The Web of Babel: Browsing the Internet’s Latent Space

The Web of Babel: Browsing the Internet’s Latent Space

  The BBC never published a digital edition of the Battle of Waterloo, but in the latent space of a Large Language Model (LLM), that page do...

Wanting to be an astronaut turned me into a Software Engineer

Wanting to be an astronaut turned me into a Software Engineer

When I was a kid I wanted to become an astronaut. But then I found out you have to be a pilot first and that seemed boring. So I decided to ...

The High Cost of Free Testing

The High Cost of Free Testing

(this first appeared on Block's blog ) I hold the generally unpopular opinion that we write too many tests. Most tests written have nega...