Thermonuclear Blasts and Ne=
w Species: Inside Elon Musk's Plan to Colonize Mars (16 minute read)
SpaceX employees are working on the des=
ign and details of a Martian city. Teams are working on habitats and spaces=
uits to combat the planet's hostile environment. The initiatives are still =
in their infancy. Elon Musk told SpaceX employees in April that he expects =
one million people to be living on Mars in about 20 years. Musk's vision fo=
r Mars underlies most of the six companies that he leads or owns - each cou=
ld potentially contribute to an extraterrestrial colony.
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OpenAI defines five 'levels=
' for AI to reach human intelligence =E2=80=94 it's almost at level 2 (2 mi=
nute read)
OpenAI recently shared a five-level sys=
tem for tracking its artificial general intelligence progress. The levels g=
o from what is currently available to AI that can perform the same amount o=
f work as an organization. They may change based on feedback from employees=
, investors, and the company's board. OpenAI executives believe the company=
's AI is currently on the first level, but it is getting close to level two=
, where AI can perform basic problem-solving.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Inside the Laboratory for E=
xtraordinary Microbes (16 minute read)
Humanity has discovered an estimated 0.=
001 percent of all microbes. Most scientists work with E. coli, which is ea=
sy to handle and experiment with in the lab. The Cultivarium is a non-profi=
t that aims to democratize access to extraordinary microbes as it believes =
that the next biological breakthrough will come from these overlooked micro=
bes. It will build tools to grow, transform, and engineer microbes such as =
the salt lovers, heat tolerators, and geyser growers that have long been in=
accessible to scientists.
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Scientists Discover a New H=
ormone that Can Build Strong Bones (6 minute read)
Researchers at UC San Francisco and UC =
Davis recently discovered that Maternal Brain Hormone (CCN3) increases bone=
density and strength in mice. The hormone's effects explain how women's bo=
nes remain relatively robust even as calcium is stripped from their bones t=
o support milk production. Mice with increased CCN3 had dramatic increases =
in bone mass and strength over the course of weeks, regardless of age and s=
ex. The hormone can be administered through a hydrogel patch applied direct=
ly to the site of a bone fracture.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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AWS Secrets Manager Agent (=
GitHub Repo)
The AWS Secrets Manager Agent is a clie=
nt-side HTTP service that standardizes the consumption of secrets for the S=
ecrets Manager across Amazon environments. It can retrieve and cache secret=
s in memory so applications can fetch secrets from localhost instead of mak=
ing calls to the Secrets Manager. The agent can only make read requests and=
can't modify secrets.
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mandala (GitHub Repo)
mandala eliminates the effort and code =
overhead of ML experiment tracking by allowing researchers to automatically=
save, query, and version Python computations. It can capture the inputs, o=
utputs, and code of Python functions, automatically organize executions of =
imperative code into a high-level computation graph of variables and operat=
ions, query relationships between variables, and automate exploration and h=
igh-level operations. Tutorials are available.
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Unique New Vesting Schedule=
s (3 minute read)
Companies traditionally use a 4-year ve=
sting schedule where employees get 25% of their total equity grant every ye=
ar for 4 years as long as they're with the company. More companies have sta=
rted experimenting with unique vesting schedules to attract more talent whi=
le also saving money. This article highlights a few of these companies and =
their vesting schedules. Many of the grants typically net lower than they u=
sed to.
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The aftermath of the Suprem=
e Court's NetChoice ruling (13 minute read)
The NetChoice decision by the Supreme C=
ourt last week is poised to affect a host of tech legislation still being d=
eveloped as well as current lawsuits, including the pending First Amendment=
challenge to the TikTok 'ban' bill. The decision states that tech platform=
s can exercise their First Amendment rights through their content moderatio=
n decisions and how they choose to display content on their services. It ha=
s clear ramifications for laws that attempt to regulate platform algorithms=
.. This article looks at how the decision will influence legislation and its=
impact on current lawsuits.
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Tau (GitHub Repo)
Tau is a framework that provides an ama=
zing developer experience for building low maintenance and highly scalable =
cloud computing platforms.
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