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A complete GPT2 implementation as a single SQL query in PostgreSQL.
The opening of my talk Of Time And The Web deals with our collective negativity bias. The general consensus is that the world has become worse.
AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear.
Little Feat - Rock and Roll Doctor (Live In Holland 1976)
Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it’s now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models,
As an engineer, I write documentation all the time to answer these questions and build up a knowledge base other team members can refer to. I think this should apply to housing.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
Draw a picture (fast) with tldraw with https://www.fal.ai
Inventor of Robot Wars / Industrial Light and Magic - chief model maker/animatronic designer
simple easy to use whiteboard
The New Yorker - James Somers, a professional coder, writes about the astonishing scripting skills of A.I. chatbots like GPT-4 and considers the future of a once exalted craft. ~ "What I learned was that programming is not really about knowledge or skill but simply about patience, or maybe obsession. Programmers are people who can endure an endless parade of tedious obstacles."
pseudoprose is pseudocode[^1] for writers.
Michael B. Paulson - The Primeagen - a good take on Remix vs Next.js
Acclaimed illustrator Christoph Niemann shares the 10 rules that guide his drawing practice as part of our Manifesto series.
Snarkmarket
Directed by Robert Gordon and filmed and edited by John Olivio, this video was produced in the lo-fi aughts of 2006 for Matador Records to support Cat Power's acclaimed album "The Greatest". The video also features 20th century art world legend William Eggleston.
Most people look for solutions. But few seek out problems.
This essay reviews some theories of what it is for something to be funny.
So, I suppose the moral of the story is: find yourself work you can give a shit about. And work with people who give a shit. It’ll make shit a lot more pleasant – I guarantee it.
Reponse to Marc Andreessen's “Techno-Optimist Manifesto.
European Space Agency report on the ozone layer.
The supernatural creatures said to roam these forests are intimately tied to the landscape, which is older than most of life on Earth.
A world of AI-assisted writing and reviewing might transform the nature of the scientific paper.
Michael Halbert is a scratchboard illustrator that specializes in scratchboard illustration.
lead author of the "bibles" of system administration: UNIX System Administration Handbook
Mickey Angelov - Look Aside Films
That is the eeriest part of these videos — the parents are barely interacting with their kids. Instead they are relating to a mirror image of their children that they are spreading online. And they are reveling in their power over that image.
Harvard Business Publishing Education
American Journal of Physics - We present an overview of the thermal history of the Universe and the sequence of objects (e.g., protons, planets, and galaxies) that condensed out of the background as the Universe expanded and cooled.
Architect - Holland Brady
Speech by Holland Brady 2007
They make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes
why monolithic code bases are good
the work of the seventeenth-century French military engineer Allain Manesson Mallet
IBM's World of Numbers publication about the history of numbers, computation, and computers to 1958.
distinction between amateurishness at craft, and amateurishness at business.
browser-based search engine for Wikipedia, where you can search more abstractly
The OpenTF Foundation. Supporting an impartial, open, and community-driven fork of MPL-licensed Terraform.
Wonderful trompe l'oeil tumbling block design quilt incorporating signatures from such luminaries as Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rembrandt Peale, and Abraham Lincoln ( one of eight American presidents represented ).
Digging into the philosophical roots of the battle between Essentialists and Pragmatists
The New Yorker | Dhruv Khullar writes about the effect that heat can have on human bodies, and how the rise in global temperatures can cause severe illnesses and injuries.
Matt Kirkland
Blue Ridge Mountain Landscape Paintings by Rebecca King Hawkinson in the tradition of Classical Realism.
Garden & Gun - For almost a century, one dance has captured the spirit of the coast and beyond. Follow along with three generations of the Free family as they pivot, belly roll, and boogie walk to keep the tradition alive
– a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge
GDPR-Compliant Bot Protection
Wikifunctions, the newest Wikimedia project, is a new space to collaboratively create and maintain a library of functions.
on Github CoPilot
In a case study, scientists detected the costly infection in cabernet sauvignon grapevines before they showed symptoms visible to the human eye - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The model beyond ChatGPT passed the first three sommelier theory exams. What does that mean for the wine business and our professional certifications?
The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s obscene Russian folktales.
Artist - Designer
Lincoln Beach once provided the only waterfront access for Black residents of New Orleans. Despite decades of city neglect, it remains a joyful, if contested, haven for ritual and play.
The New Yorker - Elon: “X needs to have an AI feel with blockchain vibes. And it should always be tracking you.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) shows videos of Rogers Stone before, during and after January 6th including documentary footage of him stating: "I said, f*ck the voting, let's get right to the violence."
LLM that'll fit on a small device with low memory
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.