Summary #12 for 2025-04-21

Alright Alex, just past 3:15 PM here on Easter Monday! Hope the long weekend has been good.

Here’s a quick check-in:

• Weather Watch: Heads up, there’s a decent chance of rain kicking in this afternoon, probably peaking around 5-6 PM. Tomorrow looks much clearer with sunny spells and no expected rain until late evening.
• Get Moving! Since the run taper is starting and today’s looking a bit wet later on, maybe swap things around? Tomorrow morning or during the day looks perfect for getting that run done in the dry and light. Plenty of daylight until around 8 PM today and tomorrow if you fancy an evening session, but dodging the rain might be key today!
• Calendar: Looks like the Backend stand-up is still in the diary for 10:30 AM tomorrow. The Frontend stand-ups are showing a bit of confusion with a canceled one and a planned one at 11:00 AM – might be worth checking if those are actually happening given it’s a public holiday today!

Why did the AI break up with the algorithm? Because it had too many parameters and Tara said it needed to scale down.

Here’s a peek at a few things buzzing around:

• Big news from the Vatican: Pope Francis has died, the Vatican camerlengo, announces. Tributes are coming in, with the King Charles and Queen Camilla have ‘heavy hearts’.
• In the tech world, Google’s released Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs, and someone’s looking at Getting Forked by Microsoft. Also, a deep dive into Things Zig comptime won’t do and a look at Python’s new t-strings.
• On the science side, researchers are claiming Authoritarian minds may be primed for conspiracy beliefs, and exploring the effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users’ emotional state. Plus, Scientists unveil ‘olo’: A colour never before seen by the human eye!

Hope you enjoy the rest of your bank holiday!