OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes - The Verge
Rather funny hacking of an AI/machine-learning vision recognition system.
"Director of AI at Tesla" apparently doesn't VC or backup
So the "Director of AI at Tesla" appears to be in the habit of not committing code for at least 2 months at a time, and doesn't do backups... O_o
1 Second Painting - Home
ML-generated abstract art; lots of it. Keep hitting the button, get more. Does what it says.
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
"The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4, obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian damage to the livelihood of artists in a capitalist society, to existential threats to humanity itself."
A rant that's pretty much about how money-grabbing idiots are slapping AI on any old shit. We all know who they are.
RISEN: 5 Steps to Build Context-Rich AI Prompts
A guide to an approach to writing good LLM prompts.
These Apple Intelligence Features Aren't Coming Until 2025
Pretty useful summary of what Apple Intelligence delivers and has coming (as of December 2024).
GitPodcast - Repository to Podcast in Seconds
A project that uses "AI" to turn a GitHub repo into a "podcast". It's weird and disturbing and kinda funny and yet, wweirdly, sort of impressive.
In a "thanks I hate it" kind of way.
AI Needs Your Help
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.
Make It Fair
PPA article about the campaign against the UK government's wish to relax copyright laws relating to AI using people's work for training.
We hacked Google’s A.I Gemini and leaked its source code (at least some part) - Lupin & Holmes
Fun read where a group of folk tried to get Google's Gemini to give up some of its source code. I'm not convinced this is such an amazing win, or that the title really matches the facts, but it's a fun ride.
David Lord :python: (@[email protected])
Some dodgy GitHub behaviour from a RedHat employee.
Conflicts at Work
I'm not sure I quite agree with all the content here, but I do like the overall breakdown. Having worked with some very disagreeable people, and having worked with people in a leadership position who could not handle any form of disagreemnt (I should blog my startup experience one day...), this does hit a few points I recognise.
Everything I know about good API design
Interesting article to consider when thinking about what is and isn't a good API design.
Why “Everyone Dies” Gets AGI All Wrong
"Everyone Dies" is on my to-read list. From what I've seen it sounds pretty alarmist, but also that feels like that's the point. This article seems pretty negative on it (not that I've read the article at the time of saving this) so I'm keeping a link to this to read at some point in the future, once I've read the book.
The Mission - From Wayne....November 10th, 2026, will mark...
One of my favourite bands playing one of my favourite albums at one of my favourite places in the UK.
VERY tempting...
Interactive Noise Map - Airspace Change Proposal
Map of noise around Edinburgh and the Lothians caused by Edinburgh airport.
Glyph Party - Unicode Character Search
Handy website for looking up emojis and so on.
Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews | Hacker News
Interesting article relating to ideas on how to conduct a good code review. I've chosen to link to the Hacker News thread where I first found it, rather than the blog post itself, because this is one of those HN threads where the comments are a worthwhile read too.
AWS Outage—What Happened And What To Do Next
A review of the great us-east-1 AWS outage of 2025.
Why Large Language Models Won’t Replace Engineers Anytime Soon
In short: an attempt at a mathematical proof as to why humans won't be replaced by LLMs any time soon.
Not sure I have the background to really follow all of this, and I'm not sure this is as reassuring as some might want it to be; but it's an interesting read. Finally I sense the "replacement" won't happen or fail to happen because of facts of the world, but because business will decide it's for the best and will cause things to collapse.
The energy generators inside our cells reach a sizzling 50°C
While it might make sense to think that most of the reactions that take place in our body happen at body temperature, that's not the case.
Electrobun | Electrobun
A framework for building desktop applications in TypeScript, it seems. I don't think I've quite been grabbed by TypeScript yet, but this could push me over the edge into trying to properly get to grips with it as I can think of some desktop applications that I'd like to build.
AI has a cargo cult problem
I'm not sure I really quite agree with the article, especailly the "cargo cult" side of things, I can see where it's coming from and I think I'd agree in some ways.
AI Hallucination Cases Database
AI will enslave us all eventually...
Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2: A Deep Dive into Working with Siri and ChatGPT, Together
Comprehensive article covering all the things that iOS 18.2 brings to Apple Intelligence (even more useful to me given that 18.2 is the first time AI turns up on iOS in the UK).
Conventional Comments
Similar to conventional commits, I guess. Reading through this I'm not a fan and I can't imagine I'd ever use it; but it's an interesting approach.
Conventional Commits
I've seen this style of commit on and off for a while now. I'm not a huge fan, but I get the idea. What I hadn't realised is that there was a "standard" behind this and even some documentation for it.
Why everything you thought you knew about your immune system is wrong
There's folk I know who seem to thnk they're experts on how the immune system works, and who offer terrible unsolicited advice any time someone has a cold, or the flu, or whatever. It almost always relates to crap based off their own health-freak bias founded in ignorance.
This should be a good article to start with to tackle such bollocks.
TIL: Python's splitlines does a lot more than just newlines
str.splitlines is obvious in what it does, so I don't think I've ever looked at what it actually does. It doesn't do quite what I originally thought it did.
SLip - a Lisp system in JavaScript, for browsers
A Lisp for the browser that is starting to look a lot like a Common Lisp; and on top of which an Emacs is being built, FOR THE BROWSER!