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Radar Trends to Watch: March 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

As with other Google projects, some intriguing samples are available (the reggae is particularly good), but the model isn’t open to the public. An open-source re-implementation of MusicLM is available on GitHub. An open source version of the compiler for C++ is available.

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Biohacker’s latest answer to health care hurdles: Homebrew meds

The Parallax

During his presentation here at this year’s Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) biennial hacker confab, Laufer and the Four Thieves Vinegar biohacking collective he represents debuted a 3D-printable version of the chemical reactor hardware for turning chemicals, as well as painkillers like oxycodone, into more helpful medication.

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Securing voting machines means raising funds

The Parallax

Security vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines, or EVMs, have been well-documented since at least 2005 , but officials often believed that the problems could be ignored because manufacturers said the machines couldn’t be connected to the Internet. Following the 2016 election, the U.S. It’s this horrible Catch-22.”

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How the Wikimedia Foundation Successfully Migrated to PHP7

LaunchDarkly

So, I’m an SRE with the Wikimedia foundation, the nonprofit that hosts and supports Wikipedia and sister projects. This is not cheap, in terms of both hardware and human capital. And being a small nonprofit, with our resources, it doesn’t look like this is an option.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The internet is awash in billionaires who made their fortunes by following a strategy summed up in Mark Zuckerberg’s advice to “move fast and break things.” It can also apply to large companies, governments, and even nonprofits. The case for blitzscaling. There are plenty of reasons to believe that blitzscaling makes sense.

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This startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned

TechCrunch

Now an open source alternative to DALL-E 2 is on the cusp of being released, and it’ll have no such filter. “We look forward to the open ecosystem that will emerge around this and further models to truly explore the boundaries of latent space.” Stable Diffusion sample outputs.