24 November 2023

31 links · Friday

[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models

This is a 1 hour general-audience introduction to Large Language Models: the core technical component behind systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Bard. What the...

Original Prusa 3D printers directly from Josef Prusa

Eshop by Prusa Research a.s., company founded by Josef Prusa, one of the RepRap core developers. We're selling Original Prusa 3D printers (incl. Prusa i3), filaments (especially our in-house made Prusament), resins, and other accessories for 3D printing.

The Failed Commodification Of Technical Work — Ludicity

The most talented data engineer I know, and my first manager, is a man that loves cooking. I mean, you might think you love cooking, but this guy loves cooking. The most excited text message I received this year was from him, proudly sharing the goddamn analyt…

🔴 Live | Stripe BFCM

Live dashboard of Stripe systems during Black Friday–Cyber Monday 2023.

Weekly Update 375

It’s beer o’clock on a Friday afternoon and I haven’t prepared any content (but hey, at least I’m honest!)

The Story of Titanium

The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By mass, there’s more titanium in the earth’s crust than carbon by a factor of nearly 30, and more titanium than copper by a factor of nearly 100. But despite its…

YouTube: Intro to Large Language Models

Andrej Karpathy is an outstanding educator, and this one hour video offers an excellent technical introduction to LLMs. At 42m Andrej expands on his idea of LLMs as the center …

Does size matter in Pull Requests: Analysis on 30k Developers

We will analyze the PRs of ~30k developers to see how the size of PRs correlates with lead time, comments received and change failure, to try and find what statistically is the best size, as well a…

Write libraries instead of services, where possible

For any developer with limited resources, this means a library (where viable) can provide the same functionality to the user, at a lower cost to the developer than a service.