Parand

I suspect, but don’t have proof that: Frontier model progress will slow as we exhaust training data and known scaling methods.

Many (myself included) claim AI driven (or in my case, assisted) development is resulting in massive productivity acceleration and gains.

Or: Vibecoding versus LAD Software development with the assistance of coding agents is incredibly more productive than without - it’s the difference between building a house brick by brick yourself versus having a crew of expert tradespeople helping you.

The above question from my friend James (hi James!)

This is part two of the non-technical explanation of ChatGPT series, please read that first.

Continuing the series of non-technical explainers, let's figure out how ChatGPT (and in general Large Language Models, or LLMs) work.

One of my undergrad physics professors gave notoriously difficult exams, including an extra-point question that was truly challenging.

Overview This document will explain what neural networks are and how they work, which will help you understand how AI and machine learning work.

Polars is a "lightning-fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python" - if you're familiar with Pandas, Polars is quite similar but significantly faster and with a cleaner API.

Overview I'm using Pelican as the static website creation framework.

Post-apocalyptic non-sci-fi book.

Author: Daniel Nayeri Quite good, nostalgic, I immediately decided to look for other books by the author.

Verdict: See it Entertaining, quite funny, unexpected turn.

itertools.groupby allows you to group a sorted list (or any sorted iterable) by some key, giving you the grouping key and the list of items grouped by that key.

Note to self: I quite stupidly merged and committed an unwanted branch into master.

I needed to efficiently find large images (those with dimensions greater than x).

Over the weekend I attended the Blackberry hackathon with the hopes of creating an Xpenser blackberry app.

This page is helpful.

If you know me you know I'm a huge fan of entrepreneurship - instead of renting yourself out to someone else, start a business that scales.

Here's how you import a python module dynamically: say your module is called "mysettings" and it's in the directory "config".

My new printer has a document feeder which makes scanning of multiple pages easy, but I didn't know how to kick off the scan on OS X.

Apparently with Titanium Studio it's not possible to see log messages in the Titanium console.

Here's an easy way to see the cookies for the current site in Chrome: javascript:void(document.cookie=prompt(document.cookie,document.cookie)); Via stackoveflow.

I went to a school that required uniforms (private school in England).

My friend Paul Kedrosky's post on one of his main investment theses, the application of currently consumer oriented technologies to business (DropBox, Twitter, FaceBook, Yelp, …), got me thinking about how the future of work will look.

Note to self, for future reference.

Retention bonuses don't work because they only motivate presence, not contribution.

The lovely folks at mo.com recently asked me about my experiences at Yahoo, the background and business model for Xpenser, and thoughts on funding and raising VC money.

Here's a handy way of running a command on multiple boxes.

I don't know why but I'm seriously in love with this drawing from the six year old; it seems to have a real style.

Mark Suster and Fred Wilson have both posted on the topic of being a good panelist.

I was surprised at how little information I found on making use of Django's permission system.

I remarked to a friend that Mark Suster's entrepreneurial roots show in his approach to being a VC - he's come out of nowhere and in short order aggressively pushed himself into being one of the most relevant voices out there.

django-mptt is a library for storing tree oriented data using the Django ORM.

I'm a big fan of Fantastic Mr.

I was doing some log analysis this morning and was struck by the variety of user agents accessing Xpenser.

Here's a little script for finding files modified more than 7 days ago and moving them to another directory: find .

dpkg -L package-name

Note to self, as I seem to need to do this on every new install: Ubuntu ships with vim-tiny, which doesn't support syntax highlighting.

Impressive Ted Talk by Chimamanda Adichie on how stories, and in particular "single stories", shape our views of cultures.

I'm noticing how much the practice of finding a candidate and interviewing them has changed over the years.

I used to be a vi guy who finally made the move to graphical editors.

I still have a big soft spot in my heart for Yahoo, but Yahoo mail, WTF?

I was thinking about what book to read next and it occurred to me to ask you nice people.

Due to aforementioned OS X stupidity with the Home and End keys, my new favorite Eclipse hotkey is Ctrl-Q.

Looks like I've finally converted Alex to Python as well.

The title pretty much says it; I'm planning an SJC/SF trip next week, if you want to meet or chat drop me a line - Darugar at gmail.

Nice and detailed article from Jesse Noller on concurrency, threads, the GIL, and Python.

After 2 days of pain, finally a hackintosh is born.

Yet another Scoble post on a facebook accounts being closed, this time with the iFart app author.