From around the web
- great travelogue - 100R — goji no chaimu from “100 Rabbits” about visiting Japan on a boat; they have similar stories of visiting other countries like NZ, Fiji, French Polynesia, etc.,
- Gestura Stainless Steel Spoon Review 2024, the so called “Perfect Spoon”, via this YT Short.
Large Language Models
Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities (YC)
Programming
- Webassembly
- Web Components
- TCL ( I gave away my TCL/TK book 😞 a while ago)
- nixisearch
- Deno 2.0 and the release video - “Programming should be simple”.
- (van Kempen et al., 2024)
We show — via empirical experiments, improved methodology, and careful examination of anomalies — that when these factors are controlled for, notable discrepancies in prior work vanish. Our analysis suggests that the choice of programming language implementation has no significant impact on energy consumption beyond execution time.
- Manim Community, the library 3Blue1Brown (Grant Sanderson) uses to make animations for his YT channel.
van Kempen, N., Kwon, H.-J., Nguyen, D. T., & Berger, E. D. (2024). It’s Not Easy Being Green: On the Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05460