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OpenAI’s Library

by topherjaynes on 5/15/24, 1:49 PM with 7 comments

  • by neonate on 5/17/24, 5:24 PM

  • by r053bud on 5/17/24, 5:38 PM

    Honest question, is this a paid advertisement article?

  • by randomdrake on 5/17/24, 5:49 PM

    Nice to see the library brought back in some kind of way for tech companies.

    15 years ago, most tech companies had a library of sorts because it was required. Sure, there were manuals online, but they didn't offer the depth available in books at the time.

    Stack Overflow either didn't exist or was in its infancy, so your options were to either find an O'Reilly book on the subject[0], hop in a Freenode channel on IRC and talk to folks who were in the weeds (or even the maintainers themselves), or you had to use mailing lists.

    [0] - okay, not all of the books were O'Reilly but a huge number of them around that time period were

  • by thundergolfer on 5/18/24, 12:59 AM

    Nicely designed library, but the books they choose to highlight are surely deliberately dull. Unless the collection is fully corporate bleached, there’s got to be some far more interesting stuff in there. Infinite Jest, really?

    No Girard, N Weiner, Ellul, W Benjamin, W Gibson.