The future is gradually getting a little better.

Emergence is all you need

I recently spent a couple of weeks building-out a LLM-driven product concept (which I’ll be writing more about soon over on Mozilla’s blog). The experience triggered a lot of thoughts and feelings. Among them is the realization that the way we build software products is about to change irrevocably. …

Running Vicuna locally: the complete idiot's guide to basically running ChatGPT on your own laptop for free

The new Vicuna-13B large language model is a Very Big Deal. A big enough deal to drive one of the biggest players in AI into a state of panic. Why? Because it produces results of near-ChatGPT quality with a model that’s a fraction of the size, is freely available, and runs comfortably on …

Picked up a Stadler Made outdoor wood-fired pizza oven. Made out of naturally-weathering corten steel, it arrives flat-packed and slots together fairly easily. I’ve been able to get it up to a scorching 950F, which means proper Neapolitan pizza in 90 seconds. Ingenious design, great results, …

AI is an invasive species

Let’s talk about carp. I ran across this video from Tom Scott about invasive Asian carp. What began decades ago as a well-meaning experiment to control algae in US reservoirs and treatment ponds has turned into an ecological disaster. Algae-chomping carp escaped into the wild and did what they …