Mastodawn

RIP to the wonderful Catherine O'Hara.

Darryl Anderson May 19, 2023

Inside GitHub: Working with the LLMs behind GitHub Copilot | The GitHub Blog https://github.blog/2023-05-17-inside-github-working-with-the-llms-behind-github-copilot/
>Developers behind GitHub Copilot discuss what it was like to work with OpenAI’s large language model and how it informed the development of Copilot as we know it today.

Inside GitHub: Working with the LLMs behind GitHub Copilot | The GitHub Blog

Developers behind GitHub Copilot discuss what it was like to work with OpenAI’s large language model and how it informed the development of Copilot as we know it today.

The GitHub Blog

Darryl Anderson May 16, 2023

Just like Ozymandias, everything developers create eventually also turns to dust.

"My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated"
https://open.substack.com/pub/mattwatsonkc/p/my-20-year-career-is-technical-debt

My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated

Deprecated should be my middle name

The Visionary CTO

Darryl Anderson Apr 20, 2023

OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/19/1071789/openais-hunger-for-data-is-coming-back-to-bite-it/
>The company’s AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight.

OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it

The company’s AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight.

MIT Technology Review

Darryl Anderson Mar 6, 2023

It's such a shame watching American fascists take over the #education system.

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‘Slavery was wrong’ and 5 other things some educators won’t teach anymore

Gift article link: https://wapo.st/3F4aCsa

‘Slavery was wrong’ and 5 other things some educators won’t teach anymore

To mollify parents and obey new state laws, teachers are cutting all sorts of lessons.

The Washington Post

Darryl Anderson Feb 9, 2023

Great presentation how Datadog (at least in 2019) handles intake, storage, and aggregation of massive amounts of metrics data.

Datadog: a Real-Time Metrics Database for One Quadrillion Points/Day https://www.infoq.com/presentations/datadog-metrics-db/

Datadog: a Real-Time Metrics Database for One Quadrillion Points/Day

Ian Nowland & Joel Barciauskas talk about the challenges Datadog faces, how the architecture has evolved, and what they are looking to in the future as they architect for a quadrillion points per day.

InfoQ

Darryl Anderson Jan 17, 2023

A must read on the utter devastation at Twitter caused by Musk. #birdsite

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Inside Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter - The Verge

Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego

https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji

Extremely Hardcore

Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach of its platform for their own ends, and then one made himself the CEO.

The Verge

Darryl Anderson Dec 21, 2022

#DannyDevito is such a treasure.

#IASIP