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lolol it gets me every time
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Every time.
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Now every time the wifi goes down...it's the swarms
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It brings a smile to my face every time I see a paper using ggplot2 😀
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now that I've finally read every jane austen novel the time has come for me to read the next six volumes of in search of lost time
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Every time software has become easier to create, the world has created exponentially more of it, and this time will be no exception.
every time that we've made it easier to create software, we've exponentially created more of it.
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Every time we hit a new high
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The answer to every significant programming challenge in 2026 is a Python library you didn't think to go looking for because it's in Python and not Rust, as if that mattered anymore. Kicking myself every time I realize…
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Time to leave one `amp --no-tui` running on your Mac mini and forget about it. It now serves every repo on the machine, and keeps itself updated.
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i love that im working on a project to talk to every human on earth and at the same time reviewing the guest list for a party
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If Canada is strong, sovereign, hard-working, deeply competent, and finishes ambitious infrastructure on budget and on time, every other problem melts away.
…to start ambitious infrastructure projects and finish them on budget and on time. Shout-out to our nuclear energy sector for nailing that. Do that and every other problem melts…
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The Far-Right Playbook in Action
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Cunningham’s law, baby. Works every time: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.”
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In nearly every society, men are killed at higher rates than women, usually by other men.
In almost every society on Earth, men are more likely than women to be murdered. Most of the time, the killer is a man as well.
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A maintainer no longer needs to read every pull request; agents can sort the chaff and leave only the decisions worth a human.
I'm not reviewing every pull request anymore. I haven't been reviewing them for quite some time now.
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don't think there is even one fast growing company where the CEO is not pushing code every day if your CEO is not pushing code, time to get another job
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Adding process when things go badly is the instinct to resist: every time we added more process we spent more time without getting better outcomes.
Or the perfect way to go through feedback and leveling and compensation. But every time we saw that and we added more process, we spent more time without getting better outcomes.
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Revolutionary movements aim to remake the international system, not just their own country's politics.
In modern times, every major revolutionary movement has sought to change not just the politics of a single country but the international system itself.
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Coding agents already do coarse-grained recursive self-improvement, because every use rewrites their instruction files and their long-term memory.
we we kind of have coarse level uh recursive self-improvement already. And the fact that every time you use it, it improves the markdown files. Uh every time you use it, it updates its uh long-term memory.
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AI is at its best when it reuses great existing components rather than regenerating everything from first principles.
AI is still at its best when it can reuse great components than regenerating every time from first principles.
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Frontier AI models' cyberattack capabilities are doubling every few months, and that pace is accelerating.
…of frontier models (i.e., from OpenAI and Anthropic) are roughly doubling every few months, and this doubling rate has actually gotten faster over…
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People are fed up with equating dislike or criticism with Islamophobia.
every time Mehdi comes at me with his "Anyone who doesn't like me is an ISLAMOPHOBE" shit, he gets massively ratioed. People have HAD IT with this crap, man.
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Reliability lives on an exponential ladder of nines: every additional nine costs about ten times the effort of the one before.
reliability and performance lives on this exponential ladder of nines. So, getting to that first 90% or 99%, that's the easy part. But then every next nine that you want to add, that takes about 10 times more effort.
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Funny every time: The fans in my M3 iMac are so silent that when I run a real CPU-hog of a task, I can only tell by the *smell*. (You know that warm dust / motherboard smell. Coming out of the iMac's bottom vents.…
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Whatever humans are still better at than models is alpha that decays with every model release, so the skill worth naming today will not be the one worth naming next year.
what what is the current thing that models are not very good at doing? Alpha is going to decay in some way with every model release or every series of model releases. So, it's going to change over time.
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…gone with the holidayers returning to reality, the entire island is ours, every crooked apple tree, every shriveled blackberry, every dead leaf; endless time in an empty world, all ours. Back aboard, a gust of wind…
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Quick Stuff gets more personal
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The test of whether an AI transition went well is simply whether people's freedom, agency and quality of time go up every single year.
if every year people have more freedom and agency to spend more of their time doing the stuff they want to do and they feel like the quality of life and the quality of their time is going up year after year, we'll…
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The best AI products have not been built yet, because every wave of AI is about ten times bigger than the wave before it.
the best AI products haven't even been developed yet. You know, that if you look at the AI ecosystem and everything that's happened, like every wave is 10 times bigger than the past wave.
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…best-in-category classic adapted from Marcy Goldman is the kind you make every year — deeply spiced, great crumb, and very cozy. It gets better as it has time to rest, honestly, just like…
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…or “L8 principal” mentioned in the title of my videos i hated doing it, and every time i published a video i always a/b tested removing that title unfortunately, every single time, removing it would destroy the reach…
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something I wish I knew earlier in my life: it is okay to take a really long time to do something if you are making slow progress the whole time. do a bit every day, even take breaks if you need. it’s tempting to think…
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Matt Yglesias writes long, interesting posts about policy, which are almost always worth reading, but every once in awhile he says something so stupid and shitty I want to throw my computer across the room. He needs to…
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the time has come that every blog needs one of these
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In the future, humans will not find bugs in model-produced code in reasonable time and will only review system composition, not via PRs or line-by-line review.
in the future, humans won’t find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time. Humans will only review the system and its composition, but it won’t be in PRs and it won’t be by…
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…dreading a python2->python3 migration for two decades. Profitable the whole time in between. You don't need to upgrade your stack every few…
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LG air conditioning — LG
LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think…
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Reading every DM is worth the time even when you cannot reply to them all, because it is where you learn what to fix, whom to hire and where to invest.
I read every DM people send me, even if I don’t reply to all. I’m constantly learning about new ideas, ways to improve our product, where we’re falling short, who could join our company next, where to invest… very…
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By every objective metric Stripe can see, there has never been a better time to start a business.
Uh, business are uh, the time to revenue for new companies incorporated with Atlas is declining. And so, by all the kind of objective metrics we can look at, uh, it seems to be a better time than ever to start a…
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Mitsubishi air conditioning — Mitsubishi Electric
LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think…
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If you can use Effect for TypeScript, you should -- to the point of not starting a new project without it.
every time i’ve built something without effect over the past almost 3 years ive come to deeply regret it and wish i had just done it from the start
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…forced to account to some sort of priest for their past transgressions, and every time they speak they must eat a poison meat that causes them incredible pain. That is how I think an alien would see Hot…
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Planning a day or a week in advance works because it pays the brain's decision cost once rather than dozens of times.
Every decision has a cost in terms as we've seen the brain having to put in invest fuel to make that decision. So if you're having to do that every time you make a decision, that can seem very burdensome. Whereas if you…
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If nobody can say what an experiment costs, everyone behaves as though experiments are free — it does not cost dollars, it costs media, and media comes from the fridge.
And so if nobody knows how much an experiment costs, like every time you like grow up a new cell line or every time we make a new a new probe in in the fab, how much does that loop cost? Nobody knows. Therefore,…
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…so she asked how much I’ve added and I said I don’t know, it’s a quart low every time I check so she said it sounds like we’re just feeding oil to the trans-Canada highway and then my mechanic started…
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What America has meant to me
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We squander too much of our free time feeling guilty that we’re not working. In 1 of every 7 moments of fun and relaxation, people feel bad that they're not being “productive”—robbing themselves of joy and rejuvenation.…
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The Orchestrator's Tax
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Started playing with @bot this week, first problem I'm using it to solve is automatically picking my lunches from Factor every week because any time I forget they send me stuff I don't like. Becoming really easy to see…
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Reading online commentary about a movie before seeing it reduces the immersion of experiencing it for the first time.
There are many forces online that want to cast every movie into their pet topic and I find that deeply reduces the immersion and experience from watching a piece of cinema for the first time.
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Coding agents made implementation cheap without making roadmaps shorter or software better -- the binding constraint was never how fast code gets written.
buuuut my roadmap is’nt ten times shorter. and I’m definitely not ten times better at deciding what is worth building. teams haven’t started casually shipping a year of product work every month. you can look around and…
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Every jump in the human standard of living has been unlocked by cheaper energy.
Energy is the fundamental input to uh the quality of human life. U if you look backward into time and say how did humanity go from one standard of living to the next, it's always unlocked by cheaper energy, right?
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AI is raising public expectations of government service at the same time it changes what government must deliver.
Every state, and the federal government right along with them, is about to be asked to do a lot more than keep the lights on.
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Hotheads
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Every new information technology is followed by a wave of censorship in which a great many books are banned at once.
mini thesis, every time there's a new information technology, there's a subsequent wave of censorship to try to censor the new technology and a bajillion books get banned all at once.
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Chatting Alone — Alex Martsinovich
Martsinovich argues, via code snippets, that there is no such thing as a "conversation" with a chatbot. The AI is born anew every time it speaks, and it simply reads the dialogue so far and then tries to write the next…
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Labor is Now Free. Make Something.
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Every big innovation — cloud computing, higher-level languages — should have reduced the number of programmers, and none of them ever has.
Like every single time there's just like the big innovation like cloud computing, like higher level programming languages, for whatever reason things do not like it doesn't lead to fewer programmers. And I would have…
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Users vote with their clicks, and roughly half of them are lost at every click a product asks for.
They vote with their clicks. You lose at least half your users every click. Every time you say click here, half people don't click. And you lose 80% when you say download this. At least that's probably 90 or more. 90%…
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The engineer-designer-PM pod ratio was an HR artifact of scaling, not something anyone showed a product needed.
somewhere along the line this kind of HR ratio of like a pod popped into being. You know, every time you hire six engineers, you add a designer or you add a PM, you add an EM
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If you want loop engineering, build one loop at a time and keep them small: every part of the agentic-factory playbook is good advice except the part where you stop reading the code.
if you want to do loops engineering, you should build one loop at a time and you should keep them small and contained. Basically, I think everything except stop reading the code is really good advice.
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Language design is ninety per cent the same work every time and ten per cent new, which is why the experience carries from one language to the next.
And quite honestly, language design is 90% the same and 10% new for for pretty much every language. Every language you build still has to have a compiler. Compiler is still built in a pretty much the same way.
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Ranking people costs something every time: the top become more arrogant, the bottom more indignant, and the rankers more callous.
Every time we rank one another, we lose a little humanity.
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Automation is a lie: every automated thing needs a human on top of it making sure it is working.
Automation is a lie. Um in the sense that every time you automate something, in order to make sure the automation is working well, you need a human on top of it like making sure that it's working well.
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Formalisation's real gift is the green check mark — knowing a hard proof is correct before you spend time on it — and every other field would kill for it.
…if it's going to be a pain, you at the very least know it is correct. Like every other field would kill for that,…
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The 1% Improvement Myth: Why Customer Conversations Beat Micro-Improvements Every Time
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Renaissance Christianity assumed that nobody was ever pure — everybody sins constantly, repents, and sins again — which is why its hypocrisy looks so strange to us.
The assumption is everybody sins all the time. There is no such thing as purity. Everybody sins every 5 minutes.
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A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent.
It becomes insufferable like as a mathematician because you you would basically be like I'm every single time I see one of these I kind of don't know if it's worth my time even if 99 out of 100 of them are right.
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You don’t understand, prices can’t go down
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A hard limit on how long you are online is what makes the time online focused.
Every day or two, I bring my laptop into town to get online for an hour. The time limit keeps me super-focused.
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Introducing Amazing Atlas
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With a good enough plan, a coding agent implements the whole change in one attempt.
once there is a good plan, it will one-shot the implementation almost every time.
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Apollo 13
Every film ages, but it seems to me that 30 years on, Apollo 13 has aged rather less than other films of its time
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Who else does the involuntary giant yawn / nose scratch at the precise moment Face ID pops up every time thus causing it to fail
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Shipping ten times as much is not an advantage, because the moment you ship something you are stuck supporting it forever and every later feature has to interact with it.
…what you put out there. It's hard to undo anything. Just cuz we can ship 10 times more doesn't mean we have 10 times as many good ideas to ship out…
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Every first pull request someone sends, however bad, is a win for society.
But I don't want to, like, pull that down because every time someone made the first pull request is a win for our society, you know? Like, it… Like, it doesn't matter how, how shitty it is, y- you gotta start somewhere.
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Every decision reached by consensus is an instance of the absence of leadership.
leadership and consensus are two sides of the same spectrum. Like they don't intersect at all. It's like every time consensus makes a decision, it's the absence of leadership.
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Climate change is the existential crisis of our time
Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. We need more ideas and progress in every sector, including software-based approaches to preventing emissions and sequestering carbon.
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What Is Second Language Acquisition — And Why Most People Get It Wrong
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Language choice is a temporary artefact of training data; in the fullness of time every language will work equally well with AI.
But right now we're in a funny place where the some languages work better than others still because they have better training data, but in the fullness of time, all languages will work equally well.
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Almost every software project has cheap testing wins left on the table: basic random testing, static analysis and fault injection pay for themselves the first time they are run.
Almost every software project I've seen has a lot of low hanging testing fruit.
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Reference checks are more informative than interviews, and if you had to pick one you should pick references.
I’ve said many times that if I had to choose between interviews or references, I would pick references every time.
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States do not merely defend the power they have: they seize every opportunity to gain more that looks cheap and likely to succeed.
…my argument is that states look for opportunities to gain more power, and every time they see, or almost every time they see an opportunity to gain more power, and they think the likelihood of success is high and the…
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Frequent conversations with customers continually correct a founder's mistaken assumptions about the market.
Your assumptions will constantly clash with reality, and they will be refined slightly every single time you have a conversation.
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Every generation of technology is supposed to make games cheaper and easier to build, and every time the result has been better and far more expensive games.
You know, I’ve been in games for 29 years, and all the time, the piece of tech that’s going to make making games much easier and much cheaper is about to turn up, and all that’s happened is the games have got much…
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Muji pens — Muji
It was around this time, in the summer of 2021, that I discovered the Muji pens. I discovered them as every minimalism fetishist discovers them perhaps.
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Every frontier model is profitable on its own; the company loses money only because it is already training one ten times more expensive.
but at the same time, we're spending $10 billion to train the next model because there's an exponential scale up. And so the company loses money. Each model makes money, but the company loses money.
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I really thought after 18 years it would be a simple muscle memory to do text entry / autocorrect / cursor placement / text selection / copy & paste on iOS, and yet somehow it's a surprise every time.
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Before about 1870 every burst of productivity growth was eaten by a burst of population growth, leaving living standards where they were.
Prior to this inflection point, productivity growth had increased before, but every time had induced a response of higher population growth rates, eroding any gains in per-person living standards.
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Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
A massively influential work of philosophy, I've enjoyed this book every time I go back to it. Great entry point for anyone into virtue ethics.
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A growth team should spend a fifth to a quarter of its year, measured annually rather than by sprint, introducing a new growth loop.
I try to focus 20% 20 to 25% of growth team's time annually, not every given sprint, not every given quarter, but annually, to introduce a new growth loop.
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Being smart and competent makes someone right more often, but not right every time.
Someone being smart and competent just means they're right more often, not that they're always right
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Mac OS X — Apple
but switched to Mac OS as it delivers a much better “just works” experience for me, every time I want to do Skype, print a document, or alike.
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Slow models are better company than fast ones, because the minutes an agent spends working are the minutes two humans get to talk about the design.
…very positive. And the fact that they're kind of slow is really nice. So, every time the models come out and they're faster, I'm like, "Oh, there's less time to…
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Time's Up for AI Policy
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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler — Ryan North
These were the best books I read in 2020 (including who recommended each). Every one was a pleasure. Enjoy!
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Oura ring — Oura
My Oura ring. I hesitated for a long time but it sparks joy. I think Apple Watches are ugly and I didn't like the Whoop nearly as much. I love checking the app every day.
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RL environments exist to make a model generalise, not to teach it each skill one at a time — exactly as pre-training does.
the goal is not to teach the model every possible skill within RL just as we don't do that within pre-training, right? Within pre-training, we're not trying to expose the model to, you know, every every possible you…
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Somebody should make bottom-loading kitchen ovens. Could be wall- or ceiling-mounted. Much more energy efficient, and your face wouldn't get blasted every time you open the oven door. Also, kid safe.
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On Brandon Sanderson
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Google Authenticator — Google
I really love the Google Authenticator app, which is a token generator for Google's 2-factor authentication, but makes me feel very safe and high-tech every time I open it up.
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Spreading scarce hiring evenly across every team that needs it is indecision dressed as fairness; staff one team to health at a time.
Many folks try to move all teams at the same time, peanut buttering their limited resources, but resist that indecision-framed-as-fairness: no one getting anything is not a fair outcome.
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A great filter is a weak explanation for the silence, because it would have to work every single time — one civilization with self-replicating probes could fill the galaxy.
That is absolutely possible. I’m actually putting less credence on that one just because you need to happen every single time. If even one, I mean, this goes back to John von Neumann pointed out that you don’t need to…
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The best music I heard in 2025
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Software's real advantage over physical engineering is consistency: a component does what it is specified to do every time, while physical materials only fall within a tolerance.
Software is far more consistent than any other kind of engineering.
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A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single departure knocks it back into maintenance.
Small teams (<4) are not teams. I’ve sponsored quite a few 1-2 person teams, and each time I’ve regretted it. To repeat: I have regretted it every single time.
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Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That.
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Enabling Hugo static site search with Lunr.js
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The moment one cause looks far better than every other on thin information is exactly the moment it most needs sceptical investigation.
Yet it seems that when people are valuing one action far above others, based on thin information, this is the time when skeptical inquiry is needed most.
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Oresteia — Aeschylus
…a lot in it that I need to absorb. I'll surely be re-reading this one sometime soon. It's one of those books that one ought to read multiple times in life because I'm certain that every time we read it, it will offer…
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Wrote a post on how I build and run behavioral interviews! I used to think that "tell me about a time when..." questions were all bullshit—people answered everything with vague platitudes, I had no idea what the bar…
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Every new drug has to beat the cheap generics that came before it, and that competition with our own back catalogue is why drug discovery gets harder over time.
I think that this is insufficiently appreciated outside of the drug business. Nothing goes away unless it's well and truly superseded.
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Within about five years the user interface will be generated afresh each time a user opens an app, so different users will get drastically different designs.
…second-generation generative UI, the user interface is generated afresh every time the user accesses the app. Most important, this means that different users will get drastically different…
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Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)
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Once generated text is everywhere, readers will become sceptical that there is a person on the other end of anything they read online.
Every time you find a new favourite blog or Twitter account or Tiktok personality online, you’ll have to ask: Is this really a whole human with a rich and complex life like mine?
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Federation is the real fix for losing your community every time a platform dies, but it does not work yet, so publishing on your own site and syndicating out is the interim answer.
I think federation is the long-term solution to these problems. Eventually, I dream we will be able to seamlessly interact with people across platforms.
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Getting from a demo to a product is a march of nines, and each additional nine costs the same amount of work as the one before it.
I think basically what takes the long amount of time and the way to think about it is that it's a march of nines and every single nine is a constant amount of work.
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Any given AI capability becomes cheap and widely available within a couple of years of first being reached, so nobody can be kept away from it for long.
Each and every time, it took at most a few years but typically months before other companies would achieve the same level of performance using a broadly similar, and always relatively simple, recipe.
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Every migration to a new platform costs a community members it never gets back, and everyone has a limit on how many times they will pay it.
Each shift takes its toll, and everyone has a limit of how much energy they’re willing to expend on a new platform that will eventually, like its predecessors, join the graveyard of defunct websites.