Entries for May 2024
@onusoz · 2024-05-27
Stripe Subscription States
This is a quick note on Subscription states on Stripe. Subscriptions are objects which track products with recurring payments. Stripe docs on Subscriptions are very comprehensive, but for some reason they don’t include a state diagram that shows the transitions between different states of a subscription. They do have one for Invoices, so maybe this post will inspire them to add one.
@onusoz · 2024-05-14
It looks like a plateau until you remember they made GPT-4o available to free users, and it might be smaller than GPT-4. So this announcement doesn't prove anything about the capabilities of their largest model
Economic Burden of Language Complexity
Some languages are harder to learn compared to others. Difficulty can show up in different places. For example, English has a relatively easy grammar, but writing it can be challenging. Remember the first time you learned to write thorough, through, though, thought and tough.