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Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.

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  Republicans' long-term strategy since Reagan has been to spend heavily on things that don't benefit the non-rich, refuse to raise taxes, and thereby balloon the national debt.

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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.

  Urgent: Raise the Wage Actstallman.org

Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Gray hair can be at least partly avoided by eating clean, exercising heavily, and sleeping well.

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  you can at least partly avoid it by eating clean, exercising heavy and sleeping well I think

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  The p(abundance) outlook is far more likely than the heavily covered p(doom) discussion and deserves more engagement.

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  The p(doom) discussion gets all the headlines, but the p(abundance) scenery is far more like and deserves much more engagement.

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Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.

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  Objects that work well, are simple, and durable get used heavily and end up showing wear.

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  Things that work, are simple, and durable, last a long time and get used a lot.

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  The best textbooks will continue to be predominantly written by human hand rather than AI for at least the next several years.

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  So, in 2-5 years I still expect the best textbooks to be heavily crafted by the human hand.

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Software is the only field of human labour with practitioner conferences and freely shared knowledge; every other field has only academic conferences and trade shows.

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  Software is kind of unique in having the third kind of the practitioner conference where we are just meeting to get better at what we do. We also are really the only kind to really focus heavily on like open source in making our knowledge freely available.

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Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.

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  Pursuing efficiency pushes attention onto measurable factors and away from the psychological ones where the larger gains are available.

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  But when you pursue efficiency generally you start looking at numerical or mechanical factors and of course in the process you disregard psychological factors where the greater gains may be found and so you focus too heavily on cost reduction and too little on value creation.

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Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.

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  Chinese industrial policy worked, and the evidence is that the cities which pushed hardest on a sector ended up best at both production and patents.

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  Industrial policy was heavily criticized and again, if I talk to my Harvard professors, they’ll be very, very, very skeptical about the role of the state, especially in such a major way. But if you look at the Chinese experience, the evidence for success is all there. The cities that have pushed the most on supporting that particular sector ultimately did the best in terms of production, but also in terms of innovation, measured by patents. It’s all in the data.

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Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.

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  A margin only counts while you are still investing heavily, because cutting the investment raises this year's margin and lowers the long-term one.

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  we can cut billions of dollars of marketing out tomorrow. We can stop opening branches and save a billion dollars next year. We could do a lot of things. Your margins will go up. Your growth will go down. Your long-term margins will probably get worse.

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  Most conditional branches in software are strongly biased toward one outcome rather than close to fifty-fifty.

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  most branches are heavily "biased" one way or another - e.g. a "branch taken" rate of 10% or 90% is more common than 50%

  The ITTAGE indirect branch predictorblog.nelhage.com

Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  Most software has too few users or too short a lifespan for long-term maintenance costs to matter.

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  Very few programs ever reach the point that they are heavily used and long-lived. Almost everything has few users, or is short-lived, or both.

  How I program with Agentscrawshaw.io

Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Rising female autonomy cannot be the cause of falling birth rates, because births have collapsed just as fast in countries where women's freedom is heavily restricted.

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  Nicolas Eberstadt speculates that it’s all about rising autonomy. But that can’t explain why fertility has also plummeted in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India, where women are often heavily restricted.

  Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world

Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  The Last God

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  Mind candy, comic book fantasy heavily influenced by D & D.

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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

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  AI design tools are starting at the low end and eating their way up: within ten years even the richest brands will rely heavily on them.

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  Right now, they can make simple social media posts for small companies and individual influencers. Two years from now, they can make simple campaigns and tradeshow collateral for mid-sized businesses. And in 10 years, I bet that even the richest brand will rely heavily on these tools.

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

From one piece Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Compute will be the currency of the future and the most precious commodity in the world, so we should be investing heavily to make far more of it.

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  Look, I think compute is going to be the currency of the future. I think it will be maybe the most precious commodity in the world, and I think we should be investing heavily to make a lot more compute.

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  A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests.

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  I would heavily discourage any startup that was thinking about starting as a nonprofit and adding a for-profit arm later. I’d heavily discourage them from doing that. I don’t think we’ll set a precedent here.

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Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.

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  A heavily centralised state is the most fragile kind: when Rome’s centre failed, its successors were left without the resources or administration to do what it had done.

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  Precisely because the late Roman system was so top-heavy and centralized, the collapse of central Roman rule mortally wounded it and left the successor states of Rome with much more limited resources and administration to try to achieve their aims.

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Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.

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  1Password

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  I also rely heavily on Dropbox, 1Password, an ancient copy of Photoshop, and Figma.

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  Figma

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  I also rely heavily on Dropbox, 1Password, an ancient copy of Photoshop, and Figma. Notes go in Notational Velocity, to-do lists in Wunderlist.

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Solely measuring skill at any given task falls short of measuring intelligence, because skill is heavily modulated by prior knowledge and experience.

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  We argue that solely measuring skill at any given task falls short of measuring intelligence, because skill is heavily modulated by prior knowledge and experience: unlimited priors or unlimited training data allow experimenters to "buy" arbitrary levels of skills for a system, in a way that masks the system's own generalization power.

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Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.

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  REAPER

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  It's basically the Vim of audio editing software, so I wouldn't recommend it if you don't have the time and energy to heavily invest in customizing it for your workflow, but I can move like lightning in this thing.

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Professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego working on human-computer interaction and programming tools; creator of Python Tutor, the online code visualizer.

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  MacBook Air

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  I know it's a comically underpowered, overpriced, and overly-heavily laptop for 2019, but it's been reliable as heck for me over the past few years, and I value stability above all else right now.

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One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

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  Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

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  We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

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One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

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  Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

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  We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

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One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

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  Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

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  We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

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One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

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  Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

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  We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

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Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.

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  No dense city anywhere runs without heavy reliance on transit, and no new transport technology changes the space arithmetic that makes that true.

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  There is no dense city in the world that does not rely heavily on transit, for reasons of space-efficiency that none of the new technologies can change.

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Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.

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  BBEdit

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  For text editing that is not specifically related to programming the Mac and iOS, I rely heavily upon BBEdit, where I do most of my Python, HTML, JavaScript and PHP editing.

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