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

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  The joy of a programmer is to type the code himself; promoting yourself out of that makes you a project manager of a murder of AI crows.

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  The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself. If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming, I turn myself into a project manager. A project manager of a murder of AI crows as I wrote the other day.

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  I have been hyper accelerated as a programmer. It's a different kind of programmer, but it still has the same affinity to aesthetics, at least when I'm producing Ruby code.

Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

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  AI companies promote themselves around 'taste' because their products are unappealing outside tech circles.

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  A.I. companies need to associate themselves with taste precisely because their tools are not very palatable, much less cool, to anyone outside of Silicon Valley.

  Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com

Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.

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  The person who orchestrates a company's AI agents has to be promoted from inside, and it will not be someone from sales.

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  you've got to promote someone internally. It's got to be a nerd, someone that likes marketing and sales and is quant.

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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

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  Promoting a cause builds audience loyalty.

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  When you have a Cause you promote - whether relevant to your listeners' lives or work or sense of self, you have loyalty.

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Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.

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  We have almost no automated techniques for making a system transfer what it learns, and none of the few we have are used in modern deep learning.

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  We don't have any methods that are good at that. What we have are people um try different things and they they settle on something that that uh a representation that that transfers well or they generalize as well. But we have no we don't have any automated techniques to promote. we have very few automated techniques to promote transfer and they're not none of them are used in in modern deep learning.

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Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

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  Online audiences now hold real power over how songs are made to sound.

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  The band told me about the pressure of creating content in order to promote their music and the ways in which the audience now has power over how songs sound.

  How to survive a TikTok hit songkylechayka.substack.com

Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.

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  Once shareholder value is the only goal, nothing else — the customer, the product, the workplace — is anybody’s job.

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  When you care only about shareholder value, the only job you have is to promote further exploitation and dominance — not to have happy customers, not to make your company "a good place to work," not to make a good product, not to make a difference or contribute to anything other than further growth.

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Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.

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  Paying parents large sums of cash directly is the pronatal policy most likely to work, because every indirect policy has to guess what the real obstacle is.

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  Similarly, most recent discussions of how to promote fertility discuss how we might promote housing, inequality, schooling, day-care, etc., but few consider directly paying parents big amounts to have kids. As indirect approaches require us to guess what are the actual main obstacles to fertility, they are more likely to fail.

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Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

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  The rise of closed-source large language models makes preserving an open culture of sharing knowledge and software important for NLP.

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  In light of the increasing number of closed-source LLMs, it is important to continue to promote an open culture of sharing knowledge, data, and software, from which the NLP community has benefited greatly.

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Obesity researcher; wrote The Hungry Brain, on why the brain overeats, and reviews nutrition evidence.

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  Recommending a diet to the public before the science behind it is settled is the same mistake the USDA made with low-fat advice in the 1980s.

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  If the science isn’t settled yet, perhaps it’s not the right time for bestselling books that confidently promote the CIM and a diet based on it to the public?

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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Originals

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  Podcast. Good advice for generating, recognizing, and championing original ideas, as well as for creating resilient cultures that promote creative thinking, and resist groupthink. A lot of stuff to unpack, a good read.

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