Swizec's articles in the "art" category
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Software Engineering Lessons from Production
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How I turned 15 years of writing into a chatbot
What do you do with 15 years of your writing history when LLMs hit the scene? A chatbot!
May 20th, 2023
Eight things to know about LLMs
eightthings.pdf is the best paper I've read on what's going on in AI right now and why everyone is excited. Here's my summary.
May 5th, 2023
Building software is a distraction
September 20th, 2019
Why you aren’t drowning in recruiters, too
October 17th, 2018
Always put side effects last
January 10th, 2018
How to DDoS yourself with analytics –– a war story
November 29th, 2017
That one time a simple for-loop increased conversions by 19%
October 20th, 2017
These 19 Words are the Only Self-Help & Business Advice You Need
November 7th, 2016
Go the fuck home
October 20th, 2016
Why coding is more fun than engineering
October 14th, 2016
Livecoding #22: A door-answering Slackbot
September 19th, 2016
The surprising difficulty of paying the US government
June 23rd, 2016
Does it even make sense to move to San Francisco?
May 13th, 2016
What I learned from Amanda Palmer's The Art of Asking
February 11th, 2016
On Saturday I became a Spartan - a story in 23 gifs
July 22nd, 2015
Why offices are where work goes to die
June 25th, 2015
This weekend I rented my dream car
May 12th, 2015
Dear tech companies, this is not how you hire engineers
January 20th, 2015
Cirque du Soleil blew my mind
January 16th, 2014
GoKarting is better than both sex _and_ bacon
December 18th, 2013
Week 7: Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
December 3rd, 2013
Adventures in homelessness
September 30th, 2013
Age
July 2nd, 2013
Is writing the same as coding?
December 11th, 2012
Apple just doesn't get it anymore
October 24th, 2012
Markov chain poem trainer+generator in 29 sloc of Haskell
September 21st, 2012
Turns out I'll be writing a book
September 11th, 2012
The birth of LISP - a summary of John McCarthy's original paper
August 22nd, 2012
If this is NSFW you should quit
July 24th, 2012
Weather - the best thing about Silicon Valley
July 3rd, 2012
Natural Language Generation system architectures
May 30th, 2012
Can you pay one compliment to one stranger every day?
May 22nd, 2012
A year of 750words.com - with shiny graphs
May 18th, 2012
Steal my startup idea: Rent-a-mum
May 4th, 2012
Making our irc bot talk
April 25th, 2012
Comparing automatic poetry generators
April 18th, 2012
What Refactoring is, and what it isn't
April 11th, 2012
Science Wednesday: Defining poetry
March 28th, 2012
For better productivity, I watch 6 hours of TV a week
March 15th, 2012
Why geeks think girls don't like them
March 6th, 2012
Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers
February 3rd, 2012
Geeks of america, please start fighting SOPA
January 12th, 2012
Stypi - the perfect blogging tool
January 3rd, 2012
Sabbatical week day 3: Raining datatypes
December 29th, 2011
Sabbatical week day 2: I fail at Octave
December 28th, 2011
Can I please take all my classes online?
December 8th, 2011
Shuush - perfect tool for all my twitter followers
November 30th, 2011
Music and The Zone
November 29th, 2011
On writing every day
November 24th, 2011
Why I only work with startups
November 17th, 2011
I suck at implementing neural networks in octave
November 15th, 2011
I think I finally understand what a neural network is
November 9th, 2011
First steps with Octave and machine learning
November 4th, 2011
"Startup rollercoaster" isn't even the half of it
October 25th, 2011
Economy next on the noobs' list of things to ruin?
October 15th, 2011
ml-class.org vs. real world ML class
October 11th, 2011
So how many readers _actually_ read a blog post?
September 16th, 2011
I learned two things today 31.8.
August 31st, 2011
I went through YC as an intern, here's what I learned
August 31st, 2011
I learned two things today 16.8.
August 17th, 2011
Crayons ... best productivity hack ever?
July 21st, 2011
I couldn't get into YC so I joined a startup that did
June 24th, 2011
750 words a day keeps the insanity away
May 16th, 2011
A case for multi-tasking
January 24th, 2011
Like Angelina and Scarlet having sex with your eyes
December 23rd, 2009
How I discovered one of the greatest influences on my life
December 15th, 2009
The webcomics I love
December 13th, 2009
Why the digital book revolution is stupid
December 8th, 2009
The university lecture structure is all wrong
October 13th, 2009
Everyone should work out! (here's why)
August 27th, 2009
Slovenia desperately needs more burlesque
June 19th, 2009
New steampunk crap in my room
June 14th, 2009
A sonnet to Boob
May 11th, 2009
Battlestar Galactica - best video novel ever
March 31st, 2009
Girls night and writing
January 25th, 2009
When you can't algorithm, photowalk
January 4th, 2009
Ljubljana Kabaret vs. London Cabaret
December 22nd, 2008
What does The Picture of Dorian Gray mean
December 14th, 2008
The mind of a wandering software poet
October 9th, 2008
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
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