2023 Week 39 - Weekly Notes

I’m back from the very last Strangeloop and from visiting my cousin for her baby shower in Las Vegas. I forgot how it feels to do non-stop traveling back-to-back. Reminds me of the time I traveled across the US, then hopped on a plane to South Korea.

I took this idea of “Weekly Notes” from Jamie Tanna who I met at Strangeloop, and I thought this would be a wonderful recurring segment for the blog. Even if I have low readership, this is a nice capsule to look at for my monthly, quarterly, and annual reviews. 😁

• Derek Sivers updated his post on Tech Independence, where it’s a single command now
• DALL·E 3 - [[OpenAI]] updated DALLE where prompt engineering is needed much less. Positioning is a lot better, with context
• There’s a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org! The Tracestrack Topo map from @tracestrack.
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• I would love to train an AI to teach dying languages. It was inspiring to see OpenAI use GPT-4 to help the Government of Iceland with this problem.
• Watched Martin Kleppmann’s talk from Strangeloop: “New algorithms for collaborative text editing”
  • Absolutely fascinating how he breaks down the algorithms in Automerge.
  • I had no idea Martin (et al) came up with the idea of local-first
  • For those who don’t know, Martin wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications , which is like the bible for distributed computing.