By Jacqui Banaszynski lassic news narratives tend to follow a single primary character through a story. There are other characters, of course, including people connected to the main character or more official or expert sources to provide context and perspective. Such classic narr … | Continue reading
Learn how to avoid ambiguous method calls in the specific context of the Mockito framework. | Continue reading
Of course you don’t need comments in your code. But your future self appreciates explanations: What is this nested loop good for? What is its purpose? Comments provide context, and shortcuts for understanding: “you don’t need to read this, just think of it as …” Once you explain … | Continue reading
Semafor published in a new format it calls Signals — sponsored by Microsoft, though I am earnestly sure no editorial lines were crossed — aggregated commentary about the U.S. iPhone antitrust case: If the government wins the suit, “the walls of Apple’s walled garden will be parti … | Continue reading
To fight a culture war justly is to be confident that your arguments have a reasonable chance of success; but this means that to fight justly is not only about carefully crafting arguments but also about sensitively observing the context in which you will deploy them. | Continue reading
shelmet This looks like a pleasant ergonomic alternative to Python's subprocess module, plus a whole bunch of other useful utilities. Lets you do things like this: sh.cmd("ps", "aux").pipe("grep", "-i", check=False).run("search term") I like the way it uses context managers as we … | Continue reading
Back in February Google announced Gemini 1.5, their latest, most powerful language model, and while access has been open via AI Studio, API access has only been available in the past few days. I thought I'd try out the new model and specifically make use of the larger context win … | Continue reading
As I’ve recently mentioned, ex parte proceedings are error-prone because the judge hears only one side of the story and doesn’t get enough context to spot the possible flaws. This systematic–and avoidable–risk of errors has materially contributed to the SAD... The post Judge Hamm … | Continue reading
In my last article, I gave a definition of an AI OS. Here, I’m going to talk about why the AI OS matters, in the context of the AI vs. ads scenario. The thesis I’m working on in the saturated world of AI commentary is: AI poses a huge threat to ad-based platforms by slashing how … | Continue reading
Lawrence Weschler and Rich Blint at Wondercabinet: Weschler: It’s interesting in this context, you mentioned a second ago Giovanni’s Room, where part of the story is clearly about a deeply closeted white figure, an American in Paris, who gets involved with somebody who is clearly … | Continue reading
Structurizr offers a code-based approach for creating and managing C4 model architecture diagrams, addressing common challenges with traditional diagramming tools. It supports easy tracking and visualization of diagram changes through version control. This blog covers installatio … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. Earlier today, Apple announced that its Jing’an store will open in Shanghai on March 21st. Apple’s press release includes several images of the new store, but for more context and an extensive collection of images, you can’t beat Michael Steeber’s Tabletops newslet … | Continue reading
Misused go contexts can lead to severe performance issues. | Continue reading
The shock therapy administered by Milei and his economy czar Luis Caputo right after the Dec. 10 inauguration is showing results. In a severely recessionary context, inflation is slowing down (February prices rose 13.2% in monthly terms compared with 25.5% in December) while fore … | Continue reading
The home team discusses the challenges (hardware and otherwise) of building AI models at scale, why major players like Meta are open-sourcing their AI projects, what Apple’s recent changes mean for developers in the EU, and Perplexity AI’s new approach to search. | Continue reading
Lilly Chen is the founder of Brainstory, an AI-powered “think out-loud” app based on the Socratic method of questioning. In this interview, we talked about how to use AI for better thinking, how to practice open-mindedness and curious questioning, how to make context sharing effi … | Continue reading
The decay of rules-based trade means that companies can no longer find growth as easily by expanding to new locations, or expanding demand through low-cost single point sourcing. In this context, companies seeking growth must develop innovative offerings to expand demand. These o … | Continue reading
Former President Donald Trump has been quick to take advantage of an unexpected and nefarious benefit offered to politicians in the age of AI. Instead of saying that their quotes were taken out of context when facing unfavorable media coverage, they can now simply claim that the … | Continue reading
Pattern: You see some data. Do they matter? Transformation: Do the math to put the numbers into context. Gergely’s post reminded me of this Thinkie. 350K H100s. Is that a lot or a little. Almost 20% of worldwide units? Thats a lot!!! Envelope calculations aren’t complicated math. … | Continue reading
Kris Hardies points to this new article, Impossible Hypotheses and Effect-Size Limits, by Wijnand and Lennert van Tilburg, which states: There are mathematical limits to the magnitudes that population effect sizes can take within the common multivariate context in which … Continu … | Continue reading
When I was a kid we used card catalogs, microfilm, encyclopedia and almanacs. Much later there was the web with search, Wikipedia and archive.org. Now there's ChatGPT. Each level was a dramatic improvement of the previous one. Now everything we're all working on is cast in a new … | Continue reading
It has been a strange week-end, a week-end where I've tried to work ahead on the writing that I do for my minister job at Faith Lutheran in Bristol, Tennessee, while also trying to help my spouse with plumbing and the other tasks that need to happen before the dry wall installing … | Continue reading
Since the beginning of the year, I’ve started a new mission at work, still as a solutions architect. A very interesting context with important stakes : reduce the legacy debt, enhance, and build tomorrow’s service. The team I’ve integrated had several experiences with their previ … | Continue reading
Since the beginning of the year, I’ve started a new mission at work, still as a solutions architect. A very interesting context with important stakes : reduce the legacy debt, enhance, and build tomorrow’s service. The team I’ve integrated had several experiences with their previ … | Continue reading
How large context LLMs could change the status quo | Continue reading
One common mistake in software architecture is blindly copying successful architectures without considering a project's unique needs and context. For example, many companies try to replicate the architecture of successful companies like Netflix without considering whether it is a … | Continue reading
Meet-and-greet conversations can be uncomfortable. And they can feel especially daunting when you’re paired with strangers from different cultures, like when networking in a global business context. In this setting, light and introductory-style conversations (what some of us know … | Continue reading
8 February 2024, Athens. Hosted by the Greek National Tourism Organisation, the 9th Annual Meeting of the Market Intelligence and Marketing Groups of the European Travel Commission (ETC) enjoyed a stimulating collaborative Workshop addressing Accessible Tourism in the context of … | Continue reading
When Tenet released in 2020, it did so under the worst of circumstances. The context of the pandemic made the film a lightning rod when writer-director Christopher Nolan encouraged people to see it in theaters. Compared to his other recent movies, the time-bending spy thriller sa … | Continue reading
In this article, I’ll talk about where we are with Go today and what’s coming next, specifically in the context of how generative AI is changing software development. (Discussion hosted on LinkedIn) The last few years have been about maturing the Go platform for mainstream users. … | Continue reading
I love reading folk classics. They’re simple yet so eloquent. This one was no different. There are some life lessons, some drama, some awesome supernatural elements. It even has a whole thing about filial piety and honoring your ancestors. I only saw this before in the Indian con … | Continue reading
Maps have long been a fundamental element in web development, transforming static websites into dynamic, location-aware applications. Whether you're navigating through the bustling streets of a city, planning a route for your next adventure, or visualizing data in a geographic co … | Continue reading
On todays’s livestream, we’ll be Pair Programming on a real project. I hope to see you there! Conversions A conversion changes the type of an expression to the type specified by the conversion. A conversion may appear literally in the source, or it may be implied by the context i … | Continue reading
Last week, I wrote about how I pace the reader's experience using a standard manuscript page format. However, I forgot to include my inspiration for that essay. In an interview about his process, director Christopher Nolan discussed the pacing problem in the context of screenwrit … | Continue reading
In a YouTube video yesterday, Michael Popok explained the differences (in New York State law) among a "verdict", a "decision and order", and a "judgment", in the context of the latest stage of Donald Trump's civil fraud case. Those intricacies are an interesting aspect of the soc … | Continue reading
The future of silk Uta Genilke - Replikant WHS’ bicycle stuff: component reviews & more U.S. Commercial Shipbuilding in a Global Context | Continue reading
Volume 11, Issue 1, January-December 2024 . | Continue reading
We were treated to technical marvels this week. At Google, they announced Gemini Pro 1.5, with a million token context window within which it has excellent recall, using mixture of experts to get Gemini Advanced level performance (e.g. GPT-4 level) out of Gemini Pro levels of com … | Continue reading
Google’s Gemini 1.5 is impressive and I am excited by its huge context window. I continue to default to Gemini Advanced as my default AI for everyday use when the large context window is not relevant. However, while it does not much interfere with what I want to use Gemini for, t … | Continue reading
Last week Google introduced Gemini Pro 1.5, an enormous upgrade to their Gemini series of AI models. Gemini Pro 1.5 has a 1,000,000 token context size. This is huge—previously that … | Continue reading
A discussion about Tailwind always gets heated. It's one of those polarising topics in web dev. Tabs vs. spaces. Utilities vs. semantic CSS, decoupling vs. tight coupling, etc. I made a mistake and recommended an article today about negative aspects of Tailwind without providing … | Continue reading
Gemini 1.5 Pro brings big improvements to speed and efficiency, but one of its innovations is its long context window, which measures how many tokens that the model can … | Continue reading
OpenAI unveiled their prototype video generator called Sora. It does text-to-video and a ton more. Just check out the videos here and here — I literally cannot believe what I’m seeing. For reference, this is what AI-generated video looked like a year ago. For more context and … | Continue reading
“UI is a function of state” is a pretty popular saying in the front-end world. In context (pun intended), that’s typically referring to application or component state. I thought I’d pull that thread a little further and explore all the states that can effect the UI layer… First-p … | Continue reading
Context may not count for everything in art. But as underscored by everyone from Marcel Duchamp (or Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven) to the journalists who occasionally convince virtuoso musicians to busk in dingy public spaces, it certainly counts for something. Whether or not you … | Continue reading
We've all heard the adage the "the future is here it just isn't evenly distributed yet. With rapid advancement in multi-modal AI models and headset computing, we're at a stage where the future is clear but is isn't implemented (yet). Here's two examples: Multi-modal AI models can … | Continue reading
The big news here is about context length: Gemini 1.5 (a Mixture-of-Experts model) will do 128,000 tokens in general release, available in limited preview with a 1 million token context … | Continue reading
Gemini 1.5 delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long-context understanding across modalities. | Continue reading