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Tim Bray - I think I’m probably going to lose quite a lot of money in the next year or two. It’s partly AI’s fault, but not mostly.
open platform for building developer portals
list influenced by https://sive.rs/pg
Becoming expert in repair, finding creativity in the historical and material weight of existing conditions: for architects in the Anthropocene, this is a growth opportunity. Or better, a de-growth opportunity.
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.
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.
Inventor of Robot Wars / Industrial Light and Magic - chief model maker/animatronic designer
simple easy to use whiteboard
pseudoprose is pseudocode[^1] for writers.
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.
European Space Agency report on the ozone layer.
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.
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
Matt Kirkland
– 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 history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s obscene Russian folktales.
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.
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
Open source alternative to Notion, Miro, and Monday.
the Forecasting Research Institute has released the results of the Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament
The VACUUM process in PostgreSQL is a historical artifact that traces its roots back to the Berkeley Postgres project, which implemented a concept known as infinite time-travel. The concept, while innovative at the time, was eventually dropped by the PostgreSQL community. However, it led to the implementation of a Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) system prone to table bloat.
I started writing on my blog some years ago, and since then I’ve had a lot of reasons to stop writing. Here’s a list of why nobody cares about your blog
Study: Some consumers have an unerring knack for buying unpopular products.
Terence Eden - Discord is perfect for ephemeral communications. But it is not a fucking substitute for documentation!
Jeff Hewitt - Television’s language and logic in everyday life.
In the philosophy of mathematics, intuitionism, or neointuitionism is an approach where mathematics is considered to be purely the result of the constructive mental activity of humans rather than the discovery of fundamental principles claimed to exist in an objective reality.
Jeremy Keith on syndication to social networks - https://adactio.com/journal/7698
Exploring potential privacy vulnerabilities in Apple devices. This article discusses revealing a user's first name without permissions using the mDNS protocol.
Large language models (LLMs) have only just emerged into mainstream thought, and already they’ve shown themselves to be a powerful tool for interacting with data. While some might classify them as merely a really cool new form of UI, others think that this may be the start of artificial general intelligence.
Smithsonian ( pdf ) - A way to remember bird calls.
Paul Graham Essay - How to do great work
Vonnegut, Kurt | Vonnegut's stirring response to the censorship and burning of Slaughterhouse Five. Typed letter signed ("Kurt Vonnegut"), to Charles McCarthy, head of the school board at Drake High School in North Dakota, responding to the censorship and burning of Slaughterhouse Five at Drake - https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/fine-books-and-manuscripts-including-americana/vonnegut-kurt-vonneguts-stirring-response-to-the
Video - Phil Edwards
Much has been written about the Reddit boycott recently, but I have kind of a wild take. what if we thought of Reddit as, functionally, subservient to OpenAI?
What would a copilot for writing and thinking look like? To try answering this question, I built a prototype: Obsidian-Copilot
A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood.
This is a collection of modern resources on various undergrad level computer science topics, for someone with an interest in theory.
Author and federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou explains why private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates, how this system is broken, and what can be done to fix it. - See also: https://www.plunderthebook.com
Laphams Quarterly - Those ancient humans who might have scratched directions in the sand or carved lines on wood were the first to practice the art of symbolic representation in the form of a map.
In March and April 2023, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) received three (3) subpoenas for PyPI user data from the The Python Package Index.
As we continue our development journey towards Deno 2, this minor release is primarily focused on boosting compatibility with npm and Node.js, enhancing the overall quality of life and developer experience, and establishing the foundation for future performance enhancements.
The blockEditor.useSetting.before filter is a client-side JavaScript filter that lets you set block-level theme.json settings before the Editor is rendered. And, since it operates in the client, you get much more control than you have with server-side PHP filters.
Isn’t that what we want from the internet? I’m sitting in a small room in an old house in Durham, North Carolina...
2016 Oscar-Winning Short: “Stutterer” | The Screening Room | The New Yorker
Good basic explainer on vector databases.
When we peer into our patient portals, we don’t always see ourselves more clearly.
Use the new GPT-4 api to build a chatGPT chatbot for multiple Large PDF files.
This time, we spent the whole episode talking about large language models: ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bing, Bard, Claude, LLaMA and more.
Long before the invention of the general-purpose computer, bureaucrats and researchers had begun gathering and cross-tabulating sets of numbers about populations—heights, weights, ages, sexes, races, political parties, incomes—using punch cards and tabulating machines. Sergey Brin said "Auto insurance companies analyse accident data and set insurance rates of individuals according to age, gender, vehicle type,” he pointed out. “If they were allowed to by law, they would also use race, religion, handicap, and any other attributes they find are related to accident rate.”
Grace Hopper - Computer Scientist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
If someone can taste the difference between a Merlot from ’78 and a Merlot from ’98, they are conservative but have a son who dropped out of college to join Antifa.
The Earth is, on average, located in the habitable zone, but at any given time it has a certain probability of being outside it, which is why life exists on Earth but is mortal.
We chat with Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Experience at Vercel about the company’s vision for evolving from Webpack to Turbopack