Reading AI research papers, etc
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I found this useful, particularly the categorization of papers into surveys, benchmarks, and breakthroughs. The presentation is only a few d...
Timothy Snyder lectures and interview
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Timothy Snyder is an historian and an exceptionally lucid lecturer on the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the H...
Home device ROI
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When I replaced the wifi gateway I had not expected client devices to fail. The first warning was that the Brother printer had issues. To s...
What does ChatGPT think about between prompts?
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I read the short story "Lena" the other day. The gist is that we can now scan, host, and boot a human brain. What happens next is...
Avoid inert ideas
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"‘inert ideas’ – that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilised, or tested, or thrown into fresh c...
AI assistant, pestering, & satisfaction
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A colleague mentioned this article during our Friday AI meetup Measuring GitHub Copilot’s Impact on Productivity – Communications of the ACM...
Clare Sudbery on what CI was intended to mean
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I found this talk by Clare Sudbery on what continuous integration (CI) was intended to mean illuminating. In short, trunk based development,...
The burn pile is ever more beautiful this morning!
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Kent Beck & Tidy First?
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Kent Beck, of various software implementations and processes fame, has a new book out Tidy First? . It is the first in a series on software ...
Do the work
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A colleague shared this ThePrimeTime video post Give Up Sooner . Another way of framing the argument is "do the work". Endlessly ...
My favorite Dad jokes of 2023
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My favorite Dad jokes of 2023 are When people are sad, I sometimes let them colour in my tattoos. Sometimes all they need is a shoulder to ...
Too pretty to burn
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An old shovel works in newer ground. Not so an old wifi gateway.
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The MacBook Air continues to have horrible wifi performance. I decided to replace the Apple AirPort Extreme (from 2011!) with an Asus RT-AX...
Human interface guidelines
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I have been working with desktop, web, and mobile applications for a long time. And several times in my career I actually built them. In the...
A new MacBook Air and the reluctant home sysadmin
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We replaced Chris' 13 year old MacBook Pro with the new MacBook Air 15" recently. I had expected the migration to be a bit bumpy .....
The garden knows
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For this gardener any success comes from decades of mulch and regular weeding, but mostly from letting the garden itself tell me what it wil...
The path to annihilation is lead by amateurs
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I had hoped to see Oppenheimer in 70mm at the local IMAX, but it seems to be sold out until December 7th . With the clarity of hindsight, I...
Never having uncommitted changes
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The other day I was commenting on how quickly a collegue seems to be able to create a new PR for a change. For me I need to stash my working...
Two civic tech books
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I am currently working with a US state's education department to move its infrastructure and applications to the cloud. This is my first...
The first rule of a second brain is to not lose any content
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The first rule of a second brain is to not lose any content. People, of which I am one, make mistakes. Those mistakes should be correctable....
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