Peter Hagen

Hydration is expensive for two reasons:

The frameworks have to download all of the component code associated with the current page.

The frameworks have to execute the templates associated with the components on the page to rebuild the listener location and the internal component tree.

what OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind have all tried to do is raise billions & tap vast GPU resources of tech giants without having the resulting tech de facto controlled by them. I'm arguing the OpenAI fracas show that might be impossible.

Lots of people talk about getting stuck in “tutorial hell” — watching endless courses and tutorials while being unable to actually apply what they learned. I was able to avoid this by jumping right into the app dev process — I’d code until I didn’t know what do and then search up a solution.

Probably the bigger change, from what I've heard, was losing Amit Singhal who led Search until 2016. Amit fought against creeping complexity. There is a semi-famous internal document he wrote where he argued against the other search leads that Google should use less machine-learning, or at least contain it as much as possible, so that ranking stays... See more

If there's a middle way, a way for premium games to somehow find a paying audience on devices such as phones and tablets, then the Game Pass style subscription to a game library is probably the best bet.

King Kong director Peter Jackson famously produced a series of over 50 video diaries while filming the 2005 remake, the first of which was published well over a year before the movie hit theaters. Almost a decade later, he would do the same thing for The Hobbit , uploading behind-the-scenes highlights from the set directly to YouTube. The only... See more

The OpenAI chief executive officer planned to spin up an AI-focused chip company that could produce semiconductors that compete against those from Nvidia Corp., which currently dominates the market for artificial intelligence tasks. Altman’s chip venture is not yet formed and the talks with investors are in the early stages, said the people, who... See more

I highly recommend this activity and format. You can start one yourself. It goes like this:

1. Choose where to walk — somewhere with lodging for 8 people every 15 km — where someone else can drive everyone’s bags from place to place.


2. Someone (local person or business) walks it all in advance to make sure it’s actually good. This person is the

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"Why make the player watch something when they can do it? If possible, we shouldn't rely on narrative bookending to tell the bulk of the narrative," Wasselin said. "Avoid exposition cutscenes, and tie narrative to interaction whenever possible. Even a small interaction is better than none, and when that isn't possible find tricks to make the player... See more