Token Wisdom ✨ 6th Edition

AmazonGPT, A16z Cicada, Nopia MIDI Synth, iWatch LED, Flipboard Flips the Script, AI Artists + Systems, Quantum Google, Apple Silicon, Ice Cube, Quantum Energy, 1M Wallets = 1 BTC, THOR, NVIDIA leaves Intel + AMD in the Dust, and ATS Ruins Things

Khayyam Wakil
May 29, 2023

🌤 gm! gm! ☀️
Keeping up in this new generative mega-multi-meta-DAO-verse is hard to GPT. That's why I package up a small part of the internet that catches my eye and stirs my mind and share it with you.

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🧈 /2nd Edition - Some People Try to Fool You

I’ve cloned myself and host Hot Buttered Soul on Spotify every two weeks now. This edition guest stars: The O'Jays, Galt MacDermot, Joe Cocker, Otis Redding, Bob James, Johnny Pate, Ann Pebbles, Ramon Morris, Johnny Hammond, Lakeside, Instant Funk, Eugene Wilde, and Betty Davis.

Next week, the 3rd Edition — Respectfully, I Say To Thee.

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Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new.

— Ed Catmull

🔮 A curated collection of consumed knowledge 🔮

How Amazon's ChatGPT Search Will Transform Online Shopping

This announcement didn’t come through a press release, but via job postings, which are often the best ways to gauge a company’s ambition.

thepourquoipas.com

Anonymous Voting System for Ethereum Released by a16z

When combined with group membership systems like Semaphore, Cicada can permanently prevent a voter’s identity from being discovered.

cointelegraph.com

See Why This MIDI Synth Is So Hot: 2.1 Million Views in 6 Days!

No display unit, no labeling, basic construction, and just 12 keys. If you’re wondering why, just give the video above a watch and you’ll realize what makes the Nopia so special.

yankodesign.com

Apple Spinning Up Its Own Micro LED Display Production In Taiwan: Report

Apple is getting directly involved in the development and manufacturing of micro LED displays, but the tech giant’s focus will be on small screens, not big video walls.

sixteen-nine.net

Flipboard Becomes First App to Support Bluesky, Mastodon and Pixelfed All In One Place

Mobile app users can visually browse posts and photos from Bluesky and Pixelfed, comment, favorite, reply, and scroll through custom feeds.

techcrunch.com

Midjourney Artists Pushing the Boundaries of Creativity

Explore the top five emerging artists leveraging AI to redefine creativity. Discover groundbreaking art techniques in this insightful list.

yankodesign.com

The 4 Most Terrifying AI Systems in Science Fiction

From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s "Dune," science fiction helps us realize the increasingly non-fictional dangers of AI.

bigthink.com

Google Just Made A Quantum of a Computing Partnership with Universities

The problem Google is trying to solve here is that present-day quantum computers have an error rate of about one in every 1,000 calculations.

blog.google

The First Apple Silicon: The Aquarius Processor Project

Apple’s first attempt to build its own processor - using a Cray supercomputer. Once running, it’ll be a wonderful Cray On.

thechipletter.substack.com

The Man Who Put Microsoft in the AI Lead

Kevin Scott, the software giant’s CTO, spearheaded the company’s $1 billion OpenAI investment in 2019 and is now shaking up how you use your computer.

semafor.com

The Quest to Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy Out of Nothing

The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent experiments have shown that it works.

wired.com

One Million Individual Wallets Now Hold a Whole Bitcoin

A major bump in such wallets came after the implosion of crypto exchange FTX between November and January.

coindesk.com

THOR Microwave Weapon Hammers Drone Swarms in Demo Test

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has countered the emerging threat of drone swarms, using the Tactical High-power Operational Responder (THOR) to take out multiple targets.

newatlas.com

NVIDIA Leaves AMD + Intel In The Dust In JPMorgan's Artificial Intelligence Report

According to a fresh report from investment bank JPMorgan, chip designer NVIDIA Corporation is slated to benefit from artificial intelligence growth greatly.

wccftech.com

AI Has Infiltrated the Hiring Process — and It's Making It Miserable to Find a New Job

The job search is especially brutal right now: AI is screening out qualified applicants, the labor market is weird, and ghost job listings are everywhere.

businessinsider.com

🤡 Time Well Spent

i have spent today asking: what would be the absolutely dumbest possible UI to accept a software EULA?
— Geoffrey Litt (@geoffreylitt)
May 27, 2023

This is a super fun paper on simulating locomotion for virtual gibbons. You can even play with it - check it out! 😀
— Two Minute Papers (@twominutepapers)
May 27, 2023

Jensen Huang, the founder of Nvidia, just gave a commencement speech in Taiwan.
Like Steve Jobs in 2005, he shared 3 stories — 3 pivotal decisions that led Nvidia to where it is today.
The stories are about humility, perseverance, and focus. Here they are.
— dan.glow (@danqing_liu)
May 28, 2023

Being the only person my age without some doodle-looking tattoo(s) on my arms
— rex 🏊‍♀️ (@guess_what_mimi)
May 27, 2023

When you live in SF but don't work in AI
— Mo (@MoFromYYZ)
May 25, 2023

📺 Time Well Spent

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