Interesting Links - November 2022

The Pragmatic Engineer
Big Tech and high-growth startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech. Click to read The Pragmatic Engineer, by Gergely Orosz, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of readers.
Web3 is Going Just Great
A timeline recording only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, decentralized finance, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects.
Camera Mirror Lenses Part 1: Visual and Interferometric Testing
In this video I will discuss the visual and interferometric tests of camera mirror telephoto lenses. Contents:0:00 intro1:16 Vivitar f=800mm F:8 mirror lens4...
Mirror Lens Testing Part2: MTF and Collimation
This is my second video on mirror lenses. In this part I discuss the lens construction of a Soligor 500mm. Also I explain a method to measure lens MTF (Modul...
Hans Zimmer - Interstellar (Royal Albert Hall Organ)
Composed by Hans ZimmerMIDI Programmed and Arranged by Ashton GleckmanAll organ sounds from the new Royal Albert Hall Organ library, recorded at the historic...
ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue
We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is train…