Can an AI get depressed?
Ben and Ryan discuss the golden age of digital piracy, the Sisyphean task of keeping kids off the internet, and seasonal depression in AI.
Read moreFine-grained file differences
The diff utility compares files by lines, which is often what you’d like it to do. But sometimes you’d like more granularity. For example, supposed we want to compare two versions of Psalm 23. Here are the first three verses in the King James version: The Lord is my shepherd;
Read moreBringing context to alerting and incident management
Ben and Ryan talk with Robert Ross, the CEO and co-founder of FireHydrant about the problem with alerting and incident management today, how holiday code freezes change incident management, and how Robert accidentally became a CEO.
Read more6 Techniques for Conditional Rendering in React, with Examples
Learn techniques for conditional rendering in React, including if-else statements, ternary operators, switch statements, HOCs, and element variables. Continue reading 6 Techniques for Conditional Rendering in React, with Examples on SitePoint.
Read moreThe ed line editor: bravado, utility, and history
I stumbled on the book Ed Mastery by Michael W. Lucas and couldn’t tell immediately whether it was serious. In a sort of technical version of Poe’s law, Lucas lays on the technical machismo pretty thick, but not thicker than some people do unironically. Bravado Here’s a paragraph from early
Read moreWhat Gemini means for the GenAI boom
The home team talks about Google’s new AI model, Gemini; the problems with regulating technology that evolves as quickly as AI; how governments can spy on their citizens via push notification; and more.
Read moresin(cos(x)) versus cos(sin(x))
A few days ago I wrote about sufficient conditions for f(g(x)) to bound g(f(x)). This evening I stumbled on an analogous theorem. For real numbers γ and δ, cos(γ sin(x)) > sin(δ cos(x)) for all real x provided γ² + δ² < (π/2)². Source: American Mathematical Monthly. February 2009. Solution
Read moreRectangles to Rectangles
There is a conformal map between any two simply connected open proper subsets of the complex plane. This means, for example, there is a one-to-one analytic map from the interior of a square onto the interior of a a circle. Or from the interior of a triangle onto the interior
Read moreIntroducing STRICH: Barcode Scanning for Web Apps
Learn how you can use the STRICH JavaScript library to bring real-time 1D/2D barcode scanning to your web applications. Continue reading Introducing STRICH: Barcode Scanning for Web Apps on SitePoint.
Read moreUsing Nodemon and Watch in Node.js for Live Restarts
Learn how to use nodemon and Node.js watch mode to auto restart your Node.js app and thereby speed up your development workflow. Continue reading Using Nodemon and Watch in Node.js for Live Restarts on SitePoint.
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