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Nothing in this article is anti-tech. Anti-monopoly, yes.

Computers are very good at doing these calculations

Surrounding yourself with the smartest people possible, during the most formative years of your life, is always a good idea. Get into the best school you can

I think any kind of decision by a university that can be framed as "social justice" will be, and then be amplified by the media without end, no matter how small. Our institutions a…

I had a similar experience with Turo. The owner instructed us to leave the car unlocked in some parking lot. The following day they sent pictures of pot on the floor of the car; th…

I'm personally excited about LLMs becoming more number-fluent for regression tasks, e.g. read this paper and give it a grade 0-100

Zero mention of the increasingly popular federated alternatives just seems like bad, corpocentric journalism

Very cool! I'm curious--I'd imagine that some long tail podcasts have transcripts that are too long to fit within a standard context window. Do you have some strategy for handling …