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The ML research team at Voxel51 just released a paper showing that foundation models rival the accuracy of human annotators in labeling large visual datasets, at several orders of …

There's a fantastic Ray Bradbury short story from 1948 called "Jonah and the Jove-Run" that I hardly see referenced anywhere. It's about Jupiter being the next frontier after colon…

"Made with love" is a concept that's subjective but real. You can tell Andor was made with love, while the sequel trilogy looks like it was made with a set of release criteria desi…

One of the best things I was forced to do in high school was read "How to Lie with Statistics" by Darrell Huff. The book's a bit dated and oversimplified in parts, but it gave me a…

If even the hyperscalers like OpenAI aren't making a profit, when exactly to companies adopting AI start making money? I wonder if we'll start seeing the hyperscalers start raising…

I'm curious, why hasn't Valkey picked up corporate sponsors to the degree OpenTofu did when HashiCorp changed Terraform's licensing? I just haven't seen a meaningful level of react…

I've found LLMs to often be a time-suck rather than supercharge my own learning. A huge part of thinking is reconsidering your initial assumptions when you start to struggle in res…

Engineering often supplies the potential energy fueling vision and vice versa. ARPANET was very specifically engineered with the vision of a network that could survive nuclear atta…

I mean code ages quickly, so the value of software must include the skillset needed to support and maintain it. Which is why enterprise software contracts exist, and are expensive.…

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I'd expect LLMs to continue making bloat significantly worse. When the cost of a thing craters, in this case generated lines of code, then you'll inevitably get way more of that th…