Hosted by Sarah Smith · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 26 episodes
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Sarah Smith hosts Totally A Thing, a technology show with 26 episodes published.
About 130 years ago, a scientist made a discovery that he could expose photographic paper to emissions from a glass tube and it went straight through human flesh and formed an image. It was astonishing, interesting, and
The Attention is All You Need paper started the LLM gold rush, but it initially came from Google scientists who only expected it to do language translation. As more data was used in training sets, and the number of param
Chris Lehane is making our Governments Work for creepy AI companies This screenshot from a recent Karen Hao / A More Perfect Union video shows unintentionally what is going on: Lehane is like a disinformation grenade lob
Anthropomorphising generative AI is wrong: we know that. But making the ChatGPT product successful includes hooking folks on its sycophantic charms and confident - but often wrong - pronouncements. So OpenAI and other ve
Why do investors think AI companies are like Uber or AWS (big spend for years, big profits in the end) when the truth is they’re more like WeWork, FTX and Theranos? If you are not an investor, but someone who uses AI — p
I worked on Google’s ads serving infrastructure as a software engineer at their Mountain View, California HQ from 2007-2009. The system was complex, and included two AI clusters involved in predicting the best ads to sho
Data centres for AI use huge amounts of electricity and cooling water. But there’s folks that want to muddy the waters about these facts, and so they are using AI to generate junk science. As I say in the video quibbling
Hey all, I’ve looked better and felt better! But after getting out of hospital I just wanted to show that I am on the mend, and will be back writing in the coming days. Hospital stays are not fun, and for 7 days involvin
Working through a series by Lesser Dog Tutorials on how to make a LucasArts style point and click adventure in Blueprints, I have instead of using Blueprints I have been translating everything into C++, and it’s so much
I have been struggling to write this article, and figure out what to do with this cartoon / diagram I made about the alleged use of stolen books by AI companies for weeks now. The sheer scale and brazen bullying greed of
Engineers love to deal in absolutes. We are trained for it, when we study mathematics, electronics and disciplines like finite element analysis or software development at University. It seems to us like everything in the
Why? In my previous talks on how to build an app I’ve discussed source control briefly. Github, owned by Microsoft, is probably the most popular cloud service for source control. OK, but how does that help me? If your ap
Google’s AI Preview is driving me insane! I just want web pages! Instead when I type a search, what happens? It thinks for a moment or two, then produces this bargain basement guess, summarised from whatever blended toge
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit totallyathing.substack.com There’s some really great apps in the App Store and Google play store! When I was consulting, building apps for people in business,
Welcome to the second post in my series on team dynamics. Last time I talked about communication and how it’s the best bang for your buck when it comes to solving issues that crop up in your app based start up. I talked
This is the fifth post in my series how to build an app. We’ve already covered how to get your team together, shape up a product and build an app. But when that app and our team is working together as a business what doe
Imagine the throughput of your team is defined by this triangle - in this model the sides remain in constant proportion. Once you have hired someone competence is fixed. Lets assume you have a team and you want to make t
In this episode the rubber hits the road and our app is being put to the test. Will it succeed or fail? To get to this point an appreneur — either an app-based startup, or an existing business creating an app — should al
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit totallyathing.substack.com In part 1 I looked at the Product Owner and UX Designer. I’m going to jump straight in to the next specialist in the team — the eng
This is a tie-in for my series on How to Build an App. Please checkout the other posts in that series, but especially the one on App Startup Canvas. Use the App Startup canvas to define the ground zero for your app devel
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