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20 times denser: making our own festival program page for Off Avignon
🔧 Feeling stuck in a low information-density infinite scroll? Fine, let's make our own and make it 20x denser
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Theater curation: screening a festival program 484 pages thick
Off Avignon, where theater blossoms and the completionist spirits come to die; The infinite website scroll vs the useful beauty of a single JSON file…
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The search for tiles: adventures in mapmaking with Stamen Toner, OSM and the German Federal Agency for Cartography
All I want is a tileset that's free to use and grayscale
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June 2024

Everything all at once: how more compute power coupled with research breakthroughs enabled the explosion of generative AI
💫 Decoding the explosion of progress in generative AI; the adoption/innovation flywheel of neural networks; Yann LeCun was right after all
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Going forward, going back: how all neural networks learn
💫 We open a neural network and see how it learns; we talk about the loss and backpropagation; Paris celebrates fête de la musique
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Watch it learn: a neural network training on Shakespeare
💫 We advance from the 60s to early 2000s; A neural network reads all of Shakespeare; "Romeo be heard and this mighty ears twill"
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Speak to me in Shakespeare: building a tiny language model
🖋️ Distilling the complete works of Shakespeare into a 2GiB table of word pairs; "Elsinore, I swear he heard the senate", said the language model.
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Scene understanding: where are my apartment keys?
🔑 Using Gemini multimodal capabilities to find apartment keys
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May 2024

One year of writing every week
🥳 The pnote newsletter is now 1 year old! Time for lessons learned
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No more forms: LLM interface for calendar events
🗓️ Why spend 30 seconds setting up a calendar event, when you can spend an hour automating it?
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Memory updated: ChatGPT learns to get to the point
🤖 "The user prefers to receive just the command without any introductory prose"
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FTBL is not football: decoding Invader locations
👾 Too many deep links to write by hand; GPT-4 thinks FTBL means football but we help it get it right
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