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 do get the sentiment for sure. Personally though? I’ve made peace with the fact that I might have a 20/month subscription indefinitely. It’s slowly working its way towards being like a cell phone or Internet bill,…
It also works as extremely effective engagement farming, for lack of a better phrase
I’ve personally found that Google’s AI mode is surprisingly capable and almost absurdly fast, although the hallucination rate is somewhat proportionally higher too to match its seeming over-responsiveness. Which means…
I’ve long been curious what you (and a lot of people that express this) feel the cutoff is to know how to code? Because obviously there’s a sliding scale between truly knowing very little, being able to adapt similar…
When I looked at “Claude Science” which is a beta, separate desktop app, I came away with the impression that it was mostly for biology and a bit of chemistry - presumably there’s some value it can get from consulting…
Now chemistry on the other hand… OK there’s still no intent to deceive but almost all of the “rules” you learn have giant exceptions
Fully justified text looks much better when it’s more narrow columns, especially multiple; full page width text is usually not the main use case
That’s… not really accurate. Some factions in the US flirted with taking over more or even all of Mexico for the grand total of like, a few months, and even then it never would have passed Congress. Additionally “the US…
I mean no one is arguing that it is the best or even an OK format for serious data storage. Other solutions exist for a reason. But it’s evergreen and won’t go away precisely because of its simplicity. You will be able…
Interesting point, but the article absolutely reeks of Claude output slop-speak. It’s too distracting at this point, I can’t take an article seriously. If these are your own experiences, why do you feel like you can’t…
The bicameral legislature is a good idea and it actually works more or less as intended. You don’t want the government changing too dramatically year to year but you also want responsiveness - thus one part is reelected…
I feel like we need to take a page from the past. Apprenticeships with lock-in. Sponsorships. And so on. Imagine if even one billionaire dedicated themselves to be a modern “patron of the arts” on a more down-to-earth…
It’s almost impossible to prove that you aren’t one of these people though. People like me get hurt by this, collateral damage.
I think it was Karpathy that suggested he preferred “simulated reasoning” but sadly it didn’t catch on.
Popular yes; based on good quality research… no, not really. It’s really pretty unfortunate timing with the AI boom, because the field of education research is not very high on the science quality totem pole. And the…
To be frank, I think the real risk is still just… war. A big enough war where one side goes “no holds barred” in the cyber sphere will be a rude wake-up call. And we can’t do non-proliferation the same way we do with…
Yeah, the pity is that Amazon almost went this direction. They have a set of filters! They just don’t work. Not only do they clearly not want you to use them (the filters prematurely reset if you do virtually anything),…
The library ‘ryp’[1] now exists that does the same, the data lives in an arrow format so you can write R inside Python without re-writing to disk [1] https://github.com/briscverse/ryp
My personal opinion for the last two years or so has been that current AI agents are forever going to be highly limited so long as they don’t possess a real “memory” process. Right now they just have absurdly big…
Something about this is deeply funny to me: > In an iterated prisoner's dilemma game with communication, agents all settle upon the same strategy and they all defect at the same time, tanking their overall rewards. It’s…
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 do get the sentiment for sure. Personally though? I’ve made peace with the fact that I might have a 20/month subscription indefinitely. It’s slowly working its way towards being like a cell phone or Internet bill,…
It also works as extremely effective engagement farming, for lack of a better phrase
I’ve personally found that Google’s AI mode is surprisingly capable and almost absurdly fast, although the hallucination rate is somewhat proportionally higher too to match its seeming over-responsiveness. Which means…
I’ve long been curious what you (and a lot of people that express this) feel the cutoff is to know how to code? Because obviously there’s a sliding scale between truly knowing very little, being able to adapt similar…
When I looked at “Claude Science” which is a beta, separate desktop app, I came away with the impression that it was mostly for biology and a bit of chemistry - presumably there’s some value it can get from consulting…
Now chemistry on the other hand… OK there’s still no intent to deceive but almost all of the “rules” you learn have giant exceptions
Fully justified text looks much better when it’s more narrow columns, especially multiple; full page width text is usually not the main use case
That’s… not really accurate. Some factions in the US flirted with taking over more or even all of Mexico for the grand total of like, a few months, and even then it never would have passed Congress. Additionally “the US…
I mean no one is arguing that it is the best or even an OK format for serious data storage. Other solutions exist for a reason. But it’s evergreen and won’t go away precisely because of its simplicity. You will be able…
Interesting point, but the article absolutely reeks of Claude output slop-speak. It’s too distracting at this point, I can’t take an article seriously. If these are your own experiences, why do you feel like you can’t…
The bicameral legislature is a good idea and it actually works more or less as intended. You don’t want the government changing too dramatically year to year but you also want responsiveness - thus one part is reelected…
I feel like we need to take a page from the past. Apprenticeships with lock-in. Sponsorships. And so on. Imagine if even one billionaire dedicated themselves to be a modern “patron of the arts” on a more down-to-earth…
It’s almost impossible to prove that you aren’t one of these people though. People like me get hurt by this, collateral damage.
I think it was Karpathy that suggested he preferred “simulated reasoning” but sadly it didn’t catch on.
Popular yes; based on good quality research… no, not really. It’s really pretty unfortunate timing with the AI boom, because the field of education research is not very high on the science quality totem pole. And the…
To be frank, I think the real risk is still just… war. A big enough war where one side goes “no holds barred” in the cyber sphere will be a rude wake-up call. And we can’t do non-proliferation the same way we do with…
Yeah, the pity is that Amazon almost went this direction. They have a set of filters! They just don’t work. Not only do they clearly not want you to use them (the filters prematurely reset if you do virtually anything),…
The library ‘ryp’[1] now exists that does the same, the data lives in an arrow format so you can write R inside Python without re-writing to disk [1] https://github.com/briscverse/ryp
My personal opinion for the last two years or so has been that current AI agents are forever going to be highly limited so long as they don’t possess a real “memory” process. Right now they just have absurdly big…
Something about this is deeply funny to me: > In an iterated prisoner's dilemma game with communication, agents all settle upon the same strategy and they all defect at the same time, tanking their overall rewards. It’s…