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Right: it’s just context, it’s not a contract. Same with “skills”.

Vint took what could have been a prestige emeritus position at Google and turned it into a platform to champion accessibility and “Greyglers”. The man has more class than his suits…

I just want to call out that the craft in the webpage is exactly the kind of thing AI cannot produce: it's quirky and tasteful and combines modern web influences with graphic print…

I think we need to unionize, across companies. We need to be able to block stuff like this, and to be able to demand that you can’t lay off someone to replace them with AI (bringin…

The write up is maybe out of date - they are for sale in the US: https://us.alessi.com/products/toru-electric-kettle (From inheriting an Alessi electric kettle in past life: if you…

That would have made a great a reboot of the 90s Fiat Coupé.

In an attention economy the thing that pays is capturing attention - a terrifyingly finite thing that determines our lived experiences. Rewarding people who are good that this is a…

The missing bit is a representation of knowledge, and a way to represent a learner’s comprehension. Even if you shortcut by synthesizing a textbook in every major topic - that’s ju…

This is US centric, but you can show this to anyone in any major city in the western world and they will nod. The problem is global. Any time you are told the problem is immigrants…

I had that reaction when they mailed me an offer to join a recruitment event sometime around 2013. Not quite as creepy as recently when Anduril sent an email saying I was "on their…

From TFA: it was in port at the time.

Pine sap. You can get a schnapps of it, obviously.

Google is famously a slime mold.

I didn’t mean to be hyperbolic, for carbon footprint I’m looking at cumulative footprint since 1750 and not only recent annual footprint. I’m glad we agree, I take your notes.

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In CA AB-435 is written to apply a 5-point fit test to anyone under 16.

If you don't count the externalities, sure. Healthcare is a cost too. We need more holistic accounting, the financialising of everything into a tidy but ultimately false P&L column…

Government physical mail is pretty great, you just need the right regulations.

Thanks - that’s the maddening with flakes - is it the thing under test or the thing doing the testing? Hermeticity is a lie we tell ourselves :)

I would be very interested in reading about this kind of orchestration and filtering than data acquisition if you have the energy for another post :)

But does it work? I’ve used LLMs for log analysis and they have been prone to hallucinate reasons: depending on the logs the distance between cause and effects can be larger than c…

They are both the legislature and the judiciary.