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Context Clash is when you accrue new information and tools in your ...
from Drew Breunig
This is a good overview of modern media publishing biases and impli...
from Zvi Mowshowitz
No decision is final
Coming back to GPS, somebody who realised the importance of mapping...
from Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb
If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them ...
from Simon Willison
The word is lessons Using separate language allows for separate ...
from nolearnings.com
The imperial boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop ...
from wikipedia.org
Half the time, we end up with more than +25 % return – the median r...
from a@xkqr.org (kqr)
In an unprecedented and deeply alarming move, Secretary Robert F. K...
from Katelyn Jetelina
To estimate the number of periods required to double an original in...
from wikipedia.org
[Rough-Skinned Newts cultivate a bacteria on their skin that produc...
from Doug Muir & Rick Shapiro & Eric Pruitt & Mike Huben
This is an interesting collection of data printing techniques for p...
from Martin Monperrus
This is a good overview of concerns for a monorepo implementation (...
from blog.swgillespie.me
The number one prompt engineering tip for all LLMs continues to be ...
from Simon Willison
This is such a good scan of “how conversation and collaboration wor...
from Interconnected
Much like with pure science disciplines, software’s history has bee...
from Moxie Marlinspike
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
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
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