Weekly Digest #149
Articles
How DoorDash Fosters Meaningful Engineering Career Development
Reversible and Irreversible Decisions
When decisions are reversible, make them fast
When decisions are irreversible, slow them down
Can LLMs Really Reason and Plan?
nothing that I have read, verified or done gives me any compelling reason to believe that LLMs do reasoning/planning as it is normally understood. What they do, armed with their web-scale training, is a form of universal approximate retrieval which, as we have argued, can sometimes be mistaken for reasoning capabilities.
Tutorials
What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing
Storytelling vs. Exploring, With Global Happiness Data
Tools
llm-applications, A comprehensive guide to building RAG-based LLM applications for production.
frigate, NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras
Off-topic
Impressive Owl Camouflage on Display, Can You Spot Them?
