18th July: A verbiage-filled delve
Cracking open LLMs, long live the walkman, and more!
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Peering Into The Black Box Of Large Language Models
How do LLMs *actually* work? A surprisingly small amount of people know, or bother to find out. But slowly, their creators are starting to ask questions about their creations, like any good creator really should.
A revolution in your hand: Happy 45th birthday to the Sony Walkman
I had a depressing conversation with a 22 year old recently where they had no idea what ripping or burning CDs was. Imagine if I’d told them about cassettes, battery life, and changing sides…
How Labour Can Fix the UKs Tech Industry
I am still registered to vote in the UK, and I’m not going to get to optimistic (yet), but it’s nice to see some attempt to build upon an already fairly strong tech industry from the new government.
The telltale words that could identify generative AI text
Have you noticed how overly verbose and full of verbiage AI-generated text is? And, of course, the more that goes in, the more comes out again in some kind of self-fueling flurry of verbs. Lovely.
EuRuKo 2024
EuRuKo is the annual European Ruby Conference. Join us in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2024 on 11th — 13th of September.