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Some people are going crazy over GPT 5.5. Some people. This is the story of the Jagged Frontier. People who use AI to write emails or even code implementation work find the lift moderate whereas people pushing the limits of the model are figuring out that the limits just moved outwards.Alex Lupsaska has been tracking this limit for a year and a half now. “When GPT5 came out, it was able to reproduce one of my best papers (that took a very long time to come up with) in 30 minutes.”But Alex also notes that this shift was mostly invisible.I remember when GPT-5 came out… on Twitter, the reception was lukewarm. A lot of people were like, well, we expected a lot more, and it's not better at writing email. And I remember thinking, well, okay, GPT-3 could write email. How much better can it get at writing email? That's not the point. But at the science frontier, the capabilities were really taking off.We walk through his paper and more with him in today's Science pod! Watch here.The “Oscar for physics”Alex made an early splash in his career with breakthroughs in our understanding of black holes. He's also known for Black Hole Explorer and an iPhone app that makes visualizing black holes fun and interactive to regular audiences. Alex won the 2024 New Horizons in Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize. Known as the “Oscar for physics” this is arguably the most prestigious prize an early stage theoretical physicist can win.Alex first saw promise for AI in theoretical physics after he asked o3 for help on his research. In the podcast, Alex recalls asking GPT for help with a calculation that would have taken days, and getting a result in eleven minutes. He immediately recognized how impactful AI would be for his work even as though his physicist colleagues and the larger community gave it a lukewarm or skeptical reception.The Move 37 Moment for AI x PhysicsGPT-5 had just been released, and Alex tried asking it to solve a problem in a just published paper. GPT-5 said no answer. But Mark Chen, CRO of OpenAI, pushed a bit harder, and had Alex prime the model with a textbook warmup problem, which it easily solved. After using this “priming” trick, GPT-5 was able to reproduce his full result in eleven minutes (yes, the paper was released after the model's training cutoff).“This changes everything.” Alex notes that we seem to be on the edge of a massive change in theoretical physics reasoning. A year prior LLMs were just starting do correct math. Now ChatGPT could reproduce his hardest paper in the time it takes to get a coffee.Alex was on sabbatical at Vanderbilt, and he joined OpenAI to start pushing the boundary of AI's ability to accelerate physics.“AI solved the problem before the plane landed”Alex began to put GPT through it's paces, reaching out to colleagues for problems they were stuck on. His old PhD advisor (Prof. Andrew Storminger at Harvard) had an insidght about certain physical quantities known as “single-minus gluon tree amplitudes”. In certain cases, these amplitudes may be non-zero when previously shown to always vanish. The team pushed this intuition forward, and came up with a formula for these quantities that appeared nonzero, but which was otherwise completely intractable. Spending over a year on this problem, no real progress was made.Prof. Storminger planned to visit OpenAI to work on the problem the week after the initial conversation started. In that one week ChatGPT fully solved the problem, as Alex recalled, before Prof. Storminger's plane even landed.What was interesting is not only that ChatGPT solved this problem, but how it solved it. The model quickly realized found a limiting case (known as the “half-collinear regime”), that in hindsight has a nice intuitive explanation. Taking this limit, the gnarly results collapsed down to a simple and intuitive formula!The last step was to prove this intuitive formula. The team started with a fresh session, gave a prompt with the context of what they previously learned, and let the model loose. Not only was ChatGPT able to reproduce the previous result, it was able to prove it using a technique unknown to the authors!The Vibe Physics momentWith a concrete success in the bag, the team asked if they could generate new physics from scratch using ChatGPT. They took on what they felt to be a harder problem, looking at the graviton, a proposed particle that should appear when one combines gravity and quantum mechanics. They wrote up a simple prompt asking ChatGPT to perform the same research as the gluon paper but instead for gravitons. And then hit go!What came next was truly “vibe physics”, with ChatGPT pushing out 110 pages of novel physics, new calculations, and novel techniques. This was over the course of a day, with most interactions the familiar following the now familiar pattern for anyone who uses a coding agent:GPT: Here's your . Would you like me to do ? Alex: Yes, please do! GPT: And for those who look deeply, this really was not just a direct 1-1 mapping between gluons and gravitons. ChatGPT imported new techniques that were necessary due to the nature of gravitons, and used them flawlessly.They spent the next three weeks verifying all the results. And voila! A new paper featuring novel results in quantum gravity, generated in less than three days total. Truly a “Feel the AGI moment”.For those interested, there's a blog post with the full transcript from initial prompt to final paper. Even if you know no physics, it's crazy seeing pages of correct calculations fall out of simple prompts such as “Yes calculate outside of SD first. This is the first step.”Out-of-domain = new knowledgeThe thing that is qualitatively different between Vibe Physics and Vibe Coding is that Vibe Physics means actually extending the frontier of human knowledge. Looking at the Gluon and Graviton results, they seem in retrospect, like many results in physics and math, like natural extensions of what we already know. This is in fact part of what makes them beautiful. But this was a problem that stumped experts in the domain for a year. Although it does still have a bit of a recombinant flavor, this thing has never been done before.It may be that there are still large classes of problems that AI won't do well on, and approaches that an AI might not think to take. This is the “taste” that everyone has been talking about. Alex told us that these capabilities, however, allow him to explore many possible avenues in order to map out much more ambitious problems to tackle. With AI able to output results basically as fast as we can conceive and validate them, the scope of what one theorist can hope to achieve has just gotten a lot, lot bigger. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.latent.space/subscribe
Could the universe be composed of a single electron? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O'Reilly answer grab-bag questions about the multidimensionality of time, quantum chromodynamics, gluons, tachyons, and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons Jason Byttow, Keith Bale, Daniel Levin, Multimedia Kart, Renata, CESAR FRADIQUE, Ginger Towers, handzman, Lisa Kohler, and 21Pandas_ for supporting us this week.
What is the Quark-Gluon-Plasma and why are particle physicists interested in it? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scifaith.substack.com
Was ist das Quark-Gluon-Plasma und was macht es für Teilchenphysiker besonders interessant?
Fredrik is joined by Emil Privér and Leandro Ostera for a discussion of the OCaml ecosystem, and making it Saas-ready by building Riot. First of all: OCaml. What is the thing with the language, and how you might get into it coming from other languages? The OCaml community is nice, interested in getting new people in, and pragmatic. And it has a nice mix of research and industry as well. Then, Leandro tells us about Riot - an experiment in bringing everything good about the Erlang and Elixir ecosystems into OCaml. The goal? Make OCaml saas-ready. Riot is not 1.0 just yet, but an impressive amount has been built in just five(!) months. Emil moves the discussion over to the mindset of shipping, and of finding and understanding good ideas in other places and picking them up rather than reinventing the wheel. Leandro highly recommends reading the code of other projects. Read and understand the code and solutions others have written, re-use good ideas and don’t reinvent the wheel more often than you really have to. Last, but by no means least, shoutouts to some of the great people building the OCaml community, and a bit about Emil’s project DBCaml. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Emil Leo Leo on Twitch Previous Kodsnack appearances by Emil Riot Sinatra Backbone.js Ember.js Angularjs React Erlang Tarides - where Leandro currently works OCaml Robin Milner - designer of ML Caml Javacaml F# Imperative programming Object-oriented programming Pure functions and side effects Monads The OCaml compiler Reason - the language built by Jordan Walke, the creator of React Standard ML React was prototyped in Standard ML Melange - OCaml compiler backend producing Javascript OCaml by example The OCaml Discord The Reason Discord Rescript Jane street High-frequency trading The Dune build system Erlang process trees Caramel - earlier experiment of Leandro’s Louis Pilfold Gleam Algebraic effects Continuations Pool - Emil’s project Gluon Bytestring Atacama - connection pool inspired by Thousand island Nomad - inspired by Bandit Trail - middleware inspired by Plug Sidewinder - Livewire-like Saas - software as a service DBCaml Johan Öbrink Ecto Mint tea - inspired by Bubble tea Autobahn|Testsuite - test suite for specification compliance Serde - Rust and OCaml serialization framework S-expressions TOML Dillon Mulroy Metame - community kindness pillar welltypedwitch Sabine maintains ocaml.org OCaml playground OCaml cookbook - in beta, sort of teej_dv ocaml.org Pool party Drizzle SQLX SQL Join types (left, inner, and so on) dbca.ml internet.bs The Caravan Essentials of compilation Reading rainbow Titles Few people can have a massive impact Impact has been an important thing for me It’s a language out there A very long lineage of thinking about programming languages Programs that never fail The functional version of Rust Melange is amazing This is not a toy project Yes, constraints! Wonders in community growth Arrow pointing toward growth Programs that don’t crash A very different schoold of reliability Invert the arrow Very easy on the whiteboard Multicore for free An entire stack from scratch Built for the builders A massive tree of things Make OCaml saas-ready Leo is a shipper Standing on the shoulders of many, many giants Learn from other people I exude OCaml these days Sitting down and building against the spec You just give it something Your own inner join We build everything in public The gospel of the dunes
Wo kommt die ganze Materie her? Aus dem Quark-Gluon-Plasma, dass in den erste Sekundenbruchteilen nach dem Urknall das Universum gefüllt hat. Was da genau passiert ist, erfahrt ihr in der neuen Folge der Sternengeschichten. Wer den Podcast finanziell unterstützen möchte, kann das hier tun: Mit PayPal (https://www.paypal.me/florianfreistetter), Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sternengeschichten) oder Steady (https://steadyhq.com/sternengeschichten
What keeps our nuclei stuck together? It's the somewhat less well-known particle, gluon. They reason we don't see it very much is because it is doing a superb job at jail-keeping its nuclear constituents. Gluons' peculiar abilities to keep things together may also provide us unlimited clean energy in the future. In this episode we'll describe just how the gluon manages to do its jobs and its importance for our Universe. Visit http://www.quirkcast.org/ Discord: https://discord.gg/7c6myZ8Z
Life changes! Not. Ah yes, bliss. I basically ramble about my project called tinylytics. And at the same time unable to talk or make proper sentences. That's it... nothing more. You should subscribe. Oh wait, and shoutouts... but really, I just mention it. Wait, is this episode a shoutout? Recorded November 17th, 2023 Links Gluon is on icetinylyticstinylytics - docstinylytics - project postsmaique's website (scroll down near the end)My siteshoutouts
Are humans smart enough to uncover the secrets of the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore the singularity, string theory, free will and more with theoretical physicist Brian Greene. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/the-edge-of-our-understanding-with-brian-greene/Thanks to our Patrons Christian Attwood, Tyler Loveland, Ruhan Periyacheri, Jeff Parker, Ed Thorton, and Dakota Ponder for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: chris ringeval, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gluon gets a new homepage, in preparation of some changes coming your way. Oh and it also got a dedicated update blog! Next up I introduced data export for shoutouts.lol and looking at changing payment provider. Looking forward to WWDC (The Apple developer conference). Recorded June 5th, 2023 Links GluonGluon update blogshoutouts.lolshoutouts update blogPaddle (sorry, the homepage might be slow)WWDC 2023
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Sorry, no meaningful show notes this episode as I wanted to get this out for your listening pleasure. I touch on Micro.blog, the web and the app we're building. Then I touch on Gluon, what I've been changing (like push notifications) and why – teasing some new features. And of course I forget to talk about the other features I added to Gluon, like pinned profiles 🙃 Oh and I touch on plans on monetising Gluon somehow… somewhere… Next on the list a quick update on Sublime Ads and how I spun it off to create shoutouts.lol – and I tease a few ideas I have, even though I think it's one of those well rounded 99% done projects, meaning I don't want to change too much. To finish the year I bring back apps from the dead and perhaps something new I might pick up. Recorded December, 23rd 2022. Links Micro.blogGluonshoutouts.lolSublime AdsStatus for updown.ioupdown.ioSupport me
Sorry, no meaningful show notes this episode as I wanted to get this out for your listening pleasure. I touch on Micro.blog, the web and the app we're building. Then I touch on Gluon, what I've been changing (like push notifications) and why – teasing some new features. And of course I forget to talk about the other features I added to Gluon, like pinned profiles 🙃 Oh and I touch on plans on monetising Gluon somehow… somewhere… Next on the list a quick update on Sublime Ads and how I spun it off to create shoutouts.lol – and I tease a few ideas I have, even though I think it's one of those well rounded 99% done projects, meaning I don't want to change too much. To finish the year I bring back apps from the dead and perhaps something new I might pick up. Recorded December, 23rd 2022. Links Micro.blogGluonshoutouts.lolSublime AdsStatus for updown.ioupdown.ioSupport me
Sometimes you have to use a different document for show notes to realize the perfect system you left behind. If you aren't changing keyboards, are you even computing? The real question is: TP over and under? There are things that we must correct! THE NEW DOCUMENT
It's the first episode after the school holidays... and yes, just got around to editing it, so it's WAY out of date. First off I welcome ya'll back and touch on trying to do a little less technology. You can skip this section... Now to the juicy bits. Micro.blog App and recent Android changes and moving onto making it cross-platform (as in... get it ready for iOS release)(finally). And as you might be aware, we've come quite a long way since this episode. I touch on profile pop ups that we introduced on Micro.blog. Oh and Gluon... poor app. Then I touch on my blogging habits in August and trying to stay offline a little more. You may also skip this section. Recorded September 2nd, 2022 Links Micro.blogMicro.blog for AndroidMicro.blog profile pop up screenshotGluon Timeline [00:00] - [01:23] - Intro & technology[01:23] - [04:30] - Micro.blog changes[04:30] - [05:48] - Gluon mania[05:48] - [06:27] - Blogging & staying offline & Outro
It's the first episode after the school holidays... and yes, just got around to editing it, so it's WAY out of date. First off I welcome ya'll back and touch on trying to do a little less technology. You can skip this section... Now to the juicy bits. Micro.blog App and recent Android changes and moving onto making it cross-platform (as in... get it ready for iOS release)(finally). And as you might be aware, we've come quite a long way since this episode. I touch on profile pop ups that we introduced on Micro.blog. Oh and Gluon... poor app. Then I touch on my blogging habits in August and trying to stay offline a little more. You may also skip this section. Recorded September 2nd, 2022 Links Micro.blogMicro.blog for AndroidMicro.blog profile pop up screenshotGluon Timeline [00:00] - [01:23] - Intro & technology[01:23] - [04:30] - Micro.blog changes[04:30] - [05:48] - Gluon mania[05:48] - [06:27] - Blogging & staying offline & Outro
This week, Jean talks to Vincent, a returning guest who appeared on Episode 74 in December 2019, when we talked about his Micro.blog app, Gluon. Since then, Vincent started working on the Micro.blog apps, and was instrumental in launching the official Micro.blog Android app.
Daniel and Jorge talk about the hottest state of matter ever created, and make up silly names for it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
I've been working on a few updates to Gluon and I talk about slowly catching up with an Android release for those also. It's harder than I wanted because the past me was a little bit stupid. A glimmer of hope for Sublime Ads? It's still at $0 MRR. Yay! Next steps for Sublime Feed. Learning, learning and learning. I explore just 3-rd party apps, change my background and go a tiny bit retro. Recorded May 16th, 2022 Links GluonReact NativeMicro.blog for AndroidSublime AdsSublime FeedRetro Background - macOS classicRetro GluonTimeline [00:00] - [00:50] - Hung up[00:50] - [03:43] - Gluon updates[03:43] - [04:49] - Sublime Ads[04:49] - [05:45] - Sublime Feed[05:45] - [END] - Retro thing going. Sour Apples.
I've been working on a few updates to Gluon and I talk about slowly catching up with an Android release for those also. It's harder than I wanted because the past me was a little bit stupid. A glimmer of hope for Sublime Ads? It's still at $0 MRR. Yay! Next steps for Sublime Feed. Learning, learning and learning. I explore just 3-rd party apps, change my background and go a tiny bit retro. Recorded May 16th, 2022 Links GluonReact NativeMicro.blog for AndroidSublime AdsSublime FeedRetro Background - macOS classicRetro GluonTimeline [00:00] - [00:50] - Hung up[00:50] - [03:43] - Gluon updates[03:43] - [04:49] - Sublime Ads[04:49] - [05:45] - Sublime Feed[05:45] - [END] - Retro thing going. Sour Apples.
After weeks of behind the scenes tweaks to Sublime Ads, I finally announce what I've been working on. Image resizing. And no... image resizing wasn't the reason for all the changes... in fact it was figuring out pricing changes to keep it sustainable. Changes to Micro.blog for much better responsive layouts. All in all I am super happy and it was well received. Manton is great to work with! I tease some other changes I'd like to do. Planning a new Gluon website with new images and perhaps some snark... because everyone needs a bit of March. Recorded May, 5th 2022. Links Sublime AdsBunny CDNSublime Ads image resizingSublime Ads PricingMicro.blogMicro.blog UI changesManton ReeceGluonPodcast sponsorshipTimeline [00:00] - [05:45] - Sublime Ads[05:45] - [07:30] - Micro.blog[07:30] - [08:33] - Gluon[08:33] - [END] - Outro
After weeks of behind the scenes tweaks to Sublime Ads, I finally announce what I've been working on. Image resizing. And no... image resizing wasn't the reason for all the changes... in fact it was figuring out pricing changes to keep it sustainable. Changes to Micro.blog for much better responsive layouts. All in all I am super happy and it was well received. Manton is great to work with! I tease some other changes I'd like to do. Planning a new Gluon website with new images and perhaps some snark... because everyone needs a bit of March. Recorded May, 5th 2022. Links Sublime AdsBunny CDNSublime Ads image resizingSublime Ads PricingMicro.blogMicro.blog UI changesManton ReeceGluonPodcast sponsorshipTimeline [00:00] - [05:45] - Sublime Ads[05:45] - [07:30] - Micro.blog[07:30] - [08:33] - Gluon[08:33] - [END] - Outro
Client work you say? Yeah, that didn't happen. I did jump from one task to another to keep my interesting going for a change of scenery. It's good to allow yourself to do that. I tease a small code challenge, but I put it off for now, and it'll probably come a little later after I finished my client work. A few tweaks to Gluon in this episode... mainly about the timeline and fixing a few bugs. Oh and adding Focus mode (mental health mode). Then I tackle something I wanted to do for a while, which was adding a rudimentary timeline marker sync on Micro.blog. Nothing too complicated, but now it marks the last item you scrolled to on the main timeline - which means apps can make use of this! Deployed last week, before I could release this episode. I introduce my new podcast, Little Mindfulness... with chapter markers. Recorded March, 23rd 2022. Links GluonAmit on taking a breakMicro.blogLittle Mindfulness PodcastMy podcast page with sponsorship detailsTimeline [00:00] - [02:15] Going with the flow[02:15] - [05:03] Gluon tweaks and changes[05:03] - [06:50] Micro.blog timeline marker changes[06:50] - [End] A new podcast, Little Mindfulness.
Client work you say? Yeah, that didn't happen. I did jump from one task to another to keep my interesting going for a change of scenery. It's good to allow yourself to do that. I tease a small code challenge, but I put it off for now, and it'll probably come a little later after I finished my client work. A few tweaks to Gluon in this episode... mainly about the timeline and fixing a few bugs. Oh and adding Focus mode (mental health mode). Then I tackle something I wanted to do for a while, which was adding a rudimentary timeline marker sync on Micro.blog. Nothing too complicated, but now it marks the last item you scrolled to on the main timeline - which means apps can make use of this! Deployed last week, before I could release this episode. I introduce my new podcast, Little Mindfulness... with chapter markers. Recorded March, 23rd 2022. Links GluonAmit on taking a breakMicro.blogLittle Mindfulness PodcastMy podcast page with sponsorship detailsTimeline [00:00] - [02:15] Going with the flow[02:15] - [05:03] Gluon tweaks and changes[05:03] - [06:50] Micro.blog timeline marker changes[06:50] - [End] A new podcast, Little Mindfulness.
Welcome to another episode. Sponsored by... Hemispheric Views... no, just kidding. School holidays are finished, so I'm trying to find my mojo again... always a little difficult when you have your kid at home. Micro.blog for Android app is getting close to finish, which means I can work on the iOS portion of it (slowly). Looking forward to it. Taking into account the state of the Micro.blog app, I will continue working on Gluon with the same codebase. And yes, it's React Native. Sublime Ads upload forms... but wait... I kinda lost it and decided to work on smaller features. Trying to keep the momentum moving and help my productivity. Oh and some changes to the podcast perhaps. Maybe I will start sponsorships. Oh and Micro.camp is happening on March 11th. Note: This recording sounds a little weird... seems I enabled "stereo" recording for some reason. Recorded March, 1st 2022. Links Micro.blogGluonThe future of GluonHemispheric ViewsJason BurkSublime AdsMicro.camp
Welcome to another episode. Sponsored by... Hemispheric Views... no, just kidding. School holidays are finished, so I'm trying to find my mojo again... always a little difficult when you have your kid at home. Micro.blog for Android app is getting close to finish, which means I can work on the iOS portion of it (slowly). Looking forward to it. Taking into account the state of the Micro.blog app, I will continue working on Gluon with the same codebase. And yes, it's React Native. Sublime Ads upload forms... but wait... I kinda lost it and decided to work on smaller features. Trying to keep the momentum moving and help my productivity. Oh and some changes to the podcast perhaps. Maybe I will start sponsorships. Oh and Micro.camp is happening on March 11th. Note: This recording sounds a little weird... seems I enabled "stereo" recording for some reason. Recorded March, 1st 2022. Links Micro.blogGluonThe future of GluonHemispheric ViewsJason BurkSublime AdsMicro.camp
Episode 171: Paul Preux has a love for his hometown, Brussels, and a passion for enabling transitions in cities. After completing his bachelor's degree in "governance, economics and development" Paul implemented educational smart city projects in Brussels for Gluon. After finishing a masters in "managing infrastructure for green cities", he worked at Arcadis. Julian Cortes is passionate about protecting the environment. He has a bachelor's degree in "earth, energy, and sustainability" and a master's degree in "environmental studies and sustainability science". Julian currently works at the European Landowner's Organization where he focuses on rural sustainability and entrepreneurship. https://www.linkedin.com/company/bioflux-eu Here's the 2009 post: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2009/04/neat-ideas/
Wait… this is not episode 36… it's 38. Ah yes, the world is an interesting place... and so is developing for the big bullies with native apps. So I am torn if I should continue with it. Is it worth it? Probably not... "Safetyism"... no thank you! I move onto working on the Micro.blog for Android app and enjoying working with Manton on it. I reveal my word of the year... To finish I give a quick update on Sublime Ads, now that we passed 1 year since launch. Oh and we have a bit of ambient sound of rain in the background, so if I sound weird... it was raining in my podcast studio. Thanks for listening. Recorded February, 7th 2022. Links Progressive Web AppsMicro.blogGluonSublime AdsRubyRuby on Rails
Wait… this is not episode 36… it's 38. Ah yes, the world is an interesting place... and so is developing for the big bullies with native apps. So I am torn if I should continue with it. Is it worth it? Probably not... "Safetyism"... no thank you! I move onto working on the Micro.blog for Android app and enjoying working with Manton on it. I reveal my word of the year... To finish I give a quick update on Sublime Ads, now that we passed 1 year since launch. Oh and we have a bit of ambient sound of rain in the background, so if I sound weird... it was raining in my podcast studio. Thanks for listening. Recorded February, 7th 2022. Links Progressive Web AppsMicro.blogGluonSublime AdsRubyRuby on Rails
Ah yes, it's the new year. The year of possibility and perhaps for people to start liking each other again? (please). Oh wait, this is not what I'm talking about. I touch on the official Micro.blog app, for Android, I am working... and how happy I am with it. Will it replace Gluon? I don't know. Sublime Ads turns one year old (from the public release). It makes zero money right now, but that's fine with me. Then we go deep into my brain about Gluon... nah, not really... but I also mention it and my plan for that. No promises. Then I start rambling about new years resolutions, nature, frogs mating and living in a sandwich. Happy New Year everyone ✌️❤️ Recorded January, 3rd 2022. Links Micro.blogGluonSublime AdsNature project?
Yes, here I am again after some months of downtime. And yes, I probably get all the months wrong in the episode. A quick update on my relationship with Micro.blog, what I'm working on... and the lack of updates - thank you screenshot crash on Android. Diving into hybrid app development... liking it. I realised that recording at home is somewhat difficult. So I'm back in the car with my trusty phone and terrible acoustics. Our daughter started school, so it's all new to us. Spending loads of money. My reasoning for not recording, getting into a weird spot. Embracing the colder climate and days. I tease my winter plan for Sublime Ads and all the things I am working on. Recorded November, 16th 2021. Links Micro.blog Dev DairyMicro.blogGluonBasecampHEYSublime AdsCloudflare WorkersCloudflare for SaaS
Ah yes, I finally reveal what I wanted to reveal. So here it is. Looking forward to this relationship so much and can't wait to work on it more and more. And don't worry, Gluon is staying with me! Recorded July 20th, 2021. Links Manton ReeceManton's announcement postMicro.blogGluonSupport me!
It's been nice and warm, but that means my brain just doesn't work. So, it's been a bit of a slow week. Trying to reset my mind by trying to go away for the weekend. I tease some new client venture... but not telling you just yet even though we all know about it already I guess haha. More promoted content in Gluon and how I am not managing that. Trying to keep it fresh. Sublime Ads had a little outage... which is incredibly shocking. And nope, I didn't work on it - didn't even take my laptop to my remote work location (but I didn't know that when I recorded). Recorded July 15th, 2021. Links GluonSublime AdsSupport me!
We drove to the Masurian Lake District in Poland for a short holiday, which was really amazing... except the place we stayed at. At least our daughter had a great time! On the drive I had much time to reflect on what I want to do next and how I approach things. Oh and phones just rub me the wrong way. Side track a little on playing games, or how I don't. I hint at Gluon's future... and perhaps another side project to do with Micro.blog (a simple app for replying). Should I uninstall it? Discord... hmmm, no thanks. So I'll be closing it down for Gluon, email is the way! I talk about my other in progress app that I never work on... Status for updown.io. And then something AMAZING happened, but I won't talk about it yet. A tiny update on Sublime Ads and what I want to add to ads. Switching the Status page to updown.io. OH and a super massive sorry for cutting the ending a little. I was disturbed, things were said... I was sad... feelings were hurt (for me). WHAT CAN YOU DO? Recorded July 9th, 2021. Links Masurian Lake DistrictGdańskŁódźGluonStatus for updown.ioSublime AdsSupport me!
Getting an update ready for Gluon... oh and I started a Discord server just for giggles. Thinking of a new podcast just specific to Gluon releases... because that is all I seem to do here on this one... blah blah blah. Talking about Gluon. It's become apparent that a lot of people seem to use the app, more than I have initially thought. Which is nice of course. A side project has landed on my desk. Hooray. Building it in Ruby on Rails. It's motivating me to start my other personal side project to take on HEY World. And nope, not talking about Basecamp. And then we're back talking about... YESSSSSS... Gluon! My internal struggle with adopting SwiftUI or not continues, especially with everything going on in the Apple world these days. And nope, interstellar travel does not exist. Client work is important, but more important is family life... which sometimes I just mess up. I touch on this a little and give myself a financial check where I'm at if everything just went south. Recorded May 19th, 2021. Links GluonGluon on DiscordRuby on RailsMy ideaHEY WorldBlack Lives MatterReact NativeFlutterSupport me!
Working on a Gluon update for iOS. Checking in on how that's going. UI tweaks, timeline sync... old code. Back to recovery with loads of exercising. Enjoying Fitness+ a lot. Not a lot going on on the web front at the moment, on a personal project basis. Looking at taking time to make a few tweaks here and there and also add Micro.blog embedding option for Sublime Ads. Recorded April 30th, 2021. Links GluonSublime AdsFitness+
This podcast is brought to you by Anablock. Anablock is a system integrator and Salesforce partner. Anablock's technical team helps organizations to implement, customize, and optimize their Salesforce applications. In this episode our guest is David Masri. Dave is a Data Architect, Author, and founder of Gluon Digital. We talk about his book, data migration patterns and best practices, Salesforce ecosystem, and many other interesting topics. I hope you will enjoy our conversation. Blog - https://salesforcedatablog.com/ Book - Developing Data Migrations and Integrations with Salesforce, by David Masri
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Sometimes client work is fun... this is one of those where it is. And yeah, I sound groggy in this one... just one of those things. A quick teaser on my new idea... and should I go down the route of creating a social network for families? Probably a bad idea. Gluon needs a new editor, so I'm doing some research. Not everyone knows markdown... or wants to learn it. So I'm looking at best of both worlds. Recorded March 15th, 2021. Links That ideaHEY WorldGluon
I know I know, it's a week too late... but here you go. Oh my, recorded 3 times to make this episode. I give you a small peek into what I was talking about in those unreleased episodes... Sublime Ads is launched and that means a huge weight has lifted off my shoulder allowing me to get going with other things. Client work is coming in and I'm trying to find time to make other plans go forward. HEY for Work is great. That's all I'm gonna say. Did I mention the Apple documentation is bad? Nope? Well... it is. I talk myself into something LIVE on the podcast, as I talk. Internal conflict galore! I may or may not be talking about SwiftUI. Recorded Feb 22nd, 2021. FYI: Gluon 2021.1 has now shipped for iOS 🥳 Chapters 00:00 - 02:17 Hello & Intro. Trying to get this to recorded.02:17 - 03:04 A huge weight lifted off my shoulder.03:04 - 03:20 Gluon update update.03:20 - 06:24 TIME, Client, work, HEY for Work.06:24 - 15:00 More... Gluon! Internal conflict about something.15:00 - 16:38 This one is for maique.16:38 - END On the road, see you next time. Links Sublime Ads - HomepageGluonGluon Update notesHEYGluon SwiftUIHacking with Swift
Today is the day I finally release Sublime Ads for general sign up, so everyone can use it. I'm not expecting much however it's nice to formally allow anyone to register. My mind was racing about changes that I wanted to make, but I'm holding myself back. Is required two factor authentication set up too much for just getting people through the door? I'm torn. I mention that this is a MVP and that I'm not stopping there of course. I tease a few features planned already, because I want to use it in Gluon. Recorded Feb 1st, 2021. Chapters 00:00 - 01:15: Hello & Intro01:15 - 02:45: Head is racing, changing 2 factor requirement?02:45 - 03:07: Breakfast, press a few buttons03:07 - 06:00: This is only step one. Teasing future features...06:00 - END: Gonna head home, get the show on the road! Links Sublime Ads - HomepageSublime Ads - DocumentationGluon
Hello everyone, a new episode for you enjoyment. I cover being on the mend after nearly two weeks of being ill. I missed my exercising routing, so it's good to be back. On February 1st, 2021 I am planning to launch Sublime Ads to for general sign up, after nearly a year of development. I was bed bound, so I worked on it to polish a few things. HEY for Work has infiltrated my mind and I am hooked! A tiny little review on why it's helping me. A new version of Gluon is teased, but nothing concrete just yet. SwiftUI woes... Gluon will stay on React Native for this next version... because the documentation for SwiftUI basically doesn't exist. Continuing that, I dream of being "Accepted" for a job at Apple to get that documentation sorted. Recorded January 29th, 2021. Chapters 00:00 - 01:26: Recovering, exercising.01:26 - 07:06: Sublime Ads, getting it ready.07:06 - 09:11: HEY for Work - email09:11 - 10:24: Gluon update10:24 - 11:14: SwiftUI documentation???11:13 - END: Bye Links Apple Fitness+Sublime Ads - HomepageSublime Ads - New LogoSublime Ads - DocumentationOvercast AdsGluonHEYBasecamp - Books
Finishing client projects, but there are more in the timeline. I also reject some work because I stick to my values. Getting a cold/flu - the joys! And yeah, it's totally allowed! Sublime Ads homepage. Finding it difficult to find the right words because there are just too many use cases for it. Ads without your consent? No thank you! News FLASH! I have ideas about GLUON! Links Sublime Ads - HomepageOvercast AdsGluonmaique
The holiday plans were just plans after all. Nothing happened, but that doesn't mean you failed. Family time is important. January is the month I plan for something new I want to pursue over the course of the year. From ideas in the shower (and other places) it goes to my notebook. First physical and then digital. It's important to pursue your own ideas, no matter if someone else has done it. Don't be put off by it. But first, I want to launch Sublime Ads in Q1 - I also talk about more tax/vat related stuff... boring. Did I say it's boring? Designing in code... it's just easier for me. I prefer it from head to code. I'm just one person after all. Did I mention Gluon? Nope. And then I try not to spill too much on my new project idea. Links Sublime AdsGluonSketch
This episode is full of self promotion. Hooray! I start with motivation to restart my writing process when I'm working on a personal project. Then I go ahead and blurb about Sublime Ads for most of it. So if you're interested you can see what it's about in the link below. Mainly talking about my latest changes and getting it ready for a public release. Super happy that a few folks are already using it. Certainly need to work on more documentation, although early feedback has been good! Billing is boring. Probably chose the wrong domain name... Video tutorials anyone? Slowing down client work, even more is a must. Then I mention that THIS year I wrote about slowing down... but because 2020 was a time warp it ends up I wrote it 2 years ago... pfff. I hate the word "marketing" website... but I don't know a better way to describe it. Should I live stream a frontend build??? Would be kinda fun. A failed episode that I recorded, so I decide to mention it. Do some stuff for yourself, it's important... even if you work for the "man". Links Sublime AdsOBS StudioGluonA calmer new way forward
Hello dear listeners, it's been a while. So last time I recorded and released it was in July... woah! Anyway, here I am rambling away as usual. Am I selling it yet? Probably not. I talk quickly about Gluon and the rewrite for SwiftUI... I've not been doing much here yet. Then I mention trying to release an update for Android "today". Let's see. I talk about playing more games and less coding. Don't get me wrong, I love coding - it actually replaced my game playing for a long time. Whilst on the topic on SwiftUI, later on in the episode, I mention picking up an older project and re-write it. Amazon... Christmas shopping. Eeeekkkk. Parenting is hard when your kid just doesn't listen to you anymore. Is this normal? 😭 Thanks for listening. Links GluonGluon's future with SwiftUISublime AdsRed Dead Redemption 2
Hello dear listeners. It's been a while, and yeah... I recorded 3 times before releasing this one over the past few weeks. No pressure. In this episode I talk about balancing client projects and personal ones... and how I find it difficult, but getting used to it. I then dig into planning a small holiday... but not Disneyland... because it just wouldn't be any fun or have good memories associated with it. Personal projects have been somewhat slow (don't forget I'm balancing stuff)... so some updates on my plans for Gluon and Sublime Ads. Then I talk about sleeping... a lot. That's it. Thanks so much for listening. Links GluonGluon's future with SwiftUISublime Ads
Hello and welcome to another episode of me blabbing away, getting it all out there. Late June we had the Apple Developer conference, also known as WWDC. I get totally excited about wanting to really get into SwiftUI and embrace the native platform as best I can. Of course I don't want to loose sight of other platforms, so in a way this is ideal to really focus on each. Then I talk about Picard.sh and what I have planned for that. Perhaps I'll explore a totally different galaxy instead. To finish off I touch on Sublime Ads and getting it ready for public launch. Oh and I now have a "Buy me a coffee" page allowing you to support my work, blog and of course this very podcast! Links WWDCSwiftUIGluonMicro.blogSublime AdsPicard.shReact NativeReact Native WindowsDonate with "Buy me a coffee"
It's hard being a developer. It's hard to please the gods that are Apple. People bend over backwards for them and don't speak up. The start of the episode is a bit gloomy and full of random thoughts. I left the blank gaps in there for effect... I touch quickly on wanting to concentrate more on cross-platform services for my business... instead of concentrating on just one - I fight for the user! Some Gluon updates. And then some Sublime Ads updates. Random show title for sure, stick right to the end for the drama (not really).Links Hey's page for Apple's rejectionHey's response to Apple's second rejectionGluon for Micro.blogSublime Ads
The AWS machine learning services are more examples of the newer offerings. Nevertheless, these are growing fast and can help you embrace cutting edge technology. Machine learning is a recent technology in general so the time you spend understanding these services may help you land that next job. Amazon SageMaker This service provides a method for building, training, and deploying machine learning models at any scale. This is a great way to try out machine learning. The time you spend here is good to use on your next resume update. You do need to put some data on S3 to analyze and then check out the use cases. There is a free tier for the first two months. Amazon Comprehend Quick and easy text analysis. Send your text to this service to analyze it for keywords among many other ways to do so. There is a free tier you can use to try it out and find out ways to organize and mine your content. Amazon Lex This service allows you to build voice and chatbots using the technology that drives Alexa. There are some templates, and the interface makes it easy to get started quickly. Amazon Polly If you want to create audio from your content, then this is the service for you. Try out the service a few thousand words at a time for free, and you can even download the audio in mp3 format. Amazon Rekognition The features that Comprehend provides for text is moved into the video world by Rekognition. This service analyzes video and can highlight or recognize people, objects, and other details you might search for in a stream. Amazon Translate This service provides a quick and easy way to translate text between any two languages. Much like Google translate, it is quick and provides an API that you can use to significantly increase your audience. Amazon Transcribe If you have ever wondered about transcribing audio notes (or a podcast), then this is the service for you. It is quick and easy to customize for even highly technical terms. The accuracy varies based on the clarity of the audio and background noise. AWS DeepLens This service is best understood by utilizing the tutorials. It provides a way to analyze videos for objects, faces, and activities. An essential difference between this and the others is that this is a piece of hardware and not just a service. It provides a camera with HD and onboard analysis tools for real-time processing of video. AWS Deep Learning AMIs This service provides quick start machine learning on EC2 through the AMIs. The configuration of a machine learning development environment can be tedious and time-consuming. These AMI options offer a shortcut to get working sooner. Apache MXNet on AWS This is a machine learning framework Apache MXNet is a fast and scalable training and inference framework with an easy-to-use, concise API for machine learning. MXNet includes the Gluon interface that allows developers of all skill levels to get started with deep learning on the cloud, on edge devices, and mobile apps. In just a few lines of Gluon code, you can build linear regression, convolutional networks and recurrent LSTMs for object detection, speech recognition, recommendation, and personalization. TensorFlow on AWS This is a machine learning framework on AWS. I think their description works best and avoids any ignorance about it on my end. "TensorFlow™ enables developers to quickly and easily get started with deep learning in the cloud. The framework has broad support in the industry and has become a popular choice for deep learning research and application development, particularly in areas such as computer vision, natural language understanding, and speech translation. You can get started on AWS with a fully-managed TensorFlow experience with Amazon SageMaker, a platform to build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale. Or, you can use the AWS Deep Learning AMIs to build custom environments and workflows with TensorFlow and other popular frameworks including Apache MXNet, PyTorch, Caffe, Caffe2, Chainer, Gluon, Keras, and Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit."