what_i_read_this_week_apr_23.json

{"byline":"By Tim","intro_md":"OMG FOUR SEASONS!","items":[{"description":"Businesses that switched to Stripe's newest payments integration—the Payment Element—saw a 10.5% increase in revenue on average compared to those that did not.","entity":"bookmark","image_url":"","name":"Businesses using Stripe’s newest checkout optimizations saw 10.5% more revenue","url":"https://stripe.com/en-ca/newsroom/news/payments-revenue-uplift"},{"description":"The concept of self-improving systems captures our imagination. Consider Isaac Asimov's Multivac and Arthur C. Clarke's HAL 9000. In Asimov's story, Multivac is a colossal machine designed to answer humanity's most complex question. It continuously updates its own structure and goals in response to its conversations with humanity. Multivac eventually evolves into a cosmic power, utters \"Let there be light!\" and essentially starts a new universe, reversing entropy to create something from nothing. Similarly, in Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 is an advanced AI that learns from its interactions and displays substantial autonomy and self-preservation. The outcome for HAL is less optimistic. 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Stemming from the Japanese term “omakase,” which translates into “leaving it up to you,” an imokase establishment is a small eatery where t...","entity":"bookmark","image_url":"https://res.heraldm.com/content/image/2023/04/21/20230421000699_0.jpg","name":"[Weekender] Cozy, affordable ‘imokase’ course menus trending in Seoul","url":"https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230421000618"},{"description":"https://www.reddit.com/r/pics","entity":"bookmark","image_url":"https://i.redd.it/uiqepf9tczva1.jpg","name":"$54 usd Four Seasons breakfast : r/pics","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/12y4sx6/54_usd_four_seasons_breakfast/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_content=1&utm_term=15"},{"description":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692476","entity":"bookmark","image_url":"","name":"OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO | Hacker News","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692476"},{"description":"https://mitchellh.com/writing/nix-with-dockerfiles","entity":"bookmark","image_url":"","name":"Using Nix with Dockerfiles","url":"https://mitchellh.com/writing/nix-with-dockerfiles"},{"description":"Let’s start with the most obvious question first. This is what an “unfurl” is:","entity":"bookmark","image_url":"https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1200/1*QOMaDLcO8rExD0ctBV3BWg.png","name":"Everything you ever wanted to know about unfurling but were afraid to ask /or/ How to make your…","url":"https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-unfurling-but-were-afraid-to-ask-or-how-to-make-your-e64b4bb9254"}],"last_updated":"Apr 30, 2023","subtitle":"things that caught my attention","title":"what i read this week (apr 23)"}