24 November 2024

20 links · Sunday

A career ending mistake — Bitfield Consulting

As software engineers, we're constantly making detailed, elaborate plans for computers to execute. Isn't it weird that we rarely give a moment's thought to the program for our own careers?

WinUI Partial Observable Property (preview)

Now we can use partial observable properties with private setters. GitHub: https://github.com/AndrewKeepCoding/CommunityToolkitMvvmPartialProperty Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewKeepCodin #winui #winui3 #winappsdk #windowsappsdk #windowsdev #wpf #uwp…

F: Graphics 2 (Category Compilation) #07~#13

In Category F: Graphics, I explain what goes into making art for games. Rather than sharing tool tutorials and the like, I offer practical points to consider when creating game visuals. [Index] 0:00 Opening 0:11 F-07 The Basics of Pixel Art 3:05 F-08 Unifying…

Bill Gates: Wrong on Communism and IP

I’ve long noted how the West, primarily the US, uses its leverage to pressure developing nations to adopt and strengthen intellectual property (IP) protections and adopt international IP trea…

How well can LLMs see? · Kabir Khandpur

Creating a small benchmark to test how well multimodal language models can find specific objects in complex Where's Waldo-style illustrations.

Knowledge Creation

Somewhat recently I have done a small amount of “adding knowledge into the world.” After a few months of building the business it became apparent that many of the problems I was facing had very few corresponding resources. These are niche problems solved by ni…

Large Chainsaw Model

The powered chainsaw was developed nearly a century ago. Its rise in prevalence has fundamentally changed the shape of human work in forestry and logging industries. But when was the last time you personally needed to use a chainsaw in your daily life?