When you ask a question on StackOverflow or somewhere else about programming, you are looking for a solution which you can quickly use, or copy/paste etc. However, often you also need an explanation of the root cause of the issue, otherwise you are bound to make the same mistake/bug time after time in subtle different ways. When I first used Java Servlets (end of the 1990s) after many years of…
This is an overview of sales and marketing platforms for selling mostly digital goods, which, outside handling payments, also provide tools for building store frontends, email marketing and other promotional and sales activities. In the light of the very popular Gumroad their decision to up their fee to 10% + transaction fees (https://help.gumroad.com/article/66-gumroads-fees) I assume the rest of…
This is a compilation of materials to study and practice new skills in around one weekend. Most materials are technical, as those are the things that interest me mainly. So if are lacking ideas of side projects for the weekend and want to feel inspired, pick one of these from the list and start hacking! Raytracing in one weekend Raytracing in one weekend is a book that get’s you to creata a…
Introduction This is an article about experimentation with the impressive ChatGPT which can be found here https://chat.openai.com/chat and an attempt at fully automated code reviews by priming the prompt enough to get useful answers. If you like this type of content, follow me on Twitter @luyben. If you know what ChatGPT is, continue below the first break for the results: As the ChatGPT hype…
I am Tycho, an entrepreneur and software engineer. I create software for fun and profit. Studied AI in the AI winter of the 90s and I am interested in programming language design, software development, formal methods and AI/ML. Brainfish … they eat Fishbrain One of my favorite memories in life is going to Madeira, PT as an angry teenager loving death metal. In NL the entire scene was…
Below is an overview of companies hit by the financial downturn of ‘22-‘23. Inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company, which was a good estimation of the state of the economy around the web bubble of the 2000s, this could give some insight in how far it will go this time. This post will be updated as long as there seems to be an acceleration in layoff and bankruptcies. I…
Below is an overview of what i’m doing at the moment (at least what I can openly talk about) and projects I have done in the past. Projects Working with the below ChatGPT and GPT3 API’s to create new products; for instance, automated code reviews which try to improve the code by itself https://pipe2cloud.com - Zapier for cli https://flexlists.com - 15 year old free simple to use…
history When I was a first year AI student beginning of the 90s I asked my professor what would happen if we just made a massive neural network and trained it with all information in the world. He said it cannot happen as it it impossible. life memory Here I collect stuff I want check later or remember. December ‘22 Software dev https://logtalk.org/rationale.html - Prolog