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Naomi Chopra grew up in Delhi, India, but attended Grad school in the US, specifically in Atlanta. He worked in the valley for several companies, including Uber, but eventually left to start his own thing. Outside of tech, he enjoys spending time with family and friends and loves to play tennis, which he has been playing since he was young. He mostly plays doubles because there are more people and less courts these days.

Naomi noticed that people were depending on dozen's of SaaS tools to get their work done. He and his team started to ask the right questions, around why don't we build something to collect the signals from these tools, and present information to help drive velocity, alignment, and well-being.

This is the creation story of Hatica.

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Topics covered in this episode:

• Leaving the cloud
• PEP 723 - Inline script metadata
• Flet for Android
• harlequin: The SQL IDE for Your Terminal.
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/367

Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered assistant you can keep in your pocket (but it’s not a phone).

How will AI impact scientific research? A new collaboration between Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is focused on energy storage solutions.

A US Senate hearing questions whether tech companies should be allowed to train their AI models on content produced by journalists without paying licensing fees.

Learn how to build a mechanical computer from Legos.

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Bill Ackman’s crusade against Harvard & Business Insider 2) Why you shouldn’t plagarize 3) Was Ackman’s wife fair game for reporting 4) Whether Axel Springer should’ve gotten involved 5) Carta ending secondary share sales 6) SEC’s hacked tweet ahead of Spot Bitcoin ETF 7) Bitcoin’s price drop 8) Rabbit wins CES 9) Quora raises $75 million for a new chatbot 10) Is Apple helping Meta?

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Now you know: The human body can serve as a resonance chamber for remote car keys, effectively extending their range.

A hackathon team used GenAI can create a fully playable D&D-style game in just one day.

Skybox AI from Blockade Labs allows users to generate 360° skybox experiences from text prompts.

A significant advancement in the brain-computer interfaces (BCI) space: a novel framework called DeWave integrates “discrete encoding sequences into open-vocabulary EEG-to-text translation tasks” without the need for “eye-tracking fixations or event markers to segment brain dynamics into word-level features.”

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Vineeth Chitteti, who earned a Favorite Question badge with Is it possible to hit multiple pods with a single request in Kubernetes cluster?.

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• Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Over-engineering vs under-engineering | Articles | Davor Minchorov
• https://twitter.com/laravelbackpack/status/1743960676077301828
• [2211.03622] Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?

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Melissa Pancoast is originally from Miami, but now lives in California. She still loves Florida, being outside skiing or rowing. The latter was a huge part of her life from middle school through grad school, and she is hoping to get back into it soon. She's married, and runs outside as much as possible. In fact, she has completed several half and full marathons, including the Boston Marathon.

Prior to her current venture, Melissa was a part of the group called "caring professionals", as a teacher in New York City. She studied how people feel about money at Oxford, and took her learnings, created a program, and decided to build a software company around it.

This is the creation story of The Beans.

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Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures, and author of The World After Capital. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a frank conversation about whether AI will lead to job loss and what to do about it. In an unusual setup, the journalist in this conversation (Alex) argues that we have less to worry about AI automating jobs than the popular narrative, and the VC (Wenger) makes the case that it will definitely happen and how we should adjust. Stay tuned for the second half where we discuss Wenger's five year experiment with UBI.

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Topics covered in this episode:

• Python 3.13 gets a JIT
• UniDep - Unified Conda and Pip Dependency Management
• Don’t Start Pull Requests from Your Main Branch
• instld: The simplest package management
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/366