alright let's fucking go I wrote about Phoenix Hyperspace a few days ago. I have finally obtained one of the very, very, very few machines that shipped with it, and it turns out the way it works is even more batshit nuts than I'd read. I promise, you do want…
It is only from doing hard things, the Stoics said, that we learn what we’re capable of. A little over three years ago, my wife and I had the craziest idea we’ve ever had in our lives: to open a bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Opening a small business is always h…
Learn about the hardware aspects for Programmed Input Output and Direct Memory Access.
I have a new rule that I’m making for myself and holding others to. If you haven’t worked on something in the past two weeks, you’re not allowed to talk about it.
I’ve mentioned many times that I do not think technology is advancing in a serious way. By “a serious way” I mean something like what happened between 1820 and 1970. That kind of …
I propose the "2/3 rule" for multi-factor authentication: to access a system, a user must pass at least two out of three possible methods for authentication. Unlike standard 2-factor authentication, this strategy protects against both false positives (granting…
Leveraging LLMs and the naturalness of software to build software declaratively.
Microsoft research recently published a paper where they review the original version of GPT-4, prior to all tuning, like removing bias, filtering, etc, that OpenAI did for the public version. In this article I will summarise the most interesting aspects and ex…
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Usually. I originally titled this InacCSS-onlyible. I even made this typographically, er, distinct image. Then I realized it was silly and will instead use the neologism in a talk so I can hear the groans IRL. Interactive widgets powered with only CSS are rela…
Introducing test.ps1, a script for running flaky tests - Keeps track of failing tests and retries them - Notifies the test framework of the current retry iteration - Makes it possible to accept a certain percentage of failing tests - Outputs the test result in…
Techniques for label conditioning in Gaussian denoising diffusion models
With the recent attention on ChatGPT and OpenAI’s release of their APIs, many developers have developed clients for modern platforms to talk to this super smart AI chatbot. However I’m pretty sure almost nobody has written one for a vintage platform like MS-DO…
“Why is that a story? No offense…” my cousin James, a nurse in Pittsburgh, asked after I told him that while on the phone I received an interview request from The New York Times, a publicatio…
Naturalism holds that what is real is what can be accounted for in terms acceptable to science. More or less the orthodoxy in contemporary ...
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We may have figured out how to create a brain, before we figured out how it actually works. Full disclosure, the quote above is not mine. I heard it from someone who heard it from someone who read it somewhere on the Internet. But this perfectly summarizes how…
A while ago, I came across this statement about Bing’s chatbot.
The other day while I was scrolling through my LinkedIn feed I read the following quote: Quote «The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles» -Oren Harari This idea is relevant in the process of creating products and services, spe…
As you wander in the woods, the sun begins to sink below the horizon. You are suddenly filled with joy as you remember similar scenes from your past. Maybe you visited this place with your loved ones when you were young or recently. Being here triggers memorie…
Our previous article on the banking crisis looked at Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) 2022 10-K to determine the reason for their failure. Our analysis revealed
In 2012-2013, I led the development of an open-source project called "Colored Coins", which defined a protocol for user-issued fungible toke...
The ratio of compute(disposable software) to compute(maintained software) will double every 18 months. Or maybe The average deployable lifespan of new sof...
From the archives: As we progress through Season 3, we thought it would be nice to look back at some of our best episodes that haven’t been posted to our Substack page. Enjoy! At LinearB, we like to think we spend all our time figuring out how to unlock develo…
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Ok I've been at this for the past several hours, I've tried everything and at this stage I don't know what to do next. This morning I woke up with my NUC fans spinning quite high. When I tried to connect to ssh or shell I had no joy. So I tried a reboot. To my…
In this post I will teach you how to dockerize stand alone blazor wasm app in .NET. All with live working demo.
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