Links

Relatedly, some deep learning short courses

From a bunch of different people. Lot of good ones.

Note that during git rebase and git pull --rebase, ours and theirs may appear swapped; --ours gives the version from the branch the changes are rebased onto, while –theirs gives the version from the branch that holds your work that is being rebased.

git is so stupid sometimes

demo and examples
me clicking on a bunch of the demos

also https://git.ecker.tech/mrq/ai-voice-cloning

fun home project from the jet propulsion lab

At some point the backyard became [Australia’s] largest unit of measurement

good line

good feature checklist when starting #projects for phones

Values for figuring out not from a frequency spectrum

It was a time
governed by contradictions, as in
I felt nothing and
I was afraid.

Decoding scrolls from Pompeii

ideas for improving text editing on phones

Android and iOS share a common problem: they copied desktop text editing conventions, but without a menu bar or mouse. This forced them to overload the tap gesture

was funny how much of this was relevant when released (“use this version of tasker and this version of android”) but completely not relevant later

“Not yet. This will be available in the rewrite.”

probably no

we can’t compete with AI boyfriends either. Or AI friends:

Soon, these “fake people” won’t just be indistinguishable from real people, they’ll be better than real people - because they’ll be whatever you want them to be.

The agreeableness thing I have seen come up a few times recently. We probably prefer it, so I assume training will be biased toward it. There are times you don’t want the computer to argue with you, but hyper-agreeable friends does not bode well for echo chambers.

Slides and transcript on the challenges of designing with language models

more AI experiments on reading and generating images

link from mum

incredible op-z project organization tips

plant and animal 3d models

clever if true