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Moving beyond the Turing test isn’t moving the goalposts. Before Claude and its ilk existed, people underestimated how convincingly language could be generated by systems whose int…

It’s double plus good!

> Another (small) architected respect dimension is gender pronouns. They can be a bit awkward with agents. I was using "they/them" intentionally with all my agents, but I noticed t…

Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time, we got to play… Wyvern.

I really don’t like this guy.

Oh man, this resonates. I feel like I’m starting to drown in an endless sea of overly verbose documentation that the originators themselves never read. If you ever have a question,…

In the shape of a pelican riding a bicycle.

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“We need to IPO now!!”

> I've never been more informed or understood more about my code, pipelines, and stack than now... Would you mind clarifying if this includes code, pipelines, stacks, etc... on whi…

> “Prithee, make thy meaning plain, and speak to me as one would teach a child of five summers.” — Shakespeare. Probably.

Lucky. I’m on the hook for 54 billion (and change).

> As we all know, the foundation of Western diatonic music theory is ¹²√2, the ratio between the frequencies of successive semitones. Nods knowingly. Yes, of course. I definitely k…

Is this the Star Wars equivalent of dressing up as characters from The Handmaidens Tale and being overly dramatic?

There are four vacuum repair shops on Cape Cod, and I’ve never seen anyone walk into any of them. I bet a big chunk of these funds are funneling through there.

> a tool producing a cheap reward with minimal input and no friction can only be a liability, and achieving that realisation is probably the only real contribution of AI to date. B…

I also love this game. I was so hoping someone had managed to port this to WASM.

AI is a force multiplier for whoever is using it. In the hands of a skilled practitioner, AI can be used effectively. In the hands of an idiot… watch out. Most people are idiots.

> Your computer only has ~20 TFLOPs. What a time to be alive.

MacOS does this as well, and it drives me nuts. No, I do not want files on my desktop to be synced to iCloud.

> “It’s not just patterns… but also cadence…” Nice try, ChatGPT.

“Microsoft Tentacle” - Now there’s a name for a new product line.

> The streaming service Deezer said earlier this year it is receiving more than 60,000 fully AI-generated tracks daily… Wow!