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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 13, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, New York City Loses Power in 1977, John F. Kennedy Nominated for Presidency in 1960, Live Aid Concert Organized in 1985, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Should You Mine Bitcoin with Everminer? to Benchmarking Apache Kafka: Performance-per-price, let’s dive right in.


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machine-learning

Gone Are Those Days of AI

TL;DR AI has truly evolved over the past decade - from a baby to a beast. Here I quickly summarise what has changed

By @aibites [ 5 Min read ]

This week, I am taking a slight detour from my usual articles that explain AI Concepts or coding tutorials. Yes, it's a philosophical, nostalgic tour down the road I was fortunate enough to tread all along.

Hope that was useful.


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machine-learning

Empathy in AI: Evaluating Large Language Models for Emotional Understanding

TL;DR A discussion of how LLM base AIs vary dramatically in their ability to both be empathetic and identify empathy.

By @anywhichway [ 9 Min read ]

The two LLMs tested for empathetic dialog were Meta Llama 3 70B and Open AI Opus 3. Each was tested under the following conditions:

Conversation

LLM

AI Ranked Empathy

AI Ranked AI Likelihood

My Empathy Assessment

My Ranked AI Likelihood

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Meta

2.6

2.2

5

2

2

Meta

3.4..

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business

Breaking Down Organizational Barriers to Accelerate Software Development

TL;DR How to Identify Organizational Bottlenecks which could block software development.

By @hacker9096769 [ 9 Min read ]

In this article, I will outline areas within a company’s organization that can significantly hinder feature delivery. I will also suggest directions to investigate to identify root causes, which can then be escalated or resolved within your level of authority.

Annotation

Consider these aspects:..

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data-science

Benchmarking Apache Kafka: Performance-per-price

TL;DR This is a study comparing environments for Apache Kafka. The ultimate goal is to find the most effective setup and achieve the best price-performance ratio.

By @mishaepikhin [ 8 Min read ]

In this article, I present a study comparing environments for Apache Kafka. The ultimate goal is to find the most effective setup and achieve the best price-performance ratio.

I picked these versions for the first comparison:

Once the versions were defined, I prepared a few scripts to build Kafka images using Amazon Correto and OpenJDK...

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web3

Should You Mine Bitcoin with Everminer?

TL;DR Everminer is a new Bitcoin mining service aimed at absolute beginners that offers lifetime income from a dedicated slice of Bitcoin mining hashrate.

By @szarka [ 9 Min read ]

Not so fast. So far we’ve made two heroic assumptions:

1. Today’s hashprice of 77 sats/TH will last forever.

Not to be a Debbie Downer, but we might want to consider what happens if those assumptions don’t hold...

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On This Day

New York City Loses Power

A 25-hour blackout hit the New York City area, affecting millions of people and causing widespread looting and arson. The event led to increased investment in power grid infrastructure and more reliable backup systems.

Poll Of the Week

How interested are you in the emerging Twitter alternatives?

Meta just announced a Twitter clone, while new alternatives to the blue bird app seem to be popping up everywhere lately.

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0% I'm curious about Meta's Twitter alternative.

0% I currently use Mastodon

0% I'm sticking with Twitter for now.

0% I do not use social media.

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