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Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.

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  Benjamin Britten is the benchmark among English-language composers for setting the work of intensely musical writers like Shakespeare and Keats to music.

  benchmarks

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  In the English-language arena, Britten sets the standard for handling writers of inborn musical power-the likes of Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Keats, Hopkins.

  Liner notes to What Belongs to Youtherestisnoise.com

Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  Spark Mail App

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  On both my MacBook and iPhone, I prefer to use the Spark Mail App for handling my emails.

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Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".

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  As AI labs aim for broad, general capability, handling messy real-world bureaucratic tasks is becoming a primary application domain for their models.

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  Considering every lab wants to "eat the world" the focus on how to work in real-world messy situations seems apt as their primary home.

  Introducing BenchBenchstrangeloopcanon.com

FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

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  Exceptions are an inherently poor way of handling errors because they make bugs harder to spot on casual code inspection.

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  exceptions are an inherently poor way of handling errors because they make it easier to write bugs which won't be immediately obvious on casual code inspection

  20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Jobdaemonology.net

Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.

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  FreeAgent

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  I use FreeAgent for sending invoices and handling bookkeeping. I've been using it for over five years at this point and I don't know what I'd do without it.

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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  With AI handling routine tasks, the high-value human work of understanding client needs and trade-offs can be done by a smaller, more proactive team.

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  The high value human tasks, like understanding the client's true pain points and deciding on priorities and trade-offs, would be easier with a smaller, proactive team.

  Jacob Will Work For Youputanumonit.com

Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.

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  HelpScout

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  I set up a HelpScout account for us when we released the book because I anticipated a lot of support and it is so much nicer than handling everything via email. Awesome tool.

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Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  GMail

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  For handling email, I use GMail with lots of filters to automatically file and label message (I get about 1400 email messages per day, so I have to be quite efficient to deal with it all in a reasonable amount of time).

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Cryptographer; created Signal and the Signal Protocol, and writes occasionally about cryptography, web3 and sailing.

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  Handling a change of keys is not a backdoor; it is how public-key cryptography works, and interception stays detectable by the sender.

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  The fact that WhatsApp handles key changes is not a “backdoor,” it is how cryptography works.

  There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'signal.org

Interpretability researcher at Anthropic, which he co-founded; before that at OpenAI and Google Brain, where he wrote the explanations of neural networks most people learned them from.

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  Standard recurrent neural networks are theoretically capable of representing long-term dependencies but fail to learn them from data in practice.

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  In theory, RNNs are absolutely capable of handling such "long-term dependencies." A human could carefully pick parameters for them to solve toy problems of this form. Sadly, in practice, RNNs don't seem to be able to learn them.

  Understanding LSTM Networkscolah.github.io

Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.

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  quilt

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  I use quilt on top of git for handling the Linux kernel stable patch set as the workflow there does not lend itself to a pure git environment.

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