Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-ceo-admits-ai-generating-123059075.html
lol
Today I Learned
February 2025
How Complex Systems Fail
https://how.complexsystems.fail/
Classic insights on complex systems.
CPU Benchmarks - Year on Year Performance
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/year-on-year.html
If you still think Moore's Law is going to save you, you're a decade out of date at this point. This marks the first time we've seen performance start to regress. It seems like we're starting to crest the S-curve on performance available on computers. The future is in squeezing the software, not the hardware.
Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911
ReCAPTCHA continues to get worse than it already is.
SoK: Understanding Designs Choices and Pitfalls of Trusted Execution Environments
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3634737.3644993
Trusted Execution Environments continue to be my computing enemy number one. Get your grubby little hands off my system. To that end, know thy enemy.
Unexpected Benefits of Building Your Own Tools
https://tiniuc.com/make-more-tools/
Another take on why only using off the shelf tools will always struggle to do a fraction of what a set of tools built for purpose can achieve.
Smooth Paths Using Catmull-Rom Splines
https://qroph.github.io/2018/07/30/smooth-paths-using-catmull-rom-splines.html
Another great curve worth understanding. While everyone reaches for bezier's first, these are interesting in the context of compressing freehand drawings and adding visually pleasing smoothing.