Tal Globus

What does the worst possible intern look like?

I’ve found recently that I’ve been a bit hesitant to take on new projects, especially of the interesting variety, largely out of a fear that I’m doing something unoriginal.

I wanted to give a bit more information on how I wrote that piece.

The US national debt is not a hard problem to explain.

Since SaaS1 became a business model in the [mid 2000’s], the primary way by which companies integrate third party tools into their software has been via API.

Every few months, an article appears in some news source or another announcing the discovery of a new species.

Random Pertubations Imagine M&Ms divided into four groups by color on a sheet of graph paper.

When designing forms to collect custom data types, you’ll sometimes have a regular expression for what you’re trying to collect, and for easy visual spacing you’d like to automatically inject separators into the form where appropriate, like this example f…

I’m starting a new series on things I will pre-commit to paying for if someone builds it, or points me to one that meets my stated needs.

I often wonder what things I’m wrong about.

For today’s episode of “Really Important Concepts That Don’t Have Names,” I’d like to briefly introduce two words shamelessly stolen from the esoteric biological field of taxonomy.

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In conversations with founders, engineers, and enthusiasts of ChatGPT-enabled academic dishonesty, one point of confusion about LLMs that frequently surfaces is how, on a technical level, services that give LLMs access to information from databases, Wikip…