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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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  Commitssaving. · Tower talk: benchmarks on big4, case-study figures, Apple/Ryzen posts · Add closing Howard Aiken quote on technology transfer

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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

• Reason for specifically citing open weight (and therefore Chinese LLMs, but not only Chinese) is that, even if they have built-in guardrails, somebody with the relevant knowledge can go in and remove them. In principle, harder to do with Anthropic or Open AI LLMs.
  Quoting@ojblanchard1A worrisome thought during the night: What Ted Kaczynski would have done, if he had had access to open weight chinese LLMs.

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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

• Please quote this post with the number of times you have fallen in love with someone you shouldn't've fallen in love with.

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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

• What X thinks about my quest to dunk: > 6,820 comments over 12 posts > form police 36% of comments > 60% decrease in doubters > 93% of people who liked never commented > quote tweets are 46% more likely to troll More data below 👇

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

• Quote tweeting this thread by Andrew for more visibility.
  Quoting@DrewchI'm realizing from the flywheel thread from @tobi that many people don't realize that small models can actually outperform larger models on a specific task - @MParakhin has been saying this for quite some time. 🧵

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

• Frum is illiterate. This quote does not blame America for 9/11 but blames America for the disastrous wars that people like David Frum--W. Bush's speechwriter--led us into
  Quoting@davidfrumIn a now deleted tweet on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Abdul el-Sayed expressed the same the blame-America view voiced also by Hasan Piker. Putting a bag over Piker's big mouth may temporarily quiet the candidate's problem, but won't change it.

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Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.

• Investing Quote of the Day: "While catching up on the news is merely depressing to the citizen who has no stocks, it is a dangerous habit for the investor." - Peter Lynch

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Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.

• I was reading a book review, saw a surprising quote from the book, and asked ChatGPT a follow-up question about it. And after answering, ChatGPT correctly guessed which review I was reading and warned me that it thought the author had a habit of selective quotations.

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Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.

• Investing Quote of the Day: "The best investors make a habit of putting procedures in place, in advance, that help inhibit the hot reactions of the emotional brain." - Jason Zweig (@jasonzweigwsj)

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Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.

• I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.
  Quoting@TimHarfordTwice in past week I've pasted quote into Google to check the source, and Gemini has barged in with the wrong answer. CS Lewis quote from The Seeing Eye (1967) was placed in The Screwtape Letters (1942). Alfred Loftus quote (1857) attributed to Austen Layard (1849). Gemini 0/2.

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Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.

• Investing Quote of the Day: "The dollar may be our currency but it's your problem." - John Connally

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Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.

• Investing Quote of the Day: "Every stock is like a human being: it has a personality." - Jesse Livermore

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Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.

• I just interviewed Steve Blank for @startupspod. We focused on how AI is causing founders to build more while learning less. One line that stuck with me about founders building too much, too quickly due to vibe coding: “Polished deliverables hid shallow assumptions.” You can't just build because it's fast and easy. You need to be learning and checking your assumptions before (and while) building. His famous quote, “There are no facts inside the building,” is as true today as ever. This episode will be out in a couple weeks.

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Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.

• Twice in past week I've pasted quote into Google to check the source, and Gemini has barged in with the wrong answer. CS Lewis quote from The Seeing Eye (1967) was placed in The Screwtape Letters (1942). Alfred Loftus quote (1857) attributed to Austen Layard (1849). Gemini 0/2.

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

• The old quote that "computers are useless, they can only give you answers" seems to extend to an LLM solution to a millennium problem. Now we have a blowup in Navier–Stokes equations, but no new insights into mathematical technique or turbulence.

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Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.

• I updated my blog’s Colophon: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/misc/Colophon from which I quote: “The words here are not AI-generated”. #genAI

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Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.

• x.comThe latest issue of my newsletter is out! We've got a lovely quote, a fun practice coding question, a punny joke, my latest hobby deep dive, and mooore. Check out the archive and subscribe:

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Cartoonist and comics theorist, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics and the graphic novel The Sculptor.

• You know that old quote about how "a lie can travel halfway 'round the world while the truth is still getting its boots on"? Help the truth get its boots on. Support ProPublica!

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• I thoroughly enjoyed going deep with @nxthompson on AI and the future of writing and creativity for The Most Interesting Thing in AI podcast. A few highlights: • How Nick and I have used @Gemini_Notebook to write our books • Why AI can lead to more serendipitous discovery in the research process (at least using Notebook’s citation-based approach) • The brilliance of the “explain” button in Notebook’s quiz feature • AI as the anti-social-media, with its gravitational pull towards mainstream consensus (citing @danwilliamsphil) • Why our attachment to the human voice of the writer is not going a…
  Quoting@nxthompsonFew people have put more time into figuring out how creativity works than @stevenbjohnson. How do we link ideas in our mind, and how can we use tools to make that linking easier? He's not only written some of my favorite books of the past few decades; he's also written some of my favorite essays ab…

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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

• c-comments — A tool that shows all comments and strings from C source

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British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.

• this is awesome ben brown used Resident to vibe code his new ESP32 watch best quote: > this thing starts off with nothing and you just wish your features into being one by one

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• How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop

  A viral fabricated Bezos quote reveals how big tech is engineering widespread reality collapse. We need to stop them.

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Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.

• There is nothing about this that is amazing. It was predicted endlessly, and those predictions were dismissed by people citing the fact that big companies opposed these measures. They opposed them because while their relative position is stronger, the pie is now smaller.
  Quoting@AdamThierertruly one of the most amazing developments in trans-Atlantic tech policy over the past 20 years is the way that Europe set out to regulate US tech giants into the ground, but only made them more dominant as a result. This Economist headline really says it.

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Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  You’re listening to the Naval Podcast. Today we’re going to be talking about recruiting, hiring, team, and culture. There’s a famous quote from Vinod Khosla, “The team you build is the company you build.” Or in other wo…

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

• But what if I really want a faster horse?

  People in tech business circles love this quote by Henry Ford: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. The idea is to think outside the box and create entirely new markets instead of…

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.

• Gil Duran Faked A Quote For the New Republic

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