A machine learning month.
Reading
Technical
I Bought Back My Acquihired Startup
Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos I'm glat the author find the root cause.."self-inflicted injury" from sync between Amazon Drive and Photos
Modern LLMs: MT-NLG, Chinchilla, Gopher and More modern LLM 101 with plain language
Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source
Stop saying “technical debt” "Engineers will even be recognized for doing the maintenance work" this got me
Your friend the language model
Beating OpenAI CLIP with 100x less data and compute "Efficient pre-training of Vision-Language transformers for Semantic Search", excellent writeup, I used it immediately
Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
Readline crime: exploiting a SUID logic bug
A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering
Non technical
Pricing v3, plans, packages, and debugging incentives in pricing
Amazon calls it quits on newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print
Thinking something nice about someone? Tell them.
I don't like making the best things
Vintage Photos of Coca-Cola Ads and Delivery Trucks From Between the 1900s and 1970s
What is the Most Minimal UK Address Possible?
Honestly, it's probably the phones The most plausible explanation for teenage unhappiness
Youtube
~10 minutes
Synth Riders - Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (Expert) [Full body tracking]
The Path - The Last of Us [Ending Credits] (Piano Cover)
Longer
Pro Arm Wrestler challenges people in public refreshingly refreshing
Podcast
Japan's role in the making of modern China
Dr. Matthew MacDougall: Neuralink & Technologies to Enhance Human Brains
506. What Is Sportswashing (and Does It Work)?
Berkshire Hathaway: The Incomparable Compounder
Nazi or KGB agent? My search for my grandfather’s hidden past
The man who built his own cathedral
#139 Laurie Santos: The Pursuit of Happiness burnout is depersonalization
Hot Wallets crypto is not only scam, but also terrorism