ai speaks with itself and reveals the mad dreams of an electric mind.

interview with David Lee, the CCO of Squarespace, poses an interesting question: Will AI make human creativity a luxury?

Kyle Chayka on why he decided to stop using the music-streaming app Spotify after the platform’s latest updates made it harder to discover new music.

Tim Berners-Lee

Learn how to build an agent that can reason over your documents and answer complex questions. Learn from the co-founder and CEO of LlamaIndex

Roie Schwaber-Cohen, Staff Developer Advocate at Pinecone, joins Ben and Ryan to break down what retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is and why the concept is central to the AI conversation.

The cover of this month's Harper's Magazine shows a computer screen with a Wikipedia page (complete with the trademarked puzzle globe) with the headline "Wikipedia and the assault on history".

Free, simple, and intuitive online database design tool and SQL generator. - drawdb-io/drawdb

Review the science behind Lumina Probiotic and see why oral hygiene will never be the same.

A scientific breakthrough, years of investment and some highly trained dogs have finally made it possible to consistently harvest truffles in the U.S. We visit North Carolina’s Burwell Farms for a look inside their operations.

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NYT - The fake news organizations, experts say, represent a technological leap in the Kremlin’s efforts to spread false and misleading narratives.

Ted Gioia - Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

A feature documentary on the life and work of civic guru Robert Putnam.

Tutorial on how to display real-time CO2 measurements from an Aranet4 monitor on my website using a Raspberry Pi.

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.

Andrej Karpathy - The Tokenizer is a necessary and pervasive component of Large Language Models (LLMs), where it translates between strings and tokens (text chunks).

Casey Niestat

open platform for building developer portals

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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.

Headless custom element library

Lucian Grainge, the chairman of UMG, has helped record labels rake in billions of dollars from streaming. Can he do the same with generative artificial intelligence? John Seabrook reports.

There are few Hollywood families in which one famous director has spawned another. Coppola says, “It’s not easy for anyone in this business, even though it looks easy for me.” Rachel Syme reports.

2023 Rivian R1T Truck Camper in Asheville

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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

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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."

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Michael B. Paulson - The Primeagen - a good take on Remix vs Next.js

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Acclaimed illustrator Christoph Niemann shares the 10 rules that guide his drawing practice as part of our Manifesto series.