#34 Daily Tech: Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce Food in Complete Darkness
Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce Food in Complete Darkness
Artificial photosynthesis is being developed by researchers to help make food production more energy-efficient on Earth, and maybe one day on Mars.
Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool
At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot that can autocomplete entire functions based on only a comment or a few keystrokes. The company trained the system, which currently supports Java, JavaScript and Python, on billions of lines of publicly available open source code and its own codebase, as well as publicly available documentation and code on public forums.
Apple's "game-changing" VR headset coming out in January, says analyst
New insight from prolific insider Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple will release its VR headset in 2023 and that it will be a "game-changer."
Mammals can breathe through their intestines
On a good day, things exit through the anus. But in rodents and pigs in respiratory distress, oxygen can be absorbed by tissues in the rectum, helping the animals recover, a new study suggests. The scientists behind the research propose that flushing oxygen into the rectum could one day help save human lives if conventional ventilation methods are unavailable.
Mental Model: Difficult Problems vs. Hard Work
I think about this distinction regularly in the context of software engineering, though I think it probably applies to most “knowledge work”. At an intuitive level, I think we’ve all encountered this: there are problems that are solvable by throwing a lot of human-hours at it (“Hard Work”), and problems that are not a function of raw work hours, but rather require dealing with ambiguity (“Difficult Problems”).
Spoofing SMS messages is very easy, we must change this to prevent fraud.
Sim Central Bank: Economy Simulation Game
It's your turn to have ultimate control over one of society’s most powerful element, all of its money. You get to decide how much is available and how costly it is to borrow. Can you do a better job of controlling inflation than Christine Lagarde or Jay Powell? Can you limit unemployment and help your economy grow production?
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