#18 Daily Tech: How to Make the Universe Think for Us

How to Make the Universe Think for Us

Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors.

Facebook parent Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down

Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down from her role as Chief Operating Officer at Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook. She joined Facebook in early 2008 as the No. 2 to Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

No more remote work at Tesla

Elon says that anyone wishing to work remotely must be in the office for more than 40 hours per week or leave Tesla.

Evolution of ML Fact Store at Netflix

This post will focus on the large volume of high-quality data stored in Axion — our fact store that is leveraged to compute ML features offline. We built Axion primarily to remove any training-serving skew and make offline experimentation faster. We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it.

Large language models will change science

Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) mean that it’s becoming possible for machines to understand natural language, including the prose in scientific papers.

RCA Victor V610 | thelmaphillips.ca

Bask in the warm glow of tubes and the radioactive-looking tuning eye of this 1950s RCA Victor radio/turntable that lives in our basement.

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