Board

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

I really like the "tech debt" metaphor. A lot of people don't, but I think that's because they either don't extend the metaphor far enough,...

Lots of mistakes, some uptime too.

Sequence diagrams really shine when you’re documenting different parts of a system and the various ways these parts interact with each other.

OpenAI and Microsoft have been crowned as the winners of the generative AI wave. Google is seen as having made severe missteps. Pundits say that incumbents will accrue all the value. There are no moats for startups. But ChatGPT is only 7 months old. Incumbent AI features are working, but we don’t know the counterfactual. New models are being trained and deployed. Open-source models aren’t as good but are catching up or have exceeded proprietary ones in different dimensions (developer tooling, ecosystem, etc.).

Abilities unused will atrophy, so putting in anything less than your best means giving up on what you’re capable of. You can’t save talent or energy for better days, only watch it go to waste. This is a hard truth to accept if you don’t think your company has earned your best. And companies make employees feel like that all the time. T...

Image diffusion models like Stable Diffusion can generate all types of images — from photorealistic quality to stylized images (e.g., in the style of Studio Ghibli or Leonardo Da Vinci). We started to control the output of these models with prompt engineering — finding the perfect combination of tokens to mix and match to achieve great images. Then we started curating the dataset — e.g., fine-tuning with images taken with a DSLR camera. Low-rank adaptation (LoRA).

What would a token-efficient language for LLMs look like? YAML is pervasive as a configuration language partly because of its human readability over JSON. But — what’s more token-efficient if you’re using an LLM? Let’s look at some configuration languages as an example, but the concept also generalizes to programming languages.

Gamedev.net is the leading resource for game developers, featuring daily news updates, over 1500 featured articles and tutorials, and the most active game development forums anywhere!

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing — Stephen Covey An important lesson I’ve learned over the years (and still refining). A few dimensions in my experience. The first is prioritization — actually picking the main thing. It’s often hard at first; there are so many competing priorities. And usually, the initial answer is horizontal scaling rather than vertical scaling — i.e., hire more, allocate more resources, and try more things. But putting some work into prioritizing. Do one thing, and do it well. Ruthlessly cut everything else.

Let me share a little theory I have about optimism, and why progress is so easy to underestimate.

The cloud leader confirmed that two new services introduced Tuesday at re:Invent can be used to manage applications on Microsoft and Google's cloud services.

Learn about Expensify's unusual story and how we evolved to create the best money management app in the world. Learn who we are and much more at Expensify today!

Ben Johnson has joined Fly.io

From corporate BeReal to an iMessage read count, Soren Iverson is coming up with totally unhinged updates for your favorite apps.

Despite an exponential increase in computing power, our applications require more machines than ever because of architectural decisions made 25 years ago. You can eliminate much of your complexity and cost by using SQLite & Litestream for your production applications.

How not to become an expert beginner and to progress through beginner, intermediate, and so on.

The company is making software to help humans use the most advanced computers ever created

🎥 More tech documentaries coming out soon, subscribe to be notified 👉(PS: The 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey results just came out and Phoenix overto...

You’ll often find creatives are obsessed with process and tools. A primary tool for me is that I write an awful lot. I write because I realized at art school that you can only draw a small percentage of the attributes of an object. You know, if I were to draw this [holds up a glass], you would understand only 20 percent of its nature. You would have no sense of its weight or material or temperature. You would have no sense of the way that it reacted to its environment. Writing helps me frame the problem. A lot of mistakes are made when you frame a problem, because you could already be dismissing 60 percent, 70 percent of the potential ideas.

How the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases

Large language models such as GPT-3/4, LLaMA and PaLM work in terms of tokens. They take text, convert it into tokens (integers), then predict which tokens should come next. Playing …

In the same way that the introduction of multitouch with the iPhone removed a layer of conceptual abstraction — instead of touching a mouse or trackpad to move an on-screen pointer to an object on screen, you simply touch the object on screen — VisionOS removes a layer of abstraction spatially.

Regional Tiered Cache provides an additional layer of caching for Enterprise customers who have a global traffic footprint and want to serve content faster by avoiding network latency when there is a cache miss in a lower-tier, resulting in an upper-tier fetch in a data center located far away

About five years ago, credit-card issuers opened the features bottle and let out the free-lounge-access genie. From being an exclusive service offered only to premium credit-card holders, free access to airport lounges became the top selling point for every product in a bank’s credit-card pack; it was seen as an aspirational benefit to most. Banks...