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If a subway line or a train station or a similar rail megaproject has an internationally renowned architect in charge, it costs too much and is unlikely to be functional.
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25 July
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Usesrcmnd.app
ClaudeTheir words
So by far the funniest thing about using Claude and Codex together is how Codex is very earnest and businesslike while Claude treats Codex like an inferior but hard-working subordinate
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CodexTheir words
So by far the funniest thing about using Claude and Codex together is how Codex is very earnest and businesslike while Claude treats Codex like an inferior but hard-working subordinate
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Their words
The Rumpelstiltskin effect is not a claim that receiving a diagnosis is a net benefit or a net positive. It is a claim that the mere act of receiving a diagnosis can be beneficial.
24 July
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Likedtheir ownrcmnd.app
Claude Opus 5Their words
Opus 5 is a great model for coding, data analysis, design, biology, knowledge work.
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korrents.com
A reader's own mental image of a character is as valid as the author's depiction of them.Their words
Some readers like this, others don't, and if the Samantha in your head looks nothing like the one on the page, yours is the correct one.
From one piece Printing tiny photos for paper journals 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
AirPods' reliability comes from using a proprietary protocol rather than standard Bluetooth.Their words
AirPods work flawlessly because they're cheating with a proprietary Apple-only protocol.
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For Chinese-based consumer electronics like this, the hardware is usually a lot better than the software.
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Bluetooth technology is generally unreliable.Their words
Virtually nothing that uses Bluetooth is reliable, and this is no exception.
From one piece Mistaking making for the thing you've made 2 beliefs · world.hey.com
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Confusing how something was made with what was made is confusing the kitchen for the mealTheir words
Mistaking making for the thing you've made is like confusing the kitchen for the meal or the blueprint for the building. They're connected, but they're not the same thing. One of them matters a whole lot more than the other.
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The speed at which a product is developed doesn't inherently make the product better or worse. The number of commits doesn't make the product better or worse. The number of people or agents working on it doesn't make it better or worse.
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korrents.com
Calling an intelligent, self-aware being legal property does not resolve whether it has an interest in freedom.Their words
But it recognizes that calling an intelligent, self-aware, emotionally complex being "property" does not answer the question of whether that being has an interest in freedom.
“KEY OUT”: When a Chimpanzee Asks to Be Freeboldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
PompeiiTheir words
I recommend visiting Pompeii because it’s one of the few places left where you can touch history itself.
23 July
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Harvia saunaTheir words
harvia dry sauna, and if outside, add a little changing room to it so you don't exit in the cold outside!
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Concept2Their words
a gym bike like concept2, maybe concept2 rowing machine too, with that you can do almost anything to stay fit!
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Fellow Ode 2Their words
fellow water kettle, fellow ode 2 coffee grinder
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LG TVsTheir words
LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
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Apple TVTheir words
LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
From one piece Cozy Summer 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Adult people are comfortable when their expectations match reality, which is not how the child world works.
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korrents.com
When two truths conflict and both are hard to accept, people resolve the tension by discarding one of them.Their words
Reality hands us two truths at once, and when we can't stomach both, we eliminate one.
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In the current social media zeitgeist, pain is regularly rewarded over joy.
From one piece How to Stop Arguing About Household Chores: 13 Strategies for Couples 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Changing your own behavior can shift a relationship or household atmosphere and lead others to change too.Their words
But it's also true that when I change, a relationship changes; when I change, the atmosphere of my household changes; when I change, others may imitate me.
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People tend to unconsciously overestimate how much they personally contribute to shared work compared to others.Their words
In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others.
From one piece An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff 3 beliefs · oneusefulthing.org
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korrents.com
Microsoft Copilot is adequate for office document work but significantly behind in agentic capabilityTheir words
Copilot, which uses a mix of AI models and is okay for working with office documents but lags badly in terms of its agentic abilities.
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Higher-priced AI subscription tiers mainly buy more hours of agent usage rather than a smarter underlying modelTheir words
The more expensive plans are mostly buying you more hours of AI labor, not smarter AI.
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Google currently has no leading frontier AI model and no agentic coding tool comparable to Codex or Claude CodeTheir words
Google, which led on benchmarks not that long ago, has fallen behind where it now counts: it has no leading frontier model and it has nothing close to Codex and Code.
22 July
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korrents.com
France and Germany will ban Tesla's full self-driving to protect their own car industry.Their words
The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry that's being decimated by Chinese EVs and Tesla Allowing Tesla full self driving would make it so popular that it'd probably the end of their car industry Because no French or German car has self driving like Tesla, many customers would probably flock to Tesla
From one piece Finding Alpha: What’s Worth Consuming in the Age of AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Details are the essential substance of human communication, creativity and productivity.Their words
Details are the very heart and substance of human communication, creativity, and productivity.
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Language models cannot hold a genuine perspective or take a stand for what they believe.Their words
But for LLMs, it shows that they have no skin in the game and will never take a stand for what they believe in regardless of what it costs. They are perspective generators, not perspective holders.
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They've given us broad, passive exposure to the market average, but at the cost of suppressing upside
From one piece Hot days, cold thermometers 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Third, raw daily data is the wrong tool for this question. Time of observation changes and the 1980s switch to MMTS sensors both suppress modern hot day counts relative to the past, and the raw and homogenized series diverge almost exactly when the instrument transition happened.
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The US warming trend since 1970 is consistent across raw, adjusted, satellite, and surface temperature datasetsTheir words
The overall US warming trend (around 0.5F per decade since 1970 in max, min, and mean temperatures) is robust in every dataset, raw or adjusted, satellite or surface.
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A record set during an ecological disaster in one part of the country is not evidence that the whole country, much less the planet, was hotter.
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On changing their mind
If you had asked me this question in the lead up to my 2019 book, Ultralearning, I would have said no. I was a strong advocate for doing hard problem solving and the associated mental effort it requires as a way to learn difficult skills.
From one piece We Need Guidelines for Learning and AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI has the potential to assist with both the first and last element of that loop. What it cannot replace is the middle step—doing the work for yourself.
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Asking AI for help on a first attempt robs you of the experience that builds your own judgement about the problem.Their words
Asking an AI for help with the start of an essay, for instance, will invariably shape what direction you end up following, robbing you of the crucial experience of building your own judgement around a topic and selecting your own path to research and argue.
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You cannot learn from work you did not do yourself.Their words
But having AI do your homework is self-defeating. You can’t learn without doing the work.
From one piece Chartbook 460 Greedflation meets China shock: Can Europe's car industry be saved without making the cost of living crisis worse? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The two seemingly contradictory trends connect, because the relatively low rate of productive investment leaves European industry vulnerable to its most vigorous competitors whose firms are contending with an even more deflationary macroeconomic situation at home in China.
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Protection for European industry should be granted only alongside demands for systematic reform of that industry.Their words
And this in turn means that if we really want to find a way out of the impasse, advocacy for protection and support should be tied to demands for systematic reform.
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To put this same story another way, the European car industry in the early 2020s was a prime example of greedflation i.e. companies taking advantage of the COVID shock and other disruptions and to hike profits at the expense of consumers.
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It reveals things that are deeply wrong at the heart of the European economy.
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I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising because you assume OpenAI has sounder sandboxes.
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PB Swiss hex keysTheir words
I have had great experiences with PB Swiss Tools over the years, especially their hex keys.
21 July
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Their words
So you went from a business chain of customer > app > ai model provider To customer > ai model provider The app layer is possibly getting removed!
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Lovedrcmnd.app
How to Survive Boiling WaterTheir words
"How to Survive Boiling Water" is a quintessential effort post. Cook accidentally drinks some probiotic tea, and then she's like, wait, how could "probiotic tea" possibly be a thing?
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Magical ConstitutionalismTheir words
SECOND PLACE ($250): Magical Constitutionalism by Ricardo López Cordero
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Remembering Indonesia from My GrandpaTheir words
What stands out about Hsieh's version is that her roots occupy such a unique spot in history: her grandparents were Chinese born in Indonesia, which means they got caught between the rock of the Cultural Revolution and the hard place of anti-communist backlash.
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Chatting AloneTheir words
Martsinovich argues, via code snippets, that there is no such thing as a "conversation" with a chatbot. The AI is born anew every time it speaks, and it simply reads the dialogue so far and then tries to write the next line:
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Usesrcmnd.app
PangramTheir words
For the first time, I ran all potential winners through Pangram, which is an AI-writing detector.1 So according to the machine (and to my ear), all of the winners are 100% human-written.
From one piece The fossil fuel money behind the GOP’s wildfire blame game 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It is uncontroversial in the scientific community to say that climate change is intensifying these explosive wildfires, particularly in the Canadian boreal forests.
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The fossil fuel industry's great political achievement is not that it has persuaded every Republican that climate change is a hoax. It is that it has made the truth unspeakable among Republican politicians-even when their constituents are choking on it.
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fossil fuel money is an immensely powerful, intensely corrupting force in American politics that limits not only what conversations we can have about massive problems, but what we can do to solve them
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Kill StickyTheir words
I've been running gala8y's version for a year now with no problems, and I recommend it as your second line of dickover defense (after Reader Mode)
From one piece Intelligence is not the main bottleneck 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
Take Eroom’s Law: the number of new drugs approved per dollar of R&D has fallen for decades, even as our scientific tools have grown vastly more powerful, the exact opposite of what the existence of more raw capability would predict.
Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
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A capability existing is not the same as a capability being absorbed into institutions, and, perhaps most important of all, translated into outcomes people care about.
Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
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The patent system then further disincentivizes companies from taking target risk, because it rewards novel chemical matter, not novel biology.
Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
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Drug companies pile onto the same few already-validated targets, so far less of biology gets explored than could be.Their words
In biomedicine we have a problem called target herding: most companies chase the same biological targets because they are de-risked, which means we explore far less of the biological space than we could.
Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
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I told him what I believe: that in the age of AI, medicine will be bottlenecked more than ever by regulation and the grind of clinical trials, and that billions poured into faster pre-clinical research won’t touch that problem, unsexy as it is.
Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
20 July
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korrents.com
Now that everyone can build apps with AI, distribution is the thing that separates who wins.Their words, before
I think the challenge is that everyone can now build apps But 1) almost nobody has distribution (like an audience), or 2) the money to pay for distribution (ads or UGC), or 3) the creative genius to get distribution for free (classically called guerilla marketing)
Their words now
I thought it'd be distribution but who knows, obviously creativity and ideas, but if you can copy a successful app in an hour, then how does that differentiating work?
From one piece Superintelligence has passed us and we're all running after the carrot 2 beliefs · levels.io
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AI has equalised everyone: coding, building and execution are no longer a differentiator.Their words
So AI has made everybody just as capable as everyone else, it equalized everyone in the world, as in everyone can make everything (software, music, images, art etc) now and everyone is equal, at least in the digital realm now
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It's pretty clear to me that superintelligence is here and it's more powerful than us and it's moving where things are going now, not humans anymore
From one piece Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Even if you're doing hard ones, if you look at the work of people like uh Gloria Mark, the things like crossword and sudoku, they're less of like a true cognitive challenge, right? It's it's almost has more of like a meditation meditative like effect, right? Which can be a good thing, right? So you're focused but not challenged really.
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They just published a secondary analysis of the active trial that showed that um those who did processing speed training with uh booster sessions at one and three years had a significantly decreased risk of dementia 20 years later.
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However, there's an increasing body of literature that shows that by engaging older adults in novel cognitive activities, you see improvements in function. So that can be language learning. Uh that can be uh complex like coordinative movement or exercise. You see the same things with um like musical training like people learning a new musical instrument or learning um musical theory trying to identify different patterns in music. And you see in randomized control trials improvements particularly in executive function that seems to be most common across those different interventions.
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A lot of people don't realize that particularly brain development, but then also the refining of functions in the brain through neuroplasticity includes the pruning or removal of signapses. Often we think about it's all about growth and new connections, but actually it also involves the refining or removal of of other connections that aren't needed.
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But just because we have a fixed relatively fixed number of cells doesn't mean that we can't change the connections between those cells. And that's happening all the time. And that is, you know, the main principle of neuroplasticity.
From one piece North Carolina’s bold move on civil service 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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While I don't think compensation is the core challenge of civil service systems, of course it matters.
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AI is raising public expectations of government service at the same time it changes what government must deliver.Their words
Every state, and the federal government right along with them, is about to be asked to do a lot more than keep the lights on.
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These wins are not proof that the system works; in fact, they are clear evidence that the system only works when it is circumvented.
From one piece Death by AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I agree with Koopman that people really are swayed by such cases. I also think it’s a dumb-ass gut response that we should try our best to get over.
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The second failure of rationality is a status quo bias: an unseemly attachment to the way things currently are; an irrational overweighing of the cost of the new. We effectively end up comparing a new technology to perfection, so it’s no wonder it comes up short.
From one piece Comprehensible Input: How It Helps Language Learning 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Past the beginning, learn from whatever you actually care about rather than from material written for learners.Their words
Don’t limit yourself to material designed for language learners. Read and listen to content that you genuinely care about.
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A beginner cannot learn from material made for native speakers: at the start, authentic media is noise.Their words
If you are starting a language completely from scratch, authentic media is just noise. You’ll absorb very little. You need highly repetitive, simple input.
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korrents.com
Learning from input does not mean refusing grammar books; the point is to notice patterns, not to master the rules.Their words
Some people think CI means you reject grammar books. I disagree. I often reference grammar materials and find these explanations useful. However, the focus of my learning is not to “master the rules”. Grammar resources simply help me notice and make sense of patterns in the language.
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Sure, language classes can provide social benefits and feedback. But the real means of learning a language is consistent, ample amounts of listening and reading.
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I came to the same conclusions independently before I encountered Krashen's work, and decades of learning across 20+ languages have only reinforced them. The research supports the intuition: input is where acquisition happens.
19 July
From one piece Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In a world of AI with agents operating across multiple systems, wanting source of truth data, the importance of having preferred paved paths that get the most of the benefits and produce some guardrails so we can make sure we're doing good work, common infrastructure, common paved paths, solving problems once with a core set of capabilities becomes more important.
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So, we are hiring more people who can look across all the business domains and abstract that to here's the building blocks we're going to need in a world with AI.
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Craft excellence within each discipline is not going away, however much AI blurs the work across functional lines.Their words
I still see a craft excellence that's really important in the disciplines that I don't think is going away anytime soon. Even if there's fluidity or blurring of the work across the functional lines.
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That AI lets anyone prototype does not mean everyone should be shipping code to production.Their words
Do I believe that means anyone should be shipping code to production? That everyone should actually be doing everything? Probably not. But I think that it's good for people to be exploring what's possible.
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I think anytime a new technology comes along, especially one that's as transformative as GenAI, you go through a storming phase before you go through the forming phase of things. And I think we are in the middle of that right now.
18 July
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korrents.com
About 5% is the most common final ownership stake for the founder of a VC-funded startup that works out.Their words
You think this is crazy low but ~5% ownership probably the most common final % most VC funded startups will have when they work out, especially when you have a co-founder
From one piece Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Pushing an LLM's reasoning budget higher eventually yields diminishing returns and becomes uneconomical.Their words
This saturation can be seen more clearly for the GPT 5.6 Sol model, which also shows that increasing reasoning budgets can become uneconomical at some point.
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
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a smaller model at a higher reasoning effort can sometimes reach a similar score as a larger model at a lower reasoning effort
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
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These <think> and </think> tags are cosmetic with respect to reasoning ability. They do not make the model reason, and they are not required to achieve good reasoning performance.
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
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A City on MarsTheir words
They excel at making the dull delightful. There are a lot of big and serious facts to get through, but they have a gift for communicating them simply and eloquently. I just wish they'd've come to a different conclusion.
17 July
From one piece Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Local fuel treatments protect communities but cannot reduce total wildfire area across the remote borealTheir words
Fuel management is valuable around communities, but is essentially useless across the remote boreal.
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Fuel buildup from forest mismanagement cannot occur in forests that were never actively managedTheir words
You cannot have a fuel-buildup from forest mismanagement in a forest you were never managing.
From one piece Permanent Daylight Saving Time Is the Perfect Stupid Idea for Our Stupid Time 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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politicians acting based on what they think polls well, rather than based on what will actually produce results that make voters happy
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the increasing unreasonableness of an electorate that wants all its groceries in one bag and also doesn't want the bag to be heavy is a primary driver behind permanently low approval of politicians in both parties
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Modern technology has made seasonal clock changes far less burdensome than they were decades ago.Their words
the main relevant difference between 1974 and now is that technology handles clock changes on our behalf, so time changes are less burdensome than they used to be.
From one piece Another stolen summer day 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Forest management alone cannot offset the hotter, drier conditions that climate change has brought to wildfires.Their words
It is not enough to manage away the hotter, drier conditions that have turned fires into continent-spanning hellscape smoke events.
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Polluters and their cronies are not trying to win the climate argument, merely to prolong it in perpetuity so there's never enough public consensus for action.
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Unlocking the Past: A Yogic Perspective on Healing Intergenerational TraumaTheir words
Join my on-demand course with @YogaUOnline—Unlocking the Past: A Yogic Perspective on Healing Intergenerational Trauma, exploring how yogic approaches can resolve inherited trauma.
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Their words
I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about operating databases.
16 July
From one piece My speech at Borgo Laudato Si’ 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Competitive pressure among AI developers could cause loss of control even without anyone intending itTheir words
But in a climate of rushed decisions and fierce competition, we could lose control over AI even if almost no one wants that outcome.
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AI is developing at a very rapid pace, far more rapidly than most outside of the industry fully understand, and far more rapidly than almost anyone in the industry predicted.
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Loss of control is a risk for the next few years, not the next few decades as many experts once thought.
From one piece Notebooks And The Extended Mind 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the most pressing question is not whether the machines are on the verge of sentience, since the likelihood of that seems low.
Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
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the external tools that we use to help us reason, remember, associate, calculate-from counting on our fingers to chatting with an advanced LLM-should be properly understood as extensions of our own cognitive process.
Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
From one piece Is the Age of Reading Actually Over? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A shift toward faster media formats changes how people read rather than ending reading altogetherTheir words
Faster formats don't automatically destroy reading. They change it.
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As everything else becomes faster and cheaper, things that require sustained attention become more valuableTheir words
When everything else gets faster and cheaper, the stuff that requires real-time and attention becomes more important, more valuable.
From one piece Workshop Basel day three 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Today's live-streamed TV broadcasts have higher latency than the 1969 moon landing broadcast.Their words
The moon landing was broadcasted with less latency than current live-streamed TV
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The feature is disabled by Google in ChromeOS, Android and in production Google servers which certainly holds back some use of it.
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I have the Wigglesworth and Moore books on my desk, queued up for my hammock reading
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How to Get Rich in American HistoryTheir words
I have the Wigglesworth and Moore books on my desk, queued up for my hammock reading
15 July
From one piece Corridor Zoning is not Transit-Oriented Development 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the explicit purpose of corridor zoning is to concentrate both air pollution and the perceived social pollution of apartment dwellers in quarantine zones that single-family homeowners can avoid
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The reason is simple: TOD doesn't care about corridors but about the underlying transit, which is a subway, not a bus stopping every block.
From one piece Context engineering with Dex Horthy 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But it's also your instruction budget is like if you give the model too many instructions and especially too many conflicting instructions and that's in your initial prompt and also like if you have a conversation you start going down a path and then you change your mind and you start going down a different you actually I don't want to do any of that I want to do this. It's like a it's a lot of computation the model has to do to notice that it has to ignore that whole thing.
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You're not actually getting a like smarter model. like the intelligence of the model is is what drives its ability to attend to all of the tokens in the context window to figure out on the next turn which parts of this 100k or 200k context window are the most relevant to making the decision of like what is the next tool we call and doing that over and over again in a loop.
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I think context engineering has been so long lived because it's it's grounded in the fundamentals of how transformer attention works and until we have post transformer models or linear attention or whatever it is which who knows when that's going to happen context engineering will be interesting and important to anyone building on AI
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Well, harness engineering just is like how do I raise the floor so that every single turn of this thing, the results are as good as possible.
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And at the end of the day, they're all like different ways to pass tokens into a model and ask it to produce usually some structured output. And understanding that is a lot more powerful than trying to learn memory and trying to pick some agent framework off the shelf and some memory framework off the shelf.
From one piece Operation Gallavant: An Overlanding Journey Through Latin America 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Under rising uncertainty, people should shorten their planning horizon rather than invest in a distant future.Their words
When uncertainty rises, your horizon should become shorter-term.
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AI's transformation of society will unfold gradually over decades, not in a single moment of takeoff.Their words
AI will take many decades to ripple through society. We won't see the end of it in our lifetimes.
From one piece An Alternative to Private Equity: Introducing ORANGE JUICE 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Privately held businesses in the United States are collectively worth trillions of dollars, and demographically speaking, they have an aging set of owners who are seeking liquidity or diversification as they explore how to pass on what they've built.
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PE funds optimize for a 4-7 flip and typically resort to aggressive cost-cutting and near-term optimization at the cost of the "soul" of the business or what made it successful in the first place.
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Businesses acquired by private equity funds fail more often than average because of the leverage loaded onto them.Their words
Businesses that emerge out of PE funds have higher failure rates than average, thanks to being saddled with a lot of leverage.
From one piece Labor is Now Free. Make Something. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The difference in performance between horse and buggy and a modern car is far less than hand coding and AI coding.
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This will become normal and commonplace 12-24 months from now, but right now no one really knows.
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Now is the best time ever to start a small business, thanks to AI making labor essentially free.Their words
There has never been a better time to start a small business.
From one piece Open source models are having a moment 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Geo-politically, countries will be weighing open weight models as a way to get frontier-level tokens inside controlled environments that may not be otherwise possible.
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Organizations will trade some access to frontier-level AI capability for greater control over how their data is used.Their words
Organizations are increasingly looking for control over how their data is used and are willing to trade off some access to frontier level tokens for this control.
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The future is multi-model.Their words
it is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models at least on coding and agentic use.
From one piece Various and Sundry 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI-generated junk papers risk overwhelming the hep-th physics field with worthless content.Their words
The result is something completely worthless, but not obviously distinguishable from many other things on hep-th, which is in serious danger of going from something sad and unhealthy to something completely overwhelmed with crud.
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While in mathematics AI agents are starting to have a major positive impact on research (e.g. by resolving the Jacobian conjecture), the situation is very different in hep-th.
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I see nothing that looks like a significant new idea or any evidence this isn't a dead field.
14 July
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Dell XPS 13 (2026)Their words
The XPS 13 has a great 120Hz screen (something you don't even get on a MacBook Air at twice the money!), a superb keyboard w/ backlighting (also missing on the Neo!), and weighs 20% less at just 1 kg with every bit as nice an aluminum chassis.
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Dell XPS 14 (2026)Their words
As I said, I've spent months using an XPS 14 as my main machine. It's been so good I even gave up on using a dedicated desktop machine.
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Framework LaptopTheir words
I did try Dell's laptops a few years back, didn't like what I saw, and ended up spending a few years using Framework computers instead (they're still great too).
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Apple Pro Display XDRTheir words
Now I just run everything off the XPS 14, connected to an Apple XDR 6K 32" (nobody has yet managed to beat this, and I've owned it for years). It's a great, simple setup.
From one piece Some Summer Reading 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Behavioral economics is not a cure-all, but it is a useful tool for individuals and for systemic change alike.Their words
My view: Behavioral economics is no panacea, but it can be an extremely useful tool for individuals and for systems as well.
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As I've often written, money isn't really about numbers; it's about emotion.
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Good economic times tend to produce bad financial ideas, while bad times produce good ones.Their words
My own theory is that good times foster bad financial ideas, and bad times engender good ones.
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The Psychology of MoneyTheir words
Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, a book I wish I'd written, has written another book I wish I'd written.
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1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern WorldTheir words
Ahamed, the banker and investment manager whose previous book Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World covered the crash of 1929, writes well.
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The Wealth LadderTheir words
He develops simple, clever, quantitative rules of thumb to guide saving, spending, and investing as you progress through different levels of wealth.
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Stay Calm: Learn to Embrace Uncertainty in Investing and LifeTheir words
It might have worked even better as two separate books, rather than as one short book trying to do two things. But Booth's writing is soothing, and his overall message — investing is simply a bet on human innovation and progress — is a truism worth repeating. Young people, in particular, might benefit from reading it.
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Risk & RewardTheir words
Carlson, author of the aptly named blog A Wealth of Common Sense, brings a similar approach to this book. While much of it might seem familiar to sophisticated readers, Carlson's clean and clear use of data — both in charts and text — makes basic points memorable.
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Makita XGT LED worklightTheir words
While I only spent a couple of minutes with the new Makita worklight, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
13 July
From one piece How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And our brain does a lot of interesting things in terms of, you know, reconstructing the past also has a similar brain signature as imagining the future. which you know in some ways makes sense. We shouldn't have separate parts of the brain for thinking about the past and thinking about the future.
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Now, it can also make your memory worse because you're realizing I want to I'm taking this photo so I don't need to remember it later. And so, you could see it going both ways, but that selection process is important.
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the research on photographic memory does show that even people who have very strong visual memory will make memory errors. So it's not that you know it's exactly photographic but their visual memory is exceptional.
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How can you make learning kind of uncomfortable, but that you'll remember things better? And it goes against a lot of our intuitions. A lot of teachers will want to say, how can we make learning easier? And I think that's probably the first problem is you don't want it to be easy.
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And I think that illustrates also how our memory works. That just seeing something many times doesn't mean you'll remember it well. And this is a classic demonstration that, you know, you've seen a penny many times. You don't remember all the features on the penny.
From one piece Graham Platner Was Just Hunter Biden With Worse Ink 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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After all, one of the main reasons bad boys are bad is that they lie.
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They get women to sleep with them, but they attract both men and women and cause them to surrender their better judgment and make bad choices in a variety of contexts, including the voting booth.
From one piece Why Reading Matters 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We should treat highly distracting digital garbage like junk food – something we largely avoid – and purposefully schedule a non-trivial amount of time each day to read, write, and self-reflect, just as we now dedicate time to walking, jogging, and weight lifting.
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Human rights, logic, progress and the very idea of an independent self are all children of the written word.Their words
essentially every cultural attribute that we celebrate – from human rights, to logic, to progress, to the very notion of an independent self – are conceptual children born from the mind-shaping power of the written word.
From one piece The Black Markets Fallacy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Prohibition reduces how much of a product is consumed rather than merely moving the same consumption underground.Their words
Quantity consumed under prohibition is almost always smaller than quantity consumed under legalization.
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What’s fallacious is to argue that this fact necessarily means the prohibition does not “work,” or is not better than legalization.
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Siri AITheir words
The ability to go from Siri in the Camera to a longer conversation in the dedicated Siri app is one of my favorite aspects of Siri AI.
12 July
From one piece The Network State 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As mentioned before, Uber and Lyft are better regulators than the State’s paper-based taxi medallions, email is superior to the USPS, and SpaceX is out-executing NASA.
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As incredible as it may sound, the blockchain is the most important development in history since the advent of writing itself, as it’s a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, and provably complete digital record of a system.
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In this sense, the Network is the next Leviathan, because on key dimensions it is becoming more powerful and more just than the State.
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Encryption thus limits governments in a way no legislation can.
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new laws are like code that is pushed live to production without even being read (let alone tested), often in the face of tremendous opposition, affecting millions of citizens, with minimal monitoring to ensure they’re producing the desired results, an extremely slow customer feedback cycle, and few ways to truly opt out.
From one piece A self-absorbed giant 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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China's cultural and intellectual output to the world is far smaller than its economic weight.Their words
It surely does not “produce” one quarter of world culture or intellectual activity (if the latter is defined as influential books, of fiction and non-fiction, politics, history; films, plastic arts, music, theater etc.)
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China had more ideological influence in the world during the Cultural Revolution than it has today.Their words
Paradoxically, China might have had more soft power when it followed self-destructive policies of Maoist Cultural Revolution.
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China's economic success has produced no transferable blueprint that other poor countries could follow.Their words
China’s tremendous success had not resulted in a blueprint that could be followed from Afghanistan to Zambia on how to become rich in four decades.
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Chinese writers' preoccupation with China alone is what limits China's soft power abroad.Their words
To come to my key point: this self-concentration limits China’s ideological influence in the rest of the world and its soft power.
From one piece Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clocks 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I would suggest not buying any of these tests.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
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I believe this represents the most important advance we have yet seen in the science of human aging.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
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Accordingly, the brain and immune system have the appearance of master regulators of the aging process.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
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Our organs and cell types age at different rates, so a single chronological age is an illusion.Their words
It also turns out our organs age at a different pace.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
11 July
From one piece Does losing sleep mean losing lifespan? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Given what we know about sleep loss, that conclusion makes sense—but being reasonable isn’t the same thing as being proven.
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So a rough night here and there is nothing to agonize over.
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Sleep is a lever on body composition, metabolism, and mood, and deprivation pulls in the wrong direction across nearly every axis at once.
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Population-level studies will keep struggling to prove that short sleep shortens life, because they are structurally unable to separate cause from symptom—and the genetic tools meant to overcome this limitation inherit a different fatal flaw.
From one piece The value of software in a Fable world 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As AI makes coding easy for everyone, the ability to code stops being a meaningful edge for entrepreneurs.Their words
Indie entrepreneurs need to stack every advantage they have, and increasingly "coding" won't be the advantage it once was.
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My guess is that people will still want to buy certain types of software and tools "off-the-shelf."
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Scarcity and difficulty of production, not just usefulness, are what let a seller charge more.Their words
Generally, the economy rewards difficulty and rarity. If something is hard to do or make, you get to charge more.
From one piece The Odyssey 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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How a person interprets a major movie is shaped by where they are in their own life at that moment.Their words
Finally, when you watch any major movie, you interpret it through where you are in your life at that moment.
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Reading online commentary about a movie before seeing it reduces the immersion of experiencing it for the first time.Their words
There are many forces online that want to cast every movie into their pet topic and I find that deeply reduces the immersion and experience from watching a piece of cinema for the first time.
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The OdysseyTheir words
this will be the movie of the year, will leave a deep impact on any viewer and will go down as one of the great epic movies made
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Thunderbolt's official wake-from-sleep certification does not guarantee the feature works reliably in practice.Their words
At this point, I had pretty much given up and filed Thunderbolt's "wake from sleep" promise in the "unreliable" folder, right next to Bluetooth Pairing.
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ASUS ROG Swift PG27UCDMTheir words
Since I switched the monitor, I have never experienced a failure. The system works perfectly, flawlessly waking the laptop and bringing the desktop online in under a second.
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Caldigit TS4Their words
I got the CalDigit TS4 as soon as it was released, in 2022. It was perhaps a little bit better but overall I was disappointed to still sometimes encounter a machine that would not wake up.
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CalDigit TS3Their words
Even the best Thunderbolt dock at the time, the CalDigit TS3, would occasionally fail to wake up the system. It was super annoying.
10 July
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Once you commit to HTML, an enormous amount of complexity simply evaporates.
From one piece Don't you mean extinct? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But for everything else, code quality still matters tremendously.
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Writing every line by hand is no longer the norm. Those who refuse to use an LLM will fall behind because they won't be able to produce as much
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Smaller teams are betterTheir words
We can accomplish more with smaller teams. We may not be far from the '90s model, when a team of four could produce professional software.
9 July
From one piece The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think that you can imagine at least in an year or two coming that the the burn rate of a strong engineer might be the same as their salary or their cost of employment.
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So you know who who succeeds is a function of whose strengths are aligned with the tools needs and the business's needs.
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Because if you're those three things, if you got fire in your belly, you learn quickly, and you're self-aware, you can kind of get good at anything eventually.
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you've got these other generalists doing design, you've got engineers doing design, product staff doing design, but I'm actually pretty long on design or designers because they tend to have taste and I think that is something that is much more difficult to imagine being automated away.
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But they just by virtue of having less people to coordinate they can often move faster and make um better decisions a little bit less design by committee.
From one piece The Natural-Born Artist. 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A kinder assistant makes for a more daring detective.
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Years of apparent failure and waiting can be the artistic work itself rather than evidence of a missing gift.Their words
Someone might have to live a long time before the thing they were born to say becomes fully formed and accessible to them.
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The more we know – the more we insist on being sure – the more doors we close.
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I think of it like this: any person has an innate curiosity about life, and an energy toward it, that may manifest itself in all kinds of ways throughout the course of their life.
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A History of BiologyTheir words
The chapter on medieval Islam wasn't very deep, otherwise this is truly excellent, particularly when covering the very complicated 20th century. I don't have much more to say, because it is so good, except that I should try to get my brother to review it.
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Go Down HardTheir words
Mind candy: dueling psycho-killers go on a date; mayhem ensues.
8 July
From one piece From Solvers to Research: Large Language Model-Driven Formal Mathematics at the Research Frontier (with 18 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI systems are now capable of meaningful contributions to formal mathematics, not only informal problem-solving.Their words
These developments inform our position that AI systems are now capable of meaningful contributions to formal mathematics, not merely informal problem-solving.
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Despite these strides, we argue that current AI4Math systems still largely operate as solvers, excelling at isolated, well-defined proof generation rather than as researchers capable of expanding the boundaries of mathematical knowledge.
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However, these LLM reasoners that generate informal reasoning in natural language are fundamentally limited by the lack of precise, machine-checkable semantics, making their outputs prone to hallucinations [Huang et al., 2025b] and precluding autonomous verification, a prerequisite for tackling open-ended mathematical research.
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We argue that the next leap in AI4Math systems requires a decisive shift from predefined problem-solvers to research agents that can address frontier mathematical challenges with rigorous formal mathematical reasoning.
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Claude Code /checkupTheir words
New in Claude Code: /checkup
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Recorded crime partly measures policing: a neighbourhood policed harder produces more crime in the statistics.Their words
Particularly with gun and drug crimes, communities with more aggressive policing tend to produce more crimes in part because law enforcement polices them more aggressively.
A guide to racism in the criminal justice systemradleybalko.substack.com
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So I did something crazy. I pulled out my typewriter and banged away for an hour.
7 July
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Django MigrationsTheir words
My favorite implementation of this pattern remains Django’s Migrations
From one piece Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New England 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it's more important to invest in trains that can get more riders than just the railfans; taking a line from 0% to 5% modal split is less important than taking it from 20% to 40%
Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New Englandpedestrianobservations.com
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Building out low-speed regional rail to small towns before intercity rail is fast enough is a waste of money.Their words
further investment in regional rail in New England - by which I mean RegionalBahn-style service to small towns like Westerly and Manchester, not core commuter rail service in Boston to be turned into an S-Bahn - is a waste of money in the current situation.
Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New Englandpedestrianobservations.com
From one piece Deadly heat wave in France shows the future of climate risk 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Without a move away from fossil fuels, future heatwaves will keep testing the limits of public health systems and more people will die.
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Climate models are underestimating how intense heatwaves become at a given level of global warming.Their words
the temperatures seen in France show that climate models continue to underpredict the magnitude of heatwaves for a particular level of global warming.
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Robotaxis should be judged and regulated on comparable fleet-wide incident data, not on individual incidents.Their words
More data for better comparisons are good. Now everybody has to do it, and regulators and the public have to learn to look at only the data, and not individual incidents
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Several companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea
6 July
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XteinkTheir words
I recently got an Xteink and it is a really cute little e-reader device! I thought I'd try hacking around on it, and it's been fun to tweak.
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CrossPoint ReaderTheir words
The most popular custom firmware for The Xteink is called CrossPoint Reader, which is fully open source and really great.
5 July
From one piece What America has meant to me 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The finance industry is built on false mathematical precision and prone to systemic collapse.Their words
Finance only to find that it is a house of cards built on false precision, as the world collapsed around us
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America is a country that rewards first-principles thinkers and builders and encourages reinvention despite cynicism.Their words
increasingly I see America as the place that rewards first principles thinkers and builders; that asks "why not?" instead of telling you why you cannot; that imperfectly supports optimism, reinvention and perseverance in spite of cynicism.
From one piece If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eat 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Taste is not about consensus or criticism, but the courage to value what genuinely resonates with you.Their words
Taste isn't consensus. It's not judgment first, either. It's easy to be a critic. Curiosity has to come first, because without curiosity you never broaden your horizons.
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AI can hand you the end result of a skill without the attentive practice that used to build it.Their words
It gives you the destination without the hours of noticing that used to get you there.
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AI has made ability nearly free, making taste the main bottleneck separating good creators from mediocre ones.Their words
As AI has allowed more and more people to create things, the biggest differentiation, the biggest skill people are lacking, is taste itself.
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The emotional and relational dynamics are not an intrusion upon the work of prescribing. They are a part of the work itself.
4 July
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Metformin is not a general-purpose anti-cancer or anti-ageing drug, and healthy people should not take it as one.Their words
MAST adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that metformin is not a general-purpose anticancer drug.
Metformin and cancer: active surveillance neededpeterattiamd.com
From one piece Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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harness improvement enables better deployment of the model but intelligence is still the core.
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
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Recursive self-improvement only works if the base model is already capable enough to improve its own mechanism.Their words
Recursive structure alone is not enough. The base model must be capable enough to improve the mechanism.
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
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The deployment layer surrounding a model is as important as the model's raw intelligence.Their words
the layer between the raw model and the real-world context seems to be as important as the model's raw intelligence
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
3 July
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Claude Code ArtifactsTheir words
Artifacts in Claude Code have been life changing. Excited to expand to Pro and Max!
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Safari Technology PreviewTheir words
Whether you’re a web developer or tinkerer, I highly recommend checking out what Apple has released in Safari Technology Preview.
1 July
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So You Want to Own Greenland?Their words
A useful and dispassionate overview of the relevant history and issues.
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This book meets her usual high standards.
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The Shortest History of IrelandTheir words
From a useful series, even if some of the claims are wrong and the judgments intemperate.
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An engaging book about the beauties of stonemasonry, with case studies of Venice, Angkor Wat, Lalibela, Zimbabwe and other locales.
From one piece How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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part of the goal of programs is to communicate intent to other human beings and now to models as well which which is a much more open-ended problem. We understand a lot more about how to communicate to other human beings whether we apply that understanding or not. We don't understand at all how to communicate effectively to models
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You look under the underneath though at the code and it was just a horrible unmaintainable mess. But the fact that people could program the programs that they wanted was a a significant step forward as opposed to I'm going to write a thousandpage requirements document and then wait 8 years and not get what I want which was the alternative that we were offering at the at the time.
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So I was promised just understand the computer and then just kidding understand people from a position where I was already 10 years behind.
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we're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating trust and that sense of trust comes from me struggling to understand some domain concept I get it. I represent it in the code. I have I write tests that demonstrate that I really did understand it. And now I trust my program.
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My response is that that's a statement by someone who doesn't understand software engineering. Coding is part of what you're doing, but it's only a small part of what you're doing.
From one piece Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Both hide the fact the company is simply choosing the climate-wrecking road, consciously.
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What is happening is that GenAI's climate harm comes from the system design, such as Google's AI overview triggering constantly whether users want it or not, in addition to significantly worse digital bloat tools dominating overconsumption.
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It is actually pretty likely that it was Google's efficiency actions that enabled their total energy consumption to increase.
From one piece Artificial adventures 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Cheap flat-rate AI subscription pricing is a temporary loss-leader that will be phased out once users are hookedTheir words
The subscriptions to frontier models are a very good deal, but it looks like they are being phased out now that everyone is hooked.
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Frontier AI models essentially never fabricate outright false facts, unlike smaller modelsTheir words
I haven't seen anything I would call a hallucination from the frontier models.
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But they are terrible at making decisions. They have the worst judgement.
From one piece Principles of Plotting Part III: Variation 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Regardless of genre or style, nearly all fiction works through a balancing act of repetition and difference.
Principles of Plotting Part III: Variationcountercraft.substack.com
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Stories are always deliberately constructed by their author, not something that emerges on its own.Their words
Stories are not raw milk or nature photography. They are always constructed by the author.
Principles of Plotting Part III: Variationcountercraft.substack.com
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Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AITheir words
That’s why we’re launching the Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI — an initial evidence-based assessment of the current state of AI science — to help the public and policymakers better understand the unprecedented moment we’re in.
From one piece Talent Is Bullshit 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It doesn’t matter what creative field you’re in. Keep showing up day after day, and the game of numbers will work in your favor.
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He is not the most talented writer in the room and never was; what has carried him is the capacity to grind.Their words
I’m not the most talented writer in the room. Never have been.
30 June
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