Blogs about Computers, internet, tech

New research on census, youth, mental health; a recent talk and an upcoming one tl;dr: 1. New paper with Janet Vertesi: “The Resource Bind: System Failure and Legitimacy Threats in Sociotechnical Organizations” 2. “Techno-legal Solutionism: …

The launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 20221 marks the beginning of the new AI era. We’ve had many AI cycles in the past going all the way back to 1966. However, the last year …

In the absence of strong net neutrality protections, internet service providers (ISPs) have made all sorts of plans that would allow them to capitalize on something called "network slicing." While this technology has all sorts …

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I was completely unexpectedly awarded the Gordon Bennett Trophy 2023 by the GQRP Club. This trophy, which is awarded annually for the best practical article, was given to me for my Sprat Magazine article about …

I’ve made it a habit to travel on the long easter weekend and this year found myself in the French Riviera for a beautiful, expensive weekend. I grew up not too far away from the …

Here’s the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for Monday, April 22 through Sunday, April 28, 2024. This week’s events Monday, April 22 Tuesday, April 23 …

Peter Gerdes is a mathematician working in computability theory a.k.a. recursion theory, a branch of mathematical logic studying what computers (aka Turing machines) could in principle compute. Or more accurately when does being given access …

This screenshot basically sums up “the internet as we know it”. For the past decade or so the social internet has consisted of a handful of websites that the vast majority of people frequented. The …

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 …

While 3D printer hardware has come along way in the past decade and a half, the real development has been in the software. Open source slicers are constantly improving, and OctoPrint can turn even the …

I’m very excited to announce my first proper album: Melodic Guitar Music. It’s ten original guitar tunes, inspired by Django Reinhardt, The Beatles and Chet Atkins. I’d describe the style as “Django phrasing + Chet …

How to set up a custom domain with a shared IPv4 address on Fly.ioFrom 1 February 2024, Fly.io stopped providing dedicated IPv4 addresses for free and started charging for these. If you don't need a …

I’ve been following the press and social media coverage of Apple’s pricey new Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset, which now totals hundreds of stories and thousands of comments and I’ve noticed one idea missing from …

Today I’m allowing myself to be a pedantic nit-picker. Really embracing that side of me. And I’m wondering how to push back against mundane nits, even though I’m aware that it makes me sound like …

Image by chrisreadingfoto Everyone loves the delivery of new software features. Users appreciate the added value. Developers thrive on building new things. Companies want to strengthen market position, earn more users, and charge more. While …

Here’s the latest installment in the series on working with LLMS: https://thenewstack.io/code-in-context-how-ai-can-help-improve-our-documentation/. Writing documentation from scratch is as uncommon as writing code from scratch. More typically, you’re updating or expanding or refactoring existing docs. My …

I've been working on Carl, my IMAP e-mail client, for the past few months. Your browser doesn't seem to support HTML video. You can download the video in H.264/AAC format instead. I need to work …

Yesterday, Zuck got on stage to announce Meta's ChatGPT killer, Llama 3, apparently making this bold claim: Meta says that Llama 3 outperforms competing models of its class on key benchmarks and that it’s better …

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