What You Really Need to Know So much Hype…. Everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence these days. ChatGPT can whip up an essay or answer your questions like it reads your mind. Midjourney conjures up stunning art from a simple prompt. … Read more
On a fresh installation of Debian 12 (bookworm), executing echo $PATH shows the following output: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin /usr/bin contains /usr/bin/cat, and /usr/bin is in PATH, so just typing cat will run /usr/bin/cat. But what exactly is doing this lookup? By running … Read more
swyx here: We’re proud to feature our first guest post of 2025! It has spawned great discussions on gdb, Ben, and Dan’s pages. See also our YouTube discussion. Since o1’s launch in October and o1 pro/o3’s announcement in December, many … Read more
swyx here: We’re proud to feature our first guest post of 2025! It has spawned great discussions on gdb, Ben, and Dan’s pages. See also our YouTube discussion. Since o1’s launch in October and o1 pro/o3’s announcement in December, many … Read more
He is working on CNN (Convolution Neural Network) while everyone else uses transformers. Furthermore, he wasn’t in the OpenAI scandal with Ilya. Third, they don’t publish papers at the same rate. Ilya has 585182 citations, while Alex has 286082 (source … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m in a CSS mailing list and this morning, Vince over at Ghodmode Development shared a fun little experiment showing that an em isn’t an “m” in CSS. I, along with others, more or less responded … Read more
This post is the second in a series about reforming academic publishing: Crowdsourced Review Probably Can’t Replace the Journals Why isn’t Preprint Review Being Adopted? How Can We Help Journal Editorial Teams Escape the Commercial Publishers? Participants in the Recognizing … Read more
Why Isn’t the Element 100% Supported on CanIUse.com? February 02, 2024 I saw a Mastodon post that made me laugh this morning. It seemed sort of crazy that the html element wouldn’t have 100% support on CanIUse.com. Heck, I’ve been … Read more
It’s a good idea to jot down a couple of notes on our decision-making at Bluesky. These notes won’t be extensive. Also in this series: The 2014 generation of P2P The indie hacker spirit was strong in the NodeJS & … Read more
On August 29, 2023, Retool notified 27 cloud customers that there had been unauthorized access to their accounts. If you’re reading this and you were not notified, don’t worry – your account was not impacted. There was no access to … Read more