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It's interesting to see Anthropic branching out into different areas now. First artifacts and now taking market share from companies like devin. AI enables quick shipping, but the …

Didn't quite nail the labeling of each piece correctly for a small form factor PC build: https://flipbook.page/n/12267bbfdeb043c3aa477337950b2b71 - M2 is labeled as GPU - GPU is la…

I'd seen this bubble up through various feeds over the past week and didn't think to do any due diligence on the claims myself. It was particularly rampant on LinkedIn as evidence …

Agree. I feel like most of the people sounding the alarm have been in the software-focused job hunting market for 6+ months. Those who downplay it are either business owners themse…

I’ve seen this play out at multiple startups. The people holding things together often don’t fit neatly into the KPIs or eng chart levels. They’re mentoring juniors, redesigning wo…

I remember first hearing about protein folding with the Folding @Home project ( https://foldingathome.org ) back when I had a spare media server and energy was cheap (free) in my c…

I grew up loving magic. I watched David Copperfield on a grainy old tv, and vividly remember rewatching taped performances of "The World's Greatest Magic" ( https://en.wikipedia.or…

I had almost this exact interview experience recently with a popular AI startup. The exercise was to build a search UI over a static array of dictionary terms. It was a frontend ro…

This immediately reminded me of the teamLab Planets [1] experience in Tokyo, Japan. Specifically "Flowers and People, Cannot Be Controlled but Live Together" [2] - the entire sound…

DIY Perks also attempted to make artificial sunlight at home, also focusing on things like Rayleigh scattering! This was a great watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw …