AI Isn’t Good Enough - by SK Ventures
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Web site excerpt: On a recent cross-country trip—I (Paul) drove from California to Illinois and back again. On the drive, I saw a sign I had never seen before: In a McDonald’s window it said $1,000 SIGNING BONUS. That was not a thing when I was a teenager doing minimum-wage jobs. No one paid you $1,000 signing bonuses to work for fast-food restaurants.
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Link to site: AI Isn’t Good Enough - by SK Ventures
How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math
Excellent overview with code. Can't say for sure that it is a true/accurate explanation or just a clever oversimplified analogy.
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Web site excerpt: I'm sure you agree that it has become impossible to ignore Generative AI (GenAI), as we are constantly bombarded with mainstream news about Large Language Models (LLMs). Very likely you have tried…
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Link to site: How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math
How To Code A Mac Game - Best Learning Tutorials - GameDev Academy
Trying to make coding a simple game more approachable.
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Web site excerpt: If you've ever dreamt of developing your own Mac game but haven't been sure where to start, you're in the right place. In this article, we're going to
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Link to site: How To Code A Mac Game - Best Learning Tutorials - GameDev Academy
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics | GDPR-compliant, Real-time, Google Analytics alternative | Clicky
Very nice. and cheap alternative to google analytics. I mean, not exactly an alternative. I don't know all the features that GA has. But this tool is really lightweight, nice to look at, and it does a lot for free
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Web site excerpt: Clicky's privacy-friendly, real-time website analytics service is simply the best way to monitor, analyze, and react to your website's traffic in real time.
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Link to site: Privacy-friendly Website Analytics | GDPR-compliant, Real-time, Google Analytics alternative | Clicky
The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal | Vanity Fair
Do you remember this story. Here's a really interesting article about what might have happened.
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Web site excerpt: To many in the tight-knit deep-sea exploration community, OceanGate’s submersible dives were reckless and often dangerous, writes best-selling author Susan Casey.
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Link to site: The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal | Vanity Fair
What Does an A Really Mean?
A very important question to think about. It's a little more abstract and high level than defining learning objectives. I found it an excellent exercise.
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Web site excerpt: We asked professors, students, and high-school counselors.
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Link to site: What Does an A Really Mean?
Deploy on Your Own Servers
Once Heroku got rid of their free tier, we all wanted alternatives. Doku is one of them. It lets you create your very own Heroku service on top of a cheap Digitial Ocean partition.
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Web site excerpt: Fastest way to deploy a Rails app!
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Link to site: Deploy on Your Own Servers
Twirp: Make serving a Twirp RPC Services as easy and familiar as Rails controllers.
Interesting GEM. Twirp is an RPC format and protocol from Twitch. Looks useful.
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Web site excerpt: Make serving a Twirp RPC Services as easy and familiar as Rails controllers. - collectiveidea/twirp-rails
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Link to site: Twirp: Make serving a Twirp RPC Services as easy and familiar as Rails controllers.
ankane/ahoy: Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails
Remember this gem. It looks really useful for collecting stats from Rails based sites.
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Web site excerpt: Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails. Contribute to ankane/ahoy development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Link to site: ankane/ahoy: Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails
Generating fake data using SQL
Some fancy sql technique to create masses of fake data efficiently. Note: no Ruby or Python involved!
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Web site excerpt: Fake data are very useful in development environment for testing your application or some query performances for example. In this Blog Post I’ll share how I ...
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Link to site: Generating fake data using SQL