Link. Everyone in software has a story about a temporary solution.

Link. A sober review without schoolchild mockery and with legal knowledge.

Apple will claim the lock-in is both of: 1. Not real (look how many switch!) 2. Accidental side-effect of good things. (IMHO Apple is guilty as sin.)

They should look at photos.

Link. Maybe he regrets saying that now, and maybe he’s not that senior, but it does leave an impression. (Could also be a misquote.)

Link. Incredible. Needs to be theater.

Link. “One of the infuriating things about working with ChatGPT Code Interpreter is that it often denies abilities that you know it has.

I’ve found it to be quite resistant to compiling C code in the past. Here’s a prompting sequence trick…”

I have given up on predicting the future.

Link. A form of hallucination. There are a variety of hallucination syndromes without psychosis. They are gllitches in brain structure and function.

Link. Genetically engineered pigs: “Pigs carry retroviruses that may infect humans, and the company also inactivated the pathogens.”

NYT had to search to find someone who objected. PETA of course.

Link. Putin’s madness, China’s export surge, aging population, perverse tax structure. I’d add excessively rigid macroeconomic policies.

Link. Bookmark this for when things get real bad.

Link. Insooni, born in 1957, is an entertainer entrepreneur. This is a very Korean story of endurance with relentless effort within a medieval Confucian culture undergoing radical transformation.

Link. I assume by “immune compromised” they mean HIV infected persons. HIV infection accelerates coronavirus evolution in ways new to human history. We need that seemingly impossible HIV vaccine.

Link. Anyone can use. Especially for used device. Put in diagnostic mode, enter serial number.

Link. Yes. The lock-in, castle, Hotel California monopoly is the fundamental problem. Apple has a wide array of deep moats. You can always enter but you can never leave.

Link. Ok, scratch that off the list of weird new world.

GPT-4 is arguably weakest of this group. Until we see 4.5 at least.

Link. Flight attendants have stories. I do suspect Boeing’s problems are real however.

Link. Haiti had the most brutal slavery that was under European control. (Some Ottoman slavery was similar.)

The best short explainer of the world’s most persistently dysfunctional nation.

Link. He makes the case for Vinge’s excellence.

Link. Impressive and likely quite risky journalism. Oklahoma, California and NYC (Flushing) are big players. Chinese workers coming north from Mexico?

I wonder if they operate in Vancouver. (Legalization with high tax rates)

Link. “ law firm Clare Locke has … professionalized the art of slowing down stories with legal threats and demands for preservation of documents …
… magazines, whose audiences long ago moved online and who now rely heavily on the businesses they cover…”

By far the best “why broken” article I’ve seen.

Link. “line of research that uses [very esoteric] complexity theory to study the intrinsic capabilities and limitations of language models.”

This article is also the best LLM primer I have read. Quanta is amazing.

PS. People who say we understand LLMs are wrong.

Link. Things you can only learn by doing.

Link. If your discs are inadequate exchange weight for reps.

Link. Ultimately is a question about extending guardianship-like options beyond the formally disabled.

As a lib I necessarily see it from both sides.

Link. “the logo on the hub should oriented so that it’s legible from the saddle, and the logo on the rim should be legible from the drive side of the bike”

I did not know, though most of my tires are directional so there’s no need to check the label.

Link. Meanwhile commercial real estate values have cratered.

Link. I can live with them but I’m still on Ventura.

Link. iPads last a long time.

Link. Book review “History of Liberalism”. For the libs among us.

Link. Commercial divers use chambers for weeks of compression and decompression, but hobbyist cave divers do insane things.

Typical hobbyist experiment: “His dog observed from outside the pool fence; his wife was out.”

Link. This needs more attention. It’s weird.

Link. Fun tech article on Nvidia roadmap.

Link. Elder breakpoint is probably 75+ though. Lonely people are key target, key technique is to induce anxiety.

Link. A kind of algorithm. Reminds me of the braking system of a 1930s freight train. Emergent control likely with conflicting signals.

Link. Afghanistan had a population explosion in 70s I think. Many trees cut down.

Link. 850 B.C Britain, wetland life.

Link. Don’t worry, if this ever worked we’d be at AGI and everything would be fair game.

Link. They need to get oil and gas out of the ground NOW – before value crashes. So they need to say this even if they believe the 2030 prediction.

At some point somebody blinks and pumps like mad.

Link. Nathan Sanders author. This is the best, by far, near term risk summary I’ve read. Should inform regulation. Recommended.

Link. Prominent in the Old Testament.

Link. Down’s syndrome would be good to look at. The cognitive decline there is heartbreaking.

Link. Sounds pretty nice! It’s weird to have an interesting new product from Google.

Link. Presumably a bug.

Link. Not a top secret spy tool. However there’s still possibility of a sub-group that has something different going.

Link. I remain persuaded by the original 1990s concept of the “singularity”.

Link. The American 1990s were good at the time, but even better in retrospect. Stock markets did go bonkers late in the decade though.

Link. Good review of current state including advantages of larger working memory.

We will learn within 6 months if progress is slowing.

Link. USAF is fighting the last war.

Link. Satan has always found Evangelicals easy pickings. It’s almost unsporting really.

“it’s hard to remain fiercely loyal to a figure like Mr. Trump without being changed by him”

Link. I think the images are uploaded to storage outside the photo library.

Link. Cult was hot in the 1920s! Church is still active I think. MSP has a lot of older cults.