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Suggesting that people would stop reading Nature if they also included replication studies send like an incredible leap.

On the contrary, the best products are typically built by the users of the products. If you are building a product you don't use, it will be worse than if you used it. Users should…

There are many leaders that use information as a tool that serves their own needs. They may have the context, but they are either too focused on their own job to share it, or activ…

The whole point of micro-services is to manage dependencies independently across service boundaries, using the API as the contract, not the internal libraries. Then you can impleme…

In practice, there are a number of factors which make using Kelly more difficult than in toy examples. What is your bankroll? Cash on hand? Total net worth? Liquid net work? Future…

Run valgrind on any large successful code base and you will find tons of memory corruption. It just happens to occur in places where it does not matter.

Decades? Really? The UX was so bad in 1998 I just went back to windows for another decade.

He lost me when he boldly declared that correlation IS causation based on one chart. Complex systems are a lot more .. um .. complex than he suggests

If you pay a lot for parking or don't use the car much this tracks. But if you have the volume, then owning a car is cheaper. An affordable mid size car costs roughly $6k per year …

And all code is an asset. Have we just reduced the conversation to: everything has a cost, and everything has a benefit?

The prompts were also likely different: video: "Is this the right order?" blog post: "Is this the right order? Consider the distance from the sun and explain your reasoning." https…

You can see the cracks in the feature early on: "What do you think I'm doing? Hint: it's a game." Anyone with as much "knowledge" as Gemini aught to know it's roshambo. "Is this th…

i.e. artifice-ial

This does highlight the gap between SOTA and business production. Google search is very often a low quality, even user hostile experience. If Google has all this fantastic technolo…

There's not much to elaborate, tons of practical use cases for search, sort and storage rely on alphabetization. If you move through an analog world of organized data, you'll find …

It saddens me to think that alphabetization is going the way of the dodo. It was a gateway drug into computer science for me.

It might be better to ask the inverse. Which "AI Safety" experts are worth listening too. I have found very few, and the ones that I've found worth listening to are much more conce…

The crazier thing is that most advocates of "AI safety" don't know anything about "AI safety". By and large the term is marketing with very little objective scientific development.…

You should be very skeptical of anyone that claims they have 100% test coverage. Only under very rare circumstances is 100% test coverage is even possible, let alone done. Typicall…

Deprecation should not break anything. At some point the code will be removed and the org will have to pin the version until the deprecations are resolved.

I do like how the end to end pipeline is captured with ELTP. Conceptually I find it lighter than: ETL + Reverse ETL. While I might personally find modular ETL to be even lighter, t…

It's cleaner to say that ELTP is really just two ETL steps done in sequence. ETL1: gather the raw data from the data source, mapping it to the schema required to load it into the d…

Ten years ago Apple was by far the highest quality laptop manufacturer. There was essentially no other option back in the early 2010s. Even now laptops with a "retina" display are …

Not really. The difference in build quality was night and day; metal vs. plastic, keyboard that doesn't flex, etc.

No, it was around $1100 IIRC, maybe as much as $1300.