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3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible

We’ve ultimately decided to treat the models with more respect, nurturing, and collaborative support than we ever did our follow human keyboard smashers. Writing all the documentat…

How can an LLM “talk” to another LLM, except by emitting tokens in its output stream? You can name the mechanism whatever you want, but the models don’t have hands. Tool calling co…

Hard Drive, ostensibly about Bill Gates, was a great read when I was a kid. I recommend ‘Microserfs’ from Douglas Coupland as a fictional (but grounded) homage to the work in the 9…

This is a build or test lab, not the offices of developers. I visited multiple times in the period mentioned for the picture, and saw multiple of these. The one I saw most often wa…

A post I wrote thinking about the 'addiction' that ads & subscription revenue can cause, and how it leads to a loss of identity in companies whose core products were not 'recurring…

What’s the overlap between people who had their password reset, and people who used/signed up for Beeper iMessage verification?

Gonna save this post for some arbitrary point in the future to pull out as a point against ‘impossible’. Might have to gift it to my descendants to make sure it’s available for lon…

Especially since the versatility of A Cat is unbounded.

I expected this to be longer. I wish it was longer. Plus, if you want to be somewhat-complete, theres so many that are missing: - Chromeffects - DUI - Splash (Media Center) - Splas…

IMHO, this is a misleading headline: They are not building a “porn preference register”, they just going full-dystopian nightmare collecting live biometric data that could be used …

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10109339 appears to be part 3, based on the authors (collin) LinkedIn publications list.

I’m assuming the type foundry legal departments are getting ready to come for the image generators when they find out their typefaces have been vacuumed up and are now generating n…

I did a two week trip in the UK recently, and over the ~8 restaurants we ate at, 7 required credit card to reserve, with a specific fee that would be applied if no-show

IME searching for the name of the flag name and getting 1 result is less helpful than 15 results that directly show point-of-use.

I like the aspiration to grow engineers — it’s a laudable, and worthy, goal. But I also feel there is a little bit of a pandora’s box here. The model you’re creating here is more s…

As someone who was hardcore into Windows around that time, all my memory has is waiting desperately for windows to open & apps to load. I remember watching the left-side of explore…

What is a company supposed to do when a market is no longer available to it? Make new products. There is nothing — nothing — saying that SoFi must offer student loans. It’s just lo…

I mean, there is this clause in the 8k: “On September 7, 2022, Partner and Thermo entered into a lock-up and right of first offer agreement that generally (i) requires Thermo to of…

Here you go: https://archive.ph/MwXxQ (Original link, but paywalled: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/unity-software-loses-5-bil... )

They had made previous ‘commitments’ to Wall St that they had a way to circumvent Apple Tracking Transparency by using ML to do the tracking without all the device information. It …

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