Things I Learned - 19 May 2024

I learned about the post-WW2 history of the letter Å in Scandinavian alphabets, the construction of Zalgo text through Unicode characters, and Artificial Analysis for benchmarking LLM API performance metrics like speed and cost.

Sun, 19 May 2024 • Things I learned

This week, I learned:

In Scandinavia, Århus comes after Zürich because Å is a different letter. It was added by the Dutch after WW2 to distance themselves from the Germans. via
Zalgo text is where we combine multiple Unicode combining characters
Artificial Analysis benchmarks LLM APIs on speed, cost, and quality.