I like how Matt Levine at Bloomberg put it - crypto is just “speedrunning the history of [traditional] finance”. I think a lot of people seem to believe that the current setup of banks, currency, and regulation (writ…
Please keep this kind of AI-written comment out of the forum. If you have something worth saying, say it yourself!
Stupidly expensive from one perspective, but if you look at clothing and fashion it’s actually more surprising to me that the market effectively tops out where it does. Billionaires have more or less the exact same…
I think bigger efforts won’t work when smaller ones have been so haphazard. For example, “e.g.” I feel should become just “eg” in writing purely for convenience’s sake (plus almost everyone likely understands what you…
I just call it “pi but for curves”
I’ve long been struck by this study [1], “Parents think - incorrectly - that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is good for them”. To tl;dr a bit, this and other analyses tend to agree that whatever…
…but that ended up being Ukraine
I think Anthropic are sincere but nutcases. Despite this, I’m glad they are around, because diversity of thought is good in the current environment.
At least in theory (TypeSafe has been pretty close-lipped about the details so this might just be hot air, and I think the evidence is a bit spotty) this is false, since they use a different reinforcement training…
So they’ve committed to for example releasing 30-32 movies a year for the next five years [1] but after that, no promises. Good thing mergers are famously temporary and we never need to worry about the next 10 years! Oh…
For those sick of “Pareto frontier” talk, just shorthand it as “it’s the best at some very particular thing”. Obviously that one thing/tradeoff it’s good at may not necessarily be compelling, but it is either a loose…
Most Mormons are not Christian nationalists and in fact tend to oppose such, especially in comparison to most red states and evangelicals.
Right, and part of that is nurturing student interest and buy-in, because it can increase. Traditionally smart teaching and the right structure could result in some percentage of reluctant learners being drawn into good…
Flipped classrooms are like, the quintessential siren song for teachers. EVERY teacher dreams of a day when they can focus on what they're best at (teaching deep topics, getting 'aha' moments, making connections, asking…
I mean, News is a collection of newspapers who pretty famously have supported themselves via advertising basically since forever, so complaining about ads in News to me is like complaining that a hamburger combo on a…
“Requires” is a strong word. Apple does have an extremely easy mouse-only solution for this and it dates back over a decade: map the fan-out selector (I forget what they call it these days, maybe Mission Control?) to a…
Additionally romhacks exist assuming you own the original game, which layer some quality of life tweaks on top! For the SNES version at least.
In theory Jev “calibrates” the probabilities, meaning a probability of 20% is optimized to happen near 20% of the time, which as you point out traditional models with schemas do NOT optimize for at all
Personally I think every single medium to long form piece of writing should go through an LLM grammar check at the minimum (they are great at catching stuff like correcting “reign in” to “rein in”, not to mention…
I wonder if a good analogy would be, they are trying to tune the “gut feeling” of a model more directly
If luck = something you didn’t choose or had no control over, sure. If luck = it could have gone otherwise, that’s nonsensical; if you had different parents you wouldn’t exist to begin with, as you are literally a…
I’ve seen about 8 therapists and 3 coaches at various times in the last 15 years. 5-6/8 and 2/3 respectively were, I eventually realized, mostly in it for the money and didn’t actually care too much (if at all) about me…
Yeah, because sleeping directly on the ground leaches heat from your body too fast, because of said lack of insulation. Sleeping too directly on the ground is also particularly dangerous in survival scenarios, doubly so…
Yeah, I really think this should be the new universal standard. Mostly for respect reasons, but also going through and saying “what DOES my app actually do?” (which is something writing a README forces you to think…
AI is not deeply unpopular, that’s just nonsense. The complaint ratio is just relatively high from a loud minority. Don't believe me? Just check Pew. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-an... It’s…
I like how Matt Levine at Bloomberg put it - crypto is just “speedrunning the history of [traditional] finance”. I think a lot of people seem to believe that the current setup of banks, currency, and regulation (writ…
Please keep this kind of AI-written comment out of the forum. If you have something worth saying, say it yourself!
Stupidly expensive from one perspective, but if you look at clothing and fashion it’s actually more surprising to me that the market effectively tops out where it does. Billionaires have more or less the exact same…
I think bigger efforts won’t work when smaller ones have been so haphazard. For example, “e.g.” I feel should become just “eg” in writing purely for convenience’s sake (plus almost everyone likely understands what you…
I just call it “pi but for curves”
I’ve long been struck by this study [1], “Parents think - incorrectly - that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is good for them”. To tl;dr a bit, this and other analyses tend to agree that whatever…
…but that ended up being Ukraine
I think Anthropic are sincere but nutcases. Despite this, I’m glad they are around, because diversity of thought is good in the current environment.
At least in theory (TypeSafe has been pretty close-lipped about the details so this might just be hot air, and I think the evidence is a bit spotty) this is false, since they use a different reinforcement training…
So they’ve committed to for example releasing 30-32 movies a year for the next five years [1] but after that, no promises. Good thing mergers are famously temporary and we never need to worry about the next 10 years! Oh…
For those sick of “Pareto frontier” talk, just shorthand it as “it’s the best at some very particular thing”. Obviously that one thing/tradeoff it’s good at may not necessarily be compelling, but it is either a loose…
Most Mormons are not Christian nationalists and in fact tend to oppose such, especially in comparison to most red states and evangelicals.
Right, and part of that is nurturing student interest and buy-in, because it can increase. Traditionally smart teaching and the right structure could result in some percentage of reluctant learners being drawn into good…
Flipped classrooms are like, the quintessential siren song for teachers. EVERY teacher dreams of a day when they can focus on what they're best at (teaching deep topics, getting 'aha' moments, making connections, asking…
I mean, News is a collection of newspapers who pretty famously have supported themselves via advertising basically since forever, so complaining about ads in News to me is like complaining that a hamburger combo on a…
“Requires” is a strong word. Apple does have an extremely easy mouse-only solution for this and it dates back over a decade: map the fan-out selector (I forget what they call it these days, maybe Mission Control?) to a…
Additionally romhacks exist assuming you own the original game, which layer some quality of life tweaks on top! For the SNES version at least.
In theory Jev “calibrates” the probabilities, meaning a probability of 20% is optimized to happen near 20% of the time, which as you point out traditional models with schemas do NOT optimize for at all
Personally I think every single medium to long form piece of writing should go through an LLM grammar check at the minimum (they are great at catching stuff like correcting “reign in” to “rein in”, not to mention…
I wonder if a good analogy would be, they are trying to tune the “gut feeling” of a model more directly
If luck = something you didn’t choose or had no control over, sure. If luck = it could have gone otherwise, that’s nonsensical; if you had different parents you wouldn’t exist to begin with, as you are literally a…
I’ve seen about 8 therapists and 3 coaches at various times in the last 15 years. 5-6/8 and 2/3 respectively were, I eventually realized, mostly in it for the money and didn’t actually care too much (if at all) about me…
Yeah, because sleeping directly on the ground leaches heat from your body too fast, because of said lack of insulation. Sleeping too directly on the ground is also particularly dangerous in survival scenarios, doubly so…
Yeah, I really think this should be the new universal standard. Mostly for respect reasons, but also going through and saying “what DOES my app actually do?” (which is something writing a README forces you to think…
AI is not deeply unpopular, that’s just nonsense. The complaint ratio is just relatively high from a loud minority. Don't believe me? Just check Pew. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-an... It’s…