“After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine - The Verge”
Between VCs/hedge funds, generative models, and Google not caring what happens to its search engine, large parts of the media industry seem to be in a race to the bottom
“Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers”
That these sites don’t seem to get penalised by Google tells us something about Google’s search engine priorities.
The view from my living room window this morning.
“Pluralistic: The real AI fight (27 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
Where I found the link to Red Jacket’s defence.
“LukeW | Until the Right Design Emerges…”
Your first design, while it may seem like a solution, is usually just an early definition of the problem you are trying to solve.
I don’t think I’ve ever worked on a project where management let the design process actually finish.
“Why I Don’t Dig the Singularity”
Eight years old but still relevant.
Reminder: Black Friday Bundle 2023, everything I have made for only $49
Tomorrow will be the last day. Two ebooks. A web-book/course. And a bonus video series. All on various aspects of software dev. (Tho, one is on the business risks of generative “AI”.)
“Meta’s Free AI Isn’t Cheap To Use, Companies Say - Slashdot”
Llama 2 out of the box costs 50% to 100% more than for OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo
GPT-3.5 Turbo is rumoured to be ~30-40% larger than the biggest LLAMA-2 model
The AI bubble is being massively subsidised
“California Man’s Plot to Avoid Tickets With ‘NULL’ Vanity Plate Nets Him $12K in Fines”
Bwahahahaha!
“How Sam Altman Ran Afoul of the Keepers of the AI Faith | The Nation”
I really hope these articles mean that the religious nature of the current AI bubble starts to draw mainstream attention.
Making God by Emily F. Gorcenski
A fairly detailed overview of the history of the singularity cult that dominates tech today.
I have a Black Friday Bundle deal running for only $49:
Uncluttered, a 21k words on import maps and TDD Out of the Software Crisis, an ebook on systems-thinking in dev The Intelligence Illusion, an ebook on the biz risks of generative models Yellow, an oddball audio/video series
Listening to people talk about their productivity, esp. those evangelising LLMs, is like listening to an alternate universe where everybody is constantly writing novel-length emails
The biggest productivity issue in my life is the fact that the software we have to use is garbage
“Uncluttered: free yourself from Node with import maps and test-driven web development”
www.baldurbjarnason.com/courses/u…
Available as a part of a Black Friday bundle, that includes the course, two ebooks and a video/audio series for $49 USD
“The elevator pitch for Web Components | Go Make Things”
This. But also the fact that most of our existing testing/typing tools are effectively a fiction, but are the least fictional when applied to custom elements
Interesting interview.
The next door neighbour.
Hveragerði has been accused of being picturesque.
“Launching a new course with a massively discounted Black Friday bundle”
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/laun…
Launching a new course/web-book and it’s available with both my ebooks and a bonus video series in discounted a $49 bundle until Monday
Anyway, I’m probably going to be mentioning both the new course and the Black Friday bundle several times over the next few days, so apologies in advance. 🙂️
“Launching a new course with a massively discounted Black Friday bundle”
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/laun…
Excited and nervous. Launching a new course/web-book and making everything worthwhile I’ve done available for $49 bucks until Monday