Weekend Reads

I need to restore some balance to my life; LLMs might just be really good bullshitters; some links I read and etc.

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Weekend Reads
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I've been coding day and night for the last week so that I am kind of ignoring some of my other priorities: spending quality time with the family, reading, practicing guitar, and etc.. I gotta get that fixed next week and restore my work and life balance.

Anyway, here's some links that I've been reading these days:

Five coding hats
About

An interesting take on different modes we take on when we are coding.

Some interesting links/articles about AI:

INTRODUCTION
Shorthand

MODERN-DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world

First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being ‘unwrapped’ using X-ray scans and AI.
BBC NewsRebecca Morelle Science EditorBBCMorelleAlison FrancisSenior Science Journalist
Your AI can’t see gorillas – Chiraag Gohel
A comparison of LLMs’ ability to perform exploratory data analysis
Chiraag Gohel

Here are some toys I enjoyed playing around with:

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ by Miltos Manetas!

Draw your own Jackson Pollock painting

Color Life

A prettier colourful version to Conway's Game of Life

Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby
Introduction I created a Game Boy emulator in Ruby and released it as a gem called rubyboy! (I’d be happy if you could give it a star!) And now it runs in the browser using WebAssembly! Try the demo in your browser! Screenshots Rubyでゲームボーイのエミュレータを作りました！ カラー対応やWasmでブラウザ対応もやっていきたい💪 GitHub: https://t.co/hFwmZD6FNp pic.twitter.com/qWbx8v4mef — sacckey (@sacckey) March 17, 2024 This Article While explaining the implementation process of Ruby Boy, I’ll introduce the points where I got stuck and the techniques I devised.
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