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It seems that The New York Times Company (“The Times”) got fed up with the pace of its negotiations with Microsoft and OpenAI over their use of The Times’ content for training and…
🗺️ Too many invaders to keep track of; I really don't want to run another database; Web Storage to the rescue
If you overheard the phrase "1 in a million chance" in someone else's casual conversation, what might they be talking about?
The story of how McDonnell Douglas’s corporate culture led to the deaths of 346 people in one of the deadliest plane crashes of all time.
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This year has felt distinctly different. I've been working in, on, and with machine learning and AI for over a decade, yet I can't recall a time when these fields were as popular and rapidly evolving as they have been this year. To conclude an eventful 2023 in machine learning and AI research, I'm excited to share 10…
When we left Richard Garriott, California Pacific had just released his first game, Akalabeth , a substantial windfall for the 19-year-old university student. In between classes and SCA events, he spent his sophomore year at the University of Texas writing a new, much more ambitious game, which CP published just as…
A Chess-GPT Linear Emergent World Representation
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I started dabbling in entrepreneurship over 20 years ago and have experienced the feeling of stuckness more than I can recall...
Reflecting on comics that resonated for me in 2023
Welcome back to FOSS Fridays! This week, I’m covering a real pickle. I’m acutely aware of the flames this blog post will inspire, but I feel it is important to write nevertheless. I volunteer my ti…
The recent move among U.S. states to add digital “age verification” to websites which serve adult content is a troubling one. Digital age verification systems are rife with privacy concerns, many requiring you to upload your government ID to third-party vendors or even directly to the website in question. Privacy…
Fun stories from my time working as an AppleCare Dispatch contractor going door to door in Chicago.
The consensus is that the US does not build enough ships, civilian or military. The lack of production raises alarm as tension with China in East Asia rises. And the US will need ships if we choose to fight in East Asia.
Early C had no separate operators for & and && or | and || . (Got that?) Instead it used the notion (inherited from B and BCPL ) of "truth-value context": where a Boolean value was expected, after "if" and "while" and so forth, the & and | operators were interpreted as && and || are now; in ordinary expressions, the…
M3 chips widen the gap between Pro and Max variants. They also change relative performance between P and E cores to make M3 CPUs more versatile.
There should at least be a standard of double jeopardy when it comes to the app store monopoly regimes. If you’ve managed to overturn a rejection of your service once, they can’t come after you on the same service again later. We could have used that today! But unfortunately there is no rule of law with the app…
The little annoyances that alerted us developers of performance problems
Like many people, I spend a lot of time reading. Since there is much more that I could read than there is time for, I have to make choices about what I should read. In this short post I’m going to outline what my reading choices have become and why. My aim isn’t to suggest that anyone else should make the same choices…
There's no DAC on the ESP32-S3 - but that's not a problem - we'll just use PDM!
Why do I do this to myself? I have no idea. Anyway, let's learn how to eat disk space.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms held together by the strongest bonds known. Semiconductors, which are materials that conduct electricity under specific conditions, are foundational components…
If you learn something the hard way, it's you duty to share your lessons with others.
On volcanoes, crises, and what we can learn from Icelanders
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