Just got back home after a long day at the being me factory, and as always, it was a long and arduous shift.
-- @AbiShuuwi on Twitter

Work was good this week. Recorded and produced a podcast episode about crypto (yes, the BitCoin and BlockChain stuff, not cryptography).

Articles

• TIL: You Can Build Portable Binaries of Python Applications
• Partials in Django
  • 3 uses for functools.partial in Django
  • Three more uses for functools.partial() in Django

Twitter

• Spielberg was only 26 when he made Jaws. Michael Jackson was only 24 when he recorded Thriller. SE Hinton was only 19 when The Outsiders was published. It’s too late. You need to give up. | I didn't get much done this week, too..
• Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Program Better
• GitHub copilot is incredibly useful tool for writing technical blog posts. In this case it read the previous paragraph where I explained what I'm about to demonstrate and it wrote down the right Rust code including the necessary reStructuredText bits.
• Spider man delivers pizza.

Videos

• 2007 commencement speech Judea Pearl gave at the University of Toronto
• The spelled-out intro to language modeling: building makemore | By Andrej Karpathy

Podcasts

• Michael Stipe (Design Matters) | Poor audio quality, but interesting content
• Die psychotische Gesellschaft (Hörsaal) | Wow, this was bad.
• WR1401 Quick & Dirty: Das dritte Entlastungspaket (Wirtschaftskunde)
• UKW101 Ukraine: Die Dritte Phase (Unsere kleine Welt)
• Bits und so #809 (The Secret of Dynamic Island) (Bits und so)

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