computer.org/csdl/magazine/…

We also ask developers how they feel about AI in their workflows. ... others said they do not want AI in their workflows.

Sure, stick your head in the sand!

Book review: The Future

For the literature minded, this summarizes that aspect quite well theguardian.com/books/2023/nov….

If you mainly care about the story telling, it is entertaining and flows nicely.

The thought however that I was left with was

rabbit : fox = framework : api

Oh no, they now actually shut down the google image charts API. When I tried a few weeks ago it was still working (despite the announcement that it was shut down in Mach 2019)

chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=p3&c…

I *really* do not need any more fountain pens, but I could simply not resist these Lamy AL special editions.

Always cheer for people that can make money using math.

venturebeat.com/ai/move-over-d…

In my pitch I tried to appeal to the second Futamura projection (blog.sigfpe.com/2009/05/three-…) as a way to fine-tune a model to fine-tune models, but I was laughed out of the room.

I guess there are…

Missed opportunity by Meta marketing to rely on AI to say it is generic 'chip' instead of having a human write somethig like 'a super amazing next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator from Meta'.

Communicating failed attempts back to the LLM as it is wandering through the solution space is an essential trick to make Automind/Universalis work well.

Great opportunity for a fully-funded PhD position in the functional programming lab in Nottingham!

GPT4 has been sniffing glue again ...

And you thought assistants were the new hot thing in tech?

Byte magazine, October 1989.