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Much like with pure science disciplines, software’s history has bee...

from Moxie Marlinspike

Yet I keep seeing people who are somehow surprised and disappointed...

from Matt Levine

I see tons of essays called something like “On X” or “In Praise of ...

from Adam Mastroianni

I think what it means to be an AI company is not to make a foundati...

from Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

if I don’t actually trust myself to lead my own life, how can anybo...

from Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

And I think one thing I learned is sometimes a very few set of qual...

from Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

I think what integrity means is you actually are something other pe...

from Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Golden Gate Claude is the pragmatic, open, controlled, good version...

from anthropic.com

And it’s a bunch of things that are pretty tricky to do with a trad...

from Latent Space

“This study illustrates the anticipatory and synchronized responses...

from EurekAlert!

from Daniel Doubrovkine (dblock@dblock.org)

Yes, it would be great if everyone did fully reproducible science a...

from DYNOMIGHT

My gut tells me this pattern, which doesn’t really have a name, is ...

from Paul Ford

Even if LLMs continue to get exponentially more powerful, there wil...

from GitHub

Good checklists, on the other hand, are precise. They are efficient...

from Atul Gawande

Przeworski’s theory starts from a simple seeming claim: that “democ...

from Henry Farrell

Let’s take this one sentence at a time. “We’d like to thank you, si...

from barretthathcock.com

You mentioned that there is just less competition. There are quite ...

from Patrick McKenzie

I think this is underappreciated by almost all writers. You should ...

from Patrick McKenzie

While we believe API instability directly creates churn, we also be...

from lethain.com

A lot of people in traditional finance, certainly including me, lik...

from Matt Levine

I used it to justify my thinking and redirect myself—and I think th...

from Paul Ford

Users: be thoughtful about what you install, and watch out for dang...

from Simon Willison

For every ten pounds of fat lost in our bodies, eight and a half po...

from James Nestor

Interestingly, Ojisan TCG didn’t start as a competitive game. The f...

from Ynes Sarah Filleul

It means the reasoning does not predict the output. That’s it. I wo...

from Zvi Mowshowitz

Regular doses of solitude are crucial for the effective and resilie...

from Adam Zerner

once you reach a certain level of expertise, the complexity and red...

from drpixie

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

This apartment is so crazy cool and functional and reconfigurable. ...

from NEVER TOO SMALL

This is a nice overview of the current LLM interface landscape. If ...

from Andrej Karpathy

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

Damn, this text is so rich. It makes me want to rally my friends. t...

from daniel.industries

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

from Andrej Karpathy

I like the idea of using LLMs to rank documents as opposed to gener...

from noperator.dev

What an inspirational example of taking a career break for yourself...

from arun.is

Nothing lets me buy with confidence more than pledges like this. I’...

from usetrmnl.com

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