Skype => MS Teams

The technology from Skype is already used in MS Teams, but branding was separate.
On the other side, Skype was also to "proxy" to regular phone lines, that will likely be discontinued. 

"Free" is not really free, someone needs to pay expenses. 
"When you don't see what is the product, then you are the product"

But likely not much can be earned on Skype advertising to justify it... 

The next chapter: Moving from Skype to Microsoft Teams   | Microsoft 365 Blog

In order to streamline ... free consumer communications offerings ...will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free)...

 Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams | The Verge

AI book: The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt

 Ex Google CEO: AI Can Create Deadly Viruses! If We See This, We Must Turn Off AI! - YouTube

Eric Schmidt is the former CEO of Google and co-founder of Schmidt Sciences. He is also the author of bestselling books such as, ‘The New Digital Age’ and ‘Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit’.

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business: Schmidt, Eric, Cohen, Jared: 9780307957139: Amazon.com: Books

Jared Cohen is the founder and CEO of Jigsaw at Alphabet Inc. He also serves as an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to Alphabet, he was Google’s first Director of Ideas and chief advisor to Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt.

Eric Schmidt - Wikipedia

OpenAI GPT-4.5 preview

 Introducing GPT-4.5 | OpenAI

a research preview of GPT‑4.5... largest and best model for chat yet. GPT‑4.5 is a step forward in scaling up pre-training and post-training. By scaling unsupervised learning, GPT‑4.5 improves its ability to recognize patterns, draw connections, and generate creative insights without reasoning.

“It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews - Ars Technica

"The verdict is in: OpenAI's newest and most capable traditional AI model, GPT-4.5, is big, expensive, and slow, providing marginally better performance than GPT-4o at 30x the cost for input and 15x the cost for output. The new model seems to prove that longstanding rumors of diminishing returns in training unsupervised-learning LLMs were correct and that the so-called "scaling laws" cited by many for years have possibly met their natural end." 

Is it?

Ai course: MIT Introduction to Deep Learning | 6.S191

MIT Introduction to Deep Learning | 6.S191 - YouTube

MIT Deep Learning 6.S191

Data Science & Machine Learning: Making Data-Driven Decisions

GitHub - RohitLearner/MIT-Intro-to-Deep-Learning: MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning Labs from Zero to Hero.

EV: BMW 800v structural batteries, like Tesla

it takes time, but direction is right; 48v cabling is still missing, except with Cybertruck.

BMW’s 800v EVs get structural batteries with Teslalike cylindrical cells - YouTube

BMW’s Neue Klasse EVs Could Offer 260-400 kW DC Fast Charging

Tesla Wants Automakers To Adopt Its New 48V Charge Connector The Way They Did With NACS | Carscoops

AI/ML/DS: Datasets @ Kaggle

for training AI/ML models we need data (datasets)

Kaggle is an excellent place to find such data & related code

Find Open Datasets and Machine Learning Projects | Kaggle

Explore, analyze, and share quality data.
Learn more about data types, creating, and collaborating.

examples

US Cars Dataset

Plants Datasets | Kaggle

Plants Type Datasets | Kaggle

A tutorial for COMPLETE BEGINNERS

Learn Python, Data Viz, Pandas & More | Tutorials | Kaggle

Kaggle Tutorial - YouTube

Data Science Tutorial for Beginners

AI: Claude 3.7 Sonnet & Code by Anthropic

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code \ Anthropic

(Anthropic's) most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model on the market. Claude 3.7 Sonnet can produce near-instant responses or extended, step-by-step thinking that is made visible to the user. API users also have fine-grained control over how long the model can think for.

BREAKING: Claude 3.7 just dropped and it's insane (best code model ever) - YouTube by Theo - t3․gg


Claude 3.7 "Thinking" SUPER CODER... With One Big Flaw?! - YouTube by Matthew Berman

AI + DotNet: Extensions.AI

From creator of .net Blazor, a new AI-helper .net tool

Introducing Microsoft.Extensions.AI Preview - Unified AI Building Blocks for .NET - .NET Blog

packages provide the .NET ecosystem with essential abstractions for integrating AI services into .NET applications and libraries, along with middleware for adding key capabilities.

.NET Rocks! AI Extensions for .NET with Steve Sanderson

Računari: Dejanove Pitalice

in Serbian

Computers in your home

Racunari u vasoj kuci - elektronsko izdanje

Dejan Ristanović - Wikipedia

Dejan Ristanovic Home Page - English

Galaksija i Računari ponovo u vašoj kući

Racunari Magazine 1986 01.zip : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Racunari Magazine 1987 08.zip : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Racunari Magazine 1990 01 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Racunari Magazine 1992 07 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

AI: Copilot PG: VS Code: Chat DBA for PostgreSQL extension

PG Chat Participant - Visual Studio Marketplace

This is an experimental chat participant that uses Copilot to query your PostgreSQL database.

Creates queries and other fun things with your Postgres database. Use chat to create tables, views, and run queries, right in your editor. Output the results as JSON or CSV.

The entire public schema of your database will be loaded up to Copilot for each query. 

looking for albums by AC/DC:

@pg show all albums by 'AC/DC'

Copilot's response:

SELECT album.title
FROM album
JOIN artist ON album.artist_id = artist.artist_id
WHERE artist.name = 'AC/DC';

GitHub - microsoft/copilot-pg: A DBA copilot extension

.NET Rocks! Viper.NET with Rob Conery podcast

Rob Conery works at Microsoft with the VS Code team, creating content for YouTube as well as contributing to open source projects

Creating a search catalog in PostgreSQL using full text indexing - YouTube

Using PostgreSQL to Handle Calendar Data Like a Freak - YouTube

EV bankruptcies

Who would have guessed there are so many (failed) EV brands...

Rivian and Lucid are loosing money, while still funded somehow

most of more than 100 EV brands in China are also loosing money

and most of major car brans are loosing money on EV sales, too.

At the same time Tesla is making money on EVs.

Not all efforts and results are equal, it helps to work from "first principles"

 Nikola filed for bankruptcy. Meet the other failed EV startups

• Nikola
• Fisker
• Canoo
• Lordstown
• Coda
• Bright Automotive
• Arrival
• Sono Motors
• Electric Last Mile Solutions
• Proterra

Nikola, an American EV-Truck Startup, Has Filed for Bankruptcy

email testing tool: Mailpit (GoLang)

GitHub - axllent/mailpit: An email and SMTP testing tool with API for developers

Mailpit - email & SMTP testing tool

Mailpit is a small, fast, low memory, zero-dependency, multi-platform email testing tool & API for developers.

It acts as an SMTP server, provides a modern web interface to view & test captured emails, and contains an API for automated integration testing (read more).

Arc Institute: AI & Biology research

Arc Institute.org

"Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Arc is a nonprofit research organization founded on the belief that many important scientific programs can be enabled by new organizational models. Arc operates in partnership with Stanford University, UCSF, and UC Berkeley.

Arc gives scientists no-strings-attached, multi-year funding, so that they don’t have to apply for external grants, and invests in the rapid development of experimental and computational technological tools."

Arc Institute - Wikipedia

well described in All-in podcast with Stripe co-founders, that are also co-founders of Arc Institute

The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private - YouTube

env config tools: Viper.net & Viper.go

GitHub - tailwind-traders-dev/Viper.Net: A riff on Go's Viper project which is useful for reading config stuff

This project is inspired by The Viper project from Go land, but it's a bit lighter in terms of what it does and, hopefully, allows you to work with environment variables in a more straightforward way

GitHub - spf13/viper: Go configuration with fangs

• Viper is a complete configuration solution for Go applications including 12-Factor apps. It is designed to work within an application, and can handle all types of configuration needs and formats.
  
  
• .NET Rocks! Viper.NET with Rob Conery podcast
• HitnMix
  PG Chat Participant
• Configuration in .NET
• Configuring an App Service
• MailPit
• Free GitHub Copilot for VS Code
• Dapper
• Dapper.Contrib

Rob Conery - YouTube

AI tutorial by Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT - YouTube

Andrej Karpathy - YouTube

Links

• ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/
• FineWeb (pretraining dataset): https://huggingface.co/spaces/Hugging...
• Tiktokenizer: https://tiktokenizer.vercel.app/
• Transformer Neural Net 3D visualizer: https://bbycroft.net/llm
• llm.c Let's Reproduce GPT-2 https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c/dis...
• Llama 3 paper from Meta: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21783
• Hyperbolic, for inference of base model: https://app.hyperbolic.xyz/
• InstructGPT paper on SFT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155
• HuggingFace inference playground: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hugging...
• DeepSeek-R1 paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948
• TogetherAI Playground for open model inference: https://api.together.xyz/playground
• AlphaGo paper (PDF): https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint...
• AlphaGo Move 37 video:    • Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo  Move 37 reactio...  
• LM Arena for model rankings: https://lmarena.ai/
• AI News Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/ainews
• LMStudio for local inference https://lmstudio.ai/

• The visualization UI I was using in the video: https://excalidraw.com/
• The specific file of Excalidraw we built up: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EZh5...
• Discord channel for Eureka Labs and this video:   / discord  

AI LLMs: prompt engineering

Prompt Engineering | Coursera

Prompt Engineering Guide | Prompt Engineering Guide .ai

 Prompt Hacking: Understanding Types and Defenses for LLM Security

Prompt hacking is a term used to describe attacks that exploit vulnerabilities of LLMs, by manipulating their inputs or prompts. Unlike traditional hacking, which typically exploits software vulnerabilities, prompt hacking relies on carefully crafting prompts to deceive the LLM into performing unintended actions.

Prompt Engineering for Generative AI  |  Machine Learning  |  Google for Developers

ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers - DeepLearning.AI

AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead - IEEE Spectrum 
"Long live AI prompt engineering"

Build safe and responsible generative AI applications with guardrails | AWS Machine Learning Blog

AI: Augment Code; Grok 3 vs...

Based on this video, AI models are still struggling with writing good code... 

Grok 3 is an...interesting model. - YouTube by Theo - t3.gg

Augment Code – Developer AI for real work

The first AI coding assistant built for professional software engineers and large codebases.

meaning of the chart?

A real-time index for your codebase: Secure, personal, scalable

Welcome to T3 Chat - T3 Chat

𝗼3-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶 𝘃𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗸-𝗿1 | LinkedIn

The prompt: "write a Python program that shows a ball bouncing inside a spinning hexagon. The ball should be affected by gravity and friction, and it must bounce off the rotating walls realistically"

AI: DeepSeek-R1@ Amazon Bedrock & SageMaker

 DeepSeek-R1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart | AWS Machine Learning Blog

"DeepSeek-R1 is a large language model (LLM) developed by DeepSeek-AI that uses reinforcement learning to enhance reasoning capabilities through a multi-stage training process from a DeepSeek-V3-Base foundation. A key distinguishing feature is its reinforcement learning (RL) step, which was used to refine the model’s responses beyond the standard pre-training and fine-tuning process.

DeepSeek-R1 uses a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture and is 671 billion parameters in size. The MoE architecture allows activation of 37 billion parameters, enabling efficient inference by routing queries to the most relevant expert “clusters.” This approach allows the model to specialize in different problem domains while maintaining overall efficiency. DeepSeek-R1 requires at least 800 GB of HBM memory in FP8 format for inference. In this post, we will use an ml.p5e.48xlarge instance to deploy the model. ml.p5e.48xlarge comes with 8 Nvidia H200 GPUs providing 1128 GB of GPU memory."

Quantum processor: Microsoft Majorana 1

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing - Source

Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog

"the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) powered by a Topological Core, 

designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip."

Majorana 1 Explained: The Path to a Million Qubits - YouTube

AI/ML: Overfitting vs Underfitting

Model Fit: Underfitting vs. Overfitting - Amazon Machine Learning

What is Overfitting? - Overfitting in Machine Learning Explained - AWS

Underfit models experience high bias—they give inaccurate results for both the training data and test set. 

On the other hand, overfit models experience high variance—they give accurate results for the training set but not for the test set. More model training results in less bias but variance can increase. 

Data scientists aim to find the sweet spot between underfitting and overfitting when fitting a model. A well-fitted model can quickly establish the dominant trend for seen and unseen data sets.

xAI: Grok3 Launch

XAI LAUNCHES GROK 3 [FULL REPLAY] - YouTube (Wes Roth)

xAI’s Mind Blowing Grok 3 Demo w/Elon Musk & Team (full replay) - YouTube

Elon's Grok-3 Just Beat EVERYONE?! - YouTube

𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸 3 — 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝘁 "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵." | LinkedIn

Grok3 Launch / X

Musk's xAI Debuts Grok-3 AI Model - YouTube

Elon Musk’s xAI releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3 | TechCrunch

SQLite in Rust: Turso Limbo + libSQL

 Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust with Glauber Costa, CEO at Turso (Changelog Interviews #626)

Introducing Limbo: A Complete Rewrite of SQLite in Rust

Limbo on GitHub
Limbo is a work-in-progress, in-process OLTP database management system,
compatible with SQLite.


Antithesis


SQLite Copyright


Upcoming Changes to the Turso Platform and Roadmap


My Story by pthorpe92.dev

GitHub - tursodatabase/libsql: libSQL is a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions.

libSQL is an open source, open contribution fork of SQLite

• libSQL server for remote SQLite access, similar to PostgreSQL or MySQL

Google Gemini AI

Google AI is evolving; The new focus / marketing is on "Gemini" AI models
It is available as

• integrated with Google search; free, no control, search only
  
  
• Google One subscription: $20/month, 1 month free trial); that includes
• chatbot
• gmail + google docs integration
• NO API
  
  
• Google cloud subscription: 90 days, $300 free trial
• this include AI API access

While Google Gemini AI models have some advance capabilities (context size 2 M tokens)
for full access API is required, so Google Cloud is required.

//gemini.google.com/

Long context  |  Generative AI  |  Google Cloud

Free cloud features and trial offer  |  Google Cloud Free Program

Gemini (chatbot) - Wikipedia

JSON Query language

JSON Query - a small, flexible, and expandable JSON query language

A small, flexible, and expandable JSON query language.

Documentation: https://github.com/jsonquerylang/jsonquery

EV for $5500 (by GM, in China)

GM massively improves the $5500 Wuling Hongguang EV hatchback - YouTube

Wuling Hongguang Mini EV - Wikipedia

sold 1.1m, best selling EV in China

AI: RAG tutorials

RAG Is (almost) All You Need! | LinkedIn

Any RAG solution requires, first to convert your data into embeddings, and then to store them on a specific data base for that purpose, aka vectorDB.  

✔️ Vanilla RAG: https://lnkd.in/dPf3x92e
✔️ Advanced RAG: https://lnkd.in/dPVa7enW
✔️ Multi modal RAG: https://lnkd.in/dkBkJqEt
✔️ Agentic RAG: https://lnkd.in/dtM9FMHA

my new AWS AI certification

last year I did a similar certification on Azure AI... now AWS AI

AWS Certified AI Practitioner Early Adopter - Credly

AWS Certified AI Practitioner Certification | AWS Certification | AWS

useful training classes:

[NEW] Ultimate AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 | Udemy

[Practice Exams] AWS Certified AI Practitioner - AIF-C01 | Udemy

by Stephane Maarek

Mastering AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 - Hands On! | Udemy

by Frank Kane

the same classes are available as a part of subscription, and for library members at

Udemy Business (Gale)

bun.js: 5x faster access to aws s3

 Bun 1.2 - YouTube

https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.2

food: Regenerative Organic Certified

Regenerative Organic Certified: Farm like the world depends on it

With regenerative organic agriculture, we can rehabilitate soil, respect animal welfare, and improve the lives of farmers. We can sequester carbon, build healthier communities, and reap more nutritious and abundant yields.

Regenerative agriculture - Wikipedia

data: countries

List of countries by GDP (nominal) - Wikipedia

To link from a Wikipedia page to Wikidata, you can use the "Wikidata item" link in the "Tools" side panel.

list of countries by GDP (nominal) - Wikidata (no data for some reason?)

List of countries by population (United Nations) - Wikipedia

list of countries by population - Wikidata

List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - Wikipedia

list of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - Wikidata (empty?)

Powerful AI speech by JD Vance

VP JD Vance on the future of artificial intelligence - YouTube

US Vice President JD Vance is delivers a keynote speech for the final day of the Paris AI Summit, marking his first foreign trip since taking office as vice president. The Vice President warned global leaders and tech CEOs that “excessive regulation” would kill the rapidly growing AI industry.

course: GenAI & LLMs, by DeepLearning.AI & AWS @ Coursera

Generative AI with Large Language Models | Coursera

learn the fundamentals of how generative AI works, and how to deploy it in real-world applications.

• Generative AI use cases, project lifecycle, and model pre-training
• Fine-tuning and evaluating large language models
• Reinforcement learning and LLM-powered applications

DeepLearning.AI: Start or Advance Your Career in AI

AI: Artificial Synonyms

"AI" needs a better name :)

makes a bad marketing!

What If You Start Eating Honey Every Day For 30 Days? - YouTube

AI sometimes makes big mistakes in summaries

64 Synonyms & Antonyms for ARTIFICIAL | Thesaurus.com

Strongest matches:  man-made, synthetic, unnatural
Strong matches: counterfeit, ersatz, factitious, manufactured
Weak matches: faked, false, imitation, mock, not genuine, plastic, simulated,substitute