Hey there! In my latest blog post, I dive into some fascinating topics, from solar panel technology with the Sunchronizer, new AI advancements like Hermes 3, and brain research breakthroughs, to industry shifts in fashion and gaming. Plus, I explore UX pitfalls, Olympic home workouts, and why anthologies are becoming the new literary magazines. Dive in and explore with me!

• The Sunchronizer Keeps Your Solar Panel Aligned: In the past few years, the price-per-watt for solar panels has dropped dramatically. This has led to a number of downstream effects beyond simple cost savings. For example, many commercial solar fa…
• The n-Category Café:
• Cloud: Introducing Hermes 3 in partnership with Nous Research, the first fine-tune of Meta Llama 3.1 405B model. Train, fine-tune or serve Hermes 3 with Lambda
• Cleaning Up the Aging Brain: Scientists Restore Brain’s Trash Disposal System: Scientists have restored the brain’s waste-clearing process in aging mice, offering potential new treatment for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s using existing drugs.
• We’re Cutting L40S Prices In Half: We just lowered the prices on NVIDIA L40s GPUs to $1.25 per hour. They’re like two 4090s stapled together
• ‘We don’t want to dress like our parents’: If young people no longer wear trainers, what do they wear?: The decline of the sneaker as the shoe par excellence represents an earthquake in the business model of giant urban fashion brands. But it’s also an opportunity to reclaim and modernize other footwear models, such as moccasins
• Guy Sets World Record by Plugging 444 Gaming Consoles into a Single TV: He’s the cable management God.
• TBM 303: The Current Tech Puzzle (With Diverse Takes): Managers are bumping up against many dependencies, duplicative administrative tasks, an onslaught of mind-numbing meetings, constant calls to detail tradeoffs, shifting strategies, and a call to focus more on performance management. To quote a manager friend: “The work around the work is drowning me.”
• Things that Used to be Impossible, but are Now Really Hard: Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft, framed the opportunity in AI this way : work on problems that used to be impossible, but are now really hard. My immediate reaction : what technical problems are now possible but still hard? What can computers achieve by themselves that two or three years ago would be intractable? But, this point isn’t purely about technical innovation. What business problems are newly solvable? Nearly 10 years ago, I wrote a post about the minimum viable average contract value to justify a sales team.
• The Current State of Homepage and Category Navigation UX: 76% of Sites Have Mediocre-to-Poor Performance (12 Common Pitfalls) – Articles – Baymard Institute: Our latest Homepage & Category Navigation UX benchmark reveals that the desktop performance for 76% of leading US and European sites is still “poor”. Here are 12 UX pitfalls to avoid.
• 🧠Knowledge Series #42: What is RAG?: Retrieval-Augmented Generation explained. Why every product team needs to know more about RAG.
• Best Woodstock Performances: Hendrix, The Who & More at 1969 Festival: Here are the 20 most iconic performances at Woodstock 1979, featuring sets from Jimi Hendrix, The Who and more legends who graced the festival.
• Miss the Olympics? Try these Olympic workouts at home.: Four Olympic or Paralympic athletes share home workouts to improve your fitness.
• Returning to growth: The latest publishing news, jobs, analysis, comment, interviews and in-depth features about UK newspaper, magazine and online publishers.
• 4 Reasons Why Anthologies Are the New Literary Magazines: And Why That’s Good for the Reading Community: Here are a few ways anthologies have advantages over the traditional magazine format.