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Ideas are Dimes a Dozen: Large Language Models for Idea Generation in Innovation

Link: Ideas are Dimes a Dozen: Large Language Models for Idea Generation in Innovation: "Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT series have shown remarkable capabilities in generating fluent and coherent text in various domains. We compar"

I often say that ideas are cheap. And by that I mean that everyone has a million decent ideas. The art/trick/skill is to know how to turn that one idea into something that people want, use, benefit from, and maybe are willing to pay for. That's why I don't often worry about "who had that idea originally" (and that includes me) but am more impressed with "who was able to execute successfully around that idea". And so, I don't doubt (from personal experience) that LLMs now and more so every day, will accelerate finding, sorting through, testing and challenging, ideas that lead to startups that work. Here's a paper on that very question.

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Ifttt

Link: Ifttt: "Get started with IFTTT, the easiest way to automate your favorite apps and devices for free. Make your home more relaxing. Make your work more productive. We..."

What a wonderful tool!

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The Consequences of One’s First Programming Language annotated/explained version.

Link: The Consequences of One’s First Programming Language annotated/explained version.: "Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers."

Here's an interesting article, which does not really deliver on the title IMO. I am not even sure how to count the first language. For me, was it Basic (the language that got me hooked) or Pascal (the language used in college) or Assembly language (the first language I used professionally.)

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bytes: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence • And Understanding UTF-8 Encoding

Link: bytes: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence • And Understanding UTF-8 Encoding: "The bytes data type looks a bit like a string, but it isn't a string. Let's explore it and also look at the main Unicode encoding, UTF-8"

Ever wanted to understand UTF8 better? Every programming language does it a little different but utf8 is utf8. This article explains it well, in general, and specifically for python.

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Do I not like Ruby anymore?

Link: Do I not like Ruby anymore?: "steenuil's blog"

This is almost exactly how I feel about Ruby and Python. I use Python more now and I really like the way they did type hints. I really dislike what Ruby did. Who needs a second file to deal with. It's back to C header files! So fundamentally I know Ruby better and there are multiple things that I miss. Surprisingly I have gotten totally used to Python's indentation based blocks. I hated those initially. Now I still hate Python's braindead way of creating and working with classes. But... Python is growing on me!