Aspirational Links (2024-11-27)
- The Design of Web APIs
Vicki Boykis recommended this implicitly and explicitly in a bluesky thread this week. I haven't read it yet. But the timing is serendipitous since I'm working on a large refactoring of my company's existing API while extending it to new domains. Plus, 👑Vicki is reliable.
- Better Without AI
There was something of an incident on bluesky last night. (Shocker!) At the intersection of disgust, annoyance, and jet lag, I responded a bit more flippantly that I should have. A wise poster pointed that out, and now I want to think through the linked issue more. I think Better Without AI is pretty close to what I was looking for (h/t allamaraine). The Real World of Technology (h/t tinfoil) also seems relevant but I'm lying to myself if I think I'll get to read it soon.
- Calculating GPT-2s Inference Speedups
I only saw this because Finbarr Timbers shared it on twitter. He is also extremely reliable. And his post actually inspired the exploration. Anyways, it's a great post. I think through things by coding them, so the pair of is exactly what I wish I had for anything I want to understand intuitively.
- How Decentralized is Bluesky really?
I read this while flying SFO-EWR. I agree with a lot of it! In fact, something between a response to this and me working through some other thoughts I've had about the evolution of bluesky will probably be my first post on this personal website. Since I read it, Bryan Newbold (protocol engineer at Bluesky) has replied but I haven't read it yet.
- Jina CLIP v2: Multilingual Multimodal Embeddings for Text and Images
They make some claims that I always discount until I try things myself. But for some recently important tasks I have, having a 512x512 image resolution could in theory help. Will try next weekend or on my flight back to Palo Alto.
- Papers I've Read This Week: Vision
This is more from Finbarr Timbers. I am a paid subscriber and have been for a while. He does good work. See also this this live recording of "How does batching work?" that I got to partially watch before work fires started to throw off too much heat.
- P2 Pro Thermal Camera for Smartphone
Okay this isn't something to read but damn I want one.