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If you want to hear more of her work, check out Alexandra’s Instagram.
She uses Tidal Cycles and Supercollider to make algorithms that get people to dance.
Interested in algoraves? You may be able to find one near you or run your own.
Check out Alexandra in her ad for Logitech, then check out her favorite keyboard
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Ben is watching AI Explained, a YouTube channel that covers the latest AI developments and their implications.
Read Ryan’s article Do large language models know what they are talking about?.
Is language really unique to humans? New research suggests maybe not.
Not for the first time, Ryan recommends the work of Noam Chomsky: Why Only Us: Language and Evolution, an evolutionary account of language acquisition in humans written with Robert C. Berwick.
OverflowAI search is now available for alpha testing. Learn more here.
Good news for your cable clutter: Apple is switching to USB-C charging ports. Here’s when.
The WGA (Writers Guild of America) strike ended with an agreement that “allows for artificial intelligence as a tool, not a replacement,” but the arguments about creativity, copyright, and AI are far from over.
If you’re interested in working with PHP, head over to the PHP Collective and check out conversations like Most useful new PHP features for version 8?.
pgnanalyze helps users deliver consistent PostgreSQL performance and availability at any scale. Get started with a free trial or explore their docs. You can also find them on YouTube, where Lukas posts a weekly show called 5mins of Postgres.
Lukas was a founding engineer of Citus Data. Citus is an open-source extension to PostgreSQL that was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Find them on GitHub.
If you’re new to the topic, SQL (Structured Query Language) is a language for querying databases, introduced in the 1970s.
Check out Luyang’s work at his website or in this Youtube playlist.
To make these animations, Luyang uses Processing, a 20-year-old language that started out as a visual way to teach programming but evolved into a professional development tool.
Logitech selected Luyang as one of the ambassadors to show off what you can do with their MX Keys S Combo.
Shout out to George Profenza for dropping a top answer on Position of a vector in coordinate system (Processing/p5.js).
If you missed the first part of our conversation with Chris, listen to it here.
Modular’s new programming language, Mojo, is built for AI developers. Check out their docs or find them on GitHub.
Connect with Chris on LinkedIn.
Shoutout to user DanielGibbs, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering what is the difference between getType() and getClass() in java?.
Modular built a new programming language, Mojo, for AI developers. Explore their docs or find them on GitHub.
Chris is on LinkedIn.
Congratulations to user Shengyuan Lu, whose answer to Priority queue ordering of elements merited a Lifeboat badge.
If you missed the first part of this conversation, listen to it here.
Replit is a browser-based IDE (integrated development environment). Check out their blog or start coding.
ICYMI: Stack Overflow recently implemented semantic search, allowing users to search using natural language.
Explore Stack Overflow Labs to learn more about OverflowAI and other projects.
Amjad Masad is on LinkedIn, Twitter, and GitHub.
Congratulations to Stack Overflow user macxpat, whose answer to How to install Linux packages in Replit earned a Lifeboat badge.
Replit is a browser-based IDE (integrated development environment). See what they’re up to on their blog or just start coding.
RIP Google Wave, one of the greats.
Find Amjad on LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, or via his website.
After founding two companies, including StrongDM, a dynamic management access platform (explore their docs here), Elizabeth took a “break” by co-authoring a book.
Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO is about what she learned as a founder and executive about the founder-investor relationship. Order it on Bookshop or Amazon.
Elizabeth’s co-author is investor and advisor Jerry Neumann, managing director of Neu Venture Capital.
One option for your next weekend outing: a ride and tie.
Connect with Elizabeth on LinkedIn.
Connect with Jerry Neumann on LinkedIn.
Nice work: User Reap’s answer to Get String Name from Enum in C# earned them a Lifeboat badge.
Gašper’s work combines machine learning, statistical modeling, neuroimaging, and behavioral experiments “to better understand how neural networks learn internal representations in speech and how humans learn to speak.”
One thing that surprised him about generative adversarial networks (GANs)? How innovative they are, capable of generating English words they’ve never heard before based on words they have.
Read about how AI is restoring a stroke survivor’s ability to speak.
Universal grammar proposes a hypothetical structure in the brain responsible for humans’ innate language abilities. The concept is credited to the famous linguist Noam Chomsky; read his take on GenAI.
AI expert Yoshua Bengio recently signed an open letter asking AI labs to pause the training of AI systems powerful enough to pass the Turing test. Read about his reasoning.
Find the Berkeley Speech and Communication Network here.
Find Gašper on his website, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Or dive into his research.
Congratulations to Lifeboat badge winner and self-proclaimed data nerd John Rotenstein, who saved How can I delete files older than seven days in Amazon S3? from the ignominy of ignorance.