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> it feels… deeply uncomfortable talking to a machine like you would a person. That's why the form factor should be a wand. Flourish it to activate, and speak your spell.

Now imagine them with a big lever in the form of AI.

TL;DR And saw a few AI tells on the scroll down. The use of the the word 'honest' in any of its forms, and short sentences in headings. Rule One for writers: respect the readers' t…

The UK. It wants to steal Norway's vast stores of electricity.

Germany had no good alternative because its politicians deliberately put it in the position of having no good alternative. Something is wrong with Germany. Go to Our World InData's…

"It's just brute-forcing the search space."

In accounting this is the concept of "materiality". If some asks "is this material?", they are asking if it's worth spending significant time looking at it or deciding. Remember to…

Early on Raspbian didn't specify noatime or even relatime; every time something was read off disk, a write happened. Let alone things like putting /var/tmp and/or /var/log in RAM, …

On doctors, I read a substack by a doctor who stopped using an AI notetaker after trying it for a year. They weren't his notes, and there was too much extraneous detail. Can't find…

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Baron von Masoch was European.

Yes. Many industries are zero-sum-ish in nature,have winner-take-all dynamics or reputational costs for cheaping out. Financial trading. Big law. Military. National Security. Big i…

Europe has Mistral. You and readers may be interested in Europe 2031 1. https://europe2031.ai/

Cheaper until you factor in security and liability, which are going to get increasingly salient over time.

Deepseek's price looks unsustainable. Ant have said their operating margin is 70%. A leaner company could maybe raise that to 90%. Most of the cost of supplying inference compute i…

Far canal, why is this news?

"Comeback" or "quip" for a low-latency sub-Haiku model.

Industrial market economies. The demands of work have eaten childhood (in zero-sum education races) family life, neighborhoods and social life (people moving all the time for a bet…

Fear the time when lobbyists realise they can use AI to draft new laws...

Good question. With a lot of old people, healthcare costs go way up. In practice that means taxes go way up. (Maybe smart AI can magically cure a lot of degenerative diseases like …

Difficulty accessing birth control is greatly overstated by UN and other development agencies. In surveys by far the dominant reasons for not using it are "my husband does not want…

Traditionally, female years of education, child mortality, and GDP per capita (in order of importance) explain 85% of fertility, and the residual is not biased in either direction.…

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A dead node. I don't think I've turned it on in six months. Hmmm...