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20 September
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Lack of interest, not lack of technology, is why practices like water recycling remain rare in buildings.Their words
We have the technology - but we don't seem to be interested in using it.
19 September
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Performance critical contributions by humans will stay what they are: an edge case. In 99% of software it does not matter that you could’ve written a faster algorithm or picked a better data structure.
17 September
16 September
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AI-assisted biological research still depends on physical wet-lab work that remains a necessary bottleneck for now.Their words
This physical work will remain necessary for the foreseeable future.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
15 September
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Award shows remain mostly silly and subjective, but they're an interesting directional proxy for power in the various industries
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Thus it appears that on the latest AMD and ARM processors subnormals might not be a concern. But they remain very much a performance issue under Intel processors.
12 September
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They’ve been going native since 2019, rewriting one page at a time. Did an interview with their team in 2024, by when they migrated most of the app to native. The last few pages still remain.
11 September
10 September
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Universities and their administrations should remain ideologically neutral toward faculty's political viewsTheir words
An institution must remain neutral with regard to the ideological beliefs of its faculty.
9 September
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GPT-6 Astra (and likely any LLM in the foreseeable future) is still a reasoning model.
8 September
7 September
From one piece The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held 2 beliefs · levels.io
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The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held and change them when new information arises The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you!
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Changing your mind in light of new facts should be celebrated rather than held against you.Their words
The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held and change them when new information arises The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you!
3 September
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Portugal deliberately chose to remain relatively poor and technologically behind rather than become a tech hub.Their words
Portugal collectively decided they wanted to remain relatively poor and technologically and intellectually behind
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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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A coding-agent company should not train its own model: it has to stay neutral ground for models to compete on.Their words
people ask us if we'll train our own model and the answer currently is no 1. we are too dumb to 2. there's plenty of other well funded efforts 3. we need to remain a neutral ground for models to battle
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27 August
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In verifiable domains, model capability scaling should remain unbounded. Models will simply keep improving by "absorbing more and more of the computational universe", which is infinite by construction.
10 August
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Ben’s article serves as a great reminder of why the product role is so essential, and is likely to remain essential.
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AIs will remain black boxes, hard to understand and hard to predict.
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that thought is not captured therefore it's not on the internet therefore AI has not seen it so that is where humans still remain so unique
27 July
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And what's interesting is that the model is actually a little bit more intelligent without these prompts.
15 July
14 July
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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.
13 July
4 June
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Younger generations are rejecting AI hype while older generations, who stand to benefit from it, remain optimisticTheir words
there's a consistent theme where Gen Z (and millennials, to some extent) are rejecting the AI hype while older generations are optimistic and coincidentally in a position to benefit from it.
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3 April
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Deep, relationship-based customer moats remain something AI coding tools cannot replicate for a competitor.Their words
No agentic coding tool is going to replicate that for your competitor.
The Increasing Risk of Building in Publicthebootstrappedfounder.com
9 February
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Craftsmanship, taste, and human judgment remain valuable in software development despite AI-assisted coding tools.Their words
There is value in good taste, there is value in craftsmanship, and there is value in human judgment.
7 January
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Getting Things DoneTheir words
Soon after this book was published Allen attracted an almost cult-like following. The fundamental ideas remain sound. Product managers juggle hundreds of priorities, and this book will help you balance your time.
5 January
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Human-interface design principles from decades ago remain valid because human cognition hasn't changed.Their words
But the principles-as long as they are good principles-still apply, because they are based on how humans work, not how computers work.
1 January
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As with self driving cars, most of the early players in humanoid robots, will quietly shut up shop and disappear. Those that remain will pivot and redefine what they are doing, without renaming it, to something more achievable and with, finally, plausible business cases.
12 December 2025
9 December 2025
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DatawrapperTheir words
I instead use Datawrapper to create interactive charts very quickly. They follow great data visualization principles, have influenced my work, and their styles look great.
25 October 2025
15 August 2025
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You you also don't know like in order to make that money back, you have to then operate that plant at that capacity for 20 years, right? And if I was looking at the same charts as they're looking at right now, I'd say what are the odds that in 25 years time we can produce gas turbines at a price that is relevant in a world where solar is already at its current price and batteries at a price where they're already like you cannot win.
2 August 2025
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Not every bottleneck on medical progress is one AI can remove, and which ones will remain can be guessed at now.Their words
But I don’t think all bottlenecks on medical progress are equally AI-able in the next decade, and I don’t think all will become irrelevant.
What does AI progress mean for medical progress?blog.jacobtrefethen.com
2 June 2025
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All progress on LLMs could halt today, and LLMs would remain the 2nd most important thing to happen over the course of my career.
22 March 2025
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Sometimes you have to move fast at the sacrifice of knowledge, and I'm totally on board for that, but I worry that what we'll create is an entire generation of incompetent programmers who can do some amount of things well, but anything that is unique, bespoke, or requires some extra like little elbow grease, might become very difficult. It might cause a whole chasm where juniors remain juniors forever.
18 October 2024
16 October 2024
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I don’t think that makes sense. I think somebody was mapping the world during the last ice age, but that doesn’t mean that they had our kind of tech.
27 September 2024
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Your own site stays the master source even once the work is syndicated everywhere else.Their words
With this model, even when a platform goes under, you lose relatively little: your posts still remain live and under your control on your site, even if the copies of them on the disconnected website are abandoned or deleted.
25 July 2024
19 June 2024
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So most people, when they advertise new context window increase, they talk a lot about finding the needle in the haystack sort of evaluation metrics and less about whether there’s any degradation in the instruction following performance. So I think that’s where you need to make sure that throwing more information at a model doesn’t actually make it more confused.
20 April 2024
23 January 2024
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Though companies are relocating production to India and Vietnam, China is going to remain the world’s largest manufacturer for many more years to come.
20 January 2024
19 December 2023
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In the near term, the largest models using the most compute will continue to be the most capable.
5 December 2023
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LLMs are still limited in non-English settings and that making LLMs more multilingual is an important direction.
20 November 2023
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Refusing to advertise on a platform is protected expression, not an attack on the platform owner's free speech.Their words
Elon Musk’s sullen yawp amounts to a claim that he has a right for companies to sponsor his speech, no matter what he says. That’s nonsense, both legally and philosophically.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
17 November 2023
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Removing Putin would not end the war, because whoever replaced him would be more hawkish than he is.Their words
My second point is if he doesn't remain in power and he's replaced, I would bet a lot of money that his replacement will be more hawkish and more hard line than Putin is.
6 November 2023
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Their words, before
If the future is like the past, this implies that debt rollovers—that is, the issuance of debt without a subsequent increase in taxes—may well be feasible. Put bluntly, public debt may have no fiscal cost.
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Across advanced economies, the celebrated ( r - g ), i.e., the difference between the interest rate and the growth rate, appears to have durably changed sign or, at a minimum, to have gone from a substantially negative number to a number closer to zero.
21 April 2023
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