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I worry about the finger-on-the-scale mean-reversion aspect of this .. the LLM corralling you ever so gently back towards the median. otoh, LLMs really could become the great illus…

upvoted for fair point .. its possible an LLM AI could be put to work to search widely for attribution / similar results. eg. "we spent another 2k on searching for pre-existing pro…

followup .. one reason I now love and detest C++ is the regularity of new features in the core working set [ particularly the current politically correct incarnation of the smart p…

A good tool does a job well with minimal side effects and maximal predictability. Perhaps this is why users dislike monthly SaaS - they cannot trust stability of the tool, because …

Many people are calling them circular, eg bloomberg, BIS : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwcM0By4aJQ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bursting-ai-bubble-collaps... diagram : htt…

Has a competent economist modeled the circularity of these deals ? [ numerically or analytically ] It seems a healthy economy has a lot of wide circularity .. money circulating is …

care to share the one glaring obstacle ? slightly related .. I saw a talk on DCs in space, and it said median Earth orbit had a latency of 500ms .. but back of envelope seems to be…

not least because of the bureaucratic delays making nuclear slow to roll out.

Im surprised they haven't doubled down on deep drill geothermal.

imo, theres a reasonable chance we will have functioning fusion reactors before these are turned on.

Their VanDyke Brown looks more like a Burnt Sienna to my eyes, but that might just be my screen. You may also enjoy the Chromatopia book : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40554…

Do we need a cryptocurrency for trading / donating LLM compute tokens ?

Googled it : > Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month (approximately $15 billion annually) to use the computing infrastructure at the Colossus and Colossus II data cent…

by inference .. do you mean renting GPU compute ?

gorgeous piece of human-computer engineering art. superb. totally usable in contexts where comic sans might be seen as kind of mocking.

Australia is proposing a CGT tax of 30% on "capital gains" .. essentially taxing the _income_ from wealth. This is more of a fair comparable to reason about when comparing taxing w…

without reading .. my immediate guess is that one hand is needed for maintaining upright balance, while the other hand grasps something important ?

it would be nice if they declared War against global climate change.

imo, 2D is maybe 70% of the problem to solve. We build and we think about buildings in 2D, possibly because its simpler/cheaper, possibly because of gravity corraling us into space…

We lived close to the Formula One track in Melbourne for a time. They gave out free tickets to locals, as a kind of compensation for the noise and construction disturbance, so my y…

What freedoms do we value ? freedom of speech, freedom of compute, freedom to own assets, to sell our work or give it away, bodily autonomy, freedom to travel, to read to learn ? A…

Joanna, if your reading this, welcome back .. really miss your blog ! In my ideal future, Joanna would write about things like : - how do we secure LLMs leading up to AGI, presumab…

Fitting lines to 'xray' scans of buildings - turning pixels into vector art. Lets say you have a complex industrial plant, or datacenter you want to upgrade. You scan it with lidar…

concur .. better to have a 40-buck fx82 for daily math and use Desmos for graphing, than fork out 250 to 300 for a super-duper calc they wont use.