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This is such a ridiculously complicated subject, there are people who spend ten years in training just so they can handle the complexities of individual instances of this kind of h…

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Ancient Greek philosophy on mind-body developmental balance can help. A physically fit human with no intellectual development and a propensity to follow orders might be the fascist…

Notice I was sure to include ‘revival of corporate R & D divisions’ in the argument? Bell Labs is the archetype - if corporations can do a better job of applied R & D, let them. If…

If every drug created with taxpayer dollars at government-funded research institutions was open-sourced, there would be a collapse in monopoly control of drug manufacturing and tha…

We can’t tell if reported anecdotal behaviors of given LLMs are due to (1) one’s engagement history with that particular LLM provider or (2) ongoing variations in the secret system…

This is an explainable marketing strategy if the target audience is made up of the military procurement sectors of governments, and is not directed at the mass market tech consumer…

“Fable was the strongest model on the market” - explain why anyone should believe that claim. I’ve been trying to track LLM code generation adoption in the critical infrastructure …

I’ve never used Claude. Why not? Because Claude’s free tier was even worse than Grok! DeepSeek’s free tier is much better. Also, the fact that Claude was hyped on HN like Rust and …

If you’re going to get a CS degree, do it in a master’s degree program. Get your undergraduate degree in anything else that involves at least some mathematics, I’d recommend physic…

The foundational problem with cancer is that multicellular organisms rely on tight control of the cell division cycle and there are hundreds of ways that can go off kilter. The rec…

Here’s a counterargument to your thesis (Eva Cockcroft, 1974) which essentially rejects the premise of hippie communes, even on the internet: “In rejecting the materialistic values…

None of the LLM safeguards designed to prevent users from developing any four-little-ponies-of-the-apocalypse (nuclear, chemical, biological, cyber) capabilities are all that coher…

Abstract expressionism and its cousin, pop art, played an interesting role in Cold War-era cultural propaganda games: https://www.artforum.com/features/abstract-expressionism-wea..…

It’s rewarmed rhetoric from the late 19th/early 20th century, most effectively pilloried by Joseph Conrad in “Heart of Darkness” in the character of Mr. Kurtz: > “ ‘He is a prodigy…

Really? People will just have their AI build OCR apps for converting handwritten notes (with equations) into LaTex, transcription apps for spoken language-to-text for understanding…

Select the more options pulldown menu, click on projection, select ‘natural Earth’, no spinning.

It’s worth looking at sectors where LLM code generation hasn’t been very visible, such as certification-accredited flight-control, braking, train-control, medical, or nuclear-contr…

I really haven’t trusted Nature and Science for about two decades. These are captured entities. The value of a publication in Science or Nature is questionable. This is a consequen…

If corporations really thought LLMs were a great cost-savings tool, then the obvious target for replacement are not the lower-paid staff, but the higher-paid staff - the ‘product m…

The moral of the story is that they should have followed in the footsteps of the Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma, who found a legal way to push opiates on people using shopping ma…

Our autonomous client-assistance system is managed by a teenager that usually makes good decisions but sometimes makes bad decisions and so all the teenager’s decisions are checked…

It won’t help you with technical details of setting up an insulin production pipeline because that’s unsafe; apparently this could be hijacked for bioweapons production. Indeed thi…