I moved to @julians@mastodon.social

It still tickles me that we spent all this time and effort developing GPUs, only to find out that their most compelling application is a text adventure game with more steps.

#gpu #llm #ai #generativeai

The pathwidth of the AirBnB full occupancy for April 7th (via @Jamie_Lane on X) is currently at 100% of the total #SolarEclipse2024 pathwidth! #dataviz

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie

It has now been 6 years since I was banned from home decor.

Throwback to 2015 when we relaunched zeit.de and made launch pins with all the internal memes and jokes that came up during the relaunch process! #goodtimes

(cc @nicobruenjes )

I've been writing serverside SQLite applications for several years now and I still picked things up from this article, which is extremely good. https://kerkour.com/sqlite-for-servers

Boeing is an example of the observation that by the time you realize you've made a strategic mistake, it's too late.

No phone, I did not “miss a call” I watched it ring the whole time

@kristin_baumann Maybe this helps (for bubbles and blobs)?
https://github.com/Shadow-Scientist/BlobMaker

I made an HTML/DOM viewer you can paste into your console to view or debug any website in 3D. Choose from random/gradient/clear colors or whether layers have sides.

You can save it as a bookmarklet so it's 1 click away. It's just a tiny IIFE JS function.
https://gist.github.com/OrionReed/4c3778ebc2b5026d2354359ca49077ca

cool javascript api for improving perceived performance and usability: `scheduler.postTask`

at first glance it looks unusable bc "chrome only" but it's supported where it matters. replace it with a noop on safari

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Scheduler/postTask

Wonder if Biden could speed up the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity by announcing he was sending CIA assassins after a different member of the court a week since it was presumably legal until a ruling is made otherwise...

No one speaks through a translator; it is we who *listen* through a translator.

... which is absurdly useful, because it means you can store those vectors in 1/32th of the original space, and run MUCH faster comparisons against them Then you can brute-force to get the 100 top matches, then run the more expensive full floating point ops against that subset

I learned about this in https://blog.pgvecto.rs/my-binary-vector-search-is-better-than-your-fp32-vectors

TIL about binary vector search... apparently there's a trick where you can take an embedding vector like [0.0051, 0.017, -0.0186, -0.0185...] and turn that into a binary vector just reflecting if each value is > 0 - so [1, 1, 0, 0, ...] and still get useful cosine similarities!

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/26/binary-vector-search/

The foundational tenet of "the Cult of Mac" is that buying products from a $3t company makes you a member of an oppressed ethnic minority and therefore every criticism of that corporation is an ethnic slur:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

This actually says something about cultural continuity because back in 2004, when Apple was a roughly $3Bn (not $Tn) company, it really *was* a minority pursuit in a sea of Windows, universally oppressed by corporate IT departments! It only shifted after iPhone ...

📝 Drinking the local-first koolaid around the idea of sync engines.

What react did for the front-end (manual -> declarative DOM manipulation), sync engines can do for the backend (manual -> declarative data manipulation).

Loved how @martin illustrated the power of this idea in his talk and how beautiful the future would be for application-agnostic backends built on open standards and interoperable across different hosting provides.

My notes:

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/allure-of-sync-engines/

bad idea: A mouse cursor that's not just a simple floating pointer, it's a cat/dog paw... but it stretches all the way to an edge of the screen like it's a really long leg

This woman was asked to cover up while she was breastfeeding.
A legend was born.👏😂😉