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24apr2024

One of the best explanations of what embedding is and how vector search works.

"No one buys books" it an essay on how the modern book market works. It looks similar to venture: only a small part of the titles actually sales, but most – not.

15mar2024

For now, it's positioned for story-writing, but from my perspective, it's a good alternative for AI-text-based adventures. Most people use it for gaming, not to write. It's like an open-world RPG with endless variability.

For the nearest feature, we will see how this model works in "general" gaming. It will be an interesting time.

04mar2024

FastUI it's easy way to create the admin page for a small script. Looks like the Django Admin for FastAPI applications.

In the abstract, FastUI is like the opposite of GraphQL but with the same goal — GraphQL lets frontend developers extend an application without any new backend development; FastUI lets backend developers extend an application without any new frontend development

3mar2024

Ente alternative photo hosting. Still a long way from Apple Photo, but cross-platform, privacy-centric and with a clear business model

25feb2024

JavaScript bloat in 2024

It's a painful review of the state of the modern web. Hard to believe that every time when I try to open the JIRA my browser downloads the 50 Mb of JSs.

10feb2024

The "sailplane problem of modern Image Generation AI". Right after appearing of model Image Generator AI have tried to generate the photorealistic image of the sailplane. But that was impossible 2 years ago and still impossible today (but lot better). That last attempts examples (DALL-E and MidJourney)

DALL-E MidJouney