Wot I read

After a busy conference season, I've taken some time to catch up on reading and make a dent in the pile of books on my nightstand. Here's what I've started, finished, and picked up since re:Invent.

Personal blog of Saurabh Minni aka 100rabh where he talks about the various topics that interest him

In 1972, a photo of a Swedish Playboy model was used to engineer the digital image format that would become the JPEG. The model herself was mostly a mystery—until now.

The way Williams has started F1 2024 has laid bare the painful consequences of its much needed revolution. It’s no secret that Williams has been battling wit...

One 2024 Formula 1 car had its roots in Mircosoft Excel, such is the outdated way of working a new leadership has set about demolishing

Powering a new era of computing, NVIDIA today announced that the NVIDIA Blackwell platform has arrived — enabling organizations everywhere to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than its predecessor.

Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families, available today in the Steam Beta Client. Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and when they can play. Create a Steam Family To get started, you can create a Steam Family and then invite up to 5 family members.

Personal blog of Saurabh Minni aka 100rabh where he talks about the various topics that interest him

This trucker takes 48 hours to travel 37 miles, in this beast of a machine

AI bots are turning job searches into a technological arms race

A new season is upon us! The events portrayed in this video are fictional though based on real events. Facts and statements mentioned in this video may not b...

Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. The malicious ads, which appear above organic search results and often precede links to legitimate…

His loss still hits hard. If you didn't know about Jules Bianchi, hopefully this serves as fitting tribute... Photo Credit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alamy FORMULA 1 Marussia F1 Team Merchandise ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://www.joshrevellstore.com/ Patreon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://www.patreon.com/joshrevellyt​​​ Social Media ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jrevellyoutube/ Twitter...or X...or whatever Elon calls it - https://twitter.com/thejoshrevell/​​​ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thejoshrevell/ Threads - https://www.threads.net/@thejoshrevell Discord - https://discord.gg/P3PypFMs DISCLAIMER: This video is not intended for persons 13 years or under. Special mention to all the original sources of certain clips used in my videos. Please do check out their content for the full videos. Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. There are certain scenes from the Formula 1 calendar where race footage is used. All those rights are property of FOM. Other photos and news elements are used solely for the purpose of assisting the original content illuminate a more in depth story #f1 #formula1 #bianchi #julesbianchi

A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.

"I was just holding him and saying repeatedly, 'It's OK. It's OK. It's OK, buddy. It's OK. It's OK.' "

(Disclaimer: No AIs were used in the writing of this article. My intelligence has been frequently questioned, but has thus far never been accused...

My top 10 sessions tailored for architects, curated with the intention of delivering real value and practical insights

Much has been written about the usual evolution of general-interest online communities. Less attention has been paid to the dynamics of more specialized, expert-led forums — and the unique if ultimately destructive role of expertise. Over the past 25 years, I participated in dozens of such groups. The forums ranged from 200 to 200,000 members, have been hosted on a variety of platforms, and have dealt with topics ranging from electronic circuit design, to emergency preparedness, to collectible antiques. In almost every instance, they followed the same trajectory — so today, I’d like to put forward a general lifecycle model for expert-led communities.