I’ve been busy starting a new job so I haven’t had a lot of time to write or think of blog post ideas.

With that in mind, I want to start monthly linkposts. (Credit to those who came before) This is a way for me to remember worthwhile links and also signal boost cool bloggers or things I’ve been interested in.

Links

In no particular order.

• Has Technological Progress Stalled? – The Scholar’s Stage

  Compelling and opinionated piece on Progress Studies.

• Wi-Fine - The dangers of public Wi-Fi networks are overhyped

  Echoes a sentiment I’ve held for years. There are, of course, risks associated with public Wi-Fi use, but VPN advertising grossly exaggerates capitalizes on this type of FUD.

• Use fnm, not nvm. It’s faster.

  Credit to Dan Hough for solving my noticeable zsh prompt delay and exposing the painful inefficiencies of nvm (node version manager).

• What are Dev Containers, What are GitHub Codespaces, and Why Should You Care? A Practical Intro · Mike Kasberg

• GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-Trained Model

• Need help studying? Teach a rubber duck! | University of London

  Oldie but a goodie. Putting this here to remind myself how surprisingly effective explaining something out loud is. I need to do this more.

• Discover New Music - Chosic

  I’m always a sucker for music discovery tools.

• Learn In Public

  A big inspiration for this blog. Creation > Consumption.

• Don’t End The Week With Nothing

• On The Importance of 15-5 Updates

• A novel(?), powerful method of complete-program synthesis using GPT-3, generalizing the “format trick” @BorisMPower showed me to combine instructions with contextually informative templates. This is a single temp=0 generation without cherry-picking, truncated here due to length. pic.twitter.com/2j2lgySSpQ

  — Riley Goodside (@goodside) August 17, 2022

  Prompt engineering is going to be massive in the next few years.

• People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use

  Something I would do well to remember about the whole “productivity porn” content ecosystem and the explosion of PKM tools/cults like Obsidian/Roam/etc.

• ttscoff/doing

  Super cool CLI application that I eventually want to integrate into my workflow.

• How to make Complice into more of a daily habit - Complice

  I’m constantly trying to avoid getting sucked into the “productivity/task management” black hole, and Complice is one of the few tools that has helped me stay focused on what actually matters.

  “Instead of productivity, we focus on intentionality.”

• AI Grant

  Recent developments in machine learning and AI generation (Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, etc.) will singlehandedly create entire businesses and future startups.

  Cool to see someone enabling and encouraging this growth.