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Here's an analogy (as far as I understand the situation...) Let's say I own a lemonade stand. I sell you a 20% stake. My stand loses $10. When I report my financial results, I repo…

One example - he often compares current revenues to capex being spent on future capacity to claim that AI companies aren't profitable. (See this post for example: https://www.where…

So the author tells us there is a crisis of meaning in the workplace, and their proposed solution is… to remember none of the work matters? The start of the piece: “These conversat…

GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages, and Cloudflare Pages are all free. If you have a static site, you don't need to worry about lock-in, since your files are easily portable to a different…

If their goal is to automate scientific discovery , why would they not automate building their website? (Though, I do wish people would use just a few extra prompts to break out of…

Huh. I used to think that was a Keynes quote but now I've changed my mind.

To play devil's advocate: couldn't people generating AI image/video take the time to consider what they want to generate, decide how to prompt it, ask for edits to have subjects po…

It turns out people have even mapped individual greens, fairways, bunkers, etc on OpenStreetMap! So you can use that data to generate a yardage book for each course: https://npilk.…

What if you aren't motivated solely by making money? There will still be new free content created by hobbyists, passionate creators, altruists, etc. (Agree with you more generally.…

It's cute they think 'retail investors' are reading balance sheets in the first place.

Interesting. I had heard that chess players burn a crazy amount of calories during tournament matches, but when I looked it up just now it seems like that isn't true: https://statm…

I appreciate the sentiment but can't quite tell who the author is targeting. Is it people who don't even know what HTML is, or those who are technical enough to have considered tra…

I'm very eager for subvocalization tech to take off - this, AlterEgo, etc. I have never liked talking aloud to Siri or similar, but I could see using "voice" as an interface for so…

Haha, I guess having a troll posting nonstop racial slurs is just part of that old web feel...

I think it implies they are more likely to hallucinate if they don't know the answer . So a big model will return the correct answer more often than a small one, but in the cases w…

This will be even more interesting when AR glasses finally go mainstream in a few years, further increasing this effect.

IMO people in this thread have missed the point. I, too have moved about every two years as an adult (even though I've never had mold problems). Or when I haven't moved, I've made …

I feel like Arc nailed this perfectly with the vertical tabs and multiple "spaces", and since almost everything happens in-browser these days, this was 99% good enough. I can't und…

They make custom chips with a model's weights and parameters "hard-coded" which allows for much, much faster inference.

Human-slop is a new one for me. How would you define it? Low quality work written by a human? Human writing that sounds like an LLM? Something else?

Love chatting with an agent via iMessage for the right use case - it feels very natural and human. I hacked my own together with an old laptop and BlueBubbles. How would you compar…

I've been using DeepSeek Flash to replace Sonnet once the subscription stopped working. Haven't really noticed a difference, although I don't usually have it doing anything very co…