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Beginners can do things that experts cannot
10 years ago I wrote “A Beginner's Guide to Coding Graphics Shaders”. It remained the top google search result for ~7 years for the generic term…
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Hulu is A/B testing ads in the pause screen — I hate it
500 words, 2 minute read
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Washington Post is collecting TikTok user data from its followers for public good
I wrote about communities collecting twitter user data so that we can collectively learn about ourselves, and now the Washington Post is doing the same…
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Twitter shut off API access; users are now volunteering their data for an open API
A lot of community applications died when API access to twitter, reddit & others was severely restricted, but they can't stop us from sharing our own…
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What exactly *is* ChatGPT, if it's not a chatbot?
My rewrite of Scott Alexander's "Janus' Simulators" about the nature of LLM's
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Fighting twitter's censorship of substack
Twitter refuses to display the nice preview card for substack links, but this a silly ban that is easily defeated with some basic understanding of how…
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Making software by "cosmic pizza order"
I used to bemoan the fact that every time I post about an idea someone tells me, "that's been done before!" — now I've learned to love it
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