Personal website and blog of David Loukidelis. Tech, book reviews, random thoughts.
Thai pie is essentially Québécois tourtière pie with Thai aromatics. I came up with the idea because I wanted to make tourtière pie but did not have all of the spices required by this recipe. I did happen to have lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves, and so the thai pie was born. A just-baked thai pie
A few times now, I have heard people bring up Socrates' suspicion of writing in the context of the impact of AI on learning. As a defense of AI, the point is that people (even wise people like Socrates) have long been concerned about the impact of technologies on the human mind, and in hindsight these concerns usually look silly. AI fears may be partly a moral panic. Still, AI is having an impact…
A breakdown of different strategies for managing state in client-side code.
Atlantic cod. Public Domain, Link The fisherman of Newfoundland never thought that the cod stocks could run out. With the benefit of hindsight, their folly seems obvious, but as a fisherman in the 20th century, it would be hard to imagine the extinction of cod. Cod had been plentiful off the coast of Newfoundland since Europeans began fishing it in the 1490s (this book speculates that…
A reflection on the history of speculation by Edward Chancellor
A wiki for culinary knowledge.
I’m currently unemployed. I’m not lazy; I’m waiting for the next big thing. In the summer of 1998, I got an opportunity to talk with Jobs again. I said, “Steve, this turnaround at Apple has been impressive. But everything we know about the PC business says that Apple cannot really push beyond a small niche position. The network effects are just too strong to upset the Wintel standard. So what are…
I compiled some notes for a friend to serve as a companion to the “Basic Country Loaf” recipe from Tartine bread. I thought I'd publish them here as well.
I have been meaning to write a follow-up to my post about AGI with a second part. My intention was to document some examples of prominent people saying or strongly implying that AGI is imminent, to convince myself and my imagined readers that this view is pervasive. For example, here is AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, often called the "Godfather of AI", speculating about AGI while veiling this as…
Using pure Javascript and the Bluesky API to create cheap and simple blog comment support.