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Tim Ross

@timrossinfo

Engineering Lead at @riparide. Banjo player. Creator of @airpipes and @banjolegend

 Christchurch, NZ
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Joined October 2008
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@OpenAI24 May 2023
The ChatGPT app for iOS is now available to users in 11 more countries — Albania, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and the UK. More to come soon!
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This is a useful guide on how to fix those annoying flaky tests: codewithjason.com/how-i-fix-…
How I fix flaky tests - Code with Jason

How I fix flaky tests - Code with Jason

What a flaky test is and why they’re hard to fix A flaky test is a test that passes sometimes and fails sometimes even though no code has changed. There are several causes of flaky tests. The...

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Today is a working at home by the fire kind of day 🌧🌧🌧
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"Exercise extreme caution before even thinking about microservices" I think is good advise. While they can be useful and necessary under some circumstances, they also introduce significant complexity. world.hey.com/dhh/how-to-rec…
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@dhh4 May 2023
"Now the real-world results of all this theory are finally in, and it's clear that in practice, microservices pose perhaps the biggest siren song for needlessly complicating your system." world.hey.com/dhh/even-amazo…
Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move...

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The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other. gatesnot.es/3FIamPU
Artificial intelligence and our future | Bill Gates

Artificial intelligence and our future | Bill Gates

Bill Gates explains why AI is as revolutionary as personal computers, mobile phones, and the Internet, and he gives three principles for how to think about it.

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I've just posted my first update since joining Sourcegraph six months ago, "Cheating is All You Need". In it I introduce AI-backed coding assistants, which are the biggest change I've seen in 35 years as an engineer. Enjoy! about.sourcegraph.com/blog/c…

Cheating is all you need

There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don't realize at all how big it is.

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This is a fascinating insight into what things were like inside Twitter after Elon Musk took over: theverge.com/23551060/elon-m…
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Drum machines did not replace drummers, but rather opened new avenues for creative expression. Similarly, AI has the potential to enhance human creativity rather than replace it.
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I made a thing over the break. We all know we shouldn’t share secrets over @SlackHQ etc (I’ve had API tokens in my inbox from a DM before), but sharing via a password manager can be tricky with clients etc. Any feedback is welcome! privatepassage.io/
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I think they’re on the right path here. Education at its roots needs to focus on critical thinking, creativity, compassion, self education and tools to navigate life. Rote skills like arithmetic, essay writing, spelling … will become as useful as the abacus.
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This is an interesting article on the use of AI tools like #ChatGPT in educational assessments. rnz.co.nz/news/world/482322/… "[ChatGPT] is like the advent of the calculator - a game changer"
ChatGPT appears to pass medical school exams, educators rethinking assessments

ChatGPT appears to pass medical school exams, educators rethinking assessments

The artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT is capable of passing - or at least nearly passing - the US medical licensing exams, according to researchers in the US who put it to the test.

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This is an interesting article on the use of AI tools like #ChatGPT in educational assessments. rnz.co.nz/news/world/482322/… "[ChatGPT] is like the advent of the calculator - a game changer"
ChatGPT appears to pass medical school exams, educators rethinking assessments

ChatGPT appears to pass medical school exams, educators rethinking assessments

The artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT is capable of passing - or at least nearly passing - the US medical licensing exams, according to researchers in the US who put it to the test.

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ChatGPT is quickly becoming an essential part of my development workflow. It’s like having an insanely knowledgeable pairing partner always on hand to work through problems with.
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It’s still early days, but I feel knowledge workers are in for a massive productivity boost by using AI tools.
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@svpino6 Jan 2023
11 ways ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day, and why you'll never outcompete those who use AI effectively. A list for those who write code: 1 of 16
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Rails scales. From HELLO WORLD to The Entire World.
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📈We served 75.98 Million requests per minute to our commerce platform at peak. That’s 1.27 Million requests per second!
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One of the things I love about this time of year is another series of Reith Lectures! bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d…
BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures

Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series

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HOT NEWS!🔥 Eye of the Beholder for the Commodore 64 is now available! Grab it here csdb.dk/release/?id=226060 #C64 #RetroGaming
Image from CommodoreBlog (@CommodoreBlog)
Image from CommodoreBlog (@CommodoreBlog)
Image from CommodoreBlog (@CommodoreBlog)
Image from CommodoreBlog (@CommodoreBlog)
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I got really excited when I saw Spotify has audiobooks now. But then disappointed to learn you still have to pay full price for each one, even with a premium subscription (and can’t even purchase through the app). 👎
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The only way to improve software performance is to have a good profiling tool and to relentlessly, ruthlessly investigate everything you see in it. You cannot "best practice" your way to good perf. It requires investigation of code which is actually running.
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