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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 17, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, NBS Dedicated SWAC Computer in 1950, World's First Transatlantic Balloon Flight completed in 1978, Venera 7 launched by the Soviet Union in 1970, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Learning Programming: Bewitched by Brilliant Gamification (A Sort of Product Review of Brilliant) to Bitcoin Is The Hulk, let’s dive right in.


The Market Today

#03 Amazon IVS (Amazon)
$177.06 +0.01%
#05 ThoughtWorks
$4.34 N/A
#08 Facebook (Meta)
$527.42 -0.85%
#12 NVIDIA
$124.58 +2.12%
#13 Sysco
$76.57 +0.93%
#01 Bitcoin
$59465.86 +2.50%

web3

Bitcoin Is The Hulk

TL;DR Bitcoin is the Hulk because if beaten it gets angrier and stronger. AI and Quantum Computer developers would do well to beat up Bitcoin.

By @maken8 [ 8 Min read ]

The more you beat the Hulk, the stronger he becomes.

Same with Bitcoin.

Especially if it is beaten by the other 2 energy guzzlers.

These include: Bitcoin/Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum computing.

I covered quantum computing’s expensive energy budget here.

Let me explain.

secure the network from attack..

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machine-learning

Could GenAI Help to Slow Dementia and Cure Elderly Loneliness?

TL;DR The future of elder care will lie in the harmonious integration of human empathy and artificial intelligence.

By @adamzhaooo [ 6 Min read ]

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

At the core of Character.ai is a Transformer model, such as OpenAI’s GPT, which can understand and generate human language with high accuracy. These models are trained on vast datasets encompassing diverse forms of text, enabling them to generate coherent and contextually relevant responses...

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product-management

Learning Programming: Bewitched by Brilliant Gamification (A Sort of Product Review of Brilliant)

TL;DR Lets talk about gamification, product strategy and business strategy, especially for the e-learning platform, Brilliant.org.

By @yeuxie [ 9 Min read ]

Ah…where to begin. You know, I love a good backstory. This one isn’t that entertaining and it’s long but hold on, let me land, but brace yourselves.

However, I’m not writing this long a** article because of Duolingo. Aniyo!

Now, to the data.

Feature Image Source: Taggbox..

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science

Why Talk About Digital Habits?

TL;DR This division between the virtual and the real was useful during the early days of the internet. However, as time progresses, this distinction makes less sense.

By @pam [ 6 Min read ]

This division between the virtual and the real was useful during the early days of the internet to help understand the emerging reality. However, as time progresses, this distinction makes less sense.

Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese

References

[2] Quintarelli, S. (2019) Instruções para um futuro imaterial. Editora Elefante...

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programming

The Surprising Lessons Ive Learned as a Tech Lead

TL;DR The line between Junior and Senior is quite varied, but I can offer some guidance to understand this classification.

By @1uc4sm4theus [ 5 Min read ]

I am currently very excited about this new phase of my career. I have learned a lot and would like to share some of this journey with the community. I hope that the information presented here will be of great value to readers...

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Additional Stories of your interest:

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On This Day

NBS Dedicated SWAC Computer

The National Bureau of Standards dedicated its Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the Institute for Numerical Analysis in Los Angeles. Rather than testing components like its companion, the SEAC, the SWAC had an objective of computing using relatively off-the-shelf technology.

Poll Of the Week

Do you ever worry about getting hacked when using public Wi-Fi?

47% of People in the US use public Wi-Fi. This is one way for attackers to get into your devices to learn more about you. Since it's Cybersecurity awareness month, we're curious to know what percentage of our Community worries when they use public WiFi.

43% Yes

23% No

28% I never use Public WiFi

4% What's WiFi?

🧑‍💻 What happened in your world this week?

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