15 July 2023

20 links · Saturday

Human Programmers Will be Mostly Obsolete in 5 Years

“There will be no programmers in five years.” -Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI (Stable Diffusion) I agree with this, except I’d put the timeframe more conservatively around 10 …

Prompt Design

I’m usually averse to the common habit of trying to find old-world analogues to new-world phenomena. So please bear with me as I commit that exact sin: let me present the case for why prompting should be called prompt design and be likened to web design.…

More Bang for Your Buck

Skipping having to spend time defining an API until you really, really need it.

Discrete Haar Wavelet Transform in 1D Using TensorFlow

The wavelet transform is a tool that cuts up data, functions, or operators into different frequency components, and then studies each component with a resolution matched to its scale. Among all the wavelets, the Haar wavelet is the simplest wavelet, and the Ha…

ZK Security meetup @ Lightspeed · Luma

Are you into zero-knowledge proofs? Do you care about security (the answer is yes). We over at www.zksecurity.xyz like the same things you do! So come hang out with us at the Lightspeed...

8 Tips To Write Clean Code

Clean code is code that's easy to read, maintain, and understand. I consider writing clean code a skill. And it's a skill that you can learn and improve with deliberate practice. My favorite approach to practice clean coding is doing refactoring exercises. So…