Um... this was Apple's thinnest product ever —

the most insufferable person you know has this tab open right now

How much of the real you are you sharing these days?

1/ For several years we've been building Forge, a pedagogically-focused tool to teach formal methods. Here's our first write-up! As the name suggests it's a tribute to Alloy, but we're innovating on several fronts:
blog.brownplt.org/2024/04/21/for… ↵

This rules youtube.com/watch?v=Bnicg7…

'I have a tragic case of Internet Brain, so the way I learn is by looking at piles of stuff until either frustration or serendipity occurs.' In this week's newsletter, Paul Ford talks about the ways he's using Aboard's new AI-powered Board Builder: aboard.com/learning-in-li…

It truly is!

I had this stuck in my head for a month

Eventually, if all goes well, I will not be permitted to pick stock art any longer, and it will be sad for me.

Will generative AI give us the answer or lead us to the answer—or is that the wrong question entirely? On this week's podcast, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade assess the promise of AI with lightly skeptical optimism. Listen, watch, or read a full transcript: aboard.com/podcast/hard-a…

This is very cool. x.com/densediscovery…

I wrote a very long post on what a machine learning artifact is, how files work, safetensors, pickle, and a lot more, as a way to understand GGUF.

Thanks especially to everyone in this thread who added historical context around safetensors.

vickiboykis.com/2024/02/28/ggu…

There have been many software accelerators over the past three decades, from simpler code all the way to AI. 'The funny thing,' Paul Ford writes in this week's newsletter, 'is that with success you are always, always, always back where you started.' aboard.com/the-eternal-dr…

“Malone’s fondness for drones hardly makes her a one-note composer.” nytimes.com/2024/02/12/art…

Since a few folks asked—I stepped back from my WIRED column after many years. WIRED did great by me, and I’ll do stuff for them as long as they’ll have me. But I felt I was repeating myself, and…I should make space for others.

I wrote about why 'Fast Car' is such a great song (and not just because of its lyrics) for MusicRadar musicradar.com/news/tracy-cha…

✩ 20 years of microformats: web standards by the people, for the people. Congratulations and thanks to Tantek, @[email protected], and Matt Mullenweg. ✩

tantek.com/2024/044/t1/tw…

'You can’t really trust their output, but they do help you move things along.' In this week's newsletter, Paul Ford writes that the current AI tools are sort of like JPEGs—and sort of like 'a THC-addled intern with a very rich dad.' aboard.com/accepting-ai-w…

I only use ChatGPT to add excitement to the group chat these days, but every now and then it hits it out of the park.

When I tell you what he invented (see alt text) you will go, “That makes perfect sense.”