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How ButcherBox bootstrapped to $600M in revenue

TechCrunch

Some of the best companies only come about because they found a problem worth solving. For Mike Salguero, CEO and co-founder at ButcherBox , the problem and opportunity in the extraordinarily broken space of meat production and distribution simply could not be ignored. Armed with an idea for how to do things differently, the company ran a Kickstarter campaign back in 2015, which drew the attention of its first thousand customers.

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Throwback To Our Top 7 INNOVATIVE Hackathons

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

18% of hiring managers state that finding qualified entry-level technology talent has become even more complex over the last year (an 8% increase from 2021). Enter hackathons! Hackathons have always brought out the best and the most innovative solutions for the most abstract problems. They are a great way to bridge the ever-increasing gap between developers, recruiters, and hiring managers.

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The fintech layoffs just keep on coming

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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Inside the Yanluowang Leak: Organization, Members, and Tactics

Darktrace

YanLuoWang ransomware was first used to attack a handful of US corporations in August 2021. Since then, the group have successfully ransomed organizations across the world, with global software giant Cisco among its victims. This blog post reveals Darktrace analysts' research into the organization’s structure and tactics.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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CodeSOD: The Falling Dates

The Daily WTF

In the US, we "fell back"- that is to say we abandoned Daylight Saving Time and moved back to Standard Time, and I think the general consensus is that time changes are the real WTF. So let's use this as a moment to look at some bad date handling code, an evergreen topic. First, we turn to Adam , who's doing some minor work on an old PHP application. # Yes this is really how you do date constants in PHP now :-(. define( 'XXXCutoffDate' , ( new DateTime(YEAR. '-01-19 00

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Superintelligence may be closer than most people think, says neuroscientist

Pandora's Brain

There is a paradox in artificial intelligence (AI). The technology is already very powerful, and most people agree that it will transform every industry and every aspect of our lives. But deployment of AI in industry seems to be proceeding slower than expected. One explanation for this is that CEOs and CTOs are understandably nervous about deploying systems that are unpredictable.

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Extending health spans by extending telomeres: profile of Liz Parrish

Pandora's Brain

Patient zero Liz Parrish was nervous. She was on a plane to Colombia, where she would undergo an untested gene therapy. She and her colleagues had spent two years developing the therapy and making the preparations, but they could not know how it would work out. It was September 2015, and Parrish had been inspired to take this step because her son, suffering from type 1 diabetes.

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Could you – and should you – get paid to do AI safety research?

Pandora's Brain

How close are we to artificial general intelligence (AGI), a machine with all the cognitive ability of an adult human? Surveys of AI researchers indicate that professionals think the most likely timeline is a decade or so either side of the middle of this century. That is not very long, but quite a few well-informed people think it could be even sooner.