Thu May 23
The video game Victoria 3 is a historical, and often times ahistorial, 4X grand strategy video game by Swedish developer Paradox Interactive. It is meant to depict the period of world history from 1836 to 1936, including events such as the middle and late industrial revolution, American civil war, the scramble for...
Read on the website: Lisp is an ambiguous category. But Common Lisp isn't, right? It's a restricted self-sufficient language, after all.
Sovereignty is a great word, and it has a nice ring to it. Everyone would like to be sovereign, but being so comes with costs and inconveniences. Therefore, it’s useful to break down the concept to see what we really mean by it and what we’d be prepared to do to be “sovereign”. Confidentiality is often the first...
Ok, so Microsoft did a thing, a potentially privacy-violating thing, called Recall. Microsoft has been doing lots of other things. Apparently these things have led to people not wanting to use Windows 11, the latest Windows -- or even stop using Windows altogether.
If somebody asks you how you manage your team, you have to be able to explain it to them clearly. “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” — Maslow’s hammer. That means you must have a goal, strategy, tactics, methodologies, mental models, and many more in your toolbelt and know how to use them....
Un tema que me da la sensación cada vez que pienso en los LLM y en cómo se han entrenado tragándose toneladas de libros y toneladas de URL de Internet es que es mucho asumir que todo lo escrito en un libro y en Internet es cierto, igual que es mucho asumir que todo lo escrito se ha escrito con una intención seria....
In which I fall down a rabbit hole with a purported “AI novel writer,” and wonder what the result tells us about generative AI’s future. I spent nearly six years as a technical writer at an AI company, and it was one of the best jobs I’ve ever had. I worked with some brilliant people, several of whom have gone on to...