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The most vital knowledge in human history
I recently treated myself to a new Kindle to replace my decade old one. With a whopping 32Gb of storage, it was overkill for novels, but it sparked a…
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Diego Crespo
Star Trek's Optimism Towards the Future
I've been watching the OG Star Trek series, having never consumed any of the TV shows before, and I've been surprised at how refreshingly optimistic its…
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The DOIT philosophy: How I'm avoiding Decision Fatigue and the Paralysis of Choice this year
My mantra for this year is DOIT and it stands for
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A World without C
The Whitehouse released a report this week encouraging the use of memory safe languages, over non memory safe languages, specifically calling out C/C…
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Small Joys when Programming
I used to paint Warhammer 40K mini figures, and one of the things I always enjoyed about the hobby, was building up my toolkit of home brewed…
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From Indiegogo to Orthrus: Rethinking Open-Source Funding
I recently discovered that OpenCV had started an Indiegogo campaign to fund version 5 of its renowned library for computer vision.
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Recapping the first OpenAI DevDay
The inaugural OpenAI DevDay recently concluded, bringing with it a slew of new announcements about OpenAI's products.
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A low/no code future
Are we almost there?
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Contemplating Loss in the Digital Age
What am I willing to lose?
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Why on earth are we already lamenting the fall of LLMs?
But if you had told me that not only I would get the chance to work on it, but that after making, like, a very, very larval proto AGI thing, that the…
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Tracing the Lines: From the Telephone to Unix
The telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, sparked a revolution in communication.
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The Complexity of Open Source and AI
Is open source software in trouble?
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