Links of Interest - February 2024

Techno-optimism for 2024 …what you should be excited about - https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/techno-optimism-for-2024

AI-Augmented Surveys: Leveraging Large Language Models and Surveys for Opinion Prediction - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09620

I analyzed 5M freelancing jobs to see what jobs are being replaced by AI - https://bloomberry.com/i-analyzed-5m-freelancing-jobs-to-see-what-jobs-are-being-replaced-by-ai/

Is this good or bad for web surveys? -https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-ai-help-me-write/

A great explanation of Groq on All-in Podcast (inference acceleration) - https://youtu.be/z6vrKA_L5pk?si=LVzV4tKz-WUtimkT&t=1646

It won’t be long until your software development team member is an AI agent -https://magic.dev/

UI=f(org): UI is a Function of Your Organization…. Your UIs, and the real life experiences they deliver, can only ever be as good as an organization’s capabilities to deliver on them - https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/ui-fn-org/

The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions. Let’s talk about creative tensions and the implications of interfaces that abstract away the sources of news, commerce, and information. - https://www.implications.com/p/the-era-of-abstraction-and-new-creative

Automated Unit Test Improvement using Large Language Models at Meta - https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09171

How Did They Film This - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bgru0AaJqw

Real Estate Lenders Confront Falling US Commercial Property Prices - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-14/real-estate-lenders-confront-falling-us-commercial-property-prices

The pivot to performance "If you cannot show performance, you are dead.” - https://www.therebooting.com/the-pivot-to-performance/

The process of making a seamless seal stamp. A Japanese seal stamp that costs over $1000 each - https://youtu.be/tywqPPPgnrw?si=3U76O4Noj_Tef0vi

The Surreal—and Sometimes Terrifying—Costumes of Mardi Gras - https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/the-surrealand-sometimes-terrifyingcostumes-of-mardi-gras-cc702228

Introducing SafeTest: A Novel Approach to Front End Testing - https://netflixtechblog.com/introducing-safetest-a-novel-approach-to-front-end-testing-37f9f88c152d

Dynata Enters 60-Day Grace Period as Debt Negotiations Continue - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/dynata-enters-60-day-grace-period-as-debt-negotiations-continue

How First Contact With Whale Civilization Could Unfold - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/02/talking-whales-project-ceti/677549/?utm_source=msn

Making A Billion-Year Lego Clock - https://youtu.be/kRzgCylePjk?si=8VGlLw_n1XolmILe

A love letter to Apache Echarts - https://www.alicegg.tech//2024/02/14/echarts.html

The future is clear... it's just not implemented fully (yet) - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/lukew_the-future-is-clear-its-just-not-implemented-activity-7164369815938215936-v1Gh/

FoldMation - Online Origami Simulator and Creator - https://foldmation.com/

You've heard of lab grown meat, are you ready for rice-grown beef? - https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/youve-heard-of-lab-grown-meat-are-you-ready-for-rice-grown-beef

“No inventions; no innovations," a History of US Steel - https://www.construction-physics.com/p/no-inventions-no-innovations-a-history

Torching the Google car: Why the growing revolt against big tech just escalated - https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/torching-the-google-car-why-the-growing

Open Source Embroidery platform based on Inkscape - https://inkstitch.org/

A Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's Is Inspiring New Research Into Diagnosis - https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/820274501/her-incredible-sense-of-smell-is-helping-scientists-find-new-ways-to-diagnose-di

ncbi/GeneGPT: Code and data for GeneGPT - https://github.com/ncbi/GeneGPT

Realizing the Apple Vision Pro headset's "ideal form" could take four successive generations of the device - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/thomasemrich_visionpro-apple-iphone-activity-7162551143250771969-k9SI

What if I’m wrong? - https://behavioralscientist.org/ive-been-thinking-daniel-dennett-what-if-im-wrong/

Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs - https://www.404media.co/inside-the-underground-site-where-ai-neural-networks-churns-out-fake-ids-onlyfake/

Are we past peak loyalty memberships? - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/sievert_t-mobile-is-taking-customer-appreciation-activity-7161053441031643136-DsVD/

How to combine Harvard & ChatGPT to negotiate - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/ruben-hassid_negotiation-negotiation-activity-7162409659188944896-xwH1/

Frogger Demake in 256 Bytes - https://killedbyapixel.github.io/TinyCode/games/CrossMyHeart/

Balancing Cube - https://willempennings.nl/balancing-cube/

How Rich (or Not) Do You Have to Be to Get Into the Ivy League? Kids whose parents make $158,200 to $222,400 a year have the worst odds of acceptance - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/college-acceptance-rates-ivy-league-schools-wealth.html

Demoscene & Video Game Music Streaming Radio Links - https://mw.rat.bz/davgmsrl/

Paris Pickpockets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wdnFy7ocXE

It Was 33 Years Ago Today: Happy Birthday Lemmings! – https://scottishgames.net/2024/02/14/it-was-33-years-ago-today-happy-birthday-lemmings/

“The most sophisticated people I know, inside they are all children” a nice quote from Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/dr-nick-reynolds-91aa641a_the-most-sophisticated-people-i-know-inside-ugcPost-7161647148655194113-mnwT/