A recent paper studied text summarization improvements using a chain of density prompt.

In Talking Watches with John Mayer and Ed Sheeran, the two musical artists talk about their careers and the stories behind their collection of watches.

The door-in-the-face technique is a negotiating tactic is when you ask for something rediculous so that your next ask is more likely to be agreed to.

It’s striking how captivated the world is by LLMs and the latest techniques in AI.

I’m upgrading from the iPhone 12 Pro to the iPhone 15 Pro.

You should set up channel partnerships when it helps your business access new customers while filling an existing need for the partner and not competing with your direct business.

There is not a finite amount of work that can be distributed throughout an economy.

Hyperbole is an emacs package that matches text and turns it into links (buttons in hyperbole parlance).

Effective writing that gets a response is written for busy people.

A meta-study of research of 1MM people, found differences in personalities and cognitive abilities.

A new study on the climate impact of teleworking found that switching from working onsite to working from home full time can reduce up to 58% of work’s carbon footprint.

A pattern I really like in Notion is that you can a @ (at) mention any page with search as you type and autocomplete.

A study of 73,000 NFT collections found that more than 95% had a market cap of zero ether and an estimated 23 million people are holding worthless assets.

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The nice part about ChromaDB is that you can read the tables in SQLite using the new Emacs 29 sqlite-mode.

You can turn off sending telemetry data to ChromaDB (now a venture backed startup) when using langchain.

ChromaDB is a vector database used for similarity searches on embeddings.

As software grows, patterns and practices naturally evolve. Inevitably, someone comes to the conclusion that a change should happen and code should be migrated to the new thing.

Marl is the marginal user. The one who represents the broad base of users that drive most product decisions to the lowest common denominator.

According to the Lightspeed sales benchmark report for 2023, win rates decreased for 42% of companies surveyed.

When it comes to selling an asset, it’s helpful to remember that it only takes two people to make an auction.

In sales, it’s easy to mislead yourself into thinking a sales deal is on track when it’s not.

A common data consistency issue is writing empty strings to the database.

A DRI is a commonly used organizational pattern where one person is directly responsible for the overall outcome of an initiative.