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Drini

@cdrini.bsky.social

HCI Researcher trying to change how we use computers. Developer. Designer. Proudly working on @openlibrary at @internetarchive as a software developer.

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Drini @cdrini.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Just saw a non-English, auto-dubbed short pop up in YouTube, and it completely worked. Tower of Babel level one? Meanwhile, captions were only available in Korean! How odd. youtube.com/shorts/3KNLk...

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계단을 넓히면… 더 완벽하게 흐를까? #커피 #초콜릿 #실험

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Open Library @openlibrary.org · 22/10/2025

The entire @openlibrary.org team would like to express our deep sadness at the loss of our friend Greg Newby who, for years, has seeded @gutenberg.org with public good, open access values worth continuing to follow. Thank you for your beautiful contributions. You are missed.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 31/12/2024

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents:

The GPT-4 barrier was comprehensively broken
Some of those GPT-4 models run on my laptop
LLM prices crashed, thanks to competition and increased efficiency
Multimodal vision is common, audio and video are starting to emerge
Voice and live camera mode are science fiction come to life
Prompt driven app generation is a commodity already
Universal access to the best models lasted for just a few short months
“Agents” still haven’t really happened yet
Evals really matter
Apple Intelligence is bad, Apple’s MLX library is excellent
The rise of inference-scaling “reasoning” models
Was the best currently available LLM trained in China for less than $6m?
The environmental impact got better
The environmental impact got much, much worse
The year of slop
Synthetic training data works great
LLMs somehow got even harder to use
Knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed
LLMs need better criticism
Everything tagged “llms” on my blog in 2024

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