Clojure documentary
Watching this documentary about Clojure! I tried to learn and use clojure in the past. I was mostly trying to get at the core ideas of lisp that clojure adopts. But there was no commercial viability for my career in that. Later at my company we tried Datomic as our analytical database, and found out it meets a lot of our needs - but the management was not ready to commit to it as it looked so new compared to already established Snowflake.
I think Clojure and Datomic has captured the simplicity of building things with software but with a lot of conservatism to growth (like a typical SV funded company) and hence never became a mainstream thing.
This documentary captures the excitement of Clojure as a paradigm shifting language but also highlights Rich Hickey’s reservations to it’s growth.
This month Google, which pioneered the “transformer” algorithms underpinning the current AI wave, launched Gemini 3, a cutting-edge model that outperforms those of its biggest rivals, including OpenAI, on most benchmarks. Crucially, Gemini 3 was trained entirely on Google’s own chips, called tensor-processing units (TPUs), which it has begun peddling to others as a far cheaper alternative to Nvidia’s graphics-processing units (GPUs).
Cervical cancer vaccines prevent over one million deaths in lower-income countries
“A Gavi-led vaccination push protected 86 million girls in lower-income countries from cervical cancer, preventing 1.4 million future deaths and meeting its target ahead of schedule.
The milestone follows a Gavi program revitalization in 2023, focusing on nations that account for 90% of cervical cancer deaths. By the end of 2025, the vaccine will be available where 89% of cases occur.”
This is fricking amazing! - link