Links - August
I’ve been busy starting a new job so I haven’t had a lot of time to write or think of blog post ideas.
With that in mind, I want to start monthly linkposts. (Credit to those who came before) This is a way for me to remember worthwhile links and also signal boost cool bloggers or things I’ve been interested in.
Links
In no particular order.
Has Technological Progress Stalled? – The Scholar’s Stage
Compelling and opinionated piece on Progress Studies.
Wi-Fine - The dangers of public Wi-Fi networks are overhyped
Echoes a sentiment I’ve held for years. There are, of course, risks associated with public Wi-Fi use, but VPN advertising grossly exaggerates capitalizes on this type of FUD.
Use fnm, not nvm. It’s faster.
Credit to Dan Hough for solving my noticeable
zsh
prompt delay and exposing the painful inefficiencies ofnvm
(node version manager).Need help studying? Teach a rubber duck! | University of London
Oldie but a goodie. Putting this here to remind myself how surprisingly effective explaining something out loud is. I need to do this more.
I’m always a sucker for music discovery tools.
A big inspiration for this blog. Creation > Consumption.
A novel(?), powerful method of complete-program synthesis using GPT-3, generalizing the “format trick” @BorisMPower showed me to combine instructions with contextually informative templates. This is a single temp=0 generation without cherry-picking, truncated here due to length. pic.twitter.com/2j2lgySSpQ
— Riley Goodside (@goodside) August 17, 2022Prompt engineering is going to be massive in the next few years.
People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use
Something I would do well to remember about the whole “productivity porn” content ecosystem and the explosion of PKM tools/cults like Obsidian/Roam/etc.
Super cool CLI application that I eventually want to integrate into my workflow.
How to make Complice into more of a daily habit - Complice
I’m constantly trying to avoid getting sucked into the “productivity/task management” black hole, and Complice is one of the few tools that has helped me stay focused on what actually matters.
“Instead of productivity, we focus on intentionality.”
Recent developments in machine learning and AI generation (Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, etc.) will singlehandedly create entire businesses and future startups.
Cool to see someone enabling and encouraging this growth.