Writing

The New Game in Town,2024
On Synthetic Data: How It's Improving & Shaping LLMs,2024
Pipelines & Prompt Optimization with DSPy,2024
Why LLM Advancements Have Slowed: The Low-Hanging Fruit Has Been Eaten,2024
Turning Your Root URL Into a DuckDB Remote Database,2024
Will Surging Crypto Prices Damper Interest in AI?,2024
Transitioning from the Attention Era to the Automation Era,2024
AI Search Apps Succeed Because of Their UI, Not their LLMs,2024
Generating Descriptive Weather Reports with LLMs,2024
The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs,2024
Wikidata is a Giant Crosswalk File,2024
We Need Help With Content Discovery More Than Content Generation,2024
Conflating Overture Places Using DuckDB, Ollama, Embeddings, and More,2024
What Remains After an AI Collapse?,2024
When is a Minicar as Dangerous as a 3-Ton Truck?,2024
We Need an Ari Emanuel for Small OSS,2024
The Right to Confront Your AI Accuser,2024
Stewart Brand on Finding Where the Future is Being Made,2024
Domain Expertise is the Difference Maker for Data Scientists,2024
How to Build a Bigger Bubble,2024
Towards Standardizing Place,2024
Prompt Engineering at the End of the Universe,2024
Enriching CSVs with H3,2024
Smaller, Cheaper, Faster, Sober,2024
Be Better, Not Smaller,2024
Using DuckDB to Map Overture GERS IDs to US Census FIPs Codes,2024
Being the "Xerox" isn't Easy,2024
The Eras of Domain Names,2024
Sober AI is the Norm,2024
A Plea for Sober AI,2024
Introducing StepList,2024
A POI Database in One Line,2024
The Rise of Audio AR,2024
Paying the AI Premium,2024
In Pursuit of Quiet AI Features,2024
Déjà Connu: AI Copilots Reveal Well-Traveled Paths,2023
My CCPA Dialog With OpenAI,2023
A Foundation Model For Every Culture,2023
A Big Year For Small Models,2023
The Tyranny of the Blank Textbox,2023
Extreme Compression with AI: Fitting a 45 Minute Podcast into 40kbs,2023
The AI Market is Firming Up Fast,2023
Finding Bathroom Faucets with Embeddings,2023
Manipulating AI: Prompt Injection, Trap Tokens, & Post-Training Suggestion,2023
Considering AI Privacy Scenarios,2023
The Platypus In The Room,2023
Practical AI For App Makers,2023
AI Lies, Privacy, & OpenAI,2023
We Need AI Safewords,2023
Why Media Metrics Matter,2022
The Gauntlet Growing Social Networks Face Just Got Harder,2020
How to Build a Buzzword,2020
What are We Waiting For?,2020
How the iPhone Led to Today’s Internet Outage,2016
Keeping Up with the Joneses, Today,2016
I Dream of the Post Office Buying Twitter,2016
Spectacles are the Anti-Glass,2016
Do Algorithms Find Depression or Cause Depression?,2016
Apple Shouldn’t Kill the Headphone Jack,2016
A Community Camera Manifesto,2016
The Business Implications of Machine Learning,2016
Motivations Behind Calls for Podcast Data,2016
Discussions We Will Have in 2016,2016
Fake Can Be Just as Good,2015
Ways of Thinking About Products: Starter Kits,2015
What I’ve Learned About the Gold Rush So Far,2015
On Convenience-Tech and Trusting Technology,2014
On Nuclear Weapons and Complex Systems,2014
The State of Technology in 2013: What We Learn from Cameras,2014
The 5 Blows to the Human Ego,2013
Google Glass is Just Like the Segway – and Similarly Doomed,2013
The "Remote President",2013
Habits are Cues for Innovation,2012
Multisignal Tools & Mutable Art,2011
Siri, Violin Vibratto, and Bing Crosby's Croon,2011
The Idea of a Computer is Diffusing,2011
On Facebook Timeline: Teaching Data to Speak Humanely,2011
Loyal Customer Myopia,2011
On Chat Roulette. Or, Never Judge a New Medium by its Early Adopters,2010