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20 September
19 September
18 September
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There are legitimate ways to improve our systems, but what they're likely planning isn't one of them.
16 September
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These mocha-ordering fellow humans must fall into one of these categories: They don't know that it's rude They don't care that it's rude They disagree that it's rude
15 September
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While the average overall quality of Apple's shows are higher than those on Netflix or Prime Video, they still don't have the type of 'A+' content that HBO was regularly pumping out at their peak.
14 September
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Lovedrcmnd.app
QuakeTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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StarCraftTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
UnrealTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
12 September
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korrents.com
The era of heavy U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been a disaster for U.S. power and prestige and should end.Their words
But overall, the era of heavy U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been a disaster for U.S. power and prestige, and it’s time for that era to end.
11 September
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the truth is that while there are plenty of haters, overall we are a better, more tolerant society than we were in 2001.
9 September
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"Carbon intensity" is a greenwashing term: It measures pollution per barrel, allowing oil companies to claim climate progress even as rising production drives up total overall emissions.
8 September
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A knife company's clip design quality is a sign of the maturity of its overall design aesthetic.Their words
Good, endemic clip designs are the sign of a mature design aesthetic in a knife company
7 September
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QBs literally account for almost a third of overall player value in the NFL, based on our analysis.
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The AI jobs prediction so far is playing out the opposite of what many thought.
6 September
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AI is grown rather than designed, which is why its overall behaviour resists any description we can fully understand.Their words
AI is grown more than designed - it is, to first degree, the product of repeating a straightforward optimization step many times on a hard-to-imagine amount of compute.
30 August
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Overall, I’m very surprised at how little media coverage there’s been around the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. It’s clearly one of the most important things to happen this year.
26 August
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I also see people attacking major product categories now with performance-based pitches. Things like File Pilot or the Blick video editor, like things like this that have been coming out lately where it's like, oh, really performant software to try to take on uh incumbents in a space and they've been getting traction.
25 August
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The data-centre backlash is about the buildings themselves, not about what people think of AI.Their words
All this combined with the survey data on Americans’ stated reasons for opposing data centers makes me think that attitudes toward AI are probably a meaningful factor for a minority of people opposed to data centers, but I don’t think the backlash overall is driven by people’s thoughts on AI.
23 August
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just because something does one thing better than another thing doesn't mean it is superior.
21 August
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If you do think it's the overall system that matters, then the alignment that's needed is far less like training a virtuous child and more like managing a semi-virtuous corporation!
19 August
14 August
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Longer device upgrade cycles are beneficial because they reduce e-waste, pollution, and churn.Their words
But either way, it's good that upgrade cycles are longer: it means less e-waste, less pollution, less churn overall.
12 August
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You read that right: The cost of climate-worsened wildfire smoke alone is larger than what earlier studies said every other estimated cost of climate change would be, combined.
11 August
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One concern you might have is there are like large categories of reward hacks which humans can't detect well and which we consistently fail to detect and which consistently get reinforced and then this category is sufficient to cause the most natural behavior for the AI to learn to be like cheat when the humans can't find out
5 August
22 July
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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.
20 July
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And there was no food or you know olive oil or food group or you eating more or less meat that changed the relationship between the Mediterranean diet and dementia risk. So what that tells me is it's much more about whole foods.
15 July
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there's a different kind of intuition that you that you develop over years as a software engineer and uh there's many categories of it but the one I'll I'll call attention to that is like a thing that you cannot teach you cannot do you cannot learn in a textbook. The only way to learn it is like I know bad patterns in software because I have debugged them at three in the morning.
14 July
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Mixed onaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
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.
11 July
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
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.
28 June
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Likedrcmnd.app
8BitDo Retro Mechanical KeyboardTheir words
sounds like a dream, and is overall an excellent keyboard that I have used a lot to play Diablo II: Resurrected.
23 June
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The mind's planning and goal-setting function is only a small fraction of a person's overall intelligence.Their words
The planning part of your mind, the one that generates ambitions and hypothetical situations, is a small part of your overall intelligence.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
22 June
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The traditional five-part POV taxonomy is organized around grammatical person rather than narrative effect.Their words
It's not that the categories are wrong exactly. But they are rooted more in grammar than narrative.
16 June
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A human life has no overall narrative arc, so nothing is lost by refusing to see it as a story that needs an ending.Their words
But there’s no overall narrative arc—it’s just been one thing after another.
Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actuallysmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net
15 June
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Lovedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
Sanodesk 72x30 Standing DeskTheir words
Another part of my recent office upgrade was the Sanodesk 72x30 Standing Desk. Overall, I love this desk so far. The bamboo top looks and feels great, and I have plenty of room on the desk to set it up how I want to. Being able to raise it to a standing position is also nice too when I get sick of sitting.
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16-inch MacBook Pro M4 MaxTheir words
Overall, I'm loving the M4 Max so far, and I've noticed that it does handle certain tasks such as running Pest PHP tests about twice as fast sometimes as the M1 Pro did, which is nice.
4 June
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I do think there's this qualitative shift that we I think we agree is coming, which is that there will be at least some goods whose network-adjusted capital share goes to one, right? Because the whole supply chain can be automated and there's no part in it that we care intrinsically about having a human do. Um, so that'll be a, you know, that'll be a qualitative shift. Interestingly, the implications of that shift for the overall capital share are ambiguous
25 April
23 April
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Construction costs tend to rise at, or above, the level of overall inflation, and it rarely (if ever) gets cheaper to build houses, offices, or other buildings.
22 April
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Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software.
3 March
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Recommendstheir ownrcmnd.app
Unbeatable: The Brutally Honest Case for Free MarketsTheir words
It is definitely my broadest and least inhibited book — and in my judgment, the best-written and the best overall.
24 January
1 January
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So, add all that up, 5%. In many categories, we're north of 50% in market. So, that just totally changes.
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with CommentaryTheir words
There is something deeply satisfying with reading out loud phrases like: “for in mere breath did it come, and into darkness it goes, and in darkness its name is covered.” Though King James is iconic, Robert Alter better conveys overall the literary power of the Hebrew Bible.
11 December 2025
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Overall, my take when looking at this data is that stagnant construction productivity is an extremely widespread problem.
27 November 2025
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Relying on AI to replace performance engineers reduces an organization's overall technical expertise over time.Their words
If a company spends less on performance engineers as it's considered AI'd, it will reduce the company's effective "performance IQ."
12 November 2025
From one piece Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the thing that is the biggest competitor for any new accelerator is kind of even the previous generation of Nvidia right I mean in a fleet what I'm going to look at is the overall TCO
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Coding is a software-factory category that may end up bigger than knowledge work itself.Their words
this fundamentally this category of coding and AI is probably going to be one of the biggest categories right it is a software factory category in fact it may be bigger than knowledge work
17 October 2025
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And actually, you don't actually need or want the knowledge. I actually think that's probably actually holding back the neural networks overall because it's actually like getting them to rely on the knowledge a little too much sometimes.
10 October 2025
1 October 2025
30 September 2025
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Well, it's in line with my overall philosophy. I think competition leads to progress. If you want to create an ideal process for selecting the most qualified people for certain specific tasks you have in mind, what can be better than a competition?
29 August 2025
15 August 2025
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actually it turns out that you can significantly decrease power consumption with a very small reduction in overall compute. So if you if you've got like three really bad days in a row or something, you can actually just like you can dial back your power usage quite a lot without compromising your inference or or um or training.
5 June 2025
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I feel like we are in the AJI phase where dramatic progress, some things don't work well, but overall you're seeing lots of progress.
18 May 2025
7 May 2025
23 March 2025
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you can classify anything that you build in a company into one of two categories. Solution deepening and market widening. Now solution deepening means making your product better for its existing users but not making it available to more users. Whereas market widening means making your product available to more users but not making the product itself any better.
27 January 2025
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AI tooling and interface design lags behind the underlying models' actual capabilities.Their words
Overall, though, this experience reinforced my belief that the tooling and interface design around LLMs is lagging way behind the actual capabilities, and is an area of active experimentation and development, even aside from any future model improvements.
19 January 2025
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If you have the overall business slowing down, your head of growth is destined to fail because the reason business is slowing down is much deeper than not having a growth team.
30 December 2024
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Likedrcmnd.app
Principles of the SPIN Model CheckerTheir words
This book gave me both insight and a deeper curiosity about the subject. This book introduces the SPIN model checker and exposes the reader to the nuances of verifying programs using SPIN. A nice feature of the book is how it explains concepts using thoughtfully developed, freely available tools (such as jSpin) that the author created for pedagogical purposes. It's a demanding book, but the content was interesting. The book presents details about concurrency, temporal logic, non-determinism, advanced SPIN topics, and even case studies. I've already written a few blog posts about the topics I explored while reading this book, and I plan to write more. Overall, it's a good book. I'm sure I'll revisit the latter half again.
16 December 2024
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Engineering Executive's PrimerTheir words
"It’s honest in how it covers topics like navigating tricky power dynamics with CEOs, surviving 'peer panic,' dealing with competition within leadership teams, and in its overall breadth and depth."
9 September 2024
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korrents.com
Riding in a Waymo robotaxi is a better overall experience than being driven by a human driver.Their words
I found it to be a superior experience to a human driver, for a few key reasons.
Inflecting and Overtaking, SunPower, Waymonathanielbullard.com
19 August 2024
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Dream MachineTheir words
The Dream Machine -- probably the best overall book about the early days of computing and the internet.
1 August 2024
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Their words, before
I’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.
Their words now
I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me
22 July 2024
3 July 2024
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Likedrcmnd.app
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af KlintTheir words
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (Germany, 2019, CC) 3.6 When thinking about the most overlooked female artist, Artemesia Gentileschi often comes to mind. This documentary makes a persuasive case for Hilma af Klint. To my eyes, her most appealing works are not the large scale abstractions, rather it’s the small Klee-like gems that stand out. Don’t assume that if you have seen a half dozen of her most famous works that you have any conception of her overall career.
29 June 2024
21 March 2024
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Lovedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
La Sportiva MutantTheir words
The La Sportiva Mutant (men's, women's) is my overall pick for backpacking and light canyoneering, and my personal favorite.
28 February 2024
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The MVP as a practice of building a hacky product as quickly and cheaply as possible to validate the product does no longer work. Many product categories are already saturated with a variety of alternatives, and to truly test the viability of any new idea you need to build something that is substantially better.
9 February 2024
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korrents.com
Augmented reality and virtual reality are no longer separate categories, but points on one continuum.Their words
And it's a general reminder that AR and VR2 being separate categories is a thing of the past.
All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Prowaitbutwhy.com
4 January 2024
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