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Hello everyone, today I’ve decided to post a curated list of some of the more interesting/impactful advances/stories in tech (over the last month or two). I’m going to provide a brief along with links to the articles so you can check out the full source and make sure that this isn’t fake news. Leave a comment below if you like this kind of content, if not, I will continue with more traditional single-topic focused blog posts going forward. The below posts are not in any particular order.

Bitcoin Power Consumption Jumped 66-Fold Since 2015, Citi Says

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Increased power consumption will result in higher scrutiny, especially in relation to climate change.
The bitcoin network uses around 143 terawatt-hours annually (for scale, this is greater than the entire energy output of Argentina).
Bitcoin mining has exploded in China where fossil fuels are still the main source of energy generation.

Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available

Key points:

Cloudflare have released a DevOps tool similar to Jenkins.
In essence you link your Cloudflare Pages to GitHub and when you push your site gets updated on Cloudflare.
With Cloudflare pages you will get all their security, and hosting in 100 countries.

Linux repo hits 1,000,000 commits

Key points:

Nothing really, I just think this is cool.

GPT-3’s free alternative GPT-Neo is something to be excited about

Key points:

The “Transformer” family of models allow for infinite scalability by just increasing training data and computing power.
Most of the GPT-3 language model’s code is open source, but their data is not.
The Eleuther team created an open source data set called The Pile. The Pile contains 825GB designed to train language models.
GPT-Neo outperforms GPT-3 models with the same amount of training data in top benchmarks

There is a huge amount of data out there and finding interesting articles in and among the listicles can be an arduous task. For my next blog post I’ll dive deeper into where I source my news, and share more interesting articles.

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Nicholas is a chemistry graduate who has worked previously as a project manager, managing director, and caregiver, but not as a chemist. After moving into software engineering in 2018 he has worked on big data, business intelligence, and various full-stack projects in a variety of different languages, platforms and frameworks.

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