I also see a new AI agent workflow framework/platform/library every week and to me the differentiation of this project is clear in the logging, orchestration and auto-scaling. Of course, I don't need trigger.dev to win the market, I was just looking for exactly this for my own project and haven't found anything else like it.
> "Those who invalidate caches know nothing; Those who know retain data." These words, as I am told, were spoken by Lao Tzi. If we are to believe that Lao Tzi was himself one who knew, why did he erase /var/tmp to make space for his project?
-- Poem by Cybernetic Bai Juyi, "The Philosopher [of Caching]"
There were easily visible stairs in my level 1 and level 3, but on level 2 I walked around the whole map twice without finding them. Possibly I was just being oblivious, but I eventually tried moving sideways onto what I thought was a slightly odd looking wall segment (I wish I remembered what exactly made me think it looked odd), and suddenly I was on the next level.
I don't know whether somehow the stairs icon just blended in with the walls unexpectedly well and I managed to not recognize it in that context (which seems possible but hard for me to believe, given how much time I spent walking in circles looking for stairs), or whether something odd was going on with the icon being different or distorted for some reason.
Apple bought a Swedish startup called C3 and their became 3D part of Apple Maps. That startup was a spin-off from Saab Aerospace, who had developed a vision system for terrain-following missiles. Saab ran a project with the municipal innovation agency in Linköping and the result was that they decided this tech should be possible to find civilian use cases for. C3 decided to fly small Cessnas in grids across a few major cities and also Hoover Dam, and built a ton of code on top of the already extremely solid foundation from Saab. The timing was impeccable (now many years ago) and they managed to get Microsoft, Apple and Samsung into a bidding war which drove up the price. But it was worth it for Apple to have solid 3D in Apple Maps and the tech has stood the test of time.
I remember seeing a Nokia or Here demo around that time that looked like similar or the same tech. Do you know anything published about it with technical details? Seems like enough time has passed that it would be more accessible. I would love to learn more about it.
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Very nice explanation. Not oversimplifying and not too detailed. Could anyone care to explain smart contracts in the same balanced fashion? I always struggle to convey my understanding.
In bitcoin you can have a transaction which requires 2 or more people to sign it before the transaction can happen/is considered valid at all.
Smart contracts, is specifying conditions which can be checked in the blockchain, like existence of certain data you expect to be posted in the OP_RETURN (comment-like field) by other transactions. When your conditions are met the "smart-contract" makes/signs and publishes its own transaction, and other contracts can depend on this output of your contract.
For Ethereum, IIRC, inside a transaction you can host a program (contract). A peer who runs your program will use your transaction money to run it (it's called gas) and display the result of the program as part of the new receiving transaction.
Everyone who verifies the contract needs to run the program as well, for free, that's why you can't have big programs.
You can then send new transactions to continue using the program, to interact with it, etc...
If you don't send enough gas, they can't run the program though. (Each functions in a program cost some amount of gas to run.)
In Ethereum and similar systems, a smart contract is a script which can hold funds and various other data. It has functions that can be called by users, which can update data and move money around. The script can also act like a user and call other scripts.
In the future, remember that you heard it from me first: The gulf stream is now coming to a stop.
The warm water that usually is chilled enough to sink to the bottom and be flushed back to the Mexican Gulf to be warmed up again, is now gathering around the north pole instead. It will be a number of warm years until the entire gulf stream comes to a complete stop, then it will be cooold. Winter is coming.
You should visit Iceland and the Nordics while it's still nice there in the summers.
