Before some wine tasting we did a long slope hike through some small redwoods on a stream. Baby’s first day-hike!

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I had seen the dudes wearing bags of nuts and throwing them on the ground, while on my runs. I had no idea what was behind it.

I’m doing Pushtober again with some friends, where we do 100 pushups each day in October. I had some catching up to do, so just focused on that today.

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I shun stacks because I think they

• sequentialize parallelizable work
• incentivize building in horizontal slices rather than vertical slices
• make people feel more invested in a PR (because it has dependents/dependencies) than they otherwise would be

Anyway, no one should really care about this anymore (now that we have agents that can manage this complexity for us). But this argument comes up from time to time¹ so I figured I should write out my reasons.

My forearms were completely shot after this.

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I took targeted triceps work off the table today as they both still have a twinge in them. I’m still really sore from all the pull-ups earlier in the week, but I gotta burn off some stream.

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I did more pull-ups than I have in a long time and I’m sure that’s going to be sore in the morning.

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this shortfall accumulates quickly for larger scaleups, with the swarm falling further and further behind. To get the same performance gain as a 100x scale-up of the number of tokens for a single agent you need to scale up the swarm size by 900x to 15,000x.

So why would you ever use swarms?

The most important answer is speed. The 4-agent swarm needed about twice the total number of tokens to get the same performance, but in terms of tokens per agent, it only needed half as many. Since the agents are run in parallel, this means it can theoretically achieve the same task in half the time. And the same was true when moving from 4 agents to 16. In total, one could achieve the task in about 1/4 the time for 4x the cost. In reality, the speedups aren’t quite this good (perhaps because some agents use more tokens than the average), but they are substantial. So for situations in which you’d pay a large premium for speed, swarms can be very useful.

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Toby_Ord

Swarm Scaling

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Communication costs mean super large groups break down in benefit. This is why you need subdivision to get major things done. But scaling up the group means greater expense for faster results.

After taking a break for a couple days, my elbow is feeling better. But I still laid off the heavy triceps work.

As I was on the ab machine an older gent came up to me and gave me a high five.

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I turned down the usual leg and chest days to prevent further pain in my Achilles and my right elbow/triceps.

Instead I did a pull and core day and I felt pretty good. Going to take it easy for a bit to see the injuries away from my door.

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I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.

I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.

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Mitchell Hashimoto

Mitchell Hashimoto on X: 'I Can’t Stress Enough How Little an Idea Matters Compared to the Agency of the People Executing the Idea. I Have Had the Privilege of Knowing and Sometimes Even Working With Some of the Most Successful People (By Various Metrics). The Difference Between Mediocre and Excellent' / X

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Action is the main difference between people.

My right triceps insertion on my elbow was hurting at the start but after warming up it felt good. The rest was unremarkable.

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The rows and lat pulls felt particularly good today. The hammer curls kinda make my elbows hurt. I feel like I can always do more on the dumbbell row.

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I did more than the bot put into the plan.

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It was hot but I got through it. Running once a week means each one is hard.

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The first superset was enough to drain me for the rest of the workout. And this got cut short. So I don’t feel great about it but it’s making me stronger.

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This was a short session so we could take the baby to taco Tuesday but still it’s good get a sweat worked up.

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I’m out of shape after not running for weeks and my Achilles was hurting a bit when I woke up this morning but it’s a holiday and it’s too damn beautiful outside to not run.

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As Ned said, constant acceleration from 0-60 with no B-plots. You can just put people in a room and make it spin.

Ashley Judd carries the audience throughout and Michael Shannon keeps everything on edge. Together, they see-saw the scenes pretty well.

It's strange that - at least from what I've seen - 20th century conspiracy theories were solitary fights, while 21st century conspiracy theories are mob justice. The idea of a Peter being alone in his problems - without a cadre of online supporters - is almost quaint.

That tinfoil bug-light blood-as-black final set piece was about as cool of a practical effects staging as I've ever seen. I want to stand in that room but not touch anything ever.

This calm meditation and self-therapy-through-film carried me well on a lone night at home. The child's perspective softly reveals the family and simultaneously pushes important points to "adults are boring" - like this real kid's memory.

The slow unfolding of information and then the slow folding of time make a lovely slow-motion tumbling and turning that gently lays the memory to rest.

I think Will Forte really sold the story well. That and the puppy-dog eyes of Wile E. Coyote had the audience bought in on every turn.

Slapstick humor can be such a high art!

This was the first time I got to watch a film in the new Theater 3 of The Music Box Theatre and *damn* do I love that new setup. You're so close to the screen and the room is small and everything is lush and new. It feels like you're in the basement of a Hollywood producer at a private screening.

I went into this with low expectations. I had enjoyed this director's debut film years ago, but didn't enjoy their second nearly as much. If their first film was a statement of category (telling stories of trans life through the lens of horror), then I thought the second was a sophomore album - a self-serious pandering to nostalgia. This third film was a jubilant exhortation of the better halves of those first two: unbridled enthusiasm for filmmaking-as-personal-exploration along with a big bloody bite of juicy horror. And I wholly accepted the director's joy into my heart.

I was loving all the music choices. I was loving the beautiful iridescence of the background behind the horror foreground. I was loving the campy candy wrappers under Gillian Anderson.

Please, more of all of this.

I can always do more with my legs than the app coach expects. I outlifted each of its estimates today. I think my legs muscles are the ones on my body that feel less pain. It just feels good to overclock them. Maybe that’s how I injured my Achilles last year. But today I feel great and bear no pain and I just want to keep going in the rack. The legs feel strong.

Listening to TURNSTILE helped.

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I only got like 2/3 of the way through the planned workout but still I was sweating up a storm. The dumbbell bench was harder at the end, I think because my triceps were tired. But I was surprised with how much I could push through the front raises.

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