Jake Jarvis

With the launch of Grok 3, xAI is pushing the boundaries of AI reasoning, leveraging a massive GPU-powered infrastructure to create what Musk calls a "maximally truth-seeking AI." While xAI claims Grok 3 surpasses GPT-4o in key benchmarks, questions remain about its real-world applications, its political neutrality, and its role in the AI arms race. Given Musk’s vision of open-sourcing older models while keeping the latest iterations proprietary, how do you see this shaping the broader AI ecosystem—will it fuel innovation or reinforce closed AI development? #X #Ai #Grok #ElonMusk #Innovation #TechNews

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🚀 GUI for editing Mermaid Class Diagrams! If you’ve ever worked with class diagrams, you know how powerful they are. The latest update to the Mermaid Visual Editor makes editing them easy! 🌟 Check out our latest blog post for a detailed walkthrough of all the new features: https://lnkd.in/dsp6NxBb #MermaidCharts #UML #VisualEditor #ClassDiagrams #Productivity #TechUpdate

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🚀 Tired of writing 50 Tailwind classes just to style a single item? And then reusing them feels like a chore? 😩 Say hello to Tailwind utilities! 🎉 Just add the below lines to your global.css: @layer utilities { .input-class { @apply text-16 placeholder:text-16 rounded-lg border border-gray-300 text-gray-900 placeholder:text-gray-500; } } Now, use "input-class" anywhere & enjoy cleaner, reusable styles! 🔥 #TailwindCSS #DevTips

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Ever notice how gaming and predictive modeling are basically playing the same game? [cue me taking my best shot at tabletop snooker] While I might need more practice with tiny pool cues, I’ve gotten pretty good at helping gaming companies nail their predictions. And honestly? The parallels are striking. In snooker, you’re constantly calculating angles, predicting ball trajectories, planning three shots ahead. In gaming analytics, you’re predicting player lifetime value, calculating optimal acquisition spend, planning retention strategies weeks in advance. Gaming companies sitting on mountains of player data often don’t realize they’re one step away from transforming their entire business model. You already track everything. Now imagine knowing: * Which Day-1 players will become your VIPs by Day-30 * Exactly when a valuable player is about to churn (and how to keep them) * Your predicted LTV on Day-7 instead of waiting months to find out You don’t need a PhD in data science, just like you don’t need to be a professional snooker player to enjoy the game. Gaming studios using predictive modeling are seeing 30-40% improvements in user acquisition ROI. That’s not luck. That’s playing with foresight.

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Another helpful hint (and this one's going to get lots of argument): Let's talk about commenting code. There are 3 schools of thought, and all have been vehemently supported by supervisors of mine in previous jobs: 1. Comment everything because that's your documentation. 2. Comments suck and take up vertical space. Don't use them. 3. Comment only what's needed and make them good comments. The followers of #1 are assuming that well-commented code means you don't have to write any documentation about how your code works. Since only 1 in 1000 (or fewer) programmers know how to comment code properly, that means most production code has NO documentation, which is a shame. The biggest complaint from the #2 supporters is that, besides taking up space (who doesn't have a mouse with a scroll wheel these days?) they're never accurate and they're not maintained by the author. A comment will say "I'm setting Y to 50 here to start" and then later the code is changed and Y is set to 60. The comment is now wrong. #3 fans know how to comment code. I'm in this group and it's a very, very small group. Here's how you comment code: 1. DO add a header to every public function that doesn't just point out what it does, but demonstrates how the function is used, what the input params are, and what the output is expected to be. Someone else can code a call to this function in his code and know how it works without having to read and decipher everything IN the function. Use the /// comment block. 2. DON'T comment code that is blindingly obvious: // Set x to 5. x = 5; Not only is this pointless, but if x eventually changes to 6, we have to remember to change the comment. 3. DO comment any block of code that is NOT obvious or could be interpreted several ways. These comments show your intent, not your method. // I do this because in some cases it gets set to null elsewhere. var thing = GetThingOrNull(); These rules will give you files with minimal, necessary comments that you don't have to maintain and that show the reader what you were thinking when you wrote the code, which is the one thing they can't get all the time from just reading the code itself. #hugheshelpfulhints

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