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🔐Distributed Locking: A Practical Guide
🦾Plus: xAI acquires X 💰, Inside Sam Altman's firing 💼
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
💻"Vibe Coding" vs Reality
💳Building Resilient Payment Systems
📊Visual-Focused Algorithms Cheat Sheet
🤖100 Generative AI Use Cases
📖 New book details OpenAI's boardroom drama
🏥 Apple developing AI doctor for Health app
🤖Study suggests AI works just as well as therapists
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create Ghibli style videos with AI
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
This article critiques the emerging "Vibe Coding" trend where programmers rely heavily on LLM agents to generate code with minimal human intervention. While these AI tools show impressive capabilities in creating working prototypes and handling simple tasks, they consistently make elementary mistakes that experienced developers wouldn't tolerate in production environments, including security vulnerabilities and poor code organization.
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Generative AI is transforming industries by enabling innovative solutions across diverse sectors. Google’s report highlights 321 real-world use cases from top organizations, showcasing AI-driven advancements in healthcare, finance, marketing, customer service, and more. These case studies demonstrate how businesses leverage AI for automation, enhanced decision-making, personalized experiences, and operational efficiency
In this article Madeline describes SSENSE transition from synchronous to asynchronous payment processing to overcome challenges of batch processing delays, high traffic surges, and operational complexities. The new system decouples checkout from payment confirmation, allowing orders to enter a 'pending' state while awaiting PSP responses, and uses robust monitoring and data consistency measures to handle transactions effectively.
Nick dive deep into key algorithms that are essential for programmers and technical leaders. He provides a visual-focused overview of important algorithms used in real-world applications, covering various categories including sorting algorithms, searching algorithms, graph algorithms, data compression techniques, machine learning algorithms, and cryptographic algorithms. Each algorithm is explained with its practical applications, time complexity, and illustrated with visual examples to help developers understand when and how to apply these techniques effectively.
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A distributed lock ensures that if one actor (node, service instance, etc.) changes a shared resource—like a database record, file, or external service—no other node can step in until the first node is finished. While the concept is straightforward, implementing it across multiple machines requires careful design and a robust failure strategy.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Postgres Language Server (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a collection of language tools and a Language Server Protocol (LSP) implementation for PostgreSQL.
xan, the CSV magician (GitHub Repo)
xan is a command-line tool that can process CSV files directly from the shell.
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Elon Musk just announced that his AI startup xAI has acquired social media platform X in an all-stock transaction, combining two of his most prominent companies into a new entity called xAI Holdings valued at over $100B. The deal values xAI at $80B and X at $33B, with an additional $12B in debt, bringing X's enterprise value to $45B.
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A new excerpt from the upcoming book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future” by Keach Hagey just detailed the firing and rehiring of Altman in 2023, including internal conflicts, safety, and management issues. The then-CTO Mira Murati and co-founder Ilya Sutskever reportedly gathered evidence documenting instances of Altman’s toxic behavior and dishonesty.
Apple is reportedly planning a revamped Health app codenamed “Project Mulberry” that will feature an AI-powered health coach — hoping to take the company's health offerings from basic tracking to personalized medical guidance.
After launching its new ChatGPT image generator (which went viral for its ability to generate the Japanese animation studio, Studio Ghibli, style images), OpenAI has changed its content moderation policies. After previously blocking these requests for potentially being controversial and harmful, users can now ask ChatGPT to generate images of public figures, hateful symbols, and racial features.
Researchers at Dartmouth College say they’ve conducted the first study that looks at how an LLM trained specifically for therapy performs compared to traditional therapists. The Therabot app was surprisingly effective, reducing symptoms of depression by 51% and of anxiety by 31% — about on par with human-led cognitive therapy.
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AI Tutorial
How to create Ghibli style videos with AI
Go to ChatGPT and create a Ghibli style image of your choice.
Now head over to Hedra AI and sign in with your account.
Upload your Ghibli style image, add prompt explaining gestures and emotions of your character, drop in your script, and hit generate.
Sample Prompt: Turn this image into a live animation. Keep the anime style consistent. Add natural mouth and facial movements to simulate her talking as if she’s hosting a podcast. Occasionally blink her eyes and add subtle head nods or hand gestures to emphasize key points. The background bookshelves and lamp should remain mostly still, but a soft ambient lighting flicker or slight camera zoom could add a sense of depth and realism. Make the overall vibe warm, professional, and engaging.
Wait for a few minutes and you’ll get an amazing Ghibli style video ready.
Download it and share it with others.
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