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davemateeron What will LLM-powered software look like in the medium-term future?

https://chat.openai.com (GPT-3.5) to summerise this article:

- summerise (then paste in the text)

- explain like I'm 10

Gave (the highlights)

-- ai here

1. Chat consolidation

2. Remembering stuff

3. Access to Everything

4. Making things easier

5. Being helpful

-- human here below

I'd love for the author to be right in his predictions. Arguably current AI has made understanding this article '4. easier' for me to understand already.

davemateeron Should children be vaccinated against Covid-19?

As a (non medical professional) father of a 5 and 7 year old in the UK, I'm looking at research on whether we should vaccinate our kids. Posting this paper to help others in their research.

davemateeron How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs

Thank you for the article. It is certainly alluring to reduce the number of generated images linked in the <head> in PWA apps.

I use https://github.com/onderceylan/pwa-asset-generator to generate assets for PWA's(have left a message on this repo to read your article!)

davemateeron Storing Passwords in .NET Core

Interesting. Didn't know about Argon2

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/211/how-to-secu... a good write up here too of the underlying hashing implementations.

davemateeron Ask HN: How are you holding up?

Thank you for asking BruceOxenford. Very kind. Good luck to us all in keeping safe and well - physically and emotionally. Don’t Panic!

davemateeron Bashtop Linux resource monitor – it is great

op here: @g_aristocrat is the author of the package who is a great person - he has put some feature requests for me really quickly. My screen wasn't showing the correct fonts (braille!) to show pretty graphs which it is now. I use the project daily as a sanity check overview of a server.

davemateeron Improve at Programming Using Project Euler

OP here. I agree - I'm exploring puzzles which are the most useful to programmers, and what makes them great. For example: https://projecteuler.net/problem=8 can be solved in a simple way which is very clear using functional programming (Linq in C#). Very enjoyable.

However some others eg Euler11 felt like hard work.

I've done the first 50 or 60 questions and got that far using programming (without the interest in recreational math). In general I really enjoy these puzzles.

davemateeron Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo

The recent livereload feature on Jekyll coupled with running Jekyll locally in Docker works well me. https://davemateer.com/jekyl/2018/01/25/Jekyll-and-Docker.ht...