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In the last few weeks Claude (Sonnet) has told me “I don’t know” 3 different times. That seems like the solution to hallucinations and it’s already happening.

I think Poe's Law applies to Shakespeare too. I recently saw Taming of the Shrew and people are still arguing about whether Shakespeare was endorsing Petruchio's starvation of Kath…

YouTube seems less of a social media site than Facebook and Twitter to me. But maybe that's because I mostly use it for educational content also. I want a good recommendation engin…

Any good rules of thumb for designing E2E tests that validate the components can all talk to each other without duplicating business logic tests (that are better handled in unit te…

Makes me thing I need a new email template "Try this one thing: .... If you are a detail-oriented person, you could also save us both some time and try these things also ..."

A post to HN with a query for how to get in touch with a16z engineering probably would have been fruitful.

What biased agenda do you see in this article?

Yes, it's not guarantee, but it is one good data source for predicting the future. See Rule 5 in https://hbr.org/2007/07/six-rules-for-effective-forecasting

TLDR: "The future is bigger than we can imagine. Change is equally hard to comprehend. Two centuries ago, 80 percent of the U.S. population worked on farms. If you told one of thos…

Richard Hanania's substack is intellectual, non-partisan and conservative.

> If an insider with confidentiality obligations shares material non-public information with a person who has no confidentiality obligation, and that person trades on that informat…

Rent seeking implies using laws or market power to profit without providing any value. Depending upon your assets and investments, you may well be providing value to companies and …

I'm not recommending this as a strategy, but someone I trust told me this story. They were a hiring manager. Candidate looked good on paper. Invited for on-site interview. At the o…

TLDR: These new rules could put T-Mobile's Binge On package on the chopping block. This deal exempts YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Sling, ESPN, SHOWTIME, Starz, and others from coun…

What do you read between the lines here? TPG thinks New Relic management isn't doing a good job and TPG thinks they can restructure the company and make it significantly (>15%) mor…

Yeah, that was interesting take... that the actual smart kids are there to make the rich kids look smart.

I think getting rid of this will cause more disparity in the outcomes. Rich parents can afford tutors and poor parents can't, so poor kids come out even worse off.