2701
The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)
Misguided modeling created a "physician surplus" narrative, the harmful consequences of which we are still dealing with today.
2702
Microsoft is eating the world
If OpenAI was a public company, it's stock would have been down about 38% today in a shocking turn of events.
2703
Cruel optimism and lazy pessimism
Do you remember the avocado toast guy? I read Johann Hari’s Stolen Focus recently (you should read it, it’s great), and I learned that someone1 has come up with a name for this sort of modern reinterpretation of “let them eat cake”: cruel optimism. Cruel optimism, the way Hari interprets it2, boils down to the folly…
2704
Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023
A tale how running your own x509 root CA – for internal services – changed in the last 20 years.
2705
WebGPU now available for testing in Safari Technology Preview
WebGPU is a new standards-compliant API that enables high-performance 3D graphics and general-purpose computations on the Web.
2706
Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients
Two new Finnish studies show that short bouts of light or moderate exercise can increase the number of immune cells in the bloodstream of cancer patients.
2707
Call yourself titles
We constantly question ourselves when attempting anything new for the first time, which is daunting. And what’s worse, it prevents us from doing anything new, so we can’t change who we are. If you’ve always been terrible at sports and want to start working out, the natural reaction after a few attempts is to stop and…
2708
WebAssembly: Adding Python support to WASM language runtimes
Providing up-to-date, convenient WebAssembly builds of Python with WASI support
2709
More malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store
So far I discovered 18 malicious extensions with 55 million users in total. Most popular ones are: Autoskip for Youtube, Crystal Ad block and Brisk VPN. They have been active for two years, undetected by Google.
2710
Text Editor Data Structures: Rethinking Undo
Undo and redo have been a staple operation of text editors probably since the first typo was ever made, yet there has not been a lot of innovation around refining the idea of what undo and redo could be. Let’s explore what I mean…
2711
Low-cost open source device can measure air pollution anywhere
Flatburn is an open-source, mobile pollution detector from the MIT Senseable City Lab intended to let people measure air quality cheaply.
2712
GitHub Renamed Me (2014)
Github Renamed Me - We will change your SSH keys and you will like it
2713
Learnings from fine-tuning LLM on my Telegram messages
For most people I interact with, I’m just another text-based program for the most of the time. If input and output are so simple, could I be replaced by the model? For this to work, the model would need to not only understand my writing style but also know a lot about me. The best source for this is my Telegram…
2714
2715
How to train large models on many GPUs? (2021)
[Updated on 2022-03-13: add expert choice routing.] [Updated on 2022-06-10]: Greg and I wrote a shorted and upgraded version of this post, published on OpenAI Blog: “Techniques for Training Large Neural Networks”
2716
Committing Without Git
How does git store different versions of a file? What about a commit? Find out creating your own commit without the help of git.
2717
2718
The Disappearance of the Ashtray
These things used to be pieces of furniture
2719
Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)
I’m beginning to think that the Windows PC that I built in 2015 is ready for retirement (though if Joe Biden can be president at 78, maybe this […]
2720
The Mao-Kissinger Meeting of 1973
The archives of declassified foreign relations documents from the United States, China and other countries can give us some insights. I’ve enjoyed reading some of the documents in Wilson Cent…
2721
What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers
Online newspaper subscriptions have a reputation for being difficult to cancel, but new guidance from the FTC may change that.
2722
2723
A four year plan for async Rust
Four years ago today, the Rust async/await feature was released in version 1.39.0. The announcement post says that “this work has been a long time in development – the key ideas for zero-cost futures, for example, were first proposed by Aaron Turon and Alex Crichton in 2016”. It’s now been longer since the release of…
2724
No one wants simplicity
We think we do, but in fact every web developer will happily sacrifice simplicity to the first shiny thing promising them relief from the mildest of ailments.
2725
Red Hat 30th anniversary
To help us celebrate three decades of open source innovation, State of North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper declared March 26, 2023, as Red Hat Day across North Carolina.
2726
Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
UPDATE 10/11: The update to the Paint app for Windows 11 that includes layers and transparency is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel (version
2727
Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
Unlock new experiences with Microsoft Teams Premium for customers looking to make meetings more intelligent, personalized, and protected.
2728
CSS findings from the Threads app
A few interesting CSS findings from the threads app by Meta.
2729
Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work
Listen now | "I was shocked with how intense, painstaking, and effective his learning process was"
2730
Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs
Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem (feed: RSS ). Thanks to Anton Fonarev for link aggregation.