Don’t take a fence down until you learn why it was put up.

I like this take on using AI for software dev esp. migration and refactoring. A different approach is needed since AI doubles down on existing patterns and complexity in a codebase. The Infinite Software Crisis – Jake Nations, Netflix https://t.co/DHZMGg3LBC @nayshins

There is no light mode UI. *sigh* So I'm sticking with Affinity Photo 2 for now.

How did I miss this? Affinity has consolidated its tools into one app and it is free now. Time to upgrade.

TIL git has a feature called worktrees that allows you to work on multiple working trees of the same repository without having to stash your current branch. https://t.co/qBj6SRe8nW

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said this 22 years ago: “I don’t need to change the world overnight. I’m going to change the world over the next 50 years. I don’t need to build a killer product overnight. I just need to build a winning product. And the goal of winning is so that you

Tonight I was at the self-checkout. The chicken I wanted to buy was not scanning. A helpful store clerk solved the issue. His fix? He took a picture of the barcode, zoomed in and scanned that. Genius.

Who knew corn dogs have a dark side?

Wife was on a plane with me. The woman next to her says, "What a lovely ring!" Wife says, "It's the Petersen diamond, but it comes with a terrible curse. "Oh dear, what is it?" "Mr. Petersen."

We have just used the @Nvidia H100 onboard Starcloud-1 to train the first LLM in space! We trained the nano-GPT model from Andrej @Karpathy on the complete works of Shakespeare and successfully ran inference on it. We have also run inference on a preloaded Gemma model, and we

Enjoy this video tour of Stern Pinball's factory. https://t.co/hmldwKdLMN via @YouTube

NeurIPS received 21,575 paper submissions this year. Our Agentic Reviewer, released last week, just surpassed this in number of papers submitted and reviewed. It's clear agentic paper reviewing is here to stay and will be impactful!

LLMs are the new disk drives: commodity infrastructure you hot-swap for whoever’s cheapest + best. The fantasy that the model is a moat just expired. ☠️

TIL OpenSSH offers post-quantum cryptography key agreement algorithms and has by default since release 9.0 (April 2022). https://t.co/jqwkotfglk

🤣"i know it burns a tree every time you ask gpt a question, but it beats slogging through 10 year old answers on stackexchange" - someone on reddit https://t.co/C5KkTzhW3b

Dwarkesh Patel interviews Ilya Sutskver, one of the top thinkers in machine learning. He makes a point that models may be excellent at tasks given a narrow scope. But then they are worse at broader tasks. https://t.co/TZzBistME1

Happy Thankgiving! I am grateful for peace, love and a beautiful autumn day.

TIL kurtosis is a statistical measure of how high or low a dataset distribution is compared to its tails. https://t.co/NKGsrZR6Bg