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Friday, July 15, 2022

In This Edition:
James Webb Telescope first images, Bloom language generator, GPT-3 explains code, car-free cities, & drug smuggling drone submarines!

I've been watching the new seasons (3) of The Orville, which starts off slow, but episodes 5 & 6 are emotional rollercoasters which stay with you long after viewing.

James Webb Telescope First Images

Image: NASA

NASA released the first set of images captured by the new James Webb telescope, and they are incredible!

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Bloom Language Generator

Image: Huggingface.co

Bloom is a new machine learning language model built with 176 billion parameters, which can generate text from an initial prompt for 46 natural languages and 13 programming languages.

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GPT3 Explains Code

Image: Simon Willison

Simon Willison demonstrates how GPT-3 can be used to explain code, at multiple levels of complexity, and can even compare two (SQL) queries for efficiency.

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Car Free Cities

WIRED published an interesting article looking at the advantages of car-free cities for people's health and the environment. The piece touches on how the interwoven nature of identity and car ownerships puts people off car-free cities, until they are experienced.

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Drug Smuggling Submarine Drones

Image: Spanish Police

Spanish Police three submarine drones that were being used between Gibraltar and Morocco to smuggle 200kg of drugs.

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About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in London. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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