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Milton Friedman being the main quoted figure in the article, and that he attempts to link it back to his own field, is a huge irony. He’s certainly one of the most “wild ideas beyo…

JaneStreet has enough free cash to not worry about those issues. If one of their key persons dies in service, they can go out and contract the worlds leading expert in that domain,…

> I also like this kind of examples because no one in their right mind would ever spend the time to write something this custom This is an odd take, given that Karpathy is certainl…

The readme on this project is nonsensical, and seems to be full of trivial errors. Example: > CONTEXT_DEV_API_KEY Company logo, industry and socials from a domain.

It could be that the set of your day-to-day workload which could feasibly be accelerated by AI just happens to be saturated around Opus4.5, but you can still see lots of “reasoning…

Am I misreading this, or is ycombinator running a tool that transfers IP from an applicant’s machine to OpenAI and then transfers the generated summaries into their own servers. An…

I think the main thing of interest in the linked site is the dates. You can quickly get a view of what was possible and when.

I feel like we read different articles, because without context, the pictured dish looked like overcooked pork chops served next to a type of carbonara tagliatelle topped with a fr…

>But is that a widespread feeling, are the vibes bad for regular people, or is this effectively just old man shouting at clouds? A cursory glance at YouGov strongly suggests that p…

There’s an OpenAI slide deck sitting in Goldman’s IPO preparation department right now with a pair of bullet points that read >Q3 2027, introduce ‘ad-enhanced’ paid subscription ti…

In the UK, farm vehicles use a specially dyed Red Diesel, which is the same liquid with a chemical added to it to turn it red. It’s taxed at a much lower rate, so you’ll sometimes …

I’m not suggesting Simon’s pelicans in the dataset are having a meaningful impact. I’m expecting that a company like ScaleAI has a product along the lines of “benchmax dataset: Sim…

Respectfully, the pelicans used to be an unrecognisable mess and now they’re unquestionably pelicans on bicycles, rendered poorly, from every model. In the same timescale, model ca…

In part because model vendors specifically prefer when people think that lots of content is produced by their model. The more Claude-like writing appears on the internet, the more …

Decent summary of it here[0]. The “space” part of “SpaceX” is valued by market analysts and money managers at around 5% of the company’s entire value. Almost all of the rest is “AI…

> to demonstrate that the tech industry isn't just here to extract wealth from the poor/many and transfer it to rich/few? I think the problem is that the tech industry in large is …

It's unlikely that AI will get to the point where it makes handwritten coders redundant, and then not immediately be at the point where vibe coders are redundant too. So if you ear…

>4x improvement on geospatial tasks with map in the loop. The graph shows a baseline 2% task success rate improving to to 8% task success rate, but the evals section details 100% s…

Safari's copy-text-from-image feature manages the entire base64 part of the string, except for the first character (I instead of a T). Weirdly, it gets much worse performance if yo…

I think this is a case where two people can successfully complete the task manually faster than one attempting to automate it. Get a ruler, read five centimetres of characters to y…

Would they still get the highlighted "PEACE FOR ALL" text throughout the shortened string? It looks like the length, and presence of those characters, was an explicit design choice…

It’s difficult to articulate the tedium and monotony of a Starbucks gig. There’s so little intellectual stimulation available in that setting. If you managed to learn more from you…

I don’t think any engineers who cost $150/hr are having their productivity moved by 20% depending on a $10/hr gap between models on or near the frontier. Most of the gains right no…

No, standard floating point implementations have higher precision for smaller numbers than larger. So for example, in a 32bit float, there are far more numbers between 0-1 than the…

Most of the interesting research I’ve ever done started while reading through the intermediate steps in an unrelated paper. As far as I can tell from colleagues in other domains, i…