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What makes you feel like that? Is it AI specifically?

As you say, that's just an efficiency play and, as I understand it, doesn't change the behavior of the models beyond perhaps a small amount of sampling noise.

I agree completely - behaviorally the models have changed drastically due to RLHF, RLVR and now maybe even more so due to agentic harnesses. But the mechanism of prediction hasn’t …

Just for the sake of clarity: all LLMs up to today are still only doing next-token/autocomplete. The training process got additional stages to shape the model weights, but standalo…

A fascinating thing about the LLM/AI blogosphere and X is watching memetics in real time. An idea like this one propagates on the order of days until everyone that speaks publicly …

On purely aesthetic grounds I'll take this over another substack-like site any day of the week.

I second this and would add that it's really easy to catastrophically forget things in math. I'm pretty sure that most CS knowledge I have I will retain at a level where I won't fo…

> Do things you are bad at I think this should be coupled with: know when to quit. I've persisted with some things I'm bad at out of stubbornness but have never improved and it's j…

Indeed. To get "aesthetic" play you would have to mimic real human play for an interesting reason: the space of possible Go configurations and games is so mind-bogglingly vast that…

This is the wrong way to think about mathematical (or any other kind of) creativity in my opinion. In the extremely high-dimensional space of "ideas" (whatever that means) there ar…

There are off the shelf supplements that are widely used for this, e.g. BeetElite which contains nitric oxide derived from beet juice. I can testify that they do offer a real perfo…

Oh! I actually thought I tried to be really careful to get that right and somehow still didn't see I'd transposed the j and c. Definitely no harm intended!

This is a really enjoyable read. Majiec is a great writer and speaker. A breath of fresh air compared much of modern blog/essay content.

I’ve found Coros to be great too. I’ve used my Vertix to track GPS for 48 hours continuously during a race. It’s been beaten up against rocks, soaking wet and filthy for extended p…

Ego is also at play here. In inherently competitive fields like academic science using LLMs to get results more quickly is an alluring siren.

What makes this a hobby project? He’s a university professor so developing teaching material is part of his job.

I know many, many people that have continued to increase their expenses as their income grows but would also like to FIRE in theory. There’s a whole movement called FatFIRE that is…

I don’t doubt it’s possible, but suggesting that the game isn’t simulating FIRE because it includes lifestyle inflation seems wrong.

Are you suggesting that everyone with FIRE aspirations avoids lifestyle creep?

Exactly, it’s about the choice of word but I don’t think it’s meaningless semantics.

No, we don’t agree it’s “deserved” in any cases. I agree in the self defense case it’s justifiable based on near certainty about the outcome if you don’t respond with lethal force.…

I don’t find this a convincing argument. This works as an argument for permitting lethal force to end a life-threatening attack. But once someone is already detained there’s no way…

How do you define “deserve” in any kind of objective way?

As far as I’m aware there is no native Pandora app, just TuneIn for internet radio. Do for Pandora you’d have to stream from a phone via Bluetooth.