In this week’s roundup, we delve into the backlash Stack Overflow faces from users over its OpenAI deal, marvel at a French company’s ‘underwater bicycle,’ and reflect on the profound impact of losing Steve Albini, an underground rock icon. Plus, I share insights on a DIY ChatGPT for your home, the simplicity behind LLMs without the math, and a tool for faster UI development with OpenUI. Don’t miss my thoughts on hacking better team meetings, leveraging social media for business growth, and the essentials of running a successful newsletter. It’s a diverse mix, perfect for sparking curiosity and inspiration!
- Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal: Anti-AI users who change or delete answers in protest are being punished.
- Infra Log: The home for Infra Engineering content on Fly.io.
- ‘Underwater bicycle’ propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed: French company Seabike has developed a swimming device that uses your own leg power to accelerate you through the water at superhuman speeds. This crank-driven pusher prop looks a bit like an underwater unicycle… We’d love to take one for a spin!
- The One Where I Lie To The CTO: This was several years back. Keep in mind that early in my career, my father had told me that doing a good job often meant doing what needed to be done in spite of your boss. And by that he meant that you can either make your boss successful and happy or you can run every decision by your boss. In which case no one is successful or happy. I was working at the time for a Fortune 500 company and our CTO had signed up to deliver a big project for an important client with whom he had personal connections.
- Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61: The Shellac and Big Black frontman, who recorded classic albums by Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and more, died of a heart attack
- gpt-home: ChatGPT at home! Basically a better Google Nest Hub or Amazon Alexa home assistant. Built on the Raspberry Pi using the OpenAI API.
- How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math: miguelgrinberg.com
- openui: Building UI components can be a slog. OpenUI aims to make the process fun, fast, and flexible. It’s also a tool we’re using at W&B to test and prototype our next generation tooling for building powerful applications on top of LLM’s.
- Deep Learning Course for Beginners: This deep learning course is designed to take you from beginner to proficient in deep learning. You will learn the fundamental concepts, architectures, and applications of deep learning in a clear and practical way. So get ready to build, train, and deploy models that can tackle real-world problems across various industries.
- Hacking our way to better team meetings: My team and I set out to build a simple note taking aide, which transcribes and summarizes our meetings using Bedrock. Today, we’re making the proof of concept available to everyone.
- How Yossi Levi Built The Car Dealership Guy to 550k+ Followers: He launched his anonymous Twitter account in December 2021, and now, just 28 months later he has over 455k followers.
- 25 Rules For Running a Great Newsletter: As the newsletter space evolves, so do the rules for creating a great newsletter. These are the 25 to follow.
- A Visual Guide to Vision Transformers | MDTURP: This is a visual guide (scroll story) to Vision Transformers (ViTs), a class of deep learning models that have achieved state-of-the-art performance on image classification tasks.
- John Ternus emerging as most likely successor to Tim Cook as Apple CEO: A new report from Bloomberg today gives an in-depth look at who could replace Tim Cook as Apple’s CEO, who…
- Surprising ways to prompt AI 😳: How you can write more unusual prompts to push AI to be bolder and stranger for creative inspiration
- Breaking My University’s Machine Learning Competition:
- The defensive arrogance of TL;DR: Seth Godin’s Blog on marketing, tribes and respect
- The Critical Role of Good Data Habits for AI: Explore why strong data habits are crucial for leveraging AI in business and how they prevent common pitfalls in data management.
- How To Run UX Research Without Access To Users: How do we conduct UX research when there is no or only limited access to users? Here are some workarounds to run UX research or make a strong case for it. An upcoming part of Smart Interface Design Patterns.