Miss the old days in SF when we had grassroots meetups on interesting/emerging distributed systems topics from industry and academia? Then check this in out and sign up! lu.ma/t6r4mi4v
NYC can't have all the fun! We're excited to be organizing a new meetup for the Bay Area focused on building large scale distributed systems. Our first meeting…
Would it help if we described the hypothetical to the Court as "the president could order Seal Team 6 to assassinate members of the Supreme Court so that he could fill their seats with new appointments"? (And don't say "they'd impeach him" when he could also order hits on members of Congress.)
Reading about log scales 📊 this morning and I made two discoveries. The delightful voice of @lisacmuth.bsky.socialblog.datawrapper.de/weeklychart-...
What log scales tell us.
This. My kids love to point out dogs don’t like me. I’ve got the scars to prove it. The only time I’ve ever had to get stitches was from a trail run and getting bit a mile into it. run.outsideonline.com/opinion/can-...
There’s nothing I loathe more than getting charged by a dog that’s off leash while I’m out running on a trail
"I tried to listen to a John Cage piece but my enjoyment of it was interrupted by the protests outside" is a remarkable thing to have written down and published under your own name
I've started publishing how-tos on using clusterless to manage cloud data pipelines. A little overkill, but the first is how to manage an aws s3 bucket. docs.clusterless.io/guide/1.0-wi...
I appreciate having new tools, and I also appreciate progress. I had a colleague mention to me today they were steering their child away from computer science as a major in college. This iteration of AI may not be our modern day stocking frame, but it's likely not too far away.
I felt that way for a while. The more I work with ChatGPT, the more I feel it frees me up to do the fun stuff, though. If they increase context window dramatically, though, I think your prediction will be quite likely. Noah smith's take is worth a read, too. www.noahpinion.blog/p/is-it-time...
An optimistic take on technology and inequality.