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Friday, September 15, 2023

In This Edition:
How to talk with children about climate change, low power underwater communication, a developer's guide to using LLMs, non-contact ultrasound, AI Scraper, & screenshots to AI notes!

Low Power Underwater Communication

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Researchers at MIT have developed a low power, no battery underwater backscatter communication system, which is made from piezoelectric materials that detect and reflect encoded data using background sound waves. The system can theoretically transmit over kilometer long ranges, and could be used to provide data connectivity to offshore monitoring stations or renewable energy systems.

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A Developer's Guide To Using LLMs

Image: Jessitron

Jessitron published a useful post to guide developers on how to start using large language models (LLMs).

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Non-contact Ultrasound

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Researchers from MIT and MGH have developed a non-contact based ultrasound device that uses skin-safe lasers to induce ultrasound waves, mounter on a robot arm.

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AI Scraper

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AI Scraper is a new tool built by Nick Pestov that scrapes websites based on a prompt and returns JSON formatted data.

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Screenshots To AI Notes

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Trickle allows you to upload screenshots and automatically extract the content, add it to a library, and interact with it as an AI model.

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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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