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The WWDC keynote just wrapped up, and it was startlingly different. For years, Apple has gone through each of its operating systems, highlighting features it was bringing to each one. That had broken down overtime as more and more...
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web. The Tiny Awards exist because we thought it was important to shine a spotlight on the sorts of […]
Growing up in the Netherlands, it’s not immediately obvious (even to myself) that the history of the United States is also partly mine, but through TV series and movies — as well as the news — it’s also a country I lived in and grew up...
invoicemon started as a personal tool. Last weekend I spent some time improving it and decided to put it online. The design and feature choices are very subjective. They're mostly things I wanted for myself, not features chosen by a...
Looking at the Finnish #1 singles for 2002, and highlighting the best.
AI sci-fi doomsday scenarios exist to misrepresent what modern software is capable of, and spook lawmakers into embracing terrible laws, written by rich and terrible men, that will free them from oversight, ethics, and accountability.
Musings on EPROM access.
Saying that LLMs are just next token predictors is underselling these beasts to a mind numbing degree.First, LLMs aren’t just predicting the next token. They plan ahead – the loss function is the average of cross entropy across all...
A single warm, individuated human beside a vast field of identical mass-produced AI units/images/customization-beats-competence.webp/images/customization-beats-competence.webp I'm increasingly rating the AI we're all chasing on a few...
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. – Samuel Johnson Study hard what interests you in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. – Richard Feynmann When I am in control of my...
Plans and ideas for the summer
Got a note from Joe Salerno, checking to make sure I’m not actually leading the Dashiell Hammett Tour any more. Sorry, no. My big excuse — and it’s the truth — I aged out. I realized at any point something … Continue reading →