Subj : Microsoft's Copilot key 💻, DeepMind's robot constitution 🤖, terminal smooth scrolling 👨‍💻 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Fri Jan 05 2024 11:37 am --fBMWk-2m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Microsoft partners will start shipping a new Copilot key on a variety of = new PCs and laptops=C2=A0=20 Sign Up [1]|Hire [2]|Advertise [3]|View Onl= ine [4]=20 =09=09TLDR=20 TLDR 2024-01-05 =F0=9F=93=B1=20 BIG = TECH & STARTUPS MICROSOFT=E2=80=99S NEW COPILOT KEY IS THE FIRST BIG = CHANGE TO WINDOWS KEYBOARDS IN 30 YEARS (3 MINUTE READ) [5]=20 Micros= oft partners will start shipping a new Copilot key on a variety of new PC= s and laptops. The button will provide quick access to Microsoft's AI-pow= ered Windows Copilot experience. It is the first big change to the Window= s PC keyboard layout in nearly three decades. The new Copilot key will re= place the menu (or application) key. If Windows Copilot isn't available i= n the user's country, the button will launch Windows Search instead. It i= s unclear whether Microsoft plans to allow users to use the key in combin= ation with other keys.=20 GOOGLE APPEARS TO BE WORKING ON AN =E2=80= =98ADVANCED=E2=80=99 VERSION OF BARD THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR (2 MINUTE R= EAD) [6]=20 Bard Advanced is an upgraded version of Bard that may soon = be available through a paid subscription to Google One. It appears to be= powered by Gemini Ultra, an upgrade over the current version of Bard w= hich runs the mid-tier Gemini Pro. There may be a feature that allows use= rs to create custom bots, but it is unclear whether users will be able to= share these bots. It is unknown when or if the feature will become offic= ial.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY GOOGLE = WROTE A =E2=80=98ROBOT CONSTITUTION=E2=80=99 TO MAKE SURE ITS NEW AI DROI= DS WON=E2=80=99T KILL US (3 MINUTE READ) [7]=20 The DeepMind robotics t= eam has revealed three new advances that will help robots make faster, be= tter, and safer decisions in the wild. One involves a system for gatherin= g training data with a set of safety-focused prompts instructing the mode= l to avoid choosing tasks that involve humans, animals, sharp objects, an= d electrical appliances. The others are a neural network architecture des= igned to make the existing Robotic Transformer RT-2 more accurate and fas= ter and RT-Trajectory, which adds 2D outlines to help robots better per= form specific physical tasks.=20 ELON MUSK: SPACEX NEEDS TO BUILD STARS= HIPS AS OFTEN AS BOEING BUILDS 737S (5 MINUTE READ) [8]=20 Elon Musk = recently made a post on X saying that SpaceX might need to make up to 300= spaceships a year to achieve Mars colonization. Establishing a settlemen= t on Mars will require rocket travel to be nearly as routine as air trave= l. While SpaceX will be able to reuse Starship and its Super Heavy booste= rs, the parts that travel into orbit won't be able to be reused as often.= Ships often have to orbit the planet several times before they line up w= ith pickup sites, so they might only be able to be used once a day.=20 = =F0=9F=92=BB=20 PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE TERMINAL SMO= OTH SCROLLING (5 MINUTE READ) [9]=20 Terminal usually draws lines of te= xt at fixed intervals. When scrolling, the sudden jumps are incompatible = with how eyes track motion, making it a blurry mess that's hard to read. = This blog post discusses how to implement smooth scrolling in Terminal. W= hile smooth scrolling uses a lot more resources, it makes it possible to = easily skim text as it scrolls by. A video demonstrating the difference= between normal scrolling and smooth scrolling in Terminal is available= in the post.=20 MISE-EN-PLACE (WEBSITE) [10]=20 mise-en-place ma= nages dev tools like Node, Python, CMake, Terraform, and more. It manages= environment variables for different project directories and tasks used t= o build and test projects. It can also work as a task runner that can rep= lace make or npm scripts.=20 =F0=9F=8E=81=20 MISCELLANEOUS AMAZ= ON CAPTURED 29% OF ONLINE ORDERS BEFORE CHRISTMAS (2 MINUTE READ) [11] = Amazon's global order volume in the final two weeks before Christmas= was up 21% from the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday. The company= 's speedy delivery is a key competitive advantage. 70% of Prime orders in= the US arrive within two days, with almost a quarter being delivered wit= hin a day. Amazon plans to double its number of same-day delivery facilit= ies in the coming years.=20 OPENAI=E2=80=99S APP STORE FOR GPTS WILL LA= UNCH NEXT WEEK (3 MINUTE READ) [12]=20 OpenAI's GPT Store will featur= e custom apps based on its text-generating AI models. Developers will hav= e to review OpenAI's updated usage policies and GPT brand guidelines as w= ell as verify their user profiles before they will be eligible for listin= g in the store. Making a bot doesn't require any coding experience - deve= lopers can just type the capabilities they want their bots to offer in pl= ain language and a GPT-building tool will attempt to make it. Bots can be= as simple or complex as a developer wishes. 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Big Tech & Startups

Microsoft=E2=80=99s new Cop= ilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years (3 minute= read)

Microsoft partners will start shipping = a new Copilot key on a variety of new PCs and laptops. The button will prov= ide quick access to Microsoft's AI-powered Windows Copilot experience. It i= s the first big change to the Windows PC keyboard layout in nearly three de= cades. The new Copilot key will replace the menu (or application) key. If W= indows Copilot isn't available in the user's country, the button will launc= h Windows Search instead. It is unclear whether Microsoft plans to allow us= ers to use the key in combination with other keys.
Google appears to be workin= g on an =E2=80=98advanced=E2=80=99 version of Bard that you have to pay for= (2 minute read)

Bard Advanced is an upgraded version of= Bard that may soon be available through a paid subscription to Google One.= It appears to be powered by Gemini Ultra, an upgrade over the current vers= ion of Bard which runs the mid-tier Gemini Pro. There may be a feature that= allows users to create custom bots, but it is unclear whether users will b= e able to share these bots. It is unknown when or if the feature will becom= e official.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

Google wrote a =E2=80=98Rob= ot Constitution=E2=80=99 to make sure its new AI droids won=E2=80=99t kill = us (3 minute read)

The DeepMind robotics team has revealed= three new advances that will help robots make faster, better, and safer de= cisions in the wild. One involves a system for gathering training data with= a set of safety-focused prompts instructing the model to avoid choosing ta= sks that involve humans, animals, sharp objects, and electrical appliances.= The others are a neural network architecture designed to make the existing= Robotic Transformer RT-2 more accurate and faster and RT-Trajectory, which= adds 2D outlines to help robots better perform specific physical tasks.
Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to = build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s (5 minute read)

Elon Musk recently made a post on X say= ing that SpaceX might need to make up to 300 spaceships a year to achieve M= ars colonization. Establishing a settlement on Mars will require rocket tra= vel to be nearly as routine as air travel. While SpaceX will be able to reu= se Starship and its Super Heavy boosters, the parts that travel into orbit = won't be able to be reused as often. Ships often have to orbit the planet s= everal times before they line up with pickup sites, so they might only be a= ble to be used once a day.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

Terminal smooth scrolling (= 5 minute read)

Terminal usually draws lines of text at= fixed intervals. When scrolling, the sudden jumps are incompatible with ho= w eyes track motion, making it a blurry mess that's hard to read. This blog= post discusses how to implement smooth scrolling in Terminal. While smooth= scrolling uses a lot more resources, it makes it possible to easily skim t= ext as it scrolls by. A video demonstrating the difference between normal s= crolling and smooth scrolling in Terminal is available in the post.
mise-en-place (Website)

mise-en-place manages dev tools like No= de, Python, CMake, Terraform, and more. It manages environment variables fo= r different project directories and tasks used to build and test projects. = It can also work as a task runner that can replace make or npm scripts.
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Miscellaneous

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Amazon Captured 29% of Onli= ne Orders Before Christmas (2 minute read)

Amazon's global order volume in the fin= al two weeks before Christmas was up 21% from the week of Thanksgiving and = Black Friday. The company's speedy delivery is a key competitive advantage.= 70% of Prime orders in the US arrive within two days, with almost a quarte= r being delivered within a day. Amazon plans to double its number of same-d= ay delivery facilities in the coming years.
OpenAI=E2=80=99s app store = for GPTs will launch next week (3 minute read)

OpenAI's GPT Store will feature custom = apps based on its text-generating AI models. Developers will have to review= OpenAI's updated usage policies and GPT brand guidelines as well as verify= their user profiles before they will be eligible for listing in the store.= Making a bot doesn't require any coding experience - developers can just t= ype the capabilities they want their bots to offer in plain language and a = GPT-building tool will attempt to make it. Bots can be as simple or complex= as a developer wishes. It is unclear whether the GPT Store will launch wit= h a revenue-sharing scheme.
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Quick Links

OpenAI=E2=80=99s news publi= sher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year (2 minute read)

OpenAI offers between $1 million and $5= million a year to license copyrighted news articles to train its AI models= ..
The Random Transformer (44 = minute read)

This blog post provides an end-to-end e= xample of the math within a transformer model with lots of simplification a= nd reduced dimensions.
Nvidia Super refresh confir= med for CES 2024 =E2=80=94 Gigabyte teases GeForce RTX 40-series Super GPUs= (2 minute read)

It is likely that Gigabyte's Aorus Turk= ey graphics board will essentially confirm Nvidia's RTX 40 Super launch.
Tesla adds Powerwall, solar= , and charger to its API for devs (2 minute read)

The release is aimed at increasing the = value of Tesla's distributed energy assets and growing the deployment of it= s energy storage products.
When "Everything" Becomes T= oo Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024 (5 minute read)

An npm package called 'everything' rele= ased in the new year that depended on every other public npm package, creat= ing millions of transitive dependencies, caused storage space to run out an= d system resource exhaustion for anyone that installed it.
The Pulse: Will US companie= s hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? (18 minute read)

Section 176 of the US tax law made it s= o all costs related to R&D cannot be expensed, making bootstrapped soft= ware businesses completely unsustainable.

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