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The advice about deleting youtube history and setting and auto-delete cadence (though every 3 months looked like the most frequent possibility for me) is good and I wasn't aware of…

It's crazy that insurance companies are (rightfully) viewed so negatively that the killing of a CEO is responded to positively in a lot of circles. No doubt the jokes on twitter ha…

Capitalism baby, you always need to grow to increase share holder value.

True, but you could also frame this as a way for Anthropic to try and break that trend. IMO they've got to try and compete with OpenAI, can't just concede that OpenAI has won yet.

https://www.tonic.ai/products/textual offers NER models through an API or with a UI for managing projects. You can sign up for a free trial at https://textual.tonic.ai

Is there any reason why this would work better or is needed compared to taking audio and 1. doing ASR with whisper for instance 2. applying an NER model to the transcribed text? Th…

It would be cool to see one of those word diagrams where the size of the word is how often it appears (a word cloud), and to have one of the word clouds for the word in 1970 and on…

Love the name Chonkie and Moo Deng, the hippo, as the image/logo!! edit: Get some Moo Deng jokes in the docs!

An assumption of the article is that in addition to getting readers, bloggers want to make money from their blogs via advertising, brand endorsements, etc. That's fair and true for…

I agree that's most people's problem, but it's now mine. I've tried to think about effective altruism from first principals. For me, I can rationally understand effective altruism …

Lol this is a perfect encapsulation of the white savior problem. Thank you.

I'm surprised the article and non of the comments I've seen in this thread mention effective altruism, which in the framing of the article is an attempt to scale caring in some sen…

>What’s something you’ve learned that you believe gives you an edge - something that you’re almost surprised more people don’t know about? I don't know if it's just me but I would …

I also like mathematician's apology and would recommend it for understanding now a mathematician's brain works and in particular a mathematician's perspective and mindset on being …

This is a well written article with some good tie bits and lots of links. The author clearly spent a lot of time thinking about Palantir, why Palantir is successful, and what makes…

>I’ve done Ayahuasca several times, each ceremony fundamentally life-changing. In one ceremony, the shaman helped heal years of abuse. One led to my divorce. The penultimate ceremo…

I think Psychology is really interesting - what could be more interesting than studying why humans behave the way we do. For a while in undergrad I was a double math and psychology…

A great fantasy book is "The Fifth Season" by N. K. Jemisin. The whole broken earth trilogy by Jemisin is amazing. Here's to fantasy books!

Yeah, my strategy is to when I start reading move my bookmark from where I am in the book to where I am in the footnotes so that while I'm reading I use the bookmark to quickly fin…

I feel like there were many instances where something would be described, either a a character's internal feelings or an observation about the world and I would think, "damn that j…

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace It’s kind of cliche for a white male nerd of a certain age, but it has stuck with me. How imaginative the book is, the huge mix of characters …

Who buys chips like this and what are they used for? It's obviously important to push the cutting edge, and it's imaginable that someday a chip like this could be in a personal com…