Polimath
I guess we're going to do this all again
- Gonna donate 100 copies of Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage to New Jersey libraries
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- So... this guy is going to get away with it, right?
- I started reading that Vanity Fair piece about Cormac McCarthy's young muse and that caused me to search out this interview with McCarthy, Werner Herzog, and Lawrence Krauss www.openculture.com/2011/04/wern...
- Still kind of waiting out the recent flood to see what this platform becomes after everyone has gotten their "wow, it's so cool to be on bsky" out of their systems
- Stack Overflow has been a declining resource for years. For whatever reason, the social benefit of answering questions on SO has declined substantially in the last 10 years. Newer tech has moved help forums to Discord & left SO out in the cold.
- Moving over to bsky and changing your profile picture is like going to a party with a fake nose and mustache and seeing how long it takes people to figure out who you are
- finally getting some traction on my job search
- Very cool map of topics from hacker news lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_...
- Bonus material from the book "Building an LLM from Scratch", looks like it is geared toward people who are just starting to dip their toes into this water "from scratch" is not something I really want to do but it seems good to know how to do it github.com/rasbt/LLMs-f...
- Just discovered Project Silica, Microsoft's research project for ultra-long-term data storage My current personal data storage solution is extremely fragile (most of my data will be functionally lost when I die) so I'm very interested in this project www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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