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I’m already reading stories[1] about people programming GPT-based AI models to iteratively interact with and instruct other AI models, and some AI models are being connected to the…

Operations research is the art and science of obtaining bad answers to questions to which otherwise worse answers would be given.

I’ve always wondered about this, perhaps someone who understands this subject could explain. Say matter and antimatter were created in roughly equal proportions then some collided …

Typical Marco: "I respect you too much to put up an email solicitation box or fake queue." It's not enough to have good taste, you have to point out to people what good taste you h…

I'm interested to see what he comes up with. Given their main job, playing podcasts, most existing apps seem good enough. I use Downcast, and generally like it. There are some thin…

The best way to learn is by doing. Set yourself a small goal, perhaps a website with a database back-end. It doesn't matter how good the final product is, you will learn loads by m…

If read the right way the responses could still allow for direct access to all their users data through a special API. Direct access to the server itself isn't necessary to get at …

His main point (and the title of his article) is that people are stating as fact that apple has fallen, whereas their profits are still stronger than anyone's. This is true, and he…

I've found myself caring less and less what woz thinks lately. He is a significant historical figure in tech and wrt apple, but these days not very relevant.

This really needs screenshots. 95% of my initial judgement of whether I want to investigate an app further is based on screenshots.

Doesn't the principle of universality of computation mean that any processing that happens in a human brain, i.e., "intelligence", can also happen on another computing platform, wi…

The ability of some traders to make consistent significant profits should be an "existence proof" of the inefficiency of markets. The EMH is just wrong.

Not at all, I think they're insane to think their users will put up with ads. But the amount of revenue from people willing to pay is insignificant. Another way is needed.

Getting pretty tired of these "dear company, let me pay for your product instead of showing me ads" arguments. They show a lack of understanding of business models.

There is nothing at all stunning about that site. Boring corporate design, the link to "try" it blocks you with a login popup, the whole idea of bothering to register or "subscribe…

That headline is serious linkbait. The main point is that the dock connector changing will be a bit inconvenient for existing owners. How does that not make it the best ever? There…

"So the essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard,and it does not solve the problem well."

The first I know of is "The Fountains of Paradise" by A.C. Clarke. Great book.

I do this when developing and it's great. I don't mind things small if I can see twice as many of them.

This thread is doomed to become complaints from vim and emacs users. I agree with Marco on the hard to learn, but mainly the ugly comments. As a recent convert to ST2 from eclipse,…

After a few hours I've switched back to 1920x1200. I still love the huge native resolution, and will switch to it in certain circumstances, but for regular web-browsing, email, tex…

I have an rMBP. I had been running it at the largest supported resolution (1920x1200). I just downloaded SwitchResX and set it to 2880x1800. It seems to work perfectly. Everything …

If there was a period of rest in between two sessions then some teams would keep working and get an unfair advantage. It would effectively turn into a 2-day hackathon rather than a…

1. Convince yourself that success is a lottery and they were just mostly lucky. 2. Embrace your envy and let it push you to strive harder. 3. Stop thinking about others and use you…