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The truth is all frontier models are closed. This isn't even an open source vs open weights thing. Even if you accepted that open weights are "open" the capital requirements for ru…

The real truth is that's how Edison used them and they've been the primary use of patents since inception.

Only in the rather reductive sense of “the vast majority of gamers are into other genres now”.

Of course I, and most of the dads I know, optimise for something else: what’s the car that will keep me competitive, but probably losing, to the kids?

Not all of them. The ones on ridiculously restrictive visas had to stay.

This massively understates what you could do with the basic 1-bit arrangement. People managed to get music playing during gameplay (I think Manic Miner was first) and even managed …

Yeah, the Jacobian conjecture counter-example was big news. In particular, it would have been news even if an AI hadn't done it. That's where the bar is now. Settling Erdős conject…

I’ve had a lot of success with this. Give it a good enough harness, leave it for a few days and see what it finds that actually holds up.

Indeed, one useful thing you can do is fire questions like "I've got three different solutions to this problem, which performs best?". You don't need to keep the code, you just wan…

I kid you not, I remember writing an example solution with comments explaining how we were approaching the problem. Copilot wrote most of the actual code via autocomplete. And that…

I don’t think it changes that much. For opus-sized tasks, new Opus is the best model. For enormous things like planning and research, Fable is still the model that can concentrate …

It is wild that, 80 years after a girl was murdered, she’s relevant to a court case involving technology it would have taken over an hour to explain in 1945.

I think a better way of describing it would be, someone broke into your house. The police said they'd patrol it, but it would take 20 years to set up. In those 20 years, no-one bro…

It turns out that sometimes you really do want health and safety obsessed bureaucrats.

No, they're just owned by people. Most of whom aren't billionaires.

True Capitalism looks a lot more like socialism than many would like to admit.

A weird question to ask in a thread about the destruction of evidence.

It would be, but humans are famously bad at judging relative areas at all, which is a problem for data visualisation everywhere.

TL;DR by controlling the route every car takes and traffic lights, we’d get a 2% reduction in traffic. I don’t think this heralds and great change in transport policy.

My experience suggests that they _can_ be good, but this particular pattern they can be remarkably bad at. Source: I keep having to optimise this pattern.

I considered it, but I figured that whatever I did there would be inconclusive. Instead I tried to figure out the blast radius of this being proven, and I didn’t get very far with …

For comedy’s sake, I asked ChatGPT 5.5 about the significance of the problem and the chance that 5.6 would solve it with a three page solution. It said close to zero. I invited it …

This is actually great, and I predict that fans of nil-punning will rapidly discover the joys of actually having errors trigger where the error was introduced rather than propagati…

Don’t worry, some of us remember Y2K and a) how much we fixed b) how much went wrong on the day and c) getting told it was a waste of time later. And I didn’t even have to deal wit…