Pao Ramen
A publication about technology and other thoughts
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utterances
utteranc.es ⎯ A lightweight commenting system using GitHub issues.bookmark -
Spore
www.spore.fun ⎯ The concept of AI swarms, championed by Shaw, the creator of the Eliza and ai16z, is at the heart of this “Crypto AI Hype”. AI swarms are networks of independent agents that collaborate, compete, and evolve, producing emergent intelligence through collective behavior.bookmark -
Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
www.nplusonemag.com ⎯ A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer meant fewer shipping costs for Netflix, and fewer DVDs for the company to manage and store. Netflix tracked heavy users of its service — labeling them internally as “pigs” — and secretly throttled their deliveries. It didn’t matter if Netflix rented fewer DVDs than Blockbuster, because the company would keep collecting its monthly fee. The difference between Blockbuster and Netflix was this: Blockbuster punished customers for being forgetful; Netflix rewarded them for being mindless.bookmark -
On the Structure of Neural Embeddings
seanpedersen.github.io ⎯ Article URL: https://seanpedersen.github.io/posts/structure-of-neural-latent-space Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42524352 Points: 53 # Comments: 1bookmark
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Complain & Propose
tidyfirst.substack.com ⎯ Republished from July 2014.bookmark -
AI Platform as a Service | AI for Product Engineers
outropy.ai ⎯ AI Platform as a Service for Product Engineers.bookmark -
Building AI Products—Part I: Back-end ArchitectureBluesky
philcalcado.com ⎯ Commentsbookmark -
Zero one infinity rule
en.m.wikipedia.org ⎯bookmark
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PlasticList
www.plasticlist.org ⎯ Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foodsbookmark -
Search listening tool for market, customer & content research
answerthepublic.com ⎯ Use our free tool to get instant, raw search insights, direct from the minds of your customers. Upgrade to a paid plan to monitor for new ways that people talk & ask questions about your brand, product or topic.bookmark -
The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List
www.latent.space ⎯ We picked 50 paper/models/blogs across 10 fields in AI Eng: LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents, CodeGen, Vision, Voice, Diffusion, Finetuning. If you’re starting from scratch, start here.bookmark -
Design Space for Code Search Query
ast-grep.github.io ⎯ Commentsbookmark -
Image Without Metaphor
all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io ⎯ Dune Part Two and the Return of Socialist Realism We are living through an era of thudding cultural literalism. In our narrative products (movies, TV and to a lesser but noticeable extent, novels) that has meant that instead of story we get plot, premise and lore, dialogue is replaced bybookmark -
The life-changing magic of Japanese clutter | Aeon Essays
aeon.co ⎯ The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that ‘more’ can be as magical as ‘less’bookmark -
Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
kenkantzer.com ⎯ While I was leading PKC’s security practice, we did probably 20-30 code security audits, almost of all of them for startups that were just around their Series A or B (that was usually when they had cash and realized that it’d be good to take a deeper look at their security, after the do-or-die focus on product market fit).bookmark -
Cognitive load
minds.md ⎯ Commentsbookmark -
Berkeley Mono™
usgraphics.com ⎯ A love letter to the golden era of computing.bookmark