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Yes. The irritating epigram / aphorism style it now uses is such a regression compared to previous Anthropic models. Probably is the case that this is due to watermarking - though …

My Lindy alarm has gone off!

Looks like MLX is not a supported backend in Ollama so the numbers for the Mac could be significantly higher in some cases. It would be interesting to swap out Ollama for LM Studio…

For any stamp collectors here, the Isle of Man Post Office [1] has just issued an official set of 6 Roger Dean and Rick Wakeman stamps [2]: [1] https://iomstamps.com/collections/wa…

Theory building is the secret sauce, and all variants of "this is how to use AI effectively" I've seen are inferior to the epistemologically sound theory Naur outlines in his paper…

Feynman said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool" when talking about science, but it also applies to the properties of…

Not cosmological but yesterday Apple released an interesting protein folding model with 3B param transformer-based arch which runs on M-series hardware and is competitive with stat…

Yes. Juniors have a lack of knowledge about how to build coherent mental models of problems whose solution will ultimately be implemented in code, whereas seasoned engineers do. Se…

For anyone interested in the history of Sellafield and its role in reprocessing, "Britain's Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield" on BBC 4 at the moment is worth a watch. Presented b…

Reminds me of Brett Victor's demo of projected AR turbulence around a toy car at Dynamicland. Only a short clip, but you get the idea: https://youtu.be/5Q9r-AEzRMA?t=47

> “There's kind of like two different ways you could describe what's happening in the model business right now. So, let's say in 2023, you train a model that costs 100 million doll…

Yeah. Read “Programming as Theory Building” by Naur [1] to understand why you need to still need to develop a theory of the problem and how to model it yourself lest the LLM concoc…

I recently built a quick SwiftUI app to pin quotes and posts from X to my home screen. I found I was liking/bookmarking insightful content on X I rarely saw again and wanted a way …

Going to leave this here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#GrowHumaKnow

This is very similar to when I used OpenCV to read the angle of a cardboard knob I pinned on the wall in my office to change the volume on Spotify!

"""But what Richard hated, or at least pretended to hate, was being asked to give advice. So why were people always asking him for it? Because even when Richard didn't understand, …

Unsurprisingly, this pessimistic and shortsighted take emanates from a newspaper in heart of the EU...

And by the third slit simulation they seem to have refuted their own hypothesis.

You may find Constructor Theory interesting. An attempt to express physical laws solely in terms of possible and impossible transformations. “These include providing a theory of in…

Perversely, this "settled knowledge" nonsense actively inhibits the growth of knowledge and just leads to the "justified true belief" swamp... All we have is our current best expla…

It's just blind prophecy and therefore a fiction. There is no way to predict the growth of future knowledge. If there was it would be equivalent to already having said knowledge. W…

An epistemologically flawed article.

Anyone interested in Dynamicland may want to check out Paper Programs. It's been about 5 years since I last played with it. It’s great fun and should be much more interactive with …

David Deutsch’s “Physics Without Probability” covers the history of probability, it’s legitimate and misconceived uses and concludes that according to MWI there is no such thing in…

Bret Victor's interactive version of this in Dynamicland: https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/977058412990152704