Imitation Intelligence, my keynote for PyCon US 2024
(simonwillison.net)
August 2024 Archive
1921.
1922.
Unmanned submarine discovers ice shelf mysteries, then disappears
(scitechdaily.com)
1923.
1924.
Uv: Unified Python Packaging
(astral.sh)
1925.
Tzero: Social Timeboxing for IRC Channels
(github.com)
1926.
1927.
Rust GPU Transitions to Community Ownership
(rust-gpu.github.io)
1928.
Raspberry Pi Pico 2
(raspberrypi.com)
1929.
MiniTorch – a DIY teaching library for machine learning engineers
(minitorch.github.io)
1930.
One Million new Bluesky users in 3 days
(bsky.app)
1931.
What if Germany had invested in nuclear power?
(tandfonline.com)
1933.
Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller
(thehustle.co)
1934.
About the browser choice screen in the EU
(developer.apple.com)
1935.
Big Macs and the Cost of Living Crisis
(abc.net.au)
1936.
Windows Control Panel set for deprecation
(theregister.com)
1937.
1938.
Napkin math suggests Bitcoin will perish unless its mining incentives change
(keydiscussions.com)
1939.
AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography
(theverge.com)
1941.
A single server can go a long way these days
(twitter.com)
1942.
I'm Back, Ruby on Rails
(blog.wildcat.io)
1943.
1944.
1945.
1946.
Are Geofence Warrants Headed for Extinction?
(americanbar.org)
1947.
1948.
Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of parasitism (2021)
(royalsocietypublishing.org)
1949.
Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency
(theregister.com)
1950.
I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
(switowski.com)