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Said and published
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As soon as I posted this post I started getting scam calls about card activation and stuff. Also, got an email impersonating one card itself @OneCardHelp you guys must be very careful
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The LLMs yearn for the spines
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"there will always be more work" this reframe was the one thing that got me to stop staying up late and start: - going to bed early - prioritizing sleep over work - feeling less like "i didn't get enough done today"…
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I got this one
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interesting to read this article (in french) about how some movies are no longer distributed https://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/chroniques/2024-04-26/repertoire-des-films-disparus.php the only way I could find one of the…
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AOC ultrawide monitor — AOC
This beauty has so much screen real estate it feels like I've got two monitors in one. Which is great, because I'm not a fan of dual monitors.
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I hate manager READMEs
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Tony's Chocolonely Lil Bits — Tony's Chocolonely
Tony's Chocolonely Lil Bits (in Milk Caramel Sea Salt and Cookie Mix), which single-handedly got me through this work year. I shudder to think how many bags of these I ate, but I can barely finish an essay without one.
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The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt
This is the only one I’m not crazy about. My academic BS detector got tripped a few times while reading it, and it turns out that there are a number of better measurements emerging in moral psychology.
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iMac — Apple
Mostly Macs at this point. I have a 27-inch iMac at work (big screen) but with the tiny wireless keyboard; I long ago got tired of keyboards that, with wheels, could double as skateboards, so it's nice to have a little…
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Psychedelics work by strengthening the brain's top-down priors
A more recent paper by Carhart-Harris and Friston provides compelling evidence that psychedelics probably work by _weakening_ the brain's top-down priors, meaning I got this one maximally wrong.
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The AI safety community's fixation on a model escaping its box has pushed the other significant AI risks out of the discussion, with little progress to show for it.
That’s a theatrical risk. That is a thing that can really take over how people think about this problem. And there’s a big group of very smart, I think very well-meaning AI safety researchers that got super-hung up on…
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Chromebook Pixel — Google
I primarily work on a Chromebook Pixel. It's a beautiful piece of hardware. Kind of this gunmetal slab that feels more substantial in my hands than a MacBook Pro, but roughly the same form factor as a 13" MacBook Air.…
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Here's my conversation with Jeff Kaplan, a legendary Blizzard game designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, which are two of the biggest, most influential games ever made. Jeff is one of the most genuine & awesome…