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Look at the glacial retreat around the mouth of the fjord (which is why tourists go to the town) and yeah, the amount of change is insane. Any particular iceberg isn't that interes…

Auto sales, airline ticket prices (notice the expansion of 1st, business, and comfort class seats), etc.

In the long term the sun will go red giant and all life on earth will die. In the short term I still need to eat, and tech integration that takes 20 years in the economy might leav…

I’ve observed the degradation, but I suspect what’s happening is they’re tuning it for lower inference costs. Maybe turning down the amount of thinking, maybe quantizing, maybe som…

Machines are not humans.

Except I care about the reasoning trace because I can stop a rathole that burns $50 of tokens as it chews for 10 minutes before I get the desired feedback that it’s done the wrong …

Yeah. I have a set of 5 review prompts attacking different problems, an adversarial review, and then a final synthesis, with the best results gotten by multiple passes using multip…

No one reads the terms and conditions. I went to a resort and read the T&C they made you sign to sign in and was told I was the only person in months who had actually done so. And …

Everything reverts to the mean in the long term. Maybe even the state of unprecedented relative peace we had enjoyed.

It's not JUST about output, it's also about learning . The output is a way to measure the learning, it's not important of itself except as a reflection of the student's mastery of …

Look at which models are getting open-weights vs. which ones aren't. That tap can be shut off at any time and it's already being shut off for their biggest models.

How many developers are making 2 million a year? 400k isn’t crazy for the FANG set but it’s still a subset of the developer market and hundreds of thousands of those jobs have been…

Yeah, it’s so easy to generate code that you can do a whole codebase rewrite in a day. Is this a good idea? Probably not—in the past we would only do that when the architecture was…

Open source it and it gets crawled and optimized against and stops being a benchmark of any use whatsoever.

The fifties are when a lot of this infrastructure got its start. They want the 1850s.

Linear light, or linear perceptual?

Colonizing another planet will never be easier than our own biosphere. That claim for SpaceX is pure nonsense.

Yeah, my experience has been exactly that. And the person paying the bills will try as hard as possible to avoid/delay a metal rev as possible because they’re expensive and time co…

Yeah, that was my experience. The model was worse in every way than ChatGPT or Claude or even Composer. I tried it out and used it when my other limits were hit, but only as a last…

And if you don't know the syntax off the top of your head, as long as you know the verb you can find out what it is.

Git doesn't give you more power, it just makes their internals your problem.

If you're wealthy enough $250 is just the price of smoking (especially for someone that can afford a 1st class seat). I wonder why they don't have escalating non-monetary punishmen…

There has been a measurable and noticeable drop in attainment starting with smartphones entering the classroom, supercharged by COVID chaos, and finally with AI cheating being just…

Thanks for doing a "well AKTually" on a piece of amusing fiction.

It was true. Then they needed money for other things and whole orgs get laid off.