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(De)compression is conceptually quite straightforward: The decompression algorithm specifies a weird domain-specific VM, and the compressor is simply an automated code golfer for that architecture.
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This is very good analysis. 100% endorse. “ The bottom line is things are moving fast, and I’d bet neither Washington nor Beijing yet know quite what to think about dialogue, what it can produce, and what it cannot.”
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Desalination for drinking and household water is cheap and uses less energy than commonly assumed.
Supplying drinking and household water through desalination is really quite cheap, and uses far less energy than I’d have guessed.
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This really is quite good.
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New Article: Recent Reading https://t.co/Wr0Ts9L3KK I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately, so I thought I’d share some of the books that have caught my attention. There’s a little bit of everything here, and…
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Building anything has become quite trivial, so catching attention is now the most important skill.
Now that building anything has become quite trivial, catching attention is now the most important skill I think
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AI is grown rather than designed, which is why its overall behaviour resists any description we can fully understand.
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.
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Amazing to discover there’s something that England is actually doing quite well!
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Claude performatively treats straightforward, non-shady questions as too dangerous and downgrades to Opus.
Claude's performative "this request was sooo dangerous that we downgraded to Opus" is wearing me down I ask it straightfoward questions, nothing shady, nothing complicated, and it tells me it's too dangerous for Fable.…
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Pause OpenAI, now
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so jev’d up rn
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Toronto is @Shopify home territory. Surely there are some there who'd like to go!
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Loyalty to specific people who are not in tight sync with the mission and how to achieve it will create factionalism and undermine the well-being of the community. It is often the case, and quite beautiful, that…
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To do for others what we wish had been done for us— and in so doing, do quite a bit for ourselves.
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Enemy manipulation of a whole society's information environment is unlikely ever to be decisive in a war, because shaping another society's perceptions is genuinely hard.
This is not to be complacent about the risks, but it is to urge caution when assuming that shifting the perceptions of other societies will ever be straightforward.
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Astra on OC in a cloud session playing Doom with CUA. Not quite AGI yet, but probably beats fly brain.
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À Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon pour ouvrir une nouvelle page d’avenir.
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It's a claim I'd bet on. But yes, prediction far outside of the observed range is hard.
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I-D — My Internet-Drafts
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Fans
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9 in 10 Children in the World’s Poorest Countries Cannot Read This Sentence
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Simple, straightforward solutions can also be elegant, though not every elegant solution is straightforward.
Not every elegant solution is straightforward, but "stupid" ones are, per definition, and can also be elegant.
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Really cool to see Foster City, where Replit is HQ’d, councilwoman is building on Replit to help the community!
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Receivers, not quarterbacks, deserve the blame for dropped passes.
We are quite confident that drops should be attributed to the WR, not the quarterback.
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A stimulant taken to sharpen an already-high performer is more likely to make them worse, because the dose-response curve is an inverted U.
If you start from a low baseline of performance, you might get some positive boost. It's quite small, but you might get it. But if you are actually quite a high performer, then you risk getting worse. with this is…
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Some theorems may only ever be provable by unintelligible case-by-case brute force; the four colour theorem still has no conceptually elegant proof.
I mean, some problems have been basically solved by pure brute force. The four color theorem is is a famous example. Um, we have still not found a conceptually elegant proof of this theorem.
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Close but Not Quite
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The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
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The likeliest bad path is not a coup but sloppiness: AI does everything verifiable well, research races ahead, and the subtle work of keeping AI safe is what gets done badly.
And so basically everything that we can verify reasonably well with some feedback loop, the AIS are doing pretty well on. And that's sufficient to make AR and D go quite fast and to continue. But there's some parts of…
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Combining an avocado and a chair into one image is evidence a model conceptually understands both, not that it memorised pictures of them.
when you can basically bridge the concept of an avocado and a chair and show that you kind of can combine those two, it means that the model has at least some kind of conceptual understanding of what an avocado is and…
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Number of days since a new debugger was demo'd at @oxide.computer: Zero. Number of days since a new programming language was demo'd at @oxide.computer: Also zero
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The deeper anyone digs into a charity's cost-effectiveness estimate, the more unwarranted optimism they find, so the right prior on giving is a sceptical one.
Giving well seems conceptually quite difficult to me, and it’s been my experience over time that the more we dig on a cost-effectiveness estimate, the more unwarranted optimism we uncover.
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The music playing in this restaurant isn’t quite Yacht Rock, more like Swamp Boat Rock.
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The agent principal-agent problem
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The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel
Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, a book I wish I'd written, has written another book I wish I'd written.
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Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, a book I wish I'd written, has written another book I wish I'd written.
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Class D Has Changed Forever. The AGD Allegro All in One Integrated Amp is Different.
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Even in consulting, I'd be in a job for a year and I'd get this hunger again. I need to go learn mor
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Schema Therapy Training Institute video series — Wendy Behary
This video series is grounded in an understanding, both conceptually and practically, of the essential value of the therapy relationship in schema therapy
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That Untravell'd World
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Netgear Rangemax WNDR3700 — Netgear
I never thought I'd be one to get excited about routers, but I got a Netgear Rangemax WNDR3700 router at home a little while ago and have been quite pleased with it.
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Quite a change of locale. Also I wear hats now. Sports hats. But motorsports.
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Steven Spielberg: A Biography — Joseph McBride
My key takeaway from the book: Spielberg, for reasons that McBride can never quite nail down, was capital-D driven. His story provides a master class in the potential of mixing relentless ambition, talent, and perfect…
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Dyson Big+Quiet — Dyson
Install HVAC filters, and/or get a standalone air purifier, e.g. I got the Dyson Big+Quiet because it's quite good, HEPA grade and doubles as a cool looking alien artifact in your room, but for the top top performance…
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Install HVAC filters, and/or get a standalone air purifier, e.g. I got the Dyson Big+Quiet because it's quite good, HEPA grade and doubles as a cool looking alien artifact in your room, but for the top top performance…
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Austria 1867-1955 — John W. Boyer
John Boyer’s Austria 1867-1955 offers parts of the answer, though not in a conceptually organized way. It’s a work of history written for specialists, which means that the narrative serves the footnotes rather than the…
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just saw this review of "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" and it's the best feeling when someone got exactly what I'd hoped they'd get from the zine
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Piment d’Ville — Boonville Barn Collective
Their Piment d’Ville is a pantry staple.
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Debugging AI With Adversarial Validation
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The SRS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess the therapeutic alliance. It provides immediate feedback on the quality of the relationship and allows for course correction in real time.
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The ORS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess areas of life functioning known to change as a result of therapeutic intervention. It takes less than one minute to complete and score.
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I built the read later app I'd always wanted
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.not-quite-dotfiles — :moneybag: NO JUDGING
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Vim
For general text editing, nothing quite beats vim.
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Netlify — Netlify
I deploy quite a few sites to Netlify.
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An optimizer that is invariant to rescaling the gradients and cheap in memory is what makes very large models practical to train.
The method is straightforward to implement, is computationally efficient, has little memory requirements, is invariant to diagonal rescaling of the gradients, and is well suited for problems that are large in terms of…
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An optimizer that is invariant to rescaling the gradients and cheap in memory is what makes very large models practical to train.
The method is straightforward to implement, is computationally efficient, has little memory requirements, is invariant to diagonal rescaling of the gradients, and is well suited for problems that are large in terms of…
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The World Is Flat — Thomas L. Friedman
I don’t know about you, but I personally feel starved of ambitious sensemaking frames for recent history that aren’t quite as silly as say Friedman’s World is Flat or Harari’s Sapiens, or quite as ideologically…
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I don’t know about you, but I personally feel starved of ambitious sensemaking frames for recent history that aren’t quite as silly as say Friedman’s World is Flat or Harari’s Sapiens, or quite as ideologically…
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Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about A.D. 1030 — Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni
It's mostly readable, though there are quite a few places where the translator calls for more research and this reprint, naturally, doesn't say whether it's been followed up *. In any event, I found this fascinating.
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A dependency you would need engineer-months to replace or fork is a critical one, and retaining its maintainer is straightforward business sense.
This is how I frame it: if the effort required to replace or fork a dependency should it go unmaintained is measured in engineer-months, that’s a critical dependency and retaining its maintainers probably makes good…
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I don’t know about you, but I personally feel starved of ambitious sensemaking frames for recent history that aren’t quite as silly as say Friedman’s World is Flat or Harari’s Sapiens, or quite as ideologically…
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Mind candy, comic book fantasy heavily influenced by D & D.
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Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier — Kevin Kelly
That is precisely what Kevin Kelly gathers in Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
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DaVinci Resolve — Blackmagic Design
I’ve been quite happy with the change. DaVinci Resolve works the way I think more than Final Cut does.
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MSysGit
MSysGit on Windows is also quite nice in that it comes with a ton of standard gnu tools which are nice to have.
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a western fence lizard decided to sit on my friend’s leg for quite some time today
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Overcast — Marco Arment
The best podcast app I've ever tried, and I've tried quite a few.
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Wacom tablet — Wacom
During my time at Khan Academy, I found using a Wacom tablet worked quite nicely
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SuperDuper
run backups with SuperDuper, a program every Mac user must own. SuperDuper is quite simply the easiest backup program ever invented, and it just works.
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NetNewsWire — Brent Simmons
If I had to commit to a newsreader, it'd be NetNewsWire. If I had to commit to a productivity application, it'd be Things.
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The Cash Machine — Dave Mason
While I'm thinking about it, here's another of his books I quite enjoyed:
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Git is completely awesome and at this point I'd be lost without it.
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Zoxide — Ajeet D'Souza
Zoxide: z/autojump.
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Titan: Life of John D. Rockefeller — Ron Chernow
Nice read, but be warned: this is long.
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The age of scaling sucked the air out of the room and left the field with more companies than ideas, by quite a bit.
And so because scaling sucked out all the air in the room, everyone started to do the same thing. We got to the point where uh we are in a world where there are more companies than ideas by quite a bit.
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Ricoh GR-D — Ricoh
Miscellaneous other hardware that might qualify as work-related, roughly in order of how much affection I have for it: a Ricoh GR-D point-and-shoot camera
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50 things I know
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The high-purity quartz of Spruce Pine is a real chokepoint in chipmaking, but not an irreplaceable one.
Spruce Pine quartz isn’t quite an irreplaceable linchpin in semiconductor manufacturing.
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TinyWM is where I’d start if I wanted to learn how a window manager works
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Crossover 27Q monitor — Crossover
The color and screen quality is incredible, and I’d highly recommend it.
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Since 2012 when the first study appeared in the literature, others have been published documenting the tendency of practitioners to overestimate their effectiveness - on average, by 65% (1, 2).
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The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics — Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky
He has a new popular book out which is quite good, entitled The Theoretical Minimum
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Silence — John Cage
Silence is one of the great music books. Purely on a literary level, there's something about Cage's style which is tremendously unique, something quite special in the history of literature.
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It's time for the field to stop attributing benefits to clinical experience. Beyond the obvious ethical concerns, doing so actually prevents us from improving our effectiveness!
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Apple Extended Keyboard II — Apple
My most important piece of hardware, which I love even more than my trackpad, is my Apple Extended Keyboard II. If it ever breaks my career is probably over - not because I'd be unable to adjust, but because I'd be too…
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github-feedback — Ideas and features I'd like to see GitHub implement
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PlanetScale — PlanetScale
That said, I'd personally pick Planetscale in this situation.
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Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits — John D. Barrow
The book is well written, though not very inspired, and the scientific explanations are well referenced and, for all I can tell, flawless. I'd give four out of five stars if I had stars to give.
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We know a good deal about how people actually learn, and almost nobody is ever taught it.
We do, in fact, know quite a bit about how people learn, and almost nobody learns it.