The Humble ProgrammerbyEdsger W. Dijkstra As a result of a long sequence of coincidences I entered the programming profession officially on the first spring morning of 1952 and as far as I have been able to trace, I was the … Read more
This showed up in our eval run a couple days ago: So, how did we end up getting roasted by a fine-tuned GPT-3.5? We are a group of friends who talk about LLMs on a daily basis, and in the … Read more
Now feels like a good time to make this blog an actual log, documenting my findings as I develop Clojure UI library, Humble UI. This is an introductory post, describing the overall shape of the project. None of the decisions … Read more
Enlarge / Mac, Linux nostalgia will soon be a thing for Humble Choice subscribers. reader comments 35 with 31 posters participating Share this story Humble, the bundle-centric games retailer that launched with expansive Mac and Linux support in 2010, will … Read more
Bialetti, the Italian maker of the moka pot, a stovetop coffee machine and one of the most iconic kitchen appliances ever created, announced in 2018 that the company was in major trouble—tens of millions of Euros in debt, unpaid salaries … Read more
There’s widespread agreement that in order to wean humanity off of climate-altering fossil fuels, we should switch over to renewable sources of electricity. Yet one of the biggest problems with renewables is logistical: unlike a gas power plant, you can’t … Read more
It’s not often I get excited about papers from the physics community. The field I used to love has turned into a dreary ghetto of noodle-theory wankers, experimental particle physics bureaucrats, cosmological mountebanks, “phenomenologists” and quantum computing charlatans. But I’m … Read more