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Reading A quiet week, not much read. How I Give Formal Written Feedback Primary thing of note I read this week. Good guidelines on an explicit process for feedback.

Reading Gene Wolfe Was Sci-Fi’s Most Enigmatic Writer Always good to read about Wolfe and the slight renaissance his work is seeing. Interesting to learn Wolfe’s papers are in Northern Illinois University 2022 State of the Tools I’ll frequently read about how other people set up their work, just to learn about tools people find useful. I’d forgotten about mosh, glad to see it seeing use. Why Programmers Burnout Into Existential Depression: The Broken Promise of Computing ...

Reading ChatGPT Isn’t a Great Leap Forward, It’s an Expensive Deal With the Devil Programming AIs Worry Me How To… Use ChatGPT to Boost Your Writing Chatbots Are Not a Good Replacement for Search Engines A lot of chatGPT reading this week, a lot of experts understandably skeptical, or worse, missing its flaws and being overly impressed. Chat continues to be a poor search interface though.

Reading Blueprints for Recommender System Architectures: 10th Anniversary Edition A lot to take from this, Amatriain has both assembled architectures from industry leaders and revisited his own work at some of the biggest recsys companies in the world. Real-Time Semantic Search Demo I’ve built a few systems like this, it’s great to see they are getting easier to build. All Programming Philosophies Are About State All code is data, I’m sure of it. ...

Watching Tár (2022) - An excellent film Reading The Open Secret of Google Search & https://twitter.com/alex_buraks/status/1618988134850785280 Reading a bit about search as Yandex’s source code was leaked. Interesting to get some insight into what factors are considered for ranking, age of links is a novel one. Two Hunters by Astrid Anne Rose A short horror story I thought was pretty good, some strong imagery. What Problem Are You Trying to Solve? ...