great read about webgpu and why you should be excited about it https://cohost.org/mcc/post/1406157-i-want-to-talk-about-webgpu

I'm usually not very moved by new terminals (since spending a stupid amount of time trying to configure my perfect terminal setup on linux back in the 2000s). But this is pretty impressive, feels like an actual innovation in the space https://app.warp.dev/

@cdrnet I'm trying to load SVHN using Math.Net but it's loading garbage as the name of the X matrix (the y vector loads fine as a Matrix<double>). Do you have any pointers? could it be because X is a 4D matrix?

I've been playing *a lot* lately with chatGPT, only using the GPT-4 model. It's really good for using it as a way to bounce ideas or suggest improvements. It's far from perfect. When asking technical things, it just spit things that are blatantly wrong. One example was that it was claiming the output of XOR(0,0) to be 1 (it's 0). I also got some really interesting code where there were subtle bugs, that if you're not 100% on top of the code it would make you spend a lot of time trying to debug it. Overall: it's a great tool if you know the domain and are willing to analyze the output with detail. It's a great rubber duck if you're into rubber duck debugging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

More thoughts about time zones: I think the problem is that so far we've been merging time zones with daily routines. because it's easier to think of "I wake up at 7am, finish work at 5pm and go to bed by 10pm" or some variation of that. The problem is that when you need to coordinate with people that are outside your daily routine zone, it becomes increasingly complex. Probably that's what happened when the train started to become mainstream: now your collaboration/trading zone expanded and made everything super hard and confusing. I believe we might be living in a new "train" era, because our collaboration/trading zone has expanded to potentially everywhere in the world. It might be time to rethink time zones or get rid of them completely

Time zones can be a PITA, but they're also solving many real world problems (although I think they're due for an update). Did you ever think about how was the world before that? https://www.npr.org/2023/05/10/1175316221/standard-time-zones-noon-clock