Daily Shaarli

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December 23, 2023

The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence - ScienceDirect

Very interesting paper about the energy footprint of the latest trend in generator models. The conclusion is fairly clear: we should think twice before using them.

Explorers are bad leaders | Derek Sivers

A bit too archetypal for my taste but there's some truth to it. If you lean towards "explorer" (I think I do), it's hard to be also a leader. Now you could be aware of your flaws and put tools in place to compensate for them when you need lead.

So You Want to Optimize Your Code?
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Very nice collection of stories from the trenches of Firefox development. Lots of lessons learned to unpack about optimizing for the right thing, tooling, telemetry and so on.

How Big is YouTube? - Ethan Zuckerman

An important question for proper statistics about the content itself. Surprisingly harder to get an answer to it than one would think.

The LinkedIn Developer Productivity and Happiness Framework

Interesting framework. I wouldn't take everything at face value, but this looks like a good source of inspiration to design your own.