Weekly Thing 264 / Dazed, Zany, Llama
October 7, 2023
This edition covers topics like the psychological effects of self-view on screens, the high costs of compute power for AI, the release of Amazon's Bedrock generative AI service, the launch of Raspberry Pi 5, the comparison of regular US dollars and PyUSD stablecoins from PayPal, the importance of settlement speed in transactions, Meta's release of the Llama 2 Long AI model, the rise of synthetic social networks, a tool called nomnoml for creating UML diagrams, challenges to building a customer-obsessed organization, and the launch of Google Pixel 8.