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Despite literal years of evidence that people value true connection, most of us rarely respond back.
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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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its connection to how good the models were at other tasks didn’t seem to hold as strongly as it did back in 2025
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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.
25 August
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Debugging Ubiquiti's 5G Backup on AT&T For a mobile 'mini homelab' project I'm working on, I wanted to use 5G Internet as a primary 'on-to-go' connection, but still have the ability to plug in another Internet connection when I put the mobile rack I'm buildi…
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With the rise of AI, human connection is becoming more elusive, which means we have to be proactive in seeking it out.
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Behavioural economist at Chicago Booth, professor of behavioural science and economics and director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind.
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So with one, you get the effect that the person produced art print is valued much much higher than the than the AI version. And then what we do is to say there's in a set of other conditions, there's 500 of these being produced. So for the human made one, the price goes down a lot because it's no longer seen as like you're not like making a connection with this one artist versus with AI, there's no difference. AI is already viewed as like a commodity.
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Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
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in order for an AI agent to be useful right now, it really needs a human who cares about it. It really needs it like a human personal connection with someone who's like watching what it does and make sure that it's doing the right thing and that it's useful for people.
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Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
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6 February
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
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Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
Great blogpost by Ruiqi (and other GDM ex-colleagues), clearly explaining the the connection between flow matching and diffusion models. Super happy they took the time to explain this topic, there's confusion on this topic, I think many will find this quite valuable! Quoting @RuiqiGao A common question nowadays: Which is better, diffusion or flow matching? 🤔 Our answer: They’re two sides of the same coin. We wrote a blog post to show how diffusion models and Gaussian flow matching are equivalent. That’s great: It means you can use them interchangeably. Related
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American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
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I also use an iPad Pro 9.7 for taking notes by hand and brainstorming. The always-on LTE connection is great for being mobile.
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