Happy Monday everyone! We've got a great set of speakers and talks published to the website for Causal Islands Berlin, Oct 4th & 5th! 1/2

It's always nice to hear of someone enjoying your work!

Building a Greener Internet fission.codes/blog/building-…

Tomorrow marks 13 years since the first commit to the Elixir repo. And today we celebrate by announcing that Elixir is, officially, a gradually typed language:

My takeaways from attending WEF at Davos last week: - There were lots of discussions on business implementation of AI. My top two tips: (i) Pretty much all knowledge workers can benefit from using GenAI now, but most will need training. (ii) Task-based analysis of jobs is helping businesses identify opportunities. - Also lots of AI regulation conversations. I'm happy to report that the conversation is much more sensible than 6 months ago. For example, the unnecessary fears and discussion on AI extinction risk is fading away. But some big companies are still pushing for stifling, anti-competitive regulations, and the fight to protect open-source is still far from won. - Attending climate sessions made me even more worried about the lack of action to change our planet's trajectory. Rather than 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming as the optimistic case and 2 degrees as the pessimistic case, I think 2 degrees is an optimistic case, and 4 degrees a more realistic pessimistic case. Decarbonization remains critical; and unfortunately, that we're talking about 1.5-2 degrees rather than 2-4 degrees means we're underinvesting in resilience, adaptation, and potentially game-changing technologies like geo-engineering. Longer writeup below in The Batch: deeplearning.ai/the-batch/ai…