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The best response to AI slop, infinite advice, and online noise is from Robin Williams There's a moment in the movie Good Will Hunting which perfectly summarizes all the problems with AI slop and online noise and infinite advice content. Sean (played by Robin Williams) is sitting next to Will (Matt Damon) on a bench in Boston Public Gard...
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep Marfa Public Radio is literally never asleep. It operates 24/7 (except when lightning strikes) and there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen– fundraising, compliance, protocols, emergency response, maintenance…the list goes on and...
The Laziest Generation I don't understand why this generation can't afford a home. When my grandfather was 18, he had already saved enough money from his paper route and various odd jobs to buy his first home. By the time m
Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming.
Data Access Patterns That Makes Your CPU Really Angry Given an array of data, what is the slowest way to sum up the integers? Is it adding the numbers from left to right, adding them randomly, or doing something else? In this post, we are going to build a data access pattern from the ground up that sums numb...
Perspective · Mark Ferraz Essays by Mark Ferraz. Operator, founder, builder, thinker, architect, author.
Clean Code Critique: Why Much of 'Clean Code' Aged Poorly (+ Better Alternatives) A deep dive into Clean Code's impact, its shortcomings, and what modern developers should do instead.
William: a tiny poetry model in the browser Training, quantizing, and running a small poetry model entirely in the browser.
My addiction with trading apps The first thing I do when I wake up every morning is to open the stock app and check my watchlist. It’s a habit I developed and reinforced over the past few years. Admittedly, it’s very time and energy consuming. Many times, I’m not trying to actively tra...
PRs and LLMs We are hiring at Feldera, so I have been talking to many software engineers. These calls tend to reveal where the “meta of software engineering” is at. Often the signal is that there isn’t a good signal and people are looking for new opportunities for var...
The Case for Physical Media Ownership | Cem Dervis An overview of physical media ownership, streaming shutdowns, content removals, and the limits of digital licenses.
A Perfect Meritocracy Will Have Limited Social Mobility I’ve increasingly been hearing people assume or claim that meritocracy and social mobility go hand-in-hand. Their argument often goes like this: In a world driven by nepotism, cronyism, bribery etc…
Voting with Feet Where you live, pay taxes, and put down roots is its own kind of vote – and staying is a way of adding value to a place.
"No, I swear I wrote this." LLMs have gotten very good. It's impossible tell anymore if something was written by a human or a model. AI detectors are snake oil. Nobody trusts each...
