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Academic publishing functions mainly to sort people for jobs rather than to produce useful knowledge.Their words
The purpose of the academic output is to sort people out for jobs.
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RSI is poised to make modern LLMs vastly cheaper. Trends that have shown LLMs get exponentially cheaper at a given intelligence are likely to accelerate.
18 September
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A proposal to pace frontier AI development is unrealistic and mainly serves political control of AI.Their words
Dario Amodei wants to pace the frontier; it's an unrealistic proposal that seems mostly geared to political control of AI.
17 September
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The real story of Hitler's rise is mostly a history of contingency - bad choices by specific influential politicians first wrecked the German economy and then handed power to Hitler.
16 September
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Republicans' long-term strategy, since Reagan, is to spend a lot of money (mainly on things that won't benefit non-rich Americans), refuse to raise taxes, and therefore greatly increase the national debt.
15 September
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one way to understand a data center is that it's a device for burning natural gas, the latest excuse (after Ukraine and Iran) for the fuel that Big Oil is counting on to keep its business model afloat even as the world turns away from internal combustion cars and crude demand begins to drop.
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5 September
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Quarterback sneak touchdowns mainly reflect the offensive line and opportunity rather than quarterback skill.Their words
Sneaks are almost purely a result of the offensive line and/or opportunities.
3 September
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the answer to the question in the title of this post is that you won’t get a flying car — at least, not anytime soon — because you don’t really want one.
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Mac mini M4Their words
Mac mini M4 (2024) as a secondary computer for playing music and browser testing mainly.
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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.
1 July
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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.
4 June
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Some firms are laying people off mainly so as not to look behind on AI, in a cascade of keeping up with the Joneses.Their words
let's say we get into a narrative where like if you're a firm and you're not laying people off, then you're seen as like not adapting AI enough. So like then you'll get you're going to just get a cascade effect of firms like just needing to keep up with the Joneses in terms of like starting to lay people off.
1 March
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I've always been opinionated about how software should work. Mainly, it should be fast. The bounds of it should be "knowable." The contract you have with it should be "sane" (i.e., you just own it).
16 February
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It's interesting that the Shorter hobby businesses all draft off superstars in the legacy hobby, but make their vast majority of their money from people who will of course never come close to the level superstars - you'd still go to pickleball and talk Nadal vs Federer, you'd still go to Top Golf and make Tiger Woods jokes.
10 December 2025
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In short, investors' view of the decade to come is being shaped by the events of the last few days.
1 December 2025
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Decentralized finance mainly converts custodial risk into technical risk rather than eliminating risk altogether.Their words
While there is some utility value in DeFi, it basically lets users transform custodial risk into technical risk (e.g. bridge protocol hacks), which is not a free lunch.
15 May 2025
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But, China mainly dominates these markets because it has produced a long-term industrial strategy for these technologies and has honed an optimised, modern supply chain as a result.
29 April 2025
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The US-China trade imbalance is driven mainly by capital flows, not tariffs or trade deficits.Their words
Tariffs and trade deficits are a distraction from the deeper source of the US-China current account imbalance, namely capital flows.
12 February 2025
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Interactive BrokersTheir words
mainly because of Interactive Broker's amazing "margin account" feature. This, when used very carefully makes it seamless to borrow cash against your own shares at some of the lowest rates on Earth
22 March 2024
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Handing stewardship of Redis to a company whose goal is extracting profit was a mistake for the projectTheir words
I think that was an unfortunate move because their goal is mainly to extract profit from the software project rather than to uphold the ideals of Free and Open Source Software.
2 February 2024
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A technology company's success is determined mainly by how fast it operates and learns.Their words
The biggest determinant for success in a technology company is the speed at which it operates and learns - the "clock speed" to use a CPU analogy.
1 December 2023
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Overall, while initial plans of LLMs can be useful as a starting point, LLM-based planning currently works best mainly in conjunction with external tools.
14 September 2023
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Less than half their revenue comes from game engines. Over half comes from advertising.
28 February 2023
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