Blogs about Computers, internet, tech

Since I was a young, I was told, “be careful what you post on the internet, the internet is forever.” Despite this, I know I’m not the first person to realize that it just isn’t …

May 2021’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, April 2021 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.Note: I …

Some of the daily normalities of life in the Cold War seem a little surreal from our perspective in 2023, when nuclear bombers no longer come in to land just down the road and you …

Yesterday OpenAI released ChatGPT, a chatbot that uses a sophisticated language model and knows a lot about the world. It can give high-quality answers on business strategy, talk in funny dialects, write coherent poetry/jokes/limericks and …

My son Cole, pictured here as a goofy kid many years ago, is now six feet six inches tall and in college. Cole needed a letter of recommendation recently so he turned to an old …

AI is still in the foothills of its adoption S-curve, and I love this period of any new technology – the scope of what it can do is unknown, so the main job is to …

As a frequent reader of the retrobattlestations and VintageApple subreddits, I see a lot of photos of CRT screens that show significant scanlines resulting in images like the one on the left. With a simple …

It is meaningless to talk about the force of gravity unless there are at least two material bodies, or their equivalents, between which the force is considered as acting. G. Patrick Flanagan, Pyramid Power This …

And Sydney too. Consolidating some thoughts on an exciting two weeks of surprises, advances, and retreats in AI.The following brings together three twitter threads on the launch of ChatGPT, the launch of Bing Chat, the …

The Living with Machines project has announced a call for digital residencies. So what are they? And are they for you?

There’s a question that keeps echoing in my mind: are we being good ancestors? It’s attributed to Jonas Salk, an American virologist who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. I encountered it months …

In more mb-media news: earlier this year I launched a new podcast with my friend Syd Andrerson, called Absolutely Crushed. It’s a bi-weekly comedy interview show in which we gossip with a guest about their …

In the summer of 2022, with support from Schmidt Futures, I took a closer look at several emerging science funding mechanisms – rapid grants, scout programs, and focused research organizations (FROs) – to understand how …

Samsung cameras claim to produce incredibly high-detailed photos, even at night. One example they use is shots of the moon. However, as this reddit user shows, they are in fact using onboard AI / machine …

Tallinn, Estonia, 21st March, 2023, Chainwire Estonia-based crypto startup CryptoWallet.com has become one of the first crypto companies to receive a stamp of approval from Estonia’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). CryptoWallet.com renewed its crypto license …

Yet another hair-raising experiment. A mildly interesting bonus episode, where we investigate our own signal to noise ratio using the new-fangled Clip Text™ Machine… Continue reading…

In October 2020, Google released a new version of Google Analytics. GA4 was missing a lot of features to begin with and was fairly useless. Now, GA4 is a fully featured product and your old …

Lensa is, in their own words, "an all-in-one image editing app that takes your photos to the next level". I haven't explored any of their other features besides the one that's taking the internet by …