@benpopper

Director of Content at @Stackoverflow. Formerly business editor @verge and communications at @djiglobal. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu player. Brooklyn native.

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We brought an April Fool's joke to life stackoverflow.blog/2021/09/2…
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Started talking about sleepovers at breakfast with the kiddos....which led to a story about the Mortal Kombat theme song....and now I’m just listening to Jock Jams Volume 1 at 7:20AM
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I was today year's old when I learned where the killer riffs from Mortal Kombat theme song came from youtu.be/PUJgx7stXFY?si=-1bo…

Twilight Zone - 2 Unlimited 1992

Simply one of the best techno (is this techno?...eurodance? hmm......

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A robot you can eat, battery and all. This is my kind of gonzo tech. Made to mimic prey so wild boars will chomp it down, receive their medication, and digest the little jelly bot. I'm ready to chow down on some nanobots if they'll clean my colon. spectrum.ieee.org/soft-edibl…

Can You Really Eat This Robot?

Edible robots are here, and they might taste like gummy candy. Learn how these wiggly wonders could help in wildlife conservation.

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I've hear folks argue about AI agents as just an upgrade on RPA. "This isn't just RPA on steroids!" But so what if it is? RPA could handle a certain level of task, now it can go broader and deeper. What we have now is RRPA or RPA² - Routine REASONING Process Automation FTW!
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Lots of hand wringing from talking heads about Apple potentially outsourcing AI. How could they abandon full vertical integration?!? It's not like they used a competitor to power search on iOS for the last two decades....
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14 minutes to find the meaning of life
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sumovabitch, they did it they really really did it
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"It is a crazy update that I don’t think the world has really understood yet," said CEO Sam Altman. What's he talking about? The idea that progress in AI is limited largely by constraints around compute and energy has dominated the conversation for the last two years. In a recent video, however, OpenAI made a fascinating admission. The researchers working on its next frontier model, GPT5, say that scarcity of DATA, not compute, is the biggest obstacle to training the next frontier model.
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Check out the full post for a deeper dive linkedin.com/pulse/ais-new-r…

AI's New Reality: Compute is plentiful, Data is Scarce

The idea that progress in AI is limited largely by constraints around compute and energy has dominated the conversation for the last two years. Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company as...

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Books you can read in less time than one doom scroll loop onesittingreads.substack.com…
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Back on my BS, making the media machine go BRRRR Tune in for insight on the state of today's AI IDE market - AKA: which bot writes the best code?
Steve (Builder.io)
@Steve870821 Feb 2025
Ranking AI IDEs - which is best? xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1ypKdZVbL…
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Ranking AI IDEs - which is best?

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Things are getting fun
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Max Pekarsky@maxverse22 May 2024
Writing while I code has been hugely beneficial to my process - so I shared my thoughts on the @StackOverflow blog.
Stack Overflow
@StackOverflow22 May 2024
Stuck on a tricky coding problem? Need a way to keep track of your various software side projects? Write it down! Contributor @maxverse explains how keeping a developer journal can be a useful practice to stay organized and learn from your daily habits. stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/2…
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Trying to calculate the over/under on taking a vacation in Iceland as volcanic activity in the area reaches new highs. A) Trip of a lifetime, visual spectacle B) Flights cancelled, spas closed? C) I actually perish beneath a wave of lava
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Pretty sure it was @Jason who said on the @theallinpod that there was a ton of value in the data sets of big web communities :) techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/go…

Google brings Stack Overflow's knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud | TechCrunch

Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow is launching a new program today that will give AI companies access to its knowledge base through a new API, aptly

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Critically important that value flow between the communities creating the knowledge and the big AI builders in a ethical and mutually beneficial way stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/2…
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local minimum@caustic_agent22 Dec 2023
almost 14 year old question on math overflow by someone asking for a commutative algebra book recommendation, who has since gone on to write their own commutative algebra book
Screenshot of a question on MathOverflow asked almost 14 years ago by Andrea Ferretti. It begins with: I'm looking for a good book in commutative algebra, so I ask here for some advice. My ideal book should be: -More comprehensive than Atiyah-MacDonald -More readable than Matsumura (maybe better organized?) -Less thick than Eisenbud, and more to the point To put this in context, I'm an algebraic geometer, so I know enough commutative algebra, but I didn't study it systematically (apart from a first course on A-M which I followed as an undergraduate); rather I learned the things I needed from time to time. So I would like to give me an occasion to get a better grasp on the subject. Full post at https://mathoverflow.net/questions/16416/reference-book-for-commutative-algebra

ALT Screenshot of a question on MathOverflow asked almost 14 years ago by Andrea Ferretti. It begins with: I'm looking for a good book in commutative algebra, so I ask here for some advice. My ideal book should be: -More comprehensive than Atiyah-MacDonald -More readable than Matsumura (maybe better organized?) -Less thick than Eisenbud, and more to the point To put this in context, I'm an algebraic geometer, so I know enough commutative algebra, but I didn't study it systematically (apart from a first course on A-M which I followed as an undergraduate); rather I learned the things I needed from time to time. So I would like to give me an occasion to get a better grasp on the subject. Full post at https://mathoverflow.net/questions/16416/reference-book-for-commutative-algebra

The cover of AMS Graduate Studies in Mathematics Series #233, Commutative Algebra by Andrea Ferretti

ALT The cover of AMS Graduate Studies in Mathematics Series #233, Commutative Algebra by Andrea Ferretti

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Someone didn’t get the message….
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Me: This amazing AI has all the knowledge in the world. Ask it anything, it’s a great teacher. My 9-year-old: Who invented pointing? Me: No, no - like a real question with an actual answer. 9: How many people like milk?
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The robots will never defeat us 🤖
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Thanks @ganeumann - it was a blast talking to Liz. I can't find her on Twitter to tag, but she is smart operator with a lot of wisdom to share :)
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