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I agree. Source: I am an Azure user.

Didn't we get enough of this fight 20 years ago? Let's not piss off Dave Winer again. Reminder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

The headline and the deck of the article are contradictory. The headline claims art "invented humanity" while the deck says art allowed us to "find out who they really were." One i…

Because it occurred more than once, my first thought was it must be a British variant. But I guess not.

Sincere question: do we know enough about human intelligence to support that last assertion?

So then you need to ask: Why did they use a deliberately faulty LLM? They could have easily used a mainstream LLM from the past 18 months and it probably would have been less work …

Here is what the study says: "The LLM used in our experiments (Step 3.5 Flash) answered such questions incorrectly almost without exception. We also checked some state-of-the-art L…

Agreed, the headline says "AI advice made people three times less accurate". But if we really want to know how accurate these people were, we need to know how accurate the AI syste…

There's another misdirection here as well. Much of this mess doesn't just affect children. It's really pretty bad for everyone.

Oh wow, that is impressive and gorgeous. I love that I can get a bespoke horsehair leather brush for my binder. Not sure I would be allowed to write in it without a matching Japane…

I've been trying binders instead of notebooks (especially the mini-binders from folks like Maruman). Binders allow you to easily remove and add pages (and tabs, dividers, etc). Thi…

> Democracy came about because it was optimal for a power seeking government, not out of the kindness of their heart It's not clear in this context what you actually mean by "gover…

I guess it's obvious, but haven't really thought about this. Back in the day we had media companies and advertisers. Magazine publishers/newspapers/TV Studios on the one hand and t…

Meta seems to be completely tone-deaf when it comes to products and features. I wonder if this is a function of a single person, surrounded by people with little incentive to disag…

Same. Stopped after two words. Gave me the same feeling as taking a timed software developer screening.

Did a similar thing, but went with Kagi + Orion. Also happy to have a few more free cycles from not thinking about Google.

Of course you might be right. But if we look at our past ability to predict the future by extrapolating from the present and recent past, you might also say it is naive to think th…

> ChatGPT launched in November, 2022. Opus in December last year. Do you see where this is going? Maybe this is tongue-in-cheek, but in case it's not. No, nobody does. Consider tha…

I feel like having an account on a Meta site is today’s equivalent of being a smoker.

When I was in school we started with "manuscript" writing, which is detached letters similar to a typical sans-serif typeface without the two-story `a` and other fanciness. We then…

If anyone is interested, here is a link where you can download the study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221770027_Correlati... I few interesting bits — it does involve c…

That's been my experience as well. I'm just curious about cursive writing specifically.

> I think everybody should be able to write cursive As someone who has hated both reading and writing cursive since middle school, I'm curious what is significant about cursive spe…

It's not just CORS that's hard to understand. Many (most?) developers don't really understand the threat model. And even when it's explained it hard to see why it's a big deal. Par…