A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
“You’ve taken this idea way too far,” a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li.| Ars Technica
Creating the world's simplest movie browsing website for offline film collections.| Falkus.co
The fourth year in a row where I've put together a mini annual retrospective.| falkus.co
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month later, we placed an order for $600,000 worth of Dell serv...| world.hey.com
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this. I would not have been free to become the engineer that wrote Data Driven Products Now! if Kellan had not been there to so thoroughly stick the landing on technology choices.| Dan McKinley :: Math, Programming, and Minority Reports