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It was such a stunning day yesterday, I walked across the Harbour Bridge with a wrap for my lunch break. And hey look, a Cunard ship! By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-12-12.
From The Keyword Google blog: Introducing Gemini 2.0: Our New AI Model for the Agentic EraToday we’re excited to launch our next era of models built for this new agentic era: introducing Gemini 2.0, our most capable model yet. With new advances in multimodality —
It’s hard not to read the news about that insurance executive in the US. His passing has brought a whirlpool of resentment, frustration, and anger to the surface, from people across all walks of life. It might be wishful thinking to assume this will bring about change by itself, especially with the incoming administration over there. But at least...
I recently wrote about over-engineering and striking a good balance bet
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here. Stroustrop's Rule I first encountered Stroustrop's Rule on this defunct webpage: One of my favorite insights about syntax design...
Who and What comprise AI Skepticism? Benjamin Riley's response to Casey Newton's piece on The phony comforts of AI skepticism. Casey tried to categorize the field as "AI is fake and sucks" v.s. "AI is real and dangerous". Benjamin argues that this as a misleading over-simplification, instead proposing at least nine different groups. I get listed...
The flags are still flying, celebrating the man, not the country. Why is this something that happens now, and why is it something only happening on one end of the political spectrum?
PyMySkySpy shows a map of your flightpath so far. It also shows your current flight metrics and how these metrics have changed over the course of your flight. It does this for all data available from the in-flight wi-fi, even data that isn’t usually displayed on the website or headrest screen. I love this project, I’ve long wanted to build...