Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was key in OpenAI talks.

Posts for Nov 19, 2023

Poising, amplitude, and overcoils.

X, formerly Twitter, was caught running unlabeled ads on its platform in September. Now that issue, which has been ongoing, has been brought to the FTC's

Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required. - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

Reminiscing about the good times that crystal radio sets provided.

Today, @vickschutz and I learned a detail about “Star Wars” (1977); it’s totally right there but we never grasped it. — Todd Vaziri (...

Mapping the oldest and most important trees in the UK.

In 1979 NASA’s abandoned space station, Skylab, was about to fall back down to the...

One thing that often strikes me when sitting in on client interviews is how many candidates lack an historical perspective on software development. In a profession of “perpetual beginners&#82…

The end of a dramatic weekend in tech is that OpenAI has split and Microsoft is partnered with one and has hired the other; this is the ultimate failure case of what should have been a for-profit c…

One of Britain’s most ambitious and intellectual novelists, she won the Booker Prize with “Possession,” her 1990 tale of illicit love spanning two centuries.

It's been 7 months since latest raylib release and 10 years since raylib 1.0 was officially released... what an adventure! In the last 10 years raylib has improved a lot, new functions have bee...