There’s a new web search in town. No, it’s not a re-skin of Bing results. No, it’s not an AI powered tool chasing this particular moment of Large Language Model (LLM) hype. Kagi is an honest to goodness general purpose … Read more
What happens when developers accidentally pick a predictable source of randomness, and that source happens to be significantly weaker than reasonable developers would expect? These are the stories of how some popular projects all got burned by the same underlying … Read more
Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers, Alexander Zvonkin (Moscow Center for Continuing Mathematical Education, 2007). To me, one of the greatest historical puzzles is why the Cold War was even a contest. Consider … Read more
How to survive 3 years in North Korea as a foreigner is indeed a good question. 3 years is a long time! Some time ago, I was asked about life in North Korea. Who had I upset to have been … Read more
/ Support for the integration was terminated as part of the Nintendo Switch 18.1.0 update yesterday. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>Nintendo Switch users can no longer link the console with their X accounts.
I posit that most software engineers (particularly those working on infrastructural systems) are destined to wallow in unnecessary complexity due to three fundamental laws. The First Law of Software Complexity: A well-designed system will degrade into a badly designed system … Read more
10th April 2024 I’m a bit behind on my weeknotes, so there’s a lot to cover here. But first… a review of the last 24 hours of Large Language Model news. All times are in US Pacific. 11:01am: Google Gemini … Read more
Three interpretations of matrix products 0. Prerequisites and notations column vectorrow vectornumbernumber * column vectornumber * row vector 1. Interpretation #1: Weighted sum of columns or rows 1.1 Matrix vector product as a weighted sum of columns 1.2 Vector matrix … Read more
The following press release was issued by Lopez-Wagner Strategies on behalf of the Resighini Tribe of Yurok People, Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation and Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria: It’s an unprecedented day for Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous-led coastal conservation as three … Read more
The “Three Things” Exercise for getting things out of talks (More general advice on going to talks is here. As with all my webpages, feedback is more than welcome!) The challenge of talks. It is tricky to get things out … Read more