Pete Dobbs

Just 3 days ago, OpenAI began releasing an update allowing GPT-4 to recognize images. I'm truly amazed by how people are already applying it in their lives. Here are 10 incredible examples:

Where the fuck did my house go?

This is still the best AI ever generated Salmon jumping in a river

@davidfowl Depends if you're still building platform, or have matured with decent observability and standardisation.

If you don't understand networking, debugging microservices is extremely difficult.

This is a *perfect* example of how an overly literal interpretation can screw you over and cause great harm. In finance, "segregation of duties" means the person who submits expenses shouldn't also be the person who approves those expenses. In tech, it means get a code review.

The single biggest argument about statistics: is probability frequentist or Bayesian? It's neither, and I'll explain why. Buckle up. Deep-dive explanation incoming.

The science of global warming beautifully and simply explained by Dr. Carl Sagan, ca. 1985.

A common misunderstanding about technical debt is that it's incurred by releasing "bad code." That's incorrect. It's a metaphor for releasing a model that you know is wrong based on new knowledge. The team releases with debt in order to receive feedback earlier than if time were taken to improve the model immediately. (You'd probably rarely/never release.) Still, the model can't remain wrong, or the team will continuously stumble over it. As concepts grow, the model will cascade into deeper debt, eventually making it impossible to bring into harmony with increasing knowledge. Soon, it's bankrupt. Bad code is a different problem, making the model difficult to understand, correct, and improve, eventually leading to full entropy.

For a @Microsoft company, @LinkedIn and @LinkedInHelp seem almost unwilling to help. My wife would like access to her account restored - its crazy that it's so hard to get help!

@gaghyogi49 It's a knock off from JTK Max.

Yes. The Starfleet delta on Spock's hat in #StarTrekSNW's "Charades"⬆️ is flipped. But that's obviously a callback to this shot of Kirk from "The Way to Eden"⬇️, right? Right? 😋😋

Awesome story, great movie!

Tomorrow I set off for a supported FKT attempt on the Long Trail, excited to explore a beautiful area & spend time w/ great people. The trail runs the length of Vermont, 273 miles through the Green Mountains on technical trail w/ ~66K ft of elevation gain. live.enabledtracking.com/ltfkt2023/

BREAKING 🚨: NASA rover Perseverance finds strange rock on Mars that appears hollow with a hole in its center

Resting

I got a B at general studies A-Level with the same technique.

Happy 30th anniversary to the greatest live interview of all time! TODAY IN #StarTrek HISTORY: June 7, 1993 Quark -- aka @ShimermanArmin -- is interviewed on "Live with Regis & Kathie Lee."

Incredible achievement!

@davidfowl The aws cdk is very good. Bicep falls short.

There's a constant back and forth between declarative DSL and full-on imperative code. This is because there's no "right" answer, just different tradeoffs. I'll say that I'd prefer something statically typed checked and Turing complete 😀

I find the loosely typed configuration systems that surround the cloud native space to be wholly unproductive. The amount of time spent copy and pasting things back and forth throughout various parts of yaml only to have it fail after in some extremely obscure way is infuriating.

Fantastic work!

@davefarley77 Branches

What's one thing in our industry that everyone seems to love, but you HATE?