraint period which led to him being stuck on the sidelines for almost a year.

...but the other 10% are worth 1000x

First published September, 2011. I write these every few years—a recommendation letter for myself, but written 3 years in the future. The format forces me to be concrete about what I want to accomplish, leading to better priorities. September 2014 To Whom It May Concern,

FTV Sues Solid and Its Cofounders For $61M Over Alleged Fraud

Listen now | Reflecting on Fintech & Banking's Crazy Year and Looking Ahead to 2024