Sequoia Capital published a dossier of the top tech cities in Europe with profiles that include the tech business types, employee skills ratings, hiring and business landscape summaries for each city.
China has developed a testing wind tunnel that can operated a speeds up to Mach 30, using a series of timed explosives that off each other onto a single point. This interesting article describes the Chinese breakthrough, as well as the other methods deployed by other wind tunnels. Unfortunately, this new wind tunnel is most likely being used to test a hypersonic nuclear missile.
A few years ago, after about 15 years of avoiding vim, I learnt a few commands to get by, and now I use them every day. I was very excited to come across this great post about vim motions, commands to traverse your code without using a mouse.
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Sequoia Capital surveyed companies across its investment network to see how many companies are using large language models (LLMs), and what frameworks and tools stack they use to deliver their AI powered products. Needless to say, OpenAI enjoys wide adoption among those surveyed.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created a plant based insulin that can be delivered orally and stored at room temperature. Their method seeds lettuce cell walls with human insulin genes using a gene gun, and then selectively breeds generations of the plant that maintains the insulin, which can then be ground up and shelf stored.
Long time readers of Found This Week will know I'm a big fan of both Tim Ferriss and Seth Godin, and as a result I was excited to listen to a recent interview with Seth Godin on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast. Seth has a unique ability to deliver wisdom wrapped up in empathy with a shot of motivation, and this interview did not disappoint.
Nico Tangara created a DIY digital camera with an e-ink screen that shows the last photo taken on the screen until a new one is taken. He used Chat-GPT to generate all the code and 3D printed an enclosure for the Raspberry Pi device.
