🏎️ Chips Race

🏁 It’s all about speed now.

The big guys are fighting over which chip will be faster and which LLM is more superior to others. We believe that this is just a beginning of the bigger things to come in the future.

And while we wait, give yourself a present of a pack of more relatable news with another edition of HyperDigest.

📈 Job Market

A Comprehensive List of 2023 & 2024 Tech Layoffs

The layoff rally is continuing, and the end is nowhere in foresight. Remember when we talked about dreaming of joining the FAANG company as a bad idea? Take a look at this chronicle of never-ending layoffs in this article and finally reconsider.

100 Best Jobs in 2024

But hey, not everything is that bad. US news just recently has updated their list of 100 best jobs in 2024, and four out of the top-10 are still tech-related. So you’re not late to the party and still have a chance in getting the best job. Read more on the subject in the article.

🤖 AI Hacks

Prompt Engineer

So apparently there’s a GPT, which can help you create your own prompts. Some can call it a recursion; we’d like to call it a self-solving problem. If you want to create your very own personal assistant, there’s no better time to do it.

Browse AI

Browse AI promises to make it easy for you to automate tasks and extract data from websites without being a developer. Also-also, it has numerous prebuilt robots for LinkedIn, Glassdoor (job search, anyone?), Reddit and Google Marketplace.

🖥️ Useful Tutorials

Fiber-Optic Hits 301 Tbps

Let us explain the headline a little. The researchers hit a rate of 301 terabits per second — equivalent to transferring 1,800 4K movies over the internet in one second — using existing fiber-optic cables. How is it possible, you ask? Well, read the tutorial for more details and try to comprehend it.

Introduction to Debugging with Logging Library

This topic will be much more grounded and easier to understand. Let's take a few steps back. Have you ever encountered an exception in your code that caused it to halt immediately? For each function that you write, you can always create some tests to ensure that the execution is correct. Read a tutorial from one of our advocates on how to debug the right way.

🎧️ Listen to the First Music Album by Hyperskill

Just this week, we finished and released on all major platforms our first music album “Sounds of Java”. Now you can learn to code while listening to Hyperskill EP — what a joy!

• 6 tracks to listen to on any of your devices

• For the fans of techno, synth wave, and cyberpunk

• A hidden message in the lyrics

📺 GitHub Projects

AI-Writing-Detection

This one is for the teachers, professors, and everybody who is dealing with a lot of AI-generated text. This tool will parse the inputted text into numerous existing AI writing detection tools and return the results to you. So, in the end, you will save A LOT of time, hopefully.

Fast-Data-Transfer

While we wait for the new optic fiber technology to be implemented, you can try optimizing the way you transfer your data with this nifty project. FDT is an Application for Efficient Data Transfers which is capable of reading and writing at disk speed over wide area networks (with standard TCP). It is written in Java and runs on all major platforms.

🎙️ Featured opinion

5 Easy Public Speaking Tips

Designed for tech-savvy learners, the Teach the Geek platform offers specialized courses to complement your coding skills from Hyperskill. Elevate your career by mastering essential soft skills, communication strategies, and leadership techniques tailored for the tech industry. To boost your public speaking skills, uncover '5 Easy Public Speaking Tips' and confidently present your ideas like a pro!

Explaining Machine Learning to My Grandma

Grandparents are awesome — except when you’re trying to show them how FaceTime on an iPhone works. So how do you explain machine learning in a way that a grandmother who does not have a background/experience in STEM can understand? Take a look at these tips!

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