I went to the ninth MLSys conference in Seattle. This is a conference of people in research and industry building ML systems. The vast majority of work that I saw is building systems that train and use LLMs. The biggest focus was on efficiency. How do you train LLMs more
I've been programming for 30 years. I spent a lot of time acquiring both the skill and knowledge to build software systems. If you look at any well paying profession like tech workers, doctors, and lawyers, you see a common thread that binds them which is information monopolies.
Software development over the last 60+ years has been the equivalent of pyramid building. We see the great pyramids today and marvel at their scale, but their shape is a necessary shape because the people at that time had not yet discovered architecture. Architecture is about making previously unseen structures
Abject: A self-aware object runtime using the Ask Protocol I May Have Created Something Horrible I may have solved a long standing problem with Object Oriented systems. Today I'm announcing the world's first self-aware object runtime called Abject and a new protocol called the Ask Protocol
I often tell people money is a technology. That's a strange notion to many people because we think of technology as computers, cell phones, and other electronics. This article is for technologists, people who love technology, or anyone who wants to understand what money actually is and what