Subj : Vision Pro presales 📈, MrBeast's Twitter test 🐦, AI market impact questions 🤖 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Tue Jan 23 2024 11:37 am --d9GAYvMd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Analysts are estimating that Apple Vision Pro sales were between 160,000 = to 180,000 units over the first three days=C2=A0=20 Sign Up [1]|Hire [2]= |Advertise [3]|View Online [4]=20 =09=09TLDR=20 TLDR 2024-01-23 = =F0=9F=93=B1=20 BIG TECH & STARTUPS VISION PRO SALES ESTIMATED AT = 160K TO 180K OVER FIRST THREE DAYS (3 MINUTE READ) [5]=20 Analysts ar= e estimating that Apple Vision Pro sales were between 160,000 to 180,000 = units over the first three days. The estimate is over 40% of the 400,000 = units Apple is expecting to sell in the first year. The estimate is based= on pre-order inventory and shipping times. Apple likely didn't have enou= gh stock on hand to meet initial demand, but demand and supply now appear= to be balanced.=20 WHY ELON MUSK NEEDS MRBEAST (4 MINUTE READ) [6]=20 = MrBeast posted a video to X last week with the explicit goal of seein= g how much ad revenue a video on the platform would make. The video made = $260,000 with more than 150 million views. While the video performed well= , MrBeast noted that advertisers bought ads to run specifically on his vi= deo, earning him a higher rate. There were also multiple reports that X w= as quietly boosting the video to viewers, artificially inflating the view= count.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY DISN= EY OFFERS AN ELEGANT SOLUTION TO VR=E2=80=99S MOVEMENT PROBLEM (3 MINUTE = READ) [7]=20 Disney's HoloTile is a system composed of hundreds of smal= l round tiles, each serving as a kind of mini omnidirectional treadmill. = The tiles work together to prevent users from walking off the HoloTile.= Users can walk on the HoloTile in any direction they want and it will = automatically do whatever it needs to keep them on the floor. It supports= multiple people walking independently. The technology will likely become= part of a Disney Parks VR experience. Video of the HoloTile in action is= available in the article.=20 WORLD'S LARGEST NUCLEAR REACTOR, CAPABLE = OF PROVIDING UNLIMITED FOREVER ENERGY, IN MAKING (1 MINUTE READ) [8]=20 = The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a fusi= on reactor that may one day provide the Earth with unlimited energy. The = project started in 2005. Fusion reactions occur when two small particles = collide, forming a heavier atom and producing a significant amount of ene= rgy without creating radioactive waste. If successful, ITER will be argua= bly the most complex machine ever designed.=20 =F0=9F=92=BB=20 PROG= RAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE AWESOME BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS (GITHUB = REPO) [9]=20 This repository contains tips and resources to help people= prepare for behavioral interviews. It covers general tips, questions tha= t you may be asked, and questions you can ask the interviewer. 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This post= lists several ways AI could impact the world and asks some important que= stions about how these impacts will change the world. The areas affected = by AI include markets, real estate, energy, data centers, nations, inflat= ion, and geopolitics.=20 A PRIMER ON DOPAMINE (15 MINUTE READ) [12] = Dopamine does not generate pleasurable feelings. It's the other way= around - pleasurable feelings generate dopamine. The neural circuits t= hat lead us to like things are separate from the circuits that generate w= anting. It is easy to confuse 'liking' and 'wanting'. The brain is a pred= iction machine for rewards, and dopamine represents errors in predicting = rewards. When bets by the brain are resolved, dopamine serves as a signal= for whether the outcome was better or worse than expected and how much b= etter or worse the outcome was than expected. 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Vision Pro sales estimated = at 160k to 180k over first three days (3 minute read)

Analysts are estimating that Apple Visi= on Pro sales were between 160,000 to 180,000 units over the first three day= s. The estimate is over 40% of the 400,000 units Apple is expecting to sell= in the first year. The estimate is based on pre-order inventory and shippi= ng times. Apple likely didn't have enough stock on hand to meet initial dem= and, but demand and supply now appear to be balanced.
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Why Elon Musk needs MrBeast= (4 minute read)

MrBeast posted a video to X last week w= ith the explicit goal of seeing how much ad revenue a video on the platform= would make. The video made $260,000 with more than 150 million views. Whil= e the video performed well, MrBeast noted that advertisers bought ads to ru= n specifically on his video, earning him a higher rate. There were also mul= tiple reports that X was quietly boosting the video to viewers, artificiall= y inflating the view count.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

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Disney offers an elegant so= lution to VR=E2=80=99s movement problem (3 minute read)

Disney's HoloTile is a system composed = of hundreds of small round tiles, each serving as a kind of mini omnidirect= ional treadmill. The tiles work together to prevent users from walking off = the HoloTile. Users can walk on the HoloTile in any direction they want and= it will automatically do whatever it needs to keep them on the floor. It s= upports multiple people walking independently. The technology will likely b= ecome part of a Disney Parks VR experience. Video of the HoloTile in action= is available in the article.
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World's largest nuclear rea= ctor, capable of providing unlimited forever energy, in making (1 minute re= ad)

The International Thermonuclear Experim= ental Reactor (ITER) is a fusion reactor that may one day provide the Earth= with unlimited energy. The project started in 2005. Fusion reactions occur= when two small particles collide, forming a heavier atom and producing a s= ignificant amount of energy without creating radioactive waste. If successf= ul, ITER will be arguably the most complex machine ever designed.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

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Awesome Behavioral Intervie= ws (GitHub Repo)

This repository contains tips and resou= rces to help people prepare for behavioral interviews. It covers general ti= ps, questions that you may be asked, and questions you can ask the intervie= wer. Each interview question comes with prepared answers.
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Machine Learning Engineerin= g Open Book (GitHub Repo)

The Machine Learning Engineering Open B= ook is an open collection of methodologies to help with the successful trai= ning of large language models and multi-modal models. The material is suita= ble for LLM/VLM training engineers and operators. It contains lots of scrip= ts and copy-n-paste commands to enable readers to quickly address their nee= ds. The book covers key hardware components, performance, operation, develo= pment, and much more.
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I think we can all agree th= at GPT-4 completes many tasks at human-level proficiency (2 minute read)

While GPT-4 is proficient in many tasks= , it is also imperfect in odd ways. For example, it can speak all languages= , but barely do math. As AI becomes more competent, the technology will hav= e an increasingly large impact on the world. This post lists several ways A= I could impact the world and asks some important questions about how these = impacts will change the world. The areas affected by AI include markets, re= al estate, energy, data centers, nations, inflation, and geopolitics.
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A primer on dopamine (15 mi= nute read)

Dopamine does not generate pleasurable = feelings. It's the other way around - pleasurable feelings generate dopamin= e. The neural circuits that lead us to like things are separate from the ci= rcuits that generate wanting. It is easy to confuse 'liking' and 'wanting'.= The brain is a prediction machine for rewards, and dopamine represents err= ors in predicting rewards. When bets by the brain are resolved, dopamine se= rves as a signal for whether the outcome was better or worse than expected = and how much better or worse the outcome was than expected. The higher the = surprise, the higher the reward prediction error - resulting in higher acti= vity of dopamine neurons.
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Google lays off =E2=80=9Cdo= zens=E2=80=9D from X Labs, wants projects to seek outside funding (1 minute= read)

The X Lab, Alphabet's 'moonshot' experi= mental group, is part of the company's 'Other Bets' group, which burns thro= ugh a billion dollars every quarter.
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An RNG that runs in your br= ain (12 minute read)

This post presents a system for generat= ing 'random enough' numbers in your head within half a minute.
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How we built a fair multi-t= enant queuing system (10 minute read)

This post discusses the challenges in b= uilding a fair multi-tenant queuing system, the reasons for building one, a= nd how Inngest's multi-tenant queuing system works.
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Google and AT&T invest = in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service (2 minute read)

AST SpaceMobile, which already had Voda= fone as an investor, announced Google and AT&T's funding along with a $= 100 million public offering of its stock on the same day.
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12 Modern CSS One-Line Upgr= ades (15 minute read)

This article presents 12 CSS properties= to start incorporating to reduce technical debt, remove JavaScript, and sc= ore easy wins for user experience.
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The Apple Vision Pro=E2=80= =99s Missing Apps (19 minute read)

The Apple Vision Pro could change how m= edia is consumed in the future - its success depends on its apps, but there= aren't many developers who are particularly motivated to build experiences= for the platform.
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