This spring, I taught an undergraduate class on chess engines. I probably learned more than any of my students. As a senior in college, I was the instructor, lecturer, grader, master of ceremonies, and grand poobah of COLL 110: Artificial … Read more
I’ve be working on Textual for over a year now. Here’s a few things I’ve discovered (or re-discovered) regarding terminals in Python, and software development in general. — Will McGugan (CEO / Founder) @willmcgugan Terminals are fast A modern terminal … Read more
British Library No one is sure who Wang Jie was or why he had The Diamond Sutra printed. But we do know that on this day in 868 A.D.—or the 13th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong … Read more
A version of this story originally appeared in Read Max, a twice-weekly newsletter about tech, politics, culture, and media. My phone was stolen in early March, most likely while I was standing on the platform at the York Street station … Read more
In isolation this is not a problem but it can quickly become a problem if an application expects files uploaded to S3 to be case insensitive. Allow me a moment to present a contrived example. Imagine an application where user … Read more
As a contract software developer, I am exposed to oodles of Ruby code. Some code is readable, some obfuscated. Some code eschews whitespace, as if carriage returns were a scarce natural resource, while other code resembles a living room fashioned … Read more
What are some exciting things that are happening in the #ML #DataScience world that we are not able to hear over the din of LLMs? I notice that Cynthia rudin is continuing to produce great stuff on explainable AI. What … Read more
July 19, 2020 An incomplete and infuriating list. A few additions that others have suggested: Even more, after this made the rounds again in 2024: Unfortunately, Rocket Lab does not seem to be named after seed investor/aerospace entrepreneur Mark Rocket.
The fact that everyone alive on our planet is now connected electronically is not a surprise. This universal connection has been a scifi theme for many decades before it happened, and this view of universal connection was not that difficult … Read more
