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Anyone who has ever had a wristwatch of similar tech should know ho...

from jerf

Regarding the CD Baby email, Sivers says this: ‘When you’re thinkin...

from Nick Parker

Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterili...

from Nick Parker

a mechanical engineer introduced me to the (HoC), an important conc...

from Hillel Wayne

My general reaction to flag arguments is to avoid them. Rather than...

from Martin Fowler

The ESA passed under a Republican president as a bipartisan consens...

from Disturbances

Adler and Van Doren suggest that the first and most important rule ...

from Dwarkesh Patel

Farmed fish is terrible in terms of animal welfare and pretty bad i...

from B Jacobs

And what you have is when you have this unequal economy, you’re giv...

from Garys Economics

when you have a very unequal society, you have a huge group of peop...

from Garys Economics

So the first big difference you see between a more equal society an...

from Garys Economics

While Pitchfork was well received by my immediate team, my manager,...

from byroot’s blog

More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage dissem...

from 404 Media

My friend, however, asked his help not in repayment but as a matter...

from Ursula K. Le Guin

But we in the Handdara don’t want answers. It’s hard to avoid them,...

from Ursula K. Le Guin

This is interesting as a first large diffusion-based LLM. Most o...

from Andrej Karpathy

Your mind is not a storage facility. FROM: Day One | Your Journal...

from Day One | Your Journal for Life

In s1, when the LLM tries to stop thinking with "</thin...

from Tim Kellogg

the politics of progress has matured. olúfẹ́mi o. táíwò makes the a...

from Jackie Luo

not overfitting for the quantifiable. Everyone competes for everyth...

from Lenny's Podcast

I really, really, really think that there  is not a single person o...

from Lenny's Podcast

Often, I find myself prompting Claude like I’d prompt an incredibly...

from Jack Clark

Jhanas, breathwork, psychedelics, MDMA, etc are all tools to for in...

from Nadia Asparouhova

My early brush with a genuine bubble caused me to formulate some gu...

from OaktreeCap

But stocks are priced at “p/e multiples” – that is, multiples of ne...

from OaktreeCap

This is somewhat elementary and handwavy napkin analysis of a compl...

from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

An easy/primitive hack to “jailbreak” an LLM is to prepend/append ...

from Josh Beckman

The description of DeepSeek reminds me of my experience in networki...

from eigenvalue

and then on the left is a fire road with a gate but you can get a d...

from Van Neistat

The body has a daily internal cycle called the circadian rhythm. Th...

from Nat Martin

The evolutionary tendency of machines, given improving material and...

from Contraptions

Staircase mode is a quality you want to design for. Elevators don’t...

from Carlos Bueno

How could they get huge wins out of ignoring the proverbial 80%? Be...

from Carlos Bueno

The love is not the love one feels for a job or a lover or any of t...

from David Foster Wallace

The metaphysical explanation is that Roger Federer is one of those ...

from David Foster Wallace

As is so often SOP with the truth, there’s a cruel paradox involved...

from David Foster Wallace

It is not an accident that great athletes are often called “natural...

from David Foster Wallace

The same soil that’s so full of humus farmers have to be bought off...

from David Foster Wallace

The old idea from Iris Murdoch endures: the most important revelati...

from Sara Hendren

Nearly every time I do one of these workouts, I get to the end thin...

from Chris Krycho (hello@chriskrycho.com)

i’ve written about inventing the future by nick srnicek and alex wi...

from Jackie Luo

No matter what we’ve tried so far, the request ends up being sent. ...

from ycombinator.com

[Joel Sternfeld] is like compositional hero of mine I think he’s so...

from Noah Kalina

five different patterns for workflows in detail: Prompt cha...

from Simon Willison

Agents begin their work with either a command from, or interactive ...

from anthropic.com

To be short, Parallelism is simply running things in parall...

from divan's blog

kinda wild. turns out that if you simply ask an LLM to straight out...

from gian 🏴‍☠️

However, many interactions between organisms and cells depend on be...

from John Glass

why synthetic data can provide better guidance to a model: ...

from simonwillison.net

What is an AI agent? Here’s Sully’s handy guide. Trista...

from Zvi

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