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Easy Introduction to Vector Databases
As part of the massive shift into AI, vector databases have been increasing in popularity. Also...
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Why Custom GPTs are better than plugins
On November 6, 2023, OpenAI announced Custom GPTs. Since then, over 3 million GPTs have been...
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The Apparent Simplicity of RGB Rendering
The primary goal of physically-based rendering (PBR) is to create a simulation that accurately reproduces the...
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How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech
Although this article isn’t related to any of the 12 Challenges so far, it’s on a...
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Global fertility isn't just declining, it's collapsing
“Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that...
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How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
This is a blog post aimed at people who want to do important work or make...
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There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)
Speculative map of the planet Mars, by Camille Flammarion (1884)Sometimes, for example when I watch the...
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Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech
I spent a fair portion of my adult life working for large tech companies. In all...
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When the "R" goes missing from R&D (2021)
Credit: Bob Cuthill via Getty ImagesI had my suspicions that something was terribly wrong with how...
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A man who collects lost pet posters
Towards the end of July in the year 1970-something, a woman named Diana lost her three-month-old...
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Jane Street's "Figgie" Card Game
Jane Street Capital invited a card game in 2013 called “Figgie.”Img src: Jack HamiltonIf you are...
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Yes, the last 10 years have been worse for free speech
ACLU National Legal Director David Cole has a review of my and Rikki Schlott’s book, “The...
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The Enchippening
If there’s one thing that keeps getting better, it’s computer chips, right?Transistors keep getting smaller, so...
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Copper, Abundance, and Scarcity Julian Simon vs. Thomas Malthus
David Henderson writes,In August 2022, my former co-blogger Arnold Kling wrote a critical review of Superabundance....
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Hiring ONLY seniors is the worst policy in the software industry
Every company has a different excuse:In small startups - “we are a very small team and...
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The end of "Useless Ruby sugar": On intuitions and evolutions
At the end of September, I returned to— more peaceful parts of Ukraine, let’s say. And...
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The size of abacklog is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers
I haven’t written much in the past year because every spare hour has been poured into...
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Financial Markets Microstructure Introduction
Hi Friends, I wanted to share a Master’s level university course on the financial market’s microstructure...
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My Toddler Still Loves Planes, So I Upgraded Her Radar
This is part indie dev story, part release notes, and part technical documentation as I detail...
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AI is starting to Rule the Battlefield
Hi All,Note—I started writing this midweek update early this morning. I often start on Monday and...
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Substack won't make you rich
Writing just doesn’t pay much, and it’s getting worse. No amount of digital juju is going...
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Games don't need venture capitalism
disclaimer: we work with VC-backed game devs, including on funding strategyArgument tl;dr: making a successful indie...