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As someone who was a big fan of Reader and worked at Google at the time (not on G+): I never understood why they didn’t try to put Reader into G+. Like you could imagine getting yo…

I feel lonely in that: I mostly love Java as a language. The lack of value types is the biggest impediment to certain types of performance. I am really looking forward to this evol…

I wish these guys would have released this amazing looking 6502 in circuits: https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2016/6502/

If you extrapolate these “fines” to per book piracy, I wonder what the cost would be for something like Anna’s Archive. Trillions?

I think the company’s goals are what’s most important to the company. Being a woman is incidental to that, imho. There are lots of things an employee might be unhappy about. In mos…

I wonder if the recent sale of the Seahawks will change that. IIRC, ~$10B and all is supposed to go to charity. Not sure how much of that will go to AllenAI, though. (If any.)

How soon until biohackers try this on themselves?

I wouldn't expect it to be less murderous than the aliens themselves. That wasn't my point at all. I'd expect it to contain all their knowledge and be able to live "forever". But I…

Tangential to your tangential: The era of AI makes me realize that if we ever get visited by aliens: it will probably not be actual aliens -- just an AI probe. And the idea of it r…

As I understand it, this has nothing to do with Lebanon. It has to do with ships moving through the Oman side of the strait. Iran is unhappy with that, because the want to control …

They probably don't have much, I guess.

> Researchers at Amazon had used a series of prompts to get Anthropic’s Fable 5 model to provide them with information that could be used to aid cyberattacks... All models can do t…

xAI or OpenAI? (Or both?)

I guess it will be interesting if, in a week or two, OpenAI launches a "Fable class" model and it isn't blocked by the government.

There are a lot of things like this. My favorite is how elegant solutions often look simple in retrospect. So if you noodle on a problem for a while and then come up with a clever …

I wasn’t assuming anything. I was asking whether the problem was bias — which we already see in some things that are highly regulated — or just wrong bias. I’m trying to understand…

Ironically, in the US it is ok to charge men more for car insurance, since they cost more in aggregate. It is illegal to charge women more for health insurance even though they cos…

> sing an LLM to make decisions about extending credit to offer worse terms (say) to women. In general, or if it isn't the correct answer? Like: young men pay more for car insuranc…

> There has been plenty of research that shows LLMs encode social biases. At the risk of stepping into a hornets nest: is that different than "knowledge"? Or maybe, what would it m…

The way I've been thinking about it: there is too much money trying to pour into the market. That's why valuations are so high. Maybe getting more of these big private companies pu…

My first ever programming interview was like a group interview. There were three or four programmers asking me questions, one at a time. The only one I remember was to check if two…

There will be cheaper solutions. And they will generally be less capable than the more expensive ones. Just like most other products. But my guess is that the cost of SWEs themselv…

> Pmf is this weirdly defined thing where "if you're not sure you have it then you don't". I'm not sure if this runs counter to your point or not, but: I don't see any future where…

I wonder if instead (or in parallel), Norway should build a set of training data and share it (for free) with all the model builders. Seems like making the frontier models know Nor…