Ramavtar Meena

Engineering Director - Airtel International | Ex VP Engineering @Oxfordcaps | Ex Tech Head @Gaana | Techie at heart| Photography enthusiast

[Reddit, Inc. @Reddit]

We present to you... [drum roll, please!] the final r/place 2022 canvas.

[Hacker News Bot @newsycombinator]

FirefoxPWA: Progressive Web Apps for Firefox https://t.co/rxhOIITRMK

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

We're launching Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro today! They’re unlike any phone we've built before, with a new industrial design, Android 12 with Material You user interface, and running on our custom Google Tensor chip. Can't wait to see how people use them:)
https://t.co/QPvVrCtxvB

[Satyan Gajwani @satyan]

Thank you to our jury members (and @NandanNilekani for being an excellent Chair). Congratulations to all of the winners, and especially @deepigoyal and @sbikh for setting new standards for excellence in Startup India! Go Delhi-NCR :)

[Chris Jones @cjones3D]

Flexpressions
Better quality: https://t.co/GnbdCOvI8D
Info: https://t.co/ZOAxdTUa8J
#b3d #krita

[Syeda Sheraj Ali @Sheraj99]

Free eBook: Architecting Data-intensive SaaS Apps. #BigData #Analytics #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #IoT #IIoT #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #JavaScript #ReactJS #Serverless #DataScientist #Linux #Books #Programming #Coding #100DaysofCode
https://t.co/RLAxIWV1nM

[Sam Altman @sama]

Today OpenAI launched Codex, which is an API that uses AI to write code from natural language.

There's a demo video here: https://t.co/hOOfo3MZlu

[Hacker News Bot @newsycombinator]

‘Master Faces’ That Can Bypass over 40% of Facial ID Authentication Systems https://t.co/WsoIF1l5pG

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Fully disassembled 1988 Volkswagen Golf. 6,843 parts.

Photo by Hans Hansen

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Meet the BionicOpter, a robotic dragonfly that masters the highly complex flight characteristics of instects [source, read more: https://t.co/xr2MZ6duZ6]

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

Today, we are announcing the open source release of DeepLab2, a modern TensorFlow library for deep labeling that aims to facilitate future research on dense pixel labeling by providing a unified, state-of-the-art, and easy-to-use TensorFlow codebase → https://t.co/WOhaO7tl4S

[Adam J Calhoun @neuroecology]

This is not a motherboard - it's the Gwangyang Steel Plant in South Korea, the world's largest steel mill

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

More types of COVID tests.

[jack @jackbutcher]

Two types of ownership.

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

this should be illegal

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

1940s vision of food delivery future:

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Have you ever been asked a brainteaser in a job interview? That’s a big ⚠️

Research at Google found that brainteasers were in no way predictive of job performance. Worse, this paper finds that "narcissism & sadism explained the likelihood of using brainteasers in an interview.”

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Microsoft has done a little brain science. https://t.co/tMbb3yEa2r

[Balaji @balajis]

“Imagine a future where, instead of streaming an ultra-high resolution movie from the Internet, your device is instead given a video stream at 1/2 or even 1/3 of the target resolution, along with a neural network model that had been trained on that specific piece of content.”

[Helen Czerski @helenczerski]

A friend has just shown me this book "Calculus made easy", published in 1914, and I think it's got one of the best prologues I've ever seen. This is *exactly* what textbooks should be doing. And they should all be honest about how terrifying the topic names are too.