Weeknotes 2023-05-15
"Adam Smith's invisible hand — the idea that free markets lead to efficiency as if guided by unseen forces — is invisible, at least in part, because it is not there." --Joseph Stiglitz
Another busy week for me. Time for a regular week, I think. Or vacation or something. The pytest workshop was a lot of fun and we used a simple mastodon client as a sample application. Mastodon.py is great and now I have to fight the urge to build some mastodon bots by connecting GPT-4 (yay, got API access) to the fediverse (what could possibly go wrong?). Since we used bootstrap5 for the pytest sample app, I thought: How hard could it be to create a bootstrap5 theme for django-cast? So now this site and python-podcast are both bootstrap5. Also some health issues - the kids were sick with scarlet fever and some serious dental work 🦷 for me. Fun.
Software
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community.general.django_manage module
Manage django applications with ansible - didn't know about that, cool!
Podcasts
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FS265 Mansplaining as a Service Freakshow
Elixir is interesting but not magical, those concepts are well established in other languages, too. In fact, the most interesting thing about phoenix liveview is, that it is not a singular feature, but part of a broad trend. The LLM discussion is only interesting on a meta level for me..
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Solving the pain-points of ai researchers and practitioners - Lukas Biewald The robot brains
Good episode!
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Scott Aaronson: Against AI Doomerism The Gradient Podcast
There are really interesting connections between complexity theory and AI safety