2024 Week 09 - Weekly Notes

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
— Rumi

Every February, it comes as quickly as it goes. This month was no exception.

• React Labs: What We’ve Been Working On – February 2024 - React Compiler - Actions

  You can add action to elements like <form/>, access the status with useFormStatus, handle the result with useFormState, and optimistically update the UI with useOptimistic.

• Newsletter: Not A Designer

• I Ran A Background Check On A Startup

• Introducing Phind-70B – closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster

• Introducing Supermaven, the first code completion tool with a 300,000-token context window

• They kissed on a school bus. Now, 77 years later, they’re reconnected.

• The New York Times - A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men

  • When I think I’m done being sick of the world

• Infinite Mac is a collection of classic Macintosh system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a (modern) web browser.

• Rivian lays off 10% of workforce as EV pricing pressure mounts | TechCrunch

• Happy New Year: GPT in 500 lines of SQL

• JavaScript Bloat in 2024 @ tonsky.me

• How I build and run behavioral interviews | benkuhn.net

• It’s OK to abandon your side-project - Robb Owen

• Scaling Yourself - by Ryan Peterman - The Developing Dev

• Functional UI Kit

• Engineering is more about people than tech

• The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits

  • 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs) focuses on the innovative approach of quantizing model parameters to ternary values to achieve efficient performance comparable to traditional 32-bit models.
  • We explored the rationale behind moving towards smaller, more efficient LLMs, driven by environmental, economic, and deployment considerations, and the potential for these models to operate on consumer hardware.
  • Through analogies, we illuminated how quantization and stochastic quantization work to maintain model performance despite reduced precision, akin to summarizing a vast collection of books into single sentences that capture their essence. These discussions underscore the balance between efficiency and performance in the evolution of LLMs.

• Yuzu - Switch emulator (and hot on a lawsuit w/ Nintendo, although. the case could be weak because you have to bring your own encryption key)

  • Update yesterday: Yuzu is now down

• San Francisco Macy’s to close in devastating blow to downtown

• Obsidian Co-Pilot

• Mountaineer is a batteries-included web framework for Python and React.

• Configuring Google Cloud Functions to talk to Vertex AI

  • Deploy initial Hello World to Cloud Function using Python
  • Add requirements (LangChain and google-cloud-aiplatform)
  • Add CORS
  • Cloud Function runs with context + question
    • Caveat: Grounding source does not work. IAM not working with this.

• The Swyx Mixtape - Serena Colyer - Intentionality

  • Summary: The podcast transcript explores the concept of intentionality in depth, as discussed between the host and their guest, Serena Collier. Intentionality is presented as living life with purpose, direction, and a conscious choice to pursue what one truly desires. It involves having taste, standards, and a vision for what one wants their life to be, alongside the determination to achieve it despite potential setbacks or failures. Practicing intentionality means creating a personal set of standards and desires, and actively making choices that align with those standards and desires to shape one’s life according to one’s personal vision. It’s about making deliberate decisions rather than going through life passively, and it requires resilience, tenacity, and a willingness to confront challenges and discomfort for the sake of personal growth and fulfillment.

• 🧠 001 - Burak Dönmez - Brain Unveiled - For those fascinated by others’ PKMs

• Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion? - The New York Times

• World History Timeline - Vivid Maps

• Learning how to learn again

• Happy Leap Day! - The Pragmatic Engineer

• Announcing Observable v2.0

• #1 – PVH: An Intro to Local-First - localfirst.fm

• An ambitious NIH study has brought new attention to chronic fatigue syndrome : NPR

• Tyler Cowen’s three laws - Marginal REVOLUTION

• Women may realize health benefits of regular exercise more than men

• A new Chapter for A Book Apart - Sad, but also glad they aren’t ceasing operations

• The Revolution That Died on Its Way to Dinner

• One Pace - Cut the fluff One Piece Anime

• The Art of Using Workday Gaps - What to do during these gaps

  1. Take a break
  2. Prepare for the next work session