Five for Friday – August 25, 2023

Oh hey – I’m back. First there was DefCon – then there was the covid I caught at Defcon, and now I’m back to the world of the living and managed to be awake enough this week to find a few cool things worth sharing.

  • I’m a big fan of John Cutler’s writing – I thought this week’s post of his is worth pondering.
  • I liked this article where the author wonders if small teams are better. It’s a look at the opposite side of the mythical man month (whether intended or not), but makes a lot of great points.
  • Mako pointed me to this article on training nanoGPT on blog content. I tweaked it and ran it on my substack content (with only 40 blog posts), and found the whole thing pretty interesting.
  • It’s a day that ends in a ‘Y’, which means I ran across someone on the internet whining about chat GPT, yet taking zero interest in attempting to understand how LLMs work. On the other hand – this article on using Chat GPT to make decisions, is, in my opinion, spot on.
  • My covid fever had me in search of mindless movies to watch. After both enjoying and hating Cocaine Bear, I was amused to see this story, which can only really lead to a Bears On a Plane movie. If we’re lucky.

This is usually where I say, see you next week – which I think I can say, but you never know.

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