This week, I learned:

  • Hume provides a voice-to-voice model (EVI 2) that handles emotions at 7 cents/minute.
  • OpenArt workflows has image generation workflows
  • Pixtral seems quite good at OCR
  • LLM coding
    • Makes you more ambitious
    • Lets you code without stress. (Just pass it the error and have it fix it. Or find another approach)
    • Is unlimited. You can run dozens of agents in parallel
  • Simon Willison’s crowdsourced list of prompt engineering hacks
  • “Invest in things that don’t change.” Jeff Bezos. Like faster delivery, SQL, web platform.
  • Medical cost in Singapore (for insurance coverage) - via Kumar
    • Root canal at clinic: $1,300
    • Crown replacement at clinic: $1,300
    • Periodontist (gums) at hospital: $2,500
  • OAuth from First Principles is a SIMPLE explanation of OAuth. Conclusion: “You probably shouldn’t implement your own OAuth client.”
  • Alphaxiv is Arxiv.org but with author comments and chat
  • The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education:
    • Eric Klopfer divided his undergrad CS class into three groups and gave them a Fortran task.
    • One used ChatGPT. Another, Meta’s Code Llama LLM. Third, only use Google.
    • ChatGPT group was faster than Code Llama was faster than Google
    • When tested on the approach, the ChatGPT remembered nothing. Half the Code Llama group passed. The Google group passed fully
  • Server-side implementation of an OAuth2 client is too complex. Best to delegate this to Auth0
  • Via Pratap Vardhan:
    • At Khan Academy, every developer working on Khanmigo has cursor. Everyone who’s contributed to a Khan Academy GitHub repo has GitHub Copilot.
    • I stopped using Google + StackOverflow 2 years ago. I use ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. For humans, I ask Reddit.
    • Excited by async agents. Things that do my job while I sleep.
      • Zapier notifications.
      • Monitor what happens. Put it into a flow diagram and alert me.
      • Every month, did my broker trade? Did my bank transaction fail? Did I pay my electricity bill?
      • Every time you delegate, use an agent instead.
      • Read my RSS feeds.
      • Read my browser history and suggest interests.
    • Plan a session in Bain, BCG, etc. on Artifacts.
    • Explore sparse embeddings. More effective. ColiPali, ColBERT