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Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With Daily Update 2023-01-31 Hire through TLDR's free job board (Sponsor) If you're looking to hire top technical talent, sign up for our free job board. Thousands of engineers, designers, and other tech workers visit the job board each day, and I will be curating the most interesting job listings to showcase in the Jobs section below. Sign up here. 📱 Big Tech & Startups Kuo: Apple to Release Foldable iPad With Carbon Fiber Kickstand in 2024 (2 minute read) Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple will launch a foldable iPad with a carbon fiber kickstand in 2024. There will be no other major iPad releases in the next nine to 12 months. iPad shipments are expected to decline in 2023. Apple is likely using the foldable iPad as a practice run before adopting the technology on the iPhone. Samsung Galaxy S23 Specs, Features and Colors Leaked in AT&T Listing (1 minute read) Samsung will unveil the Samsung S23 handset at its Unpacked event on February 1. An AT&T store in Atlanta posted images of the phone along with details on its website on Monday. The Samsung S23 will be available in four colors: green, creme, lavender, and a 'Phantom' grayish/black. It features an 'automatic adaptive 6.6-inch display', a 50 MP camera with 'Advance Nightography' technology, water resistance, a long-lasting battery, wireless fast charging, and noise cancellation. A screenshot of the AT&T store page is available in the article. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology This Rare Asteroid May Be Worth 70,000 Times the Global Economy. Now NASA Is Sending a Spaceship to Explore It (5 minute read) 16 Psyche is a giant M-Type asteroid thought to be the partial core of a small planet that failed to fully form. NASA is planning to launch a spacecraft towards the asteroid in October. If on schedule, the Psyche spacecraft should reach the asteroid in August 2029. Studies suggest that 16 Psyche may be made almost entirely of iron and nickel. The iron alone could be worth as much as $10 quintillion. The Psyche mission will determine 16 Psyche's composition. Cargo airships could be big (27 minute read) Demand for passenger airships was always going to go to zero as airplanes are much faster. However, freight doesn't require such speed. Airships could be a viable option for shipping containers. The concept is promising, but it also faces numerous challenges. This article discusses how cargo airships could work, their benefits, the potential market size, and potential issues. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science From Zero to Research Scientist full resources guide (GitHub Repo) This repository contains a list of resources for anyone with a basic programming language or computer science background interested in becoming a research scientist with Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing. The list covers machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, and mathematical foundations such as linear algebra, probability, calculus, and optimization theory. Each resource has a difficulty rating. Uptime, status pages, and transparency calculus (6 minute read) Many large service providers' status pages are constantly evergreen, despite actually having widespread issues and outages. While showing almost constant uptime may be strange, the primary purpose of the number is to convey to customers whether they'll be receiving refunds. There are many incentives against companies providing transparent, prompt communication and accurate uptime reporting. For example, service level agreements often have companies committing to a high level of uptime. If this is breached, customers are entitled to compensation. Connect to your cloud resources with Tailscale (Sponsor) Spend more time coding and less time troubleshooting with Tailscale. Now you can connect directly to cloud resources, containers, or virtual machines like they’re on your local network, or connect to an entire VPC using a subnet router. Check out Tailscale today, it’s free. 🎁 Miscellaneous How to find your blind spots (5 minute read) Many skills have a saying among experts similar to 'the key to drawing well is learning to see well'. The ability to debug why things really go wrong is absolutely crucial to improving at things. The bias to blame failures on the most proximal cause of a problem rather than finding the most important cause is harmful. This article discusses strategies to become better at debugging failures. Elon Musk pushes forward with Twitter payments vision (5 minute read) Twitter has applied for regulatory licenses to process payments across the US and is creating payments software for its platform. Elon Musk has previously suggested offering fintech services like peer-to-peer transactions, savings accounts, and debit cards. Twitter registered with the US Treasury in November as a payments processor and is now applying for the state licenses necessary for launch. It aims to have US licensing completed within a year and to expand internationally. ⚡ Quick Links China's biggest search engine is to set launch a ChatGPT rival in March (2 minute read) Baidu plans to launch an AI service powered by its Ernie system that offers conversational results comparable to ChatGPT. Cool things that happened at Scale AI's Generative AI hackathon (11 minute read) A list of the most interesting projects built by the ~300 hackers that attended Scale AI's Generative AI hackathon last week. Tag Systems (11 minute read) A blog post on tag systems that focuses on their design. Ideas to explore — January 2023 (4 minute read) A list of ideas that can be applied to both work and personal life. Exhaustive (GitHub Repo) Exhaustive provides exhaustiveness checking in TypeScript with helpful type inference to ensure all cases are covered. The generative AI revolution has begun—how did we get here? (24 minute read) The current cycle of AI breakthroughs is being fuelled by a new class of models that are extremely flexible and adaptable. 👨‍💻 Jobs Kara - Head of Engineering (Founding Engineer) (United States, $120000 - $170000) Kara is hiring a Head of Engineering to create a platform that empowers investors and technology companies to measure and track their ESG and impact performance, enabling them to achieve their climate and social goals. AREA 17 - Business Development Director (Brooklyn, New York, $130000 - $155000) AREA 17 is hiring a Business Development Director to create digital brand and products to ensure a more open, resilient, and optimistic world. Senseven - Full Stack Developer (Fully Remote, $60000 - $70000) Senseven is hiring a Full Stack Developer to further develop a digital inspection system that allows manufacturing companies to inspect their equipment themselves and increase efficiency. Emotech LTD - Full-Stack Developer (United Kingdom, $50000 - $80000) Emotech LTD is hiring a Full-Stack Developer to develop multi-modality AI, multilingual speech, and multimodal solutions in collaboration with renowned universities. Over a dozen more jobs like these are posted every day on our job board, you can also set alerts to be notified when jobs are posted that fit your exact criteria. If your company would like to hire through our free job board, please sign up here. If your company would like to sponsor TLDR, please take a look at our sponsor page here. If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! Thanks for reading, Dan If you don't want to receive future editions of TLDR, please click here to unsubscribe.