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Is anyone else confounded by this naming scheme? I can see from the article's first two footnotes that Mythos is supposed to be a tier above the standard Haiku/Sonnet/Opus sequence…

Did anyone else think of LoRA [0] at first? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRA_(machine_learning)

Agreed. As someone who has been in charge of business websites of for both Mag7 websites and for Silicon Valley startups, there can be a productive disagreement about what exactly …

On the Mac vs Lisa team, I generally agree but wasn't there a strong tension on budget vs revenue on Mac vs Apple II? And that Apple II had even more constrained budget per machine…

Thank you! I zoomed in on the photo looking for sanded corners on the MacBook and saw none. Took me a sec to finally see the amorphous edge nr the trackpad...

I might have to visit this exhibit next time I'm in NY. I hope their materials will answer the question of how he dealt with new construction, remodels, and demolitions over his 20…

Halo Cortana AI: Copilot for Combat 2026

I'm glad I clicked through bc I thought the article was about Mamba, the package manager I associate with Python (similar to conda). https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba

Julian Togelius is a full professor of computer science at NYU and I was fascinated by his blog post about succeeding in academic CS while not being able to solve undergraduate mat…

It's probably user error on my part. But as a somewhat technical user, I've been locked out of Mastodon account for months for no discernible reason. I had my standard first name a…

+1 graphemica has the right mix of completeness and simplicity for my tastes.

I remember being confused by that tagline and also by Sun's later pitch: "We put the dot in dotcom"!

Let me try. In US schools during K-12, we generally learn functions in two ways: 1. 2-d line chart with an x-axis and y-axis, like temperature over time, history of stock price, et…

Just to be clear, when you Khan "killed our remaining low cost airline carrier", are you referring to when the DOJ blocked the JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger? Not arguing, I just w…

Used to be "Facebook AI Research" before company changed name from FB to Meta

> Also, passengers are probably going to start waking up to the realities of just how bad the air-travel experience in the US has become compared to so many foreign counterparts. I…

Didn't Einstein himself literally come from east of the Atlantic Ocean? ;)

I personally have moved almost all my Stack Overflow usage to LLMs. Just wondering if other folks have done the same…

Ballmer was hard-working, smart, and incredibly lucky in many ways. (Fairly or unfairly, I always have a soft spot for someone who survives Math 55 freshman year at Harvard—which S…

I thought there was grumbling about Ballmer adopting GE’s stack ranking employee evaluation system where every team has to grade at least some people as below par. So that led to w…

Is this hyperbole or do Americans actually drive rather than walk to toilets? Not being hostile, genuinely curious.

I’ve had 5 personal Mac laptops over the last 25 years. And all of them overlapped their service lives bc I usually had 2 active laptops at a time. None were the Pro, just iBooks a…

There's significant evidence contradicting this hypothesis. See industry analysts like Gartner, IDC, etc. who all ask tech firms to "pay to play" for better rankings in their repor…