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Just pop over the border to Canada from Washington state and they thaw right out! Also, nit, but Europe has ~2x the population of the States, and definitely more cultural and lingu…

AI epitomises chasing a narrow definition of progress that benefits the few (increasing profits via automation) over a holistic definition of progress that benefits the many (reduc…

The Claude Code extension in VSCode is similar enough. I used to use Cursor, but now I use VSCode+CC to take advantage of the better pricing CC offers for always-on frontier. I fou…

For the kind of ML work I do Cursor's "Auto" was too unreliable. It would frequently try to solve relatively difficult tasks using Composer, when it should have been routing to a t…

Drug design isn't the bottleneck anymore, it's trials. Still cool they can do this with a general purpose model though.

Yeah, that's not great. It's not like we try to fill the 30 mins, but I think we all crave a little connection with our colleagues, so make use of the time to catch up. I've worked…

This isn't a company policy, it's just something I make space for in my team. There's no pressure to connect beyond the required work items. The happy hours are only an hour a mont…

If they don't feel like chatting they don't need to. I guess I have a chatty team. We don't always fill the 30 minutes, but we often do. It doesn't feel performative and I wouldn't…

I do this with my team. We spend more than half of our weekly 30 minute 1-on-1s talking about anything but work. That isn't written down anywhere, it's just a natural consequence o…

There are various levels of self deception that almost everyone subscribes to. A pretty high level one is that our jobs are meaningfully making a positive difference in the world, …

Dario and Demis have called for nationalisation at some point. They know if AI reaches what they believe its potential to be, it needs to be democratically governed. It will upend …

This is a bit of weird article. On one hand, I understand what they're getting at: AI is a transformative technology, but the people whose lives will be most transformed aren't inc…

Downward pressure on proprietary model pricing until a lab can catch up. Also good for hiring talent (who love OSS).

Not social media. Advertising, and any business that is funded by advertising. Social media before the maturing of internet advertising was great.

You lead with "Moreover, it is an optimal algorithm that minimizes state estimation uncertainty." By the end of the tutorial I understood what this meant, but "optimal algorithm" i…

I love all these. I'd add Blightsight by Peter Watts to the list. It has the creepy, psychological bent of Annihilation combined with the hard science elements common to qntm's, Ne…

Where I thought this was going: entering the Brand Age of AI. LLMs become commoditized, so the big labs increasingly focus on marketing and rhetoric to maintain market share. See t…

Ditto. I kept waiting for the AI comparison. My interpretation was less agentic coding than the commodification of LLMs, forcing Anthropic and OpenAI into a pivot to focus on brand…

Both. The same as for other materials we don't want kids to access, like alcohol. We can't expect parents to always be watching their kids. That's not how societies have ever worke…

For sure, I'm not blanket supporting age verification technology. Just saying the alternative proposed by the parent commenter isn't very reliable either.

It's only effective if "Children's devices are almost always set up by parents", which is a big assumption. My parents were about as tech savvy as you could reasonably expect but I…

Name checks out! Your clarification makes sense on a second read. Thanks

Agree to disagree, I guess. Not everything interesting has to be comprehensive. I think I'm done with this conversation now you're comparing a website about manufacturing to child …

How do you stay injury free climbing every day? I feel like at even twice week I am entering the danger zone with ligamentisis.

Sourdough is the bomb though. I agree about the lack of variety, but in its defense, sourdough starter can be used for a variety of other baked goods.