Community Wall vs Private Billboard: How Section 230 diversified the Internet
Section 230 enabled the internet as we know it. But what does it mean for freedom of speech? This article explores the implications of Section 230.
LLMs are both smarter and dumber than they appear
Are Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LLMs) really as intelligent as their hype suggests? This post explores the limitations of LLMs and their potential in semantic search.
Digital Tragedy of the Commons
An LLM can generate hundreds of thousands of word generations for an ad, reacting instantly to trends in clicks and searches. A human just can’t compete. And that’s on speed alone, never mind compensation (and therefore profit margin).
Threads does not (yet) publish ActivityPub fully
There’s tons of posts on Threads’ ActivityPub integration. Except it doesn’t work
What competition does the Apple Vision Pro have?
The Apple Vision Pro is not what we expected. It’s not really AR, but a headset that continuously renders the real world, similar to the Varjo XR3.
Twitter Diet: Why is the site still up if cuts were so catastrophic?
By now we all know that Twitter’s employee base has been absolutely decimated, going from 7500 in 2021 to somewhere…
Testable Spring beans using Lombok RequiredArgsConstructor
Learn how to make your Spring code more easily testable by using explicit constructors instead of relying on the @Autowired annotation.
Traffic Jam vs Eclipse
The total eclipse passed through the continental US today, with an estimated 7 million people travelling to view it. Now…
DNN-assisted colorization of images
There has been previous work on automatic colorization of images, a fairly impressive process that takes a black and white…
Building Twitcher for WordPress
When designing the blog, WordPress came with the tools I needed for article-based content, but it did not cover how to create many links and display in a short, updated manner. I go over how I added it on with just a few plugins.