Progress

I signed up for paid credits with OpenAI. I'm going to build something with it! Actually ran a query, even though an unimportant one.

Book project is a go. Yes!

TWIL

With pushd somedir you go to somedir. With popd you can go back. Useful for scripts that need to change directores.

Articles

• A highly replicable decline in mood during rest and simple tasks -- Nature Human Behaviour: People get annoyed when they are bored or when they are resting.
• What is a pirate's least favorite letter? : AntiJokes
• Anthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups -- TechCrunch: competition in the AI market is heating up
• Open Source Unsolved Security — /dev/lawyer
• Build things that work, even when parts of it break -- Go Make Things
• Black Fragility? -- City Journal
• What’s Not Our Problem – Put A Number On It!
• Cheese Caves: America's 1.2 Billion Pounds of Hidden Cheese
• Dedupe a List in Python, Slowly -- Blog -- Nik Kantar
• Battery Free Game Boy
• Dividing a Square into 7 Similar Rectangles -- Azimuth
• Wonder Studio: this AI-powered tool might be a preview of the future of VFX
• Launch HN: Second (YC W23) – AI bots that add features to web apps -- Hacker News
• Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM ThinkPad 701c
• The Threat on Your Desk: Building an Evil USB-C Dock · Aura Research Division
• Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
• Earning More Money Actually Does Make People Happier: Study -- Money
• ChatGPT's API is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Generating AI Obsolete -- Max Woolf's Blog
• Which countries have full equal rights for women? Only 14 -- World Economic Forum: Yeah, we're on the good list. Relatedly: Berliner Bäderbetriebe erlauben ab sofort "oben ohne" für alle

Libraries, programming, etc

• Using pytest-dependency — pytest-dependency 0.5.1 documentation
• A simple Python wrapper for the ChatGPT API -- Simon Willison’s TILs
• Stylized Water Shader
• Taichi Lang: High-performance Parallel Programming in Python
• cmuratori-discussion/cleancodeqa.md at main · unclebob/cmuratori-discussion · GitHub: After severely complaining about performance impacts of "clean code", Casey Muratori actually got Uncle Bob to discuss the issue.

Books

• We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

Games

• Instruments of Destruction
• Lil Gator Game: seriously cute and very pleasant.
• Sea of Thieves

Recipes

• Hamburger-Brötchen

Other media

• Bartenders Guess Who's Under 21 -- Lineup -- Cut - YouTube
• Test Your Awareness : Whodunnit? - YouTube
• Why Kyoto Prohibits Bright Colours - YouTube