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I'm not sure why this is surprising. In the US we try to maintain inflation at a target rate of 2%. For commodities where the costs aren't able to keep pace with inflation you'd ei…

A few reasons I'd say: 1. Our incentive structure in software has always been to a large extent driven by more features [1]. Agent driven development has poured gasoline on that fi…

People keep referring to the output of neural nets as the "average of the training data" but imho the deep value in neural nets and the interesting philosophical part is they are m…

While I appreciate how deservedly hated all of our politicians are, isn't it such a sad state of affairs that we can't find trustworthy folks to lead these critical institutions?

> There's so much good stuff in this post. The post starts off so cynical. I know a few people at anthropic and oai and the simplest explanation also matches my observations that t…

I just made a crappy Microsoft account that I don't check or tie to anything. I'm sure it will backfire at some point.

Was hoping to understand if anyone has done any research on it. I could only really find one research paper on the topic [1], but it seems less focused on this specific issue. [1] …

I've noticed an effect with openai where my codex agents seem to perform worse in the week(s) leading up to a new release. I'm wondering if the vendors tweak effort params at all t…

I walked into the Mint one night because I liked to grab a bad cocktail and some good karaoke.. some guy got on stage and belted out a beautiful version of Rocket Man. I looked clo…

Not to discredit anything that was said in any particular blog post. Folks also need to remember that a lot of blog posts are written by engineers or managers that have their own a…

I think as a user I have 2 modes: 1. Q&A mode where it's basically Google search by voice. 2. I'm trying to process an idea I have with an LLM buddy. My desires are pretty differen…

I was doubting this for a minute as I wondered with a significantly biased coin towards the head side would you be more likely to get HT. With probability problems like Monty Hall …

Is there any current research on as agents w/tools start dominating LLM use, if making making models smaller / less single-shot, more like efficient engines that can process a lot …

I went through college around 2000 in compsci and I remember even back then noticing that there were about 10% of us that cared. The other 90% were just in it for money/prestige. T…

We can agree scalpers are net negative. And I like your ideas but I don't see why the venues and artists don't want to capture more of what people are willing to pay enabled by wha…

Or a Ford f150: https://www.jalopnik.com/youre-not-wrong-american-trucks-and...

The article seemed full of weak rationale leading up to the conclusion which made me doubt the whole thing: 1. He kept citing things like PGP, C++ and distributed systems as things…

I survived my Microsoft internship in 2001 by listening to Weezer blue, pinkerton, green album on a continuous loop.

I remember living pre-internet and post-internet, especially post-google and feeling like my own memory was being replaced with an Ethernet cable. The current AI models are definit…

My deeply naive take is all of this stuff should be done similar to weight classes. I'm not sure what key measurable testosterone or other doping effects but measure that and separ…

Don't a lot of CEO's famously pay themselves $1 and make their wealth on equity appreciation / capital gains?

I assume a lot of people don't know the fundamental odds of something happening but have a vague sense on if Mr. Market has gone bananas or not.

Can someone help me with insights about large context models? Are there relationships that pop up at the beginning and end of long context windows that don't transitively follow fr…

So the consumer ate the tariff (I saw somewhere that they just got passed on for the most part). Now the companies are just gonna get the money back and either enrich their exec st…

You're talking abstractly but the author mentions SF and NYC in the intro where cars come with deep pain points, but at least in SF there are so many bus stops it leads to trip tim…