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Simon Willison's exhaustive year-in-review of every major LLM development in 2023. Dense with links and actual signal amid massive hype.

“Best factual record of what actually happened vs. what the press said happened. Simon is relentlessly empirical — no hype, just what he tested and observed.”

Quanta's explainer on elliptic curve cryptography — one of the most elegant and practically important areas of modern math, now securing almost all internet traffic.

“Quanta is doing something rare: making actual math legible to readers without dumbing it down. This piece makes ECC genuinely intuitive.”