"Adam Smith's invisible hand — the idea that free markets lead to efficiency as if guided by unseen forces — is invisible, at least in part, because it is not there." --Joseph Stiglitz

Another busy week for me. Time for a regular week, I think. Or vacation or something. The pytest workshop was a lot of fun and we used a simple mastodon client as a sample application. Mastodon.py is great and now I have to fight the urge to build some mastodon bots by connecting GPT-4 (yay, got API access) to the fediverse (what could possibly go wrong?). Since we used bootstrap5 for the pytest sample app, I thought: How hard could it be to create a bootstrap5 theme for django-cast? So now this site and python-podcast are both bootstrap5. Also some health issues - the kids were sick with scarlet fever and some serious dental work 🦷 for me. Fun.

Software

• community.general.django_manage module | Manage django applications with ansible - didn't know about that, cool!

Podcasts

• FS265 Mansplaining as a Service (Freakshow) | Elixir is interesting but not magical, those concepts are well established in other languages, too. In fact, the most interesting thing about phoenix liveview is, that it is not a singular feature, but part of a broad trend. The LLM discussion is only interesting on a meta level for me..
• Solving the pain-points of ai researchers and practitioners - Lukas Biewald (The robot brains) | Good episode!
• Scott Aaronson: Against AI Doomerism (The Gradient Podcast) | There are really interesting connections between complexity theory and AI safety