🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #203

Thursday energy is here - let's make the most of it!

#GoogleMaps - A politician in India is calling out Google Maps for causing fatal accidents, but experts say it's not the app's fault, it's India's crazy road system! Apparently, road names and addresses aren't standardized, making it hard for any navigation app to keep up.

#Anthropic - Irony. Anthropic, maker of AI tool Claude, is worried about people using AI to fake their job applications. Meanwhile, they're the ones creating tools that make it hard to detect what's human-written and what's not.

#Deno-v/s-Oracle - Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js and Deno is getting slammed by Oracle after trying to cancel their JavaScript trademark. Oracle's now stalling the process, saying their shady actions don't matter, and trying to shift the focus away from the real issue: JavaScript is an open standard, not an Oracle product.

TED, The Organisation Behind Ted Talks Is Looking For A New Leader
TED is a renowned nonprofit known for its TED Talks, featuring experts from tech, humor, culture, and more. After 25 years, Chris Anderson is stepping back and looking for a new leader with a solid plan for its future; open call to all, no salary or financial gain expected.

OpenAI Unveils New Visual Identity
openAI, the company behind ChatGPT, just released a whole new visual identity, including a custom typeface called OpenAI Sans, a redesigned logo, and a fresh color scheme. The company's design team worked with external partners to create a more cohesive and human-centered look that still conveys their authority in AI research and tech.

Threads - Custom feeds can now be shared publicly, allowing others to access and pin your curated content streams.

Best Practices to Secure Web Applications - The video discusses essential strategies for robust web application security, emphasizing a multi-layered approach beyond authentication and authorization. It covers secure coding practices, input validation, error handling, logging, and safe file upload management to strengthen defenses against cyber threats.

Let’s run a tiny chess neural network by hand! - The video explores creating and running a minimal chess neural network by hand, inspired by a challenge to play chess using a paper-based neural network. It examines the smallest possible neural networks for chess, discussing their feasibility with pen, paper, or a calculator, offering a refreshing contrast to modern large-scale neural networks.

AI Programming Limitations
A Tech entrepreneur argues that AI-powered coding tools are flawed, as they rely on imprecise "conversations" rather than systematic documentation, hindering the development of serious software, and emphasizing the need for AI tools that utilize English as a programming language through written documents.

Insights From Inside A Dating App
A former employee of a dating app shares observations on user behavior and ranking systems, including the disparity in like-to-pass ratios between men and women (5% for men, 38% for women) and the impact of physical appearance on matching.

5 Ways A Staff Engineer Uses AI To Boost Productivity
Software engineer shares personal experience using large language models (LLMs) to write production code, throwaway code, learn new domains, and aid in bug fixes and proofreading, highlighting the high-leverage benefits of LLMs in programming.