Frank Geerlings

I make software, mostly for the web.

[Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley]

“Will AI replace programmers?”

Perfect take by Lex.

[Victor @vponamariov]

Friendly reminder: don't use too much technical jargon in your interfaces

[Lickability @lickability]

🧵👇 Last week, Apple did a surprise announcement of Apple Sports, a new app for sports fans. We do internal design critiques quite often, but we noticed a few things worth mentioning for designers and developers thinking about modern iOS design practices.

[Oana Olteanu @oanaolt]

Open Source AI repos that caught my 👀 this week

@MetaGPT_ https://t.co/TXPrsP6GAs - multi agent collaboration - MetaGPT encodes Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) into prompts. The claim is that it takes a one line requirement as input and outputs user stories / competitive analysis / requirements / data structures / APIs / documents, etc.

@Ollama_ai https://t.co/EitKS8EUbH - run large language models locally. The future of AI/LLMs may not be on the cloud, but on your own laptops/mobiles. https://t.co/nzuwmAlsCS

@huggingface https://t.co/AHWRcLqllQ - slick ML framework for Rust with a focus on performance (including GPU support)

@remilouf https://t.co/t5O6V8gNGe - helps developers guide text generation to build robust interfaces with external systems. Provides generation methods that guarantee that the output will match a regular expressions, or follow a JSON schema.

https://t.co/ObutNI5inw enterprise AI platform

[François Chollet @fchollet]

GitHub Copilot and LLM chatbots are causing a big drop in StackOverflow traffic. What's fascinating about it is that these systems work largely thanks to the user-generated content from StackOverflow. Is this feedback loop sustainable?

[Gabriel @gaoterop]

Countless hours were dedicated to meticulous document and standards review, pushing the boundaries of my knowledge. I'm excited to share my code and the lessons learned for those eager to learn about signal processing and space protocols as much as I did. https://t.co/HbqxqAarbk

[Vitaly Friedman 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @vitalyf]

What It's Like To Be Colorblind (https://t.co/mWkynjp9ce), an insightful series on colorblindness, how colorblind readers perceive colors, how to visualize data with colorblindness in mind and how to make color decisions. A series by @lisacmuth. #ux #design

[hardmaru @hardmaru]

Interview with Jürgen Schmidhuber, ‘Father Of Modern AI’, who says his life’s work won’t lead to dystopia.

He goes quite in depth into his views about the future of AI and AGI. A refreshing view of things, compared to other ‘influential leaders’ in AI.

https://t.co/YWUF3V6d70

[Frank Geerlings @FrankGeerlings]

Some inspiration if you’re a spy movie writer.

[Matthijs R. Koot @mrkoot]

Clandestine communications in cyber-denied environments - Numbers stations and radio in the 21st century (2023) https://t.co/cqYN7eeBRi

Open Access article by Tony Ingesson (@tonyingesson) and Magnus Andersson, published in @PICTJournal.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Josh Waitzkin was a chess prodigy.

He won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship at age 11. He became an International Master at age 16. And his life was made into a movie (“Searching for Bobby Fischer”) at 17.

But then, around the age of 18, Waitzkin quit playing chess because…

He got a new coach.

“I was a naturally creative, aggressive chess player,” Waitzkin explained.

But the new coach forced Waitzkin to play like the great chess players Anatoly Karpov and Tigran Petrosian—“the most positional, conservative chess players.”

When he was forced to play in a way that didn’t align with his natural proclivities, Waitzkin said, “I lost my love for the game.”

So he quit.

He later took up martial arts, and after just 2 years of training, he won his first national championship in martial arts.

Asked if he took anything from chess into the martial arts, Waitzkin said he leaned into his unique physical and mental traits:

“And in my observation of competitors in any discipline, this a really fundamental idea. Those who succeed at the highest level, I think, basically manifest their unique character through their discipline.”

Takeaway 1:

Waitzkin said he was at his best (as a chess player then a martial artist) when his style aligned with his personality.

This is known in economics as “match quality”—the degree of alignment between the traits of a profession and the traits of a person.

The NBA executive turned venture capitalist, Sam Hinkie, was asked how he thought about shaping his career path.

Essentially, Hinkie said he tried to optimize for match quality.

“By nature,” Hinkie explained, “I think in decades, and I have a steady temperament.”

So, Hinkie thought, “Can you get to a place where there is leverage on that kind of thinking, where that kind of steady temperament is rewarded?”

Takeaway 2:

Waitzkin writes in his book, “The Art of Learning,” that “one of the most critical factors in becoming a high performer is the degree to which your relationship to your pursuit stays in harmony with your unique disposition.”

The music producer Rick Rubin is a good example of this.

Rubin is a voracious consumer of art. He’s constantly listening to music, reading a book, watching a movie, at a museum, or driving around just to look at beautiful architecture.

“It’s all I do,” Rubin told screenwriter Brian Koppelman. “But not because it’s my job. It’s like, my job is my job because the person that I am loves to do those things.”

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“It seems to me that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” — Jim Henson

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[Chris Griffing @cmgriffing]

I just discovered the font by the Braille Institute, Atkinson Hyperlegible.

https://t.co/asyIUTb6xz

Pretty sure I have found my forever body font for every project I make from now on.

[🍉 Abubakar Abid @abidlabs]

Ever wonder what the best open-source LLM is?

Introducing the "Open LLM Leaderboard": a place to see all open-source LLMs on 🤗 evaluated on 4 separate benchmarks!

You can even submit your own LLMs to get them evaluated & added to the leaderboard 💻

https://t.co/RTA2qysZhD

[Stefan Judis @stefanjudis]

Nice! @MozDevNet and https://t.co/LPlO5L1tHj are rolling out a new term for cross-browser supported features — "Baseline".

"Features become part of 'Baseline' when they are supported in the current and previous version of all major browsers—Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari.

[Vic 📠 @VicVijayakumar]

In case you missed it-

The Prime Video team originally built a Video Quality Analysis service very quickly with Lambda + Step Functions.

They soon realized that passing data between distributed components was expensive. So they refactored their code to run as a single service.

[Karthik Hariharan @hkarthik]

In Big Tech companies, technical decisions are often more nuanced than many engineers realize and are not always based on pure technical merit. Here's a list of things I've actually seen and had to deal with.

🧵

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

infrastructure that looks like sci fi

1/ liquid natural gas tanker

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

In this post, Nikita does a terrific job explaining how devs can measure and lower their carbon footprint in the cloud. Good level of detail here:
https://t.co/4TzMNXMEPH

[Frank Geerlings @FrankGeerlings]

@VERON_Nederland Deze tweet kon duidelijker. Het lijkt nu alsof VERON zegt dat de gebruikte C2000-apparatuur niet voldoet.