Weeknotes 2022-10-10

Oct. 10, 2022

Not much interesting stuff going on besides work.

Articles

The Lesson to Unlearn

Well, there's at least one mistake I didn't make
The Illustrated Stable Diffusion

Earned a reputation for "The Illustrated Transformer" - this is good, too
Software engineering practices
Reasoning about asyncio.Semaphore

Weeknotes

Software

🚀 Just released version 2 of my heroicons package
I’ve been playing with using GPT-3 to control a browser the last couple days. Here’s a quick demo. As you can see it's pretty neat! But also quite flakey.

This is really cool - maybe the shop.co idea becomes finally possible

Podcasts

#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots Lex Fridman Podcast

Fascinating stuff going on in biology..
Die Nerven Reflektor

New album is out. It's good.
Scaling Postgres Episode 235 Postgres 15 RC1, ICU Collations, Listen & Notify, Understanding TOAST Scaling PostgreSQL
Stuart Russell: The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence The Gradient Podcast
Was fasziniert Sie an Montaigne? Das philosophische Radio
Episode #303: This title is required or is it optional? Python Bytes
#69 Polymorphism Unbound Happy Path Programming

Good episode

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