Image: Crane, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
Illustrator Leonard Cemineau created this great depiction of the different types of Climate Delay.
Image: University of Pennsylvania
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created a plant based insulin that can be delivered orally and stored at room temperature. Their method seeds lettuce cell walls with human insulin genes using a gene gun, and then selectively breeds generations of the plant that maintains the insulin, which can then be ground up and shelf stored.
Image: Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital surveyed companies across its investment network to see how many companies are using large language models (LLMs), and what frameworks and tools stack they use to deliver their AI powered products. Needless to say, OpenAI enjoys wide adoption among those surveyed.
Image: GitHub
Want to teach yourself computer science, including quantum computing and machine learning? Then check out this free computer science curriculum if you do.
Image: Barbarian Meets Coding
A few years ago, after about 15 years of avoiding vim, I learnt a few commands to get by, and now I use them every day. I was very excited to come across this great post about vim motions, commands to traverse your code without using a mouse.
Image: New Atlas, SCMP
China has developed a testing wind tunnel that can operated a speeds up to Mach 30, using a series of timed explosives that off each other onto a single point. This interesting article describes the Chinese breakthrough, as well as the other methods deployed by other wind tunnels. Unfortunately, this new wind tunnel is most likely being used to test a hypersonic nuclear missile.
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.
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