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Automating the Most Analog of HVAC Equipment

Burning wood, while not a perfect heating solution, has a number of advantages over more modern heating appliances. It’s a renewable resource, doesn’t add carbon to the atmosphere over geologic time scales like fossil fuels do, can be harvested locally using simple tools, and it doesn’t require any modern infrastructure to support it. That being

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Google rolls out new Memory Saver and Energy Saver features, turned on by default, for Chrome on macOS, Windows, and ChromeOS (Chandraveer Mathur/Android Police)

Chandraveer Mathur / Android Police: Google rolls out new Memory Saver and Energy Saver features, turned on by default, for Chrome on macOS, Windows, and ChromeOS  —  Memory Saver and Energy Saver are here  —  Google Chrome is one of the best web browsers for Android, and it also offers feature parity with the desktop

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GitOps Will Change Software Development Forever

GitOps is a methodology for deploying and managing applications and infrastructure using Git as a single source of truth. It involves using Git to store and version the desired state of an application or infrastructure and using automation tools to ensure that the actual state matches the desired state. This allows for easy collaboration, rollbacks,

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Preqin data: in Q4 2022, VC firms raised $20.6B in new funds, down 65% YoY, the lowest Q4 amount since 2013; LPs backed 226 funds, the fewest in Q4 since 2012 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Preqin data: in Q4 2022, VC firms raised $20.6B in new funds, down 65% YoY, the lowest Q4 amount since 2013; LPs backed 226 funds, the fewest in Q4 since 2012  —  Slowdown that earlier hit tech startups catches up with investors who fuel venture capital  —  Fundraising by

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Exploring likely reasons the new Bing is reckless, like debuting with insufficient RLHF, or reinforcement learning with human feedback, compared to ChatGPT (Gary Marcus/The Road to AI We Can Trust)

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: Exploring likely reasons the new Bing is reckless, like debuting with insufficient RLHF, or reinforcement learning with human feedback, compared to ChatGPT  —  And how did some prominent journalists utterly miss this initially?  —  A wild story in which I probe what Bing’s chatbot is

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Many Microsoft Outlook users say inboxes have been flooded with spam emails for many hours, as filters appear broken; others have reported the issue for months (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Many Microsoft Outlook users say inboxes have been flooded with spam emails for many hours, as filters appear broken; others have reported the issue for months  —  According to reports from an increasing number of Microsoft customers, Outlook inboxes have been flooded with spam emails …

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A profile of Synchron, a startup set to trial inserting brain implants via blood vessels, helping those with limited physical mobility use cursors and devices (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: A profile of Synchron, a startup set to trial inserting brain implants via blood vessels, helping those with limited physical mobility use cursors and devices  —  – Synchron is part of an emerging crop of companies testing technology in the brain-computer interface industry.

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As ChatGPT and generative AI explode in popularity, CEOs, engineers, executives, and other employees at myriad companies begin experimenting with the tools (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: As ChatGPT and generative AI explode in popularity, CEOs, engineers, executives, and other employees at myriad companies begin experimenting with the tools  —  ChatGPT’s release has sparked a rush of early adopters eager to speed up tasks or avoid being left behind

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