David Edgar's website

Saturday, 08 June 2024

🔖 LLMs Aren’t Just “Trained On the Internet” Anymore

A little bit of an explainer on the changing nature of training LLMs. They are increasingly being trained on things other than just the open internet.

Friday, 07 June 2024

🔖 AI Is a False God

Arguing that the danger to AI isn't that it will destroy humanity or take your job. It is that you will believe it is something more than it is.

Thursday, 25 April 2024

🔖 The Cloud Under The Sea

Another look at the intercontinental cable laying industry, 28 years after Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Motherboard

🔖 Mother Earth Motherboard

Neal Stephenson's epic article from 1996 on the trans-continental cable laying industry.

Saturday, 01 July 2023

This seems extremely cool. I am 100% here for nntp in all its glory and warts.

https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110637361651638656

Tuesday, 06 July 2021

🔖 Reagan-Era Gen X Dogma Has No Place in Silicon Valley

Cyd Harrell, Civil tech writer, makes Marc Andreessen and other software capitalist pirates look like the bullshit artists they are