Links of Interest - October 2024

How agentic AI platforms will redefine enterprise applications - https://siliconangle.com/2024/08/24/agentic-ai-platforms-will-redefine-enterprise-applications/ ?

Playing billiards with the Snapchat AR spectacles on. There's a lens that overlays where I need to hit the ball to make the shot. - https://x.com/MKBHD/status/1851356704145096935

The Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting 2024 - https://www.ubs.com/global/en/our-firm/art/collecting/art-market-survey.html

Wifi Solver - https://wifi-solver.com/

Via John Bird - This startup is creating an AI training data marketplace to help creators and companies buy and sell licensed content - https://digiday.com/?p=559144

Luma Q3 Report - https://lumapartners.com/presentations/q3-2024-market-report/

Via Johan Sonin - Ranked: Tech Companies by R&D Investment Change in 2023 - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-tech-companies-by-rd-investment-change-in-2023/

OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil on the Future of AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsmEMUiPXIs

Adobe study on AI for creative use cases - https://indd.adobe.com/view/f21477cd-c4af-46fa-abd1-a168b7c58d11

Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted - https://www.bryanbraun.com/2024/10/25/before-you-buy-a-domain-name-first-check-to-see-if-its-haunted/

Organizations Face Challenges in Timely Compliance With the EU AI Act - https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/organizations-face-challenges-in-timely-compliance-with-the-eu-ai-act/

Do AI Detectors Work? Students Face False Cheating Accusations - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-10-18/do-ai-detectors-work-students-face-false-cheating-accusations

Using an 8K TV as a monitor - https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2023m12d15/

There are only two asset classes: ownership and debt - https://www.ft.com/content/15998397-48dc-4afd-acbb-19ff08416e5b

“I used Claude’s Computer Use, as shown in the video, to fill out a mini-questionnaire as a 45-year-old U.S. citizen. After entering a prompt, it autonomously opened the link in the available browser and answered the questions.”

https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/activity-7256703507385257984-8H3Z

Piper Sandler Completes 48th Semi-Annual Taking Stock With Teens? Survey - https://www.pipersandler.com/news/piper-sandler-completes-48th-semi-annual-taking-stock-teensr-survey

Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFfVt3S51T4

The next big arenas of competition - https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/the-next-big-arenas-of-competition

Our Better Nature: Great Pumpkins - https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/10/our-better-nature-great-pumpkins/

Island Survival Only Using My Bare Hands To Catch Food - https://youtu.be/cini7qY3YKw?si=KG4IAQLRIZqvdJKx

Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/arts/music/chopin-waltz-discovery.html ?

Why Nerds Gummy Clusters Are Everywhere This Halloween - https://www.wsj.com/business/media/nerds-gummy-clusters-candy-halloween-35ae2e2a

Disrupting the audiophile world - https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/09/Next-Step-Audiophile

Air Street’s 2024 ‘State of AI’ - https://www.stateof.ai/2024-report-launch

We can Terraform the American West - https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/we-can-terraform-the-american-west/

Astronomers Discover Complex Carbon Molecules in Interstellar Space - https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-discover-complex-carbon-molecules-in-interstellar-space

Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Are The Top Selling Product In Many Ray-Ban Stores - https://www.uploadvr.com/ray-ban-meta-glasses-top-selling-emea/

Salmon Make a Long-Awaited Return to the Klamath River for the First Time in 112 Years, After Largest Dam Removal in U.S. - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/salmon-make-a-long-awaited-return-to-the-klamath-river-for-the-first-time-in-112-years-after-largest-dam-removal-in-us-180985319/

Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage and chromosome defects in sex cells - https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-plastic-chemical-phthalate-dna-breakage.html

OmniParser - https://microsoft.github.io/OmniParser/

Regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice - https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/10/11/regenerative-farming-practices-require-unlearning-past-advice/

Battleship Solitaire: Mindless Podcast Companion - https://lukerissacher.com/battleships

More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI - https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282757/google-new-code-generated-ai-q3-2024

Short all the structured CRM companies... a personal example with NotebookLM - https://x.com/lessin/status/1851257355968680131

Google plans next Gemini 2.0 model for December release - https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/25/24279600/google-next-gemini-ai-model-openai-december

Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books - https://gizmodo.com/feds-say-you-dont-have-a-right-to-check-out-retro-video-games-like-library-books-2000516767

Electro-agriculture: Revolutionizing farming for a sustainable future - https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(24)00429-X

Victory Is Sweet: We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines - https://www.ifixit.com/News/102368/victory-is-sweet-we-can-now-fix-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines

Inside The Race To Find The First Anti-Aging Drug - https://youtu.be/nK4_QCeTRvA?si=TW9SbY_-pTUIfTA ?

The study of ancient DNA is helping to solve modern crimes - https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/10/23/the-study-of-ancient-dna-is-helping-to-solve-modern-crimes

GitHub - Skyvern-AI/skyvern: Automate browser-based workflows with LLMs and Computer Vision - https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern

PabloNet - https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/pablonet/

Via Mark Polyak. Learning for life - https://repo.darmajaya.ac.id/5335/1/Robot-Proof_%20Higher%20Education%20in%20the%20Age%20of%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20%28%20PDFDrive%20%29.pdf

Stanford CS229 I Machine Learning I Building Large Language Models - https://youtu.be/9vM4p9NN0Ts?si=huc1YJd7BleyOt8x

Tim Cook on Why Apple’s Huge Bets Will Pay Off -https://www.wsj.com/style/tim-cook-interview-apple-intelligence-vision-pro-48c59018

Via Juhan Sonin. Susan Kare demonstrating the Macintosh Interface in 1984.?

"You know that everything is ok..

So the person using the Mac gets information all the time,

visually, so nothing has to be translated,

a little wristwatch to tell you to wait one second…" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWOtf4Ziso&t=81s

How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/how-scientists-started-to-decode-birdsong

Perplexity AI's new tool makes researching the stock market 'delightful' - https://www.zdnet.com/article/perplexity-ais-new-tool-makes-researching-the-stock-market-delightful-heres-how/

Dracula author Bram Stoker's lost story unearthed after 134 years - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9119l64qo

Bureaucracy.? Understanding how actions taken with the best of intentions can put your organization in a straightjacket - https://dhruvmethi.substack.com/p/bureaucrac ?

The weird history of the barcode - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241018-barcodes-at-75-how-black-and-white-lines-went-into-space-and-stoked-fears-of-the-antichrist

You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid - https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-you-can-now-see-the-code-that-ended-apartheid/

Drasi is a data processing platform that simplifies detecting changes in data and taking immediate action. It is a comprehensive solution that provides built-in capabilities to track system logs and change feeds for specific events, evaluate them for relevance, and automatically initiate appropriate reactions - https://github.com/drasi-project/drasi-platform

Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big? - https://www.economist.com/business/2024/03/25/have-mckinsey-and-its-consulting-rivals-got-too-big

Data Version Control - https://dvc.org/

AI 80s Kids TV Show: Cat Star Wars — The Purr Awakens: A New Purr Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUqhQl5RU3c

Google Testing Blog: SMURF: Beyond the Test Pyramid - https://testing.googleblog.com/2024/10/smurf-beyond-test-pyramid.html

Secret 3D Scans in the French Supreme Court - https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/secret-3d-scans-in-the-french-supreme

‘Horrifying’ mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say - https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5113976

Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI concepts we've seen - https://www.creativebloq.com/design/adobes-new-image-rotation-tool-is-one-of-the-most-impressive-ai-concepts-weve-seen

The Rise and Fall of Matchbox's Toy-Car Empire - https://www.hagerty.com/media/automobilia/the-rise-and-fall-of-matchboxs-toy-car-empire/

Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making - https://www.quantamagazine.org/big-advance-on-simple-sounding-math-problem-was-a-century-in-the-making-20241014/

Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUrCR4jQQg8

From Mario Menti - I was a beta tester for the Nobel prize-winning AlphaFold AI – it’s going to revolutionise health research - https://theconversation.com/i-was-a-beta-tester-for-the-nobel-prize-winning-alphafold-ai-its-going-to-revolutionise-health-research-241084

Pepsi's Soviet Submarine Fleet Was the Endpoint of Business Dreams - https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/27/pepsi-navy-soviet-ussr/

Stop Ignoring Your High Performers - https://hbr.org/2024/10/stop-ignoring-your-high-performers

These new scientific fraud cases worry me: Now also in material science - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpQobaBCSYk

1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies - https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/68ec8ed145fcee49d2f5e2b9d2cf2e5 ?

Iprova Offers AI-Powered Invention to Corporate Clients - https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-inventions

Why Does Ozempic Cure All Diseases? - https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-does-ozempic-cure-all-diseases

How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly - https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/how-londons-crystal-palace-was-built-so-quickly/

How ‘shoe doping’ changed marathon times forever - https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5834953/2024/10/12/shoe-doping-marathon-times-kipchoge/ ?

One of the most cited and esteemed Alzheimer's and Parkinson's researchers, Eliezer Masliah, has turned out to be a fraud. - https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1844596459162812869

Machines of Loving Grace.? How AI Could Transform the World for the Better - https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace

GitHub - Stengo/DeskPad: A virtual monitor for screen sharing - https://github.com/Stengo/DeskPad

Automating Processes with Software is HARD - https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/222-automating-processes-with-software

How Gmail solved the “impossible” problem - https://elizlaraki.substack.com/p/how-gmail-solved-the-impossible-problem

American Vulcan - https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luckey-anduril

Broken Mirror: iPhone Mirroring at Work May Expose Employees’ Personal Information - https://www.sevcosecurity.com/iphone-mirroring-expose-employee-personal-information/

How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters - https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/private-intelligence/

Jet lag cure on the horizon? Tiny protein tail could hold the answer - https://studyfinds.org/jet-lag-cure-tiny-protein/

AI Neocloud Playbook and Anatomy - https://www.semianalysis.com/p/ai-neocloud-playbook-and-anatomy

Wi-Fi Goes Long Range (LoRa) on New WiLo Standard - https://spectrum.ieee.org/wi-fi-lora-hybrid

When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again. - https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-data-is-missing-scientists-guess-then-guess-again-20241002/

Search for Charts by Data Visualization Functions - https://datavizcatalogue.com/search.html

Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver - https://dfns.dyalog.com/n_sudoku.htm

Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings - https://www.mindtheproduct.com/users-engage-with-6-of-product-features-product-benchmark-findings/

Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers - https://www.404media.co/someone-put-facial-recognition-tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers/

Jewelers Warned of Wave of “Ocean’s Eleven” Burglaries - https://www.jckonline.com/editorial-article/jewelers-oceans-eleven-burglaries/

A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency -

https://www.tavus.io

https://www.hassaanraza.com

The Fight To Save Chile's Glorious White Strawberry - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/white-strawberry

How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages - https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages

Britain buys semiconductor factory for defence purposes - https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-buys-semiconductor-factory-for-defence-purposes/

The 2024 AI Agent Ecosystem Map - https://web-strategist.com/blog/2024/09/12/plot-your-path-the-2024-ai-agent-ecosystem-map/

Bonus section - Quotes of the Month...

• “There are two ways AI might impact organizations: 1. ?????? ?????????? ?????? -> which will take a decade to play out as organizations adjust to AI & integrate into systems. 2. ?????? ?????????????????????? -> where AGI creates a parallel organizational ecosystem instantly. Most people are betting on #1, Labs bet on #2” - ?Ethan Mollick (?????????????????? ?????? ????-???????????????? ???? ?????? ???????????????????? ???? ?????? ???? ??????????????)
• “Not first, but best.” – Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
• “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt