From the blog
Robots in the skies (and they use Transformer models)
Ryan welcomes Nathan Michael, CTO at Shield AI, to discuss what AI looks like in defense technologies, both technically and ethically.
Research roadmap update, August 2025
User research for the next era of Stack Overflow.
Learning in the flow: Unlocking employee potential through continuous learning
In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and Christina Dacauaziliqua, Senior Learning Specialist at Morgan Stanley, talk about the importance of experiential learning in fast-paced environments. They emphasize the value of creating intentional learning environments where innovative tools meet collaborative communities to support growth for both individuals and organizations.
Documents: The architect’s programming language
Senior developers know how to deploy code to systems made of code. Architects know how to deploy ideas to systems made of people.
The server-side rendering equivalent for LLM inference workloads
Ryan is joined by Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and co-founder of Baseten, to explore the evolving landscape of AI infrastructure and inference workloads, how the shift from traditional machine learning models to large-scale neural networks has made GPU usage challenging, and the potential future of hardware-specific optimizations in AI.
Interesting questions
A journal chose a header image for my paper, should I push back for diversity reasons?
Luckily, things like header images are up to your discretion when you're paying a publisher.
How can I explain 15 years no work history on my resume as a NEET?
In this case, honesty really is the best policy.
Why is life considered worth preserving?
"If anything in philosophy deserves a good answer, this is it."
Alternate ending in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Or maybe it was the primary ending to an alternate movie.
Links from around the web
The bubble that knows it's a bubble
What the bubbles of the past can teach us about the AI bubble.
You should buy a faster CPU
"Buy cheap, buy twice" also applies to your CPU.
Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math
The busy beaver hunters have been busy indeed trying to find number six.
Burner phone 101
Just make sure to reject all cookies on your burner phone once you get it.
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