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Episode 2: Language Model Integrations, Degradation of Communication, and Dependencies
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Episode 2: Language Model Integrations, Degradation of Communication, and Dependencies

Recapping June 2024 a bit more briefly, while also talking more broadly about topics such as language model integrations, communication, and software dependencies.

Welcome to the second installment of the Software and Synapses podcast. This month, we talked mostly about language model Integrations, The Degradation of online communications, and software dependencies.

Join me in discussing the following posts:

How to Successfully Integrate Language Models into Your Application

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June 10, 2024
How to Successfully Integrate Language Models into Your Application

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The Deterioration of Communication: Navigating Contagious Meaninglessness

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June 17, 2024
The Deterioration of Communication: Navigating Contagious Meaninglessness

Yeah, we're pretty much talking about language models again. Don't worry, that's not all we're going to talk about on this blog. However, language models are powerful in many respects, and are capable of a variety of novel complex tasks. That means they're worth talking about. We n…

How Language Models Could Make Our Apps Better

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June 24, 2024
How Language Models Could Make Our Apps Better

If you're new around here, when discussing software, we end up talking about language models a lot. That's because these fancy bundles of linear algebra are actually pretty cool. There are some exciting implications for automated language approximation–that is, what language models do…

Abstraction and Dependency: Why Software is Inherently Unstable

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July 2, 2024
Abstraction and Dependency: Why Software is Inherently Unstable

The world runs on software, a peculiar medium of technology, bridging abstraction and practicality. Software has become yet another layer of human social infrastructure upon which our world runs. Our news comes from software, we communicate through software, it's in our medical sys…

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