2025-02-06
Good engineers are right, a lot
Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s unclear to me how useful it is about leaders, but it’s definitely true about...
How to help us build open source Pebble software!
As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big deal! Thank you again to Google for this…
Technical Metrics Integration Flow: Observability and Monitoring
Metrics are something that indicates how your system is performing. There is no universal standard for which metrics should be used in specific cases. Google’s SRE Book states that your...
2025-02-05
Timothy Snyder: Of Course It’s a Coup
Historian Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny, is urging people and the media to understand and acknowledge that what’s happening right now is definitely a coup. Imagine if it had...
Lots of people asking what they can do about the coup. Here’s...
Lots of people asking what they can do about the coup. Here’s a start: an updated guide from Indivisible, “a set of strategies and practical first steps” for “anyone who...
How DeepSeek Works - Simplified
DeepSeek is an open-source large language model (or as we call them, LLM), developed by a Chinese AI research company. It’s built with an MoE (mixture of experts) architecture, incorporating...
Media Slant: Alternative County Matching of Newspapers and Filtering of the Article Snippets
For robustness, we also apply an alternative matching procedure that covers more newspapers but only uses total instead of county-specific circulation.
Federal software contractor Dan Hon (who’s worked with HHS, Head Start, Medicaid/Medicare,...
Federal software contractor Dan Hon (who’s worked with HHS, Head Start, Medicaid/Medicare, DOD) has a great & informative thread about Musk’s seizure of the government’s computing systems. 💬 Join the...
“Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis”
This long post by Mike Brock at Techdirt does a great job in laying out the many reasons why we should be concerned about Elon Musk’s power grab. Here’s just...
Since NYC began congestion pricing, subway ridership is up, subway crime is...
Since NYC began congestion pricing, subway ridership is up, subway crime is way down, traffic fatalities are down. Also, trip times for drivers and buses are faster and bus ridership...
Researching Media Bias: How We Researched Newspaper Articles
For each article, the NewsLibrary provides the newspaper name, the headline, the date, the byline and (approximately) the first 80 words of the article.
A United States Court Denied Apple's Emergency Motion for Stay: Here's Why
The court denied Apple’s Emergency Motion for Stay, or in the Alternative, for Miscellaneous Relief for the foregoing reasons.
If by merging Product and Technology we get a CTPO -- if we add Marketing as a function of Product,
If by merging Product and Technology we get a CTPO -- if we add Marketing as a function of Product, do we get then a C3PO?
Incredible: Nearly 96% of new cars registered in Norway in January 2025...
Incredible: Nearly 96% of new cars registered in Norway in January 2025 were all-electric. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Members of Musk’s team have tried to gain access to servers at...
Members of Musk’s team have tried to gain access to servers at the NOAA. Project 2025 says the agency is “‘harmful to US prosperity’ for its role in climate science”....
The Product Launch Playbook 🚀 What PMs and Builders Miss About Go-To-Market
A step-by-step guide to launching products that win - from initial research to scaling your launch process.
The End of the Liberal Consensus
I really appreciate Heather Cox Richardson’s daily newsletter for providing historical context to what’s happening right now. In this morning’s letter, after summarizing the Musk/Trump attacks on our government (most...
Immerso And Everdome Partner To Drive Innovation In The Metaverse Through AI-Powered Experiences
Immerso, home to Eros Media and Eros Now, and a global leader in AI innovation and intellectual property (IP), has joined forces with Everdome. The partnership combines Immerso’s exceptional IP...
Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend! Get a user flair from @nflair.bsky.social to show which team you
Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend! Get a user flair from @nflair.bsky.social to show which team you're cheering for. Here's how:
New AI Model Can ‘Think About Thinking’ Without Extra Training
The emergence of metacognitive behaviors in the State Stream Transformer architecture challenges fundamental assumptions about language model capabilities.
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