This week’s blog post roundup is packed with gems! We dive into the real-world engineering challenges faced by ChatGPT as it scaled to meet demand. I also explore the intriguing contrasts between walking meetings and whiteboard sessions, the essentials of building a second brain with the Fieldstone Method, and a simple guide to creating your own GPT-like voice assistant. Plus, there’s a look at DIY 3D scanning, setting up the perfect online press kit, and the struggle of independent sites against digital giants. Further, I’ve highlighted an unconventional productivity tip using a never-ending .txt file, a pragmatic approach to AI workflow integration, and a surprising trick to compute limits more accurately. Foodies will love the carrot recipes, and there’s a peek into the hunt for new physics at the world’s largest particle collider. Don’t miss strategies for an accelerating future and making your own Cured Salmon Gravlax that’s shockingly simple yet luxurious.
- Scaling ChatGPT: Five Real-World Engineering Challenges: Just one year after its launch, ChatGPT had more than 100M weekly users. In order to meet this explosive demand, the team at OpenAI had to overcome several scaling challenges. An exclusive deepdive.
- Walking Meetings vs. Whiteboard Meetings: Walking meetings fuel personal connection through movement and informal settings, while whiteboard meetings offer visual collaboration.
- How To Use the Fieldstone Method to Build Your Second Brain: You can use the Fieldstone Method to build a Second Brain by collecting, organizing, and refining ideas and insights.
- World’s Easiest GPT-like Voice Assistant: The World’s Easiest GPT-like Voice Assistant uses an open-source LLM to respond to verbal requests, and it runs 100% locally on a RasPi 4.
- Watch The OpenScan DIY 3D Scanner In Action: [TeachingTech] has a video covering the OpenScan Mini that does a great job of showing the workflow, hardware, and processing method for turning small objects into high-quality 3D models. If you…
- Set Up the Perfect Online Press Kit: Help journalists and bloggers to help you, by providing promotional materials about you and your books in flexible, user-friendly formats.
- How Google is killing independent sites like ours: And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.
- My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file:
- Needs Before Tools: A Pragmatic Approach to AI Workflow Integration: Exploring the crucial step of identifying specific needs before selecting AI tools, ensuring technology serves as a solution, not just innovation.
- Floats Are Weird: Compute this limit more accurately with one weird trick!
- 31 Carrot Recipes From Crunchy Salads to Tender Cakes: We’ve got glazed carrots fit for a holiday spread, pickled carrots to pile on a sandwich, and obviously lots of carrot cake.
- Inside the hunt for new physics at the world’s largest particle collider: The Large Hadron Collider has come up dry since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. Here’s what researchers are trying to do about it.
- Strategies for an Accelerating Future: Four questions to ask your organization.
- Cured Salmon Gravlax (crazy easy!): Homemade Cured Salmon Gravlax is arguably the ultimate easy-to-make luxury food. Incredibly easy, make this using a small fillet or whole side of salmon.