Dev
- The Modern AI Stack: Design Principles for the Future of Enterprise AI Architectures (Menlo Ventures): Good quick read on AI stack, maturity models and future of AI as per Menlo Ventures. One missing point there, which I think will be big, is AI at the edge.
- OpenAI’s CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over (Wired.com): This was a surprising read, given that the last few famous models all seem to rely on the same underlying architectures and just keep throwing more and more data into them. What replaces the Transformer?
- The Rise of Unix. The Seeds of its Fall (YouTube): 16 min video on the invention of the Unix operating system. I had heard the story before but it still cracks me up that Ken Thompson built the core of UNIX in a week when his wife went on vacation and he had a lot of time on his hands.
Design
- In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox (Tonsky.me): Three things in life were permanent: death, taxes and checkboxes being square. Vision OS will have circular checkboxes?! What madness is this?
- The new Hey calendar (hey.com): I am not a fan of 37 Signals/Basecamp’s design aesthetic but they are at least trying some new ideas. What do you think of the new calendar?
Misc
NFTs are about to take a bigger role in your expanding online life (MarketWatch.com): Slightly wishful thinking by the author here but there is a lot of interesting projects around in the fairly niche community of NFT enthusiasts. The tech is fairly proven, but regulatory uncertainty, bad press, and hard on-ramps into the ecosystem are holding it back from going mainstream.
Binoculars with built in image recognition: Would love to gift one of these to my father-in-law who is an avid birdwatcher, but at $5K it might be a bit much ;). He already has a smart bird feeder though.
Disney’s HoloTile floor (YouTube): The latest in tech that could be used to let users walk around in VR and yet not physically move. It’s cool. I want someone to make the Jamiroquai’s Virtual Insanity video using it 🙂
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