- Jeff Dean: Exciting Trends in Machine Learning – A worthwhile watch on YouTube though more a retrospective on how we got here than where we are going; which is great since the pace of innovation in this space is demolishing predictions so fast and any “future of AI” video has a shelf life of only a few months
- How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds – A bit of a dramatic title, though I suppose “How Google lost interest in RSS as everything was moving to social networks” might have been less interesting. I have strong love for RSS and had even written an RSS reader way back using Google Reader’s unofficial API. I have thoughts but will hold those for a more dedicated post on that.
- Project of the week: RSS-is-dead.lol: Speaking of RSS, this project is kinda cool: it navigates your social graph on Mastodon and finds RSS feeds of folks that account is following. If only my RSS reader was still around, I could actually use those discovered links :). Here is my profile in case you want to see it in action but don’t have a Mastodon account.
- BlueSky opens up to federation: Bluesky might be the social network I most agree with philosophically, but find it boring enough to never actually go there. The fact that I can have a domain based account there is great (you can follow me @arpitonline.com there). The federation implementation seems good at first glance but will have to dive in more later maybe (if it survives the wrath of Mastodon fans)
- Please, enough with the dead butterflies: Speaking of BlueSky, someone on Hacker News pointed a link to this pretty great post on how most artwork about butterflies actually draw their wings in a position that is only observed in dead butterflies. I’ll never get that thought out of my head now.
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