Two years ago, I wrote a post that went viral and was translated into various languages. The post was about Ukraine's determination to fight to the end. Today, I want to add more… 1/n

95% of what we are doing in AI is stuff that's simple enough to explain to a child, made way over-complicated by mathematical-looking notation and unclear thinking. A short rant 🧵 using attention as an example.

The end of an era #Zilog #Z80

Sunday rant. For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write things in assembler. But the point was to

Some economists tried to reproduce the results of 67 economics papers and they pretty much couldn't do it: Even with help from authors, only half of papers ended up being reproducible, and this was still a problem at journals with required reporting of code and data.

Young builders of the world: Really want to come to SF? But can't afford to come to SF? Please read on. I'm going to sponsor two of you to visit this summer. I've been promoting San Francisco as THE place that those who wish to build the future should be. But I've got a couple

Is Europe really willing to allow Russia to rape, murder & destroy Kharkiv? This would be a humiliation for European foreign policy as well as a tragedy. An emergency summit should be called to finally agree what brave Ukrainians need !

Was "Xen and the Art of Virtualization" the most valuable academic CS paper of all time? While virtualization was already common on high-end servers, this showed how to on cheap x86 boxes. It lead directly to AWS, VMWare and Azure -- likely trillions of dollars in revenue.

We've put a lot of work into the Anthropic Console the past few weeks and I'm excited to share the latest updates with y'all. Turns out Claude is pretty good at prompt engineering so we've integrated Claude everywhere:

Russia blocked the speech of the Czech ambassador at the UN, let's make sure everybody can read it - here is the transcript and the link: Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs "Colleagues, First and foremost, on behalf of Czechia, I wish to express my profound sorrow and sadness at the attacks on Okhmatdyt

Next Sunday the All-Ireland hurling final will be on the BBC for the first time. It’s Cork vs Clare, a cracker of match in front of 82,400 screaming fans at Croke Park, for the highlight of the Irish sporting year. If you’ve never seen Hurling, here is a quick explainer…

July 20th, 1969 is a date that stands high in my life – it was the day that we, together as one people, achieved the greatest scientific and technological feat in human history. The specific role that Neil, Mike and I performed in the event was but one part of an immeasurably

It's a fairly beautiful thing about the modern Olympics that you can have athletes named Nhat Nguyen and Rhasidat Adeleke playing for Ireland and athletes named Siobhán Bernadette Haughey playing for Hong Kong. #OlympicGames

Nicholas Carlini is one of the sharper people I have ever met and I pay attention to anything he writes; this, on day-to-day utility of LLMs, rings pretty true to me. nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/h…

Status report on The New Internet

Deploying an #Elm Frontend to #Cloudflare Pages - seanrmurphy.medium.com/deploy-and-elm…

Firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if open source did not exist. The top six programming languages in our sample comprise 84% of the demand-side value of OSS. Further, 96% of the demand-side value is created by only 5% of OSS developers.

Ken Thompson, co-creator of the C programming language, shares the origins of UNIX, stating, "I built it for me."

Ireland is one of the oldest democratic countries in the world, believe it or not. We're one of only 10 nations that have been an electoral democracy for more than 90 years unbroken. In Ireland's case, we've reached 102 years. We can be proud of that 🇮🇪😇 ourworldindata.org/data-insights/…