Like a normal blog, only with pictures. Insights on technology, fractional CTOing, and life in general.
Nice writeup from Russ Cox on the (incredibly long) timeline of the XZ backdoor
Crafty's Illustrated
Simon Willison's LLM Tool: Now I Have 50 LLMs
I updated my installation of Willison's LLM tool to add plugins, and now I have 50 LLMs at my fingertips, including 15 local models, which get installed on demand.
Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4 to Tackle a GIS 'Sidequest'; and Getting GPT-4 to Write, Compile, and Run C Code
Moxie on Murder
I did a double-take when I saw Moxie Marlinspike in the credits as co-starring in A Murder at the End of the World episode 6 (SLIGHT SPOILERS WARNING)
Simon Willison tries out Gemini Pro 1.5 on video, and suggests its 1M token context size opens up powerful new opportunities using video prompts
Using Multimodal AI to Capture and Enrich Heirloom Recipes
I applied OpenAI's GPT-4 Vision model and Chat Completions API to preserve a treasure-trove of legacy family recipes.
Gruber Responds to Gurman's Report of AI Anxiety at Apple
“What I have heard from little birdies in Cupertino is not that there was a miss on this already .... The anxiety inside Apple is that many people inside do not believe Apple’s own AI/ML team can deliver, and that the company — if only for privacy reasons — is only going to use what comes from their own AI/ML team.”
The Ballad of Bull Cook, A Wacky Book
George Leonard Herter's "Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices" and what it tells us about copyright and a new (to me) flavor of Amazon scam.
Cloudflare CAPTCHA Hell
Cloudflare's CAPTCHA nonsense: a sign they're getting too dominant?
He calls it 'translation from hostage code'—so funny, one of his best in this genre.