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He’s flogging a paid newsletter.

What surprises me is that they had the mini subs door open and bright lights on inside. This seems like surprisingly poor light discipline.

There are kind of a lot of errors in this piece. For instance, the problem the author had with Gemini CLI running out of tokens in ten minutes is what happens when you don’t set up…

That’s a complex encoding. I wonder if current models could decode it even given your explanation.

There is a time and a place for everything. Software development is often about compromise and often it isn’t feasible to work out a solution from foundational principles and a com…

With a few prominent exceptions, the Wikipedia Foundation has been wise enough to enjoy the perks parasitism and not get in the way. However, their stated fundraising goal is amass…

This new plan really highlights the need for open models. Individual users will be priced out of frontier models if this becomes a trend.

There are lots of cases in businesses where there are integrations with other software that are difficult to port.

Can you talk about what book you’re trying to digitize?

It’s extraordinary! Perhaps how quickly we become jaded should be taken as evidence of how quickly the world is changing right now. When I looked at the examples they seemed like t…

An interesting article about Asian perspectives on copying ( https://aeon.co/essays/why-in-china-and-japan-a-copy-is-just... )

That’s a rather idiosyncratic interpretation that doesn’t align with current views or legal structures in the Western world (look up ‘publicity rights’) ‘Ownership’ isn’t a propert…

Writing and being a voice actor are two quite different skills. My experience with author narrated audiobooks is that there isn’t very much overlap.

I think software engineering is just as complex as medicine, both endeavors try to utilize human cognitive ability to the maximum extent possible. I do entirely agree about softwar…

A cemetery would be a bad place for them as cemeteries tend to attract looters.

It will be interesting if a lot of research gets published in Chinese journals and not the West. If this happens I wonder if Western researchers will get their information from Chi…

That’s awesome! Though, I think the headline underplays what he’s doing and done Having a part-time job as a welder for a private company would be awesome and no doubt useful in a …

I was in Germany a couple months ago. My experiences are entirely anecdotal but I’ve never seen so much anger before. I kept seeing fights and hearing angry yelling everywhere I we…

Turtles all the way down

It may be just about as unethical as someone discussing something they overheard in a crowd.

It’s a very fast moving space and if OpenAI doesn’t keep sailing forward they’ll be dead in the water but I don’t think GPT-4 or GPT-5 is the end of the story. The deployment of th…