Capitalists Or Cronyists. If you’re looking for some well-reasoned words on why you think the US is bungling things on a massive scale but are pro-capitalism and you can’t understand why it’s not working in the US, you might find this piece insightful.
Is WFH affecting the S&P;? I recommend this article if you’re curious about the affect that WFH has on the stock market
GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about. If you’re super over GPT-3 FUD and want to read an empirical study about GPT-3 that isn’t just full of bombastic takes, this is a good read. Despite the title, it’s not really a hit piece on GPT-3 – but it does lay out some specific edge cases where GPT-3 fails.
between fked and a hard place. This article interviews a bunch of higher education workers across the country to paint a worrying picture of higher education’s response to COVID-19 in the US. Solid doomscrolling content.
The Friendship that made Google Huge. The story of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat at Google. The least gloomy thing I’ve read in the last 5 months.
Formal methods intro. I recommend this for anybody who wants to learn more about Formal Verification but is intimidated by some of the methodologies and jargon (i.e. me).
Parser Combinators. Technical deep dive on writing a parse combinator in Rust from scratch. I recommend it to anyone who’s into parsers, programming language, Rust, or any combination of the three.