Category: Here’s What I Found Today

Hey there! So, I decided to take a 300-mile drive through rural Virginia and then did something a bit unusual—I requested the police to give me their public surveillance footage of my car. It was quite an eye-opening experience, and I learned some fascinating things about privacy and surveillance. Curious about the whole adventure and what I discovered? You’ll definitely want to check it out!

• I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned.:

In my latest blog post, I dive into a wide array of topics! From exploring the power of print and product management types, to Bloomberg’s innovative audience strategies and breaking free from anti-patterns. I also share fascinating reads on creating artificial sunlight, using different dashes, and the latest AI breakthroughs in weather forecasting and language model mechanics. There’s something for every curious mind!

• The Power of Print:
• LOVE_LETTER.md: The CSV magician. Contribute to medialab/xan development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Model context protocol (MCP):
• Inside Bloomberg Media’s approach to product innovation: Bloomberg Media went all-in on an audience-first publishing strategy at the end of 2022, dropping programmatic advertising and committing to actively listening to its audiences. A little over two years in, Global Head of Product Marissa Zanetti-Crume for the news business explains that every project starts with two questions: how will this serve our audience and how will this serve our business?
• The 12 Types of Product Managers: What Product Manager Can You Become? | ProdPad: There are so many types of Product Managers you can become. All different. Learn what makes each type unique.
• The Anti-Pattern Playbook.: Breaking free from the cycle of building things nobody wants.
• How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read: Effective writing for software developers
• I tried making artificial sunlight at home: Some time ago, I saw where they make artificial sunlight at home with a 500W LED and a gigantic (1.2m) parabolic reflector. I’ve been fascinated by this pro…
• Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia: The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a massive upgrade to Mac OS X known as Leopard, sporting “300 New Features.” Two years later, it did something almost unheard of: it released Snow The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a massive upgrade to Mac OS X known as Leopard, sporting “300 New Features.” Two years later, it did something almost unheard of: it released Snow …
• How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-): The rules of when and where to use which kind of dash may seem complex and hard to understand, but they don’t have to. Here’s your guide to how to use em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens correctly.
• AI prediction model is a major breakthrough in weather forecasting: Aardvark Weather, by the University of Cambridge, uses AI to deliver fast, accurate forecasts in minutes with minimal computing power.
• Tracing the thoughts of a large language model: Anthropic’s latest interpretability research: a new microscope to understand Claude’s internal mechanisms

In my latest blog post, I’ve highlighted some fantastic links I came across. Check out node.dojo’s Instagram for some impressive 3D and procedural art. There’s also a great article on marketing yourself and your work, and a cool tool for software developers to enhance their writing. Plus, I’m sharing a fascinating story about how a simple idea, Stoop Coffee, transformed a neighborhood. Dive in and explore!

• node.dojo: 21K Followers, 31 Following, 31 Posts – Beamish (@node.dojo) on Instagram: “Gaining mastery of 3D and procedurally generated art. By @the.well.tarot”
• Sell Yourself Sell Your Work:
• HN Popularity Contest: Effective writing for software developers
• Stoop Coffee: How a Simple Idea Transformed My Neighborhood:

Hey there! In this blog post, I’m diving into some fascinating AI topics. We have AI saving me an hour in my daily reading routine, real-world insights from AI engineers, and a look at a cool project called UniHDSA that’s revolutionizing document structure analysis with a unified approach. Plus, catch a glimpse of smarter AI models! Check it out for some amazing tech insights!

• How AI Shaves an Hour Off My Daily Reading Routine:
• AI Engineering in the real world: What does AI engineering look like in practice? Hands-on examples and learnings from software engineers turned “AI engineers” at seven companies
• chadmed/triforce:
• Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter:
• UniHDSA: A Unified Relation Prediction Approach for Hierarchical Document Structure Analysis: Document structure analysis, aka document layout analysis, is crucial for understanding both the physical layout and logical structure of documents, serving information retrieval, document summarization, knowledge extraction, etc. Hierarchical Document Structure Analysis (HDSA) specifically aims to restore the hierarchical structure of documents created using authoring software with hierarchical schemas. Previous research has primarily followed two approaches: one focuses on tackling specific subtasks of HDSA in isolation, such as table detection or reading order prediction, while the other adopts a unified framework that uses multiple branches or modules, each designed to address a distinct task. In this work, we propose a unified relation prediction approach for HDSA, called UniHDSA, which treats various HDSA sub-tasks as relation prediction problems and consolidates relation prediction labels into a unified label space. This allows a single relation prediction module to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, whether at a page-level or document-level structure analysis. To validate the effectiveness of UniHDSA, we develop a multimodal end-to-end system based on Transformer architectures. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on a hierarchical document structure analysis benchmark, Comp-HRDoc, and competitive results on a large-scale document layout analysis dataset, DocLayNet, effectively illustrating the superiority of our method across all sub-tasks.

In my latest blog post, I explore some intriguing reads! Dive into leadership over measureship, get insights from Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel on the future of media, and discover how AI might transform weather prediction. I’m also sharing a quirky tale about “The Worst Programmer I Know” and exploring some rhythmic inspirations with Drum Patterns. Check them all out!

• Leadership Over Measureship.:
• Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel: ‘If you make yourself essential, you will be fine’: Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel explains why media has a great future and the key changes which transformed the business.
• Drum Patterns:
• Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction: From the Global South to the Arctic, can machine learning-enabled weather prediction better protect communities and economies?
• The Worst Programmer I Know: The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.

This blog post dives into a variety of intriguing topics! You’ll find a guide to understanding MCP in 5 minutes, a tutorial on using Python for March Madness bracket simulations, and insights on building AI agents for data queries. Plus, there are discussions on the art of leisurely research, a delectable garlic butter steak noodle recipe, leader behaviors affecting top performers, and breakthroughs in AI-driven weather predictions. Enjoy exploring!

• MCP (Model Context Protocol): Simply explained in 5 minutes:
• I Let Python Pick My March Madness Bracket – Bracket Simulation Tutorial: In this video, we’ll be creating a March Madness bracket simulator using Python. We’ll build a program that simulates tournament games with realistic probabi…
• MathFoundationRL/Book-Mathematical-Foundation-of-Reinforcement-Learning: This is the homepage of a new book entitled “Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning.”:
• Building AI agents to query your spreadsheets and databases: How Dust’s Query Tables agent tool evolved from parsing CSVs to parsing data warehouses, creating a unified SQL interface for AI data analysis.
• The Lost Art of Research as Leisure: Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back?
• Garlic Butter Steak Lightning Noodles: If you’re in the mood for something that’s bursting with flavor, but won’t have you …

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• The Hidden Ways Leaders Unintentionally Punish Their Top Performers: How to identify the subtle behaviors that drive away your top performers, and what to do instead
• AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported: Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems
• People as Files: The more I ‘upload’ myself, the more I see my identity as a living current rather than a static pool.
• Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision: Mozilla.ai developed and released the OpenStreetMap AI Helper Blueprint. If you love maps and are interested in training your own computer vision model, you’ll enjoy diving into this Blueprint.

Hey there! In my latest blog post, I explore some exciting topics like setting up n8n for homelab automation and creating a custom AI interface with tools like Ollama. I also share my favorite self-hosted apps from 2024 and dive into storytelling secrets for business success. There’s even a peek into some underrated ways to change the world. Check it out for more intriguing reads!

• ronaldl29/public-domain-recipes: A recipe website with no backstories, ads, or trackers. – ronaldl29/public-domain-recipes at selfh.st
• n8n — Powerful automation for your homelab services: n8n is a powerful workflow automation tool that helps you connect and automate your self-hosted services. Perfect for creating custom workflows and integrations in your homelab.
• Build Your Local AI: From Zero to a Custom ChatGPT Interface with Ollama & Open WebUI: Imagine having ChatGPT or DeepSeek-like capabilities right on your computer — no subscription fees, no privacy concerns, no waiting for responses, and complete customization options. Sounds too good…
• My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched In 2024: A look back at some of my favorite self-hosted software and applications from 2024
• christian-fei/my-yt: A clean and minimal youtube frontend, without all the ads and whistles – christian-fei/my-yt at selfh.st
• Underrated ways to change the world: How to get a good heart unstuck
• Relax, Turn Off Your Phone, and Go to Sleep: In the current fast-paced and technology driven world, a good night’s sleep is more important than ever.
• The 4 Secrets to Storytelling for Business: Every successful leader, marketer, or entrepreneur is, at heart, a great storyteller. Storytelling is not just an art—it’s a science, grounded in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral design.
• Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning: This is a collection of (mostly) pen-and-paper exercises in machine learning. The exercises are on the following topics: linear algebra, optimisation, directed graphical models, undirected graphical models, expressive power of graphical models, factor graphs and message passing, inference for hidden Markov models, model-based learning (including ICA and unnormalised models), sampling and Monte-Carlo integration, and variational inference.
• Career Development:  What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP:
• Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten: Monster Cables, which makes extremely high-priced stereo cables, has apparently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable, alleging various kinds of infringement. Bad move – the pres…
• Wheel Reinventor’s Principles // Tobias Løfgren:
• The Frontend Treadmill: A lot of frontend teams are very convinced that rewriting their frontend will lead to the promised land. And I am the bearer of bad tidings. If you are building a product that you hope has longevity, your frontend framework is the least interesting technical decision for you to make. And all of the time you spend arguing about it is wasted energy. I will die on this hill.
• Unionize.fyi: It’s time to escape the Burnout Machine.
• Apple innovation and execution — Benedict Evans: It matters that Apple’s new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn’t realise. Is it more than that?
• Product Managers Who Build Together, Win Together: How to Align Without Losing Speed for Busy Product Managers
• From digital to print: The latest publishing news, jobs, analysis, comment, interviews and in-depth features about UK newspaper, magazine and online publishers.

Hey there! In my latest blog post, I dive into some fascinating reads spanning several topics. You’ll find insights about KBLaM for LLMs, learn about pesky AI blindspots, and discover the trials of using GitHub Actions. Plus, I share a look at memory safety for web fonts, the allure of vibe coding, a new trend, and essential tips for maintaining digital hygiene. Happy reading!

• Introducing KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs: Introducing KBLaM, an approach that encodes and stores structured knowledge within an LLM itself. By integrating knowledge without retraining, it offers a scalable alternative to traditional methods.
• AI Blindspots: Blindspots in LLMs I’ve noticed while AI coding. Sonnet family emphasis.
• The Pain That Is Github Actions: Developing a complex CI pipeline with github actions is full of gotchas.
• Memory safety for web fonts | Blog | Chrome for Developers: Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.
• Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks): Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy just a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York …
• Digital hygiene: A guide to basic digital hygiene.

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• Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them:

Hey there! In my latest blog post, I dive into a variety of fascinating topics. I’m unpacking why aligning our work with our values can be tough, and exploring how AI is revolutionizing creative writing. I also share a handy guide on picking the best AI models, reveal insights from a groundbreaking discovery in data science, and much more. Come explore these intriguing subjects with me!

• Why it’s so hard to align our work with our values, and how we justify not trying.: How compartmentalization is encouraged by sloppy logic like the “earning to give” mentality sustained by capitalistic false binaries and the perception of scarcity.
• ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’: As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output
• An Opinionated Guide on Which AI Model to Use in 2025: A practical guide to choosing between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity
• The 2025 Product Strategy Playbook: Product strategy has changed – and if you’re using an outdated playbook, you’ll be missing out. Here’s how to build your product strategy in the AI age
• Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table: A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
• Archival Storage: I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school’s Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with…
• Open-Source Handwritten Signature Detection Model: A Blog post by Samuel Lima Braz on Hugging Face
• TxAgent: An AI agent for therapeutic reasoning across a universe of tools: Project page of TxAgent
• Prompt Engineering Guide for Deep Research with ChatGPT’s O3-Model:
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