This is the playlist I always recommend to someone who’s trying to understand how does an LLM work. The post Neural networks > LLMs first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Pilot programs are already underway. In Finland’s early trial, 91 percent of participants reported that the DTC system was easy to use. However, the pilot also encountered technical issues such as inconsistent camera recognition and network glitches, underscoring the need for rob … | Continue reading
You can’t. … If you’re regularly having arguments with well-informed people of goodwill, you will probably ‘lose’ half of them–changing your mind based on what you’ve learned. If you’re not changing your mind, it’s likely you’re not actually having an argument (or you’re hanging … | Continue reading
This is a delightful article. There’s the main lede – the hilarious comparison of current AI product logos to Vonnegut’s illustration. There’s also the hypothesis that that AI companies are products are choosing to mimic each other from a fear of standing out. The result is a mia … | Continue reading
Marathon released their gameplay trailer. It looks a lot more of Overwatch style on first view. But, bungie has a tendency to make most games interesting. So, I’ll wait to see how this comes together. The post Marathon releasing Sep 23, 2025 first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Every good thing must come to an end. It’s a sign that something was great when you feel the pinch as you hear the news of it ending. The post Mythic Quest ends with S4 first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
This was an amazing video that broke down the various tracks and how they sampled to get it to where it was. Just brilliant. The post Sampling breakdown of popular songs first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
I’d write this blog even if no one read it, but the fact that you do, that you subscribe to it and share it, that’s my fuel. This is number 10,000 | Seth’s Blog Seth was one of my first blog follows. This is an incredible feat. Kudos, Seth. The post Seth Godin’s 10,000th blog pos … | Continue reading
What a delightful way to name your keyboard layers. The post Interesting layer naming first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
“There is a computer disease. Anybody who works with computers knows about it. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!” Richard Feynman, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman” Feynman on compute … | Continue reading
1. Keep Your Secrets Secret2. Keep API Calls Server-Side3. Authentication vs. Authorization4. SQL Injection5. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)6. Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)Other things to look out for Security Basics in the Age of AI-Assisted Coding | Alex Hyett These are basics, but … | Continue reading
Pocketcasts web player is now open to anyone. The post Pocketcasts web player is now open to anyone… first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Framework, the company that makes modular computers including the much lauded Framework 13 laptop announced a new mainboard for the laptop. a delightful new desktop mini PC and a hot new 12″ portable / convertible laptop. Framework is still a niche manufacturer. They are not an a … | Continue reading
View on Threads This is an interesting speculation. Fwiw, the logic resonates. That said, if true these new models can be considered as Apple’s take on Google’s Pixel designs. The post Speculation on the rumor of the iPhone 17 pro camera bumps first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
h/t Mishaal Rahman The post Android live notifications look neat first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Howtown tackles the hard problem of explaining c2pa to their viewers. This is a hard job to do and they do a stellar job. I love the detail of their explanation mechanisms. So delightful. The post The best explainer to c2pa is here. first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Switch to the previous version of code server (version-4.96.4) if the latest version (4.9.72) is throwing a blank screen. The post Version 4.9.72 of code server is no bueno. Switch to the previous version to get it working again first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
My default apps for 2024 The post My default apps of 2024 first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
o3 is fascinating but let's take the ARC results with a helping of NaCl. The post ARC-AGI is a genuine AGI test but o3 cheated :( — LessWrong first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
From the various announcements made during The Game Awards, it’s not surprising that I gravitated towards the Naughty Dog project – Intergalactic: the Heretic Prophet and the CD Projekt Red Project – Witcher 4. I just started playing The Witcher III: Wild Hunt and I am kinda chid … | Continue reading
Pixel 9a leaks make me think of the Essential Ph(one) The post Pixel 9a giving me Essential Ph(One) vibes first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
iOS 18.2 and Mac OS 15.2 finally support link highlights on Safari In addition to the new backgrounds, Safari now supports linking to text highlights on web pages. The idea here is that you can select text on any web page, tap ‘Copy Link with Highlight’, and share the copied link … | Continue reading
Often in the evening, I feel the need for a pick me up. My go to for this is a coffee. I pull a shot of espresso and make it into an americano for sipping. As a boost of energy, it works without fail. However, I pay for it with bad sleep. This was not […] The post Black tea buzz … | Continue reading
This is an interesting economic perspective on the technology industry today. Brad posits that AI build out is currently willing to pay an nvidia tax today Once upon a time nearly everyone in tech paid the IBM mainframe tax. Then nearly everyone in tech paid the Microsoft-Intel D … | Continue reading
I was wrong in my predictions of the latest US elections. In a case like this, I attempt to revisit my mental model of the world to determine what’s changed. I’ll be honest and say that recalibration is going to take time because there’s sadness and disappointment with the outcom … | Continue reading
I notice that I often seek a new project out when I know I have to do something big and I feel low grade anxiety about the impending work. Retrospecting, I can remember this happen in college. I always picked up a new video game during the finals. More often than not, it’s a skil … | Continue reading
DHH claims to be an expert on open source, but his toxic personality and inability to scale teams means that although he has invented about half a trillion dollars worth of good ideas, most of the value has been captured by others. Let’s look at 37signals portfolio: I genuinely h … | Continue reading
I chanced across this and it’s been stuck in my head. It makes me think of vantage points. Humans see Earth as continents separated by oceans, while marine animals think of Earth as a contiguous body of water. It makes one appreciate how these vantage points might be useful when … | Continue reading
A couple days ago, some folks proposed a symbol – ⁂ – to help represent the fediverse. You should go read the introductory post. This has riled some people up. The most cogent of the reactions come from Manu who pens his thoughts here: https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts-on-symbol … | Continue reading
Microblogging continues to disperse between mastodon, bluesky, nostr and threads to pickup twitter slack. While they are all decentralized, they are all decentralized in different ways. mastodon is a federated ActivityPub application. bluesky is a federated identity using the ATP … | Continue reading
I’ve added a quick link in Raycast with “gw” pointing to The post Adding Google’s “web” search to Raycast first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Yesterday, owing to a monumental solar storm, northern lights, usually limited to some exclusive places in the world were a bit more accessible in Seattle. H and I got a chance to experience it. It was fun! I got a chance to experiment with some long shutter phone photography and … | Continue reading
Disney+ on Safari does not support 4K / HDR content. To take advantage of your Mac’s screen, you can Airplay Disney+ content from the iOS app, which streams it in Dolby Vision 4k. The post Use Airplay from Disney+ iOS app to your MacBook if you want to get Dolby Vision content fi … | Continue reading
Apple’s “Let Loose” event unveiled a flurry of new iPads, some packing fancy new chips, others not so much. But amidst the typical Apple fanfare, a realization struck me: the iPad just isn’t for me anymore. Those gorgeous new displays are tempting (seriously, I’m intrigued), but … | Continue reading
David Pierce doesn’t bury the lede: Artificial intelligence might someday make technology easier to use and even do things on your behalf. All the Rabbit R1 does right now is make me tear my hair out. … Rabbit R1 continues to be panned. Here’s one in video format by MKBHD: or by … | Continue reading
Apple confirmed today that all DMA-related change it’s applied to iOS will also apply on iPadOS later this fall. (Under the DMA it has six months to meet the iPadOS compliance deadline.)“Developers can choose to adopt the Alternative Business Terms for Apps in the EU that will in … | Continue reading
This is from the announcement of a new website. However, this image held my attention. It’s either an optical illusion or a truly bad job at photoshopping. The camera angle, the way the monitor is angled cannot happen in real life. My guess is that the laptop screen angle is for … | Continue reading
The EU’s decision to draw iPad under the scope of the DMA will ensure that fairness and competition are preserved, EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement. She said that despite not meeting all the thresholds for being earmarked, an investigation showed … | Continue reading
David Schaub has put together two great graphs: RAM in desktop Macs: RAM in laptop Macs: It’s vexing to consider that base model Macs haven’t increased their RAM configuration since Tim Cook took over. It’s further vexing to consider that Apple’s path to a trillion dollars are pa … | Continue reading
Jim Nielsen writes: For example here’s Outlook:The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons – Jim Nielsen’s Blog Visual Studio explorations really are the best. And the Microsoft icons really do look great full bleed. At first glance the existing firefox icon is the best as the squircle … | Continue reading
Good on Zuck to say the quiet part out loud: “Historically, investing to build these new scaled experiences in our apps has been a very good long-term investment for us and for investors who have stuck with us,” Zuckerberg said on the first quarter earnings call, drawing an analo … | Continue reading
A challenge these A.I. tools have is that we’re coming down from the novelty high we had at the launch of ChatGPT a year and a half ago and now they need to deliver on actual use cases that make people’s lives better. As someone who uses Claude almost everyday, I think there’s cl … | Continue reading
David Pierce at The Verge writes: At this point, the best way I can describe the R1 is like a Picasso painting of a smartphone: it has most of the same parts, just laid out really differently. Instead of sitting on top or in the back, the R1’s camera sits in a cutout space on […] … | Continue reading
Justin Searls writes: I’ve been pairing with ChatGPT (using GPT-4) every day for the last few months and it is demonstrably terrible 80% of the time, but 20% of the time it saves me an hour of headaches, so I put up with it anyway. Nevertheless, my experience with Llama 2 was so … | Continue reading
Jon Porter and Thomas Ricker write: After we recently tested it in beta, the third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL is now live in the European Union thanks to Apple’s compliance with the region’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The store requires a €1.50 (plus tax) annual subscriptio … | Continue reading
AI is the current thing. While there are still some core questions about it up in the air, the industry is swiftly navigating itself to leverage this platform shift. This swiftness is a particular trait of the Valley. People went all-in on almost everything since the web: mobile, … | Continue reading
As a parent, this hit deep. The post Felt love first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Kev Quirk triggered an interesting thought sharing experiment asking the question: Have you ever thought about blogging anonymously? I blog under my real name, but wonder if that could have held me back… https://kevquirk.com/what-about-anonymous-blogging Some thoughtful responses … | Continue reading