He’s flogging a paid newsletter.
What surprises me is that they had the mini subs door open and bright lights on inside. This seems like surprisingly poor light discipline.
There are kind of a lot of errors in this piece. For instance, the problem the author had with Gemini CLI running out of tokens in ten minutes is what happens when you don’t set up (a free) API key in your environment.
That’s a complex encoding. I wonder if current models could decode it even given your explanation.
There is a time and a place for everything. Software development is often about compromise and often it isn’t feasible to work out a solution from foundational principles and a comprehensive understanding of the domain.…
With a few prominent exceptions, the Wikipedia Foundation has been wise enough to enjoy the perks parasitism and not get in the way. However, their stated fundraising goal is amassing a large enough endowment that they…
This new plan really highlights the need for open models. Individual users will be priced out of frontier models if this becomes a trend.
There are lots of cases in businesses where there are integrations with other software that are difficult to port.
Can you talk about what book you’re trying to digitize?
It’s extraordinary! Perhaps how quickly we become jaded should be taken as evidence of how quickly the world is changing right now. When I looked at the examples they seemed like the kind of one off scripts, of limited…
An interesting article about Asian perspectives on copying (https://aeon.co/essays/why-in-china-and-japan-a-copy-is-just...)
That’s a rather idiosyncratic interpretation that doesn’t align with current views or legal structures in the Western world (look up ‘publicity rights’) ‘Ownership’ isn’t a property of the universe. It’s a value imposed…
Writing and being a voice actor are two quite different skills. My experience with author narrated audiobooks is that there isn’t very much overlap.
I think software engineering is just as complex as medicine, both endeavors try to utilize human cognitive ability to the maximum extent possible. I do entirely agree about software engineering being a lot less…
A cemetery would be a bad place for them as cemeteries tend to attract looters.
It will be interesting if a lot of research gets published in Chinese journals and not the West. If this happens I wonder if Western researchers will get their information from Chinese journals or lag a bit behind…
That’s awesome! Though, I think the headline underplays what he’s doing and done Having a part-time job as a welder for a private company would be awesome and no doubt useful in a variety of ways. However, he’s not only…
I was in Germany a couple months ago. My experiences are entirely anecdotal but I’ve never seen so much anger before. I kept seeing fights and hearing angry yelling everywhere I went in Berlin.
Turtles all the way down
It may be just about as unethical as someone discussing something they overheard in a crowd.
It’s a very fast moving space and if OpenAI doesn’t keep sailing forward they’ll be dead in the water but I don’t think GPT-4 or GPT-5 is the end of the story. The deployment of the vision API and other iterative…
> "we've been doing this ai stuff since you (other AI companies) were little babies" Well in fairness he has a point, they are starting to look like a legacy tech company.
Probably after a couple more years. ARPANET accelerated progress but the idea of large interconnected networks is an obviously useful one and the technology to build was coming to maturity at that point in time. In an…
The pace of technological change and the complexity of this technology contrasted with the ability and rapidity of politicized bureaucracies and the sovereignty of 100+ nations almost guarantees government regulation…
> Crazy you think that the company who invests the most in AI won’t retain any value in the transition to the space. They’ll obviously retain some value. Google can integrate more easily and seamlessly with things…
He’s flogging a paid newsletter.
What surprises me is that they had the mini subs door open and bright lights on inside. This seems like surprisingly poor light discipline.
There are kind of a lot of errors in this piece. For instance, the problem the author had with Gemini CLI running out of tokens in ten minutes is what happens when you don’t set up (a free) API key in your environment.
That’s a complex encoding. I wonder if current models could decode it even given your explanation.
There is a time and a place for everything. Software development is often about compromise and often it isn’t feasible to work out a solution from foundational principles and a comprehensive understanding of the domain.…
With a few prominent exceptions, the Wikipedia Foundation has been wise enough to enjoy the perks parasitism and not get in the way. However, their stated fundraising goal is amassing a large enough endowment that they…
This new plan really highlights the need for open models. Individual users will be priced out of frontier models if this becomes a trend.
There are lots of cases in businesses where there are integrations with other software that are difficult to port.
Can you talk about what book you’re trying to digitize?
It’s extraordinary! Perhaps how quickly we become jaded should be taken as evidence of how quickly the world is changing right now. When I looked at the examples they seemed like the kind of one off scripts, of limited…
An interesting article about Asian perspectives on copying (https://aeon.co/essays/why-in-china-and-japan-a-copy-is-just...)
That’s a rather idiosyncratic interpretation that doesn’t align with current views or legal structures in the Western world (look up ‘publicity rights’) ‘Ownership’ isn’t a property of the universe. It’s a value imposed…
Writing and being a voice actor are two quite different skills. My experience with author narrated audiobooks is that there isn’t very much overlap.
I think software engineering is just as complex as medicine, both endeavors try to utilize human cognitive ability to the maximum extent possible. I do entirely agree about software engineering being a lot less…
A cemetery would be a bad place for them as cemeteries tend to attract looters.
It will be interesting if a lot of research gets published in Chinese journals and not the West. If this happens I wonder if Western researchers will get their information from Chinese journals or lag a bit behind…
That’s awesome! Though, I think the headline underplays what he’s doing and done Having a part-time job as a welder for a private company would be awesome and no doubt useful in a variety of ways. However, he’s not only…
I was in Germany a couple months ago. My experiences are entirely anecdotal but I’ve never seen so much anger before. I kept seeing fights and hearing angry yelling everywhere I went in Berlin.
Turtles all the way down
It may be just about as unethical as someone discussing something they overheard in a crowd.
It’s a very fast moving space and if OpenAI doesn’t keep sailing forward they’ll be dead in the water but I don’t think GPT-4 or GPT-5 is the end of the story. The deployment of the vision API and other iterative…
> "we've been doing this ai stuff since you (other AI companies) were little babies" Well in fairness he has a point, they are starting to look like a legacy tech company.
Probably after a couple more years. ARPANET accelerated progress but the idea of large interconnected networks is an obviously useful one and the technology to build was coming to maturity at that point in time. In an…
The pace of technological change and the complexity of this technology contrasted with the ability and rapidity of politicized bureaucracies and the sovereignty of 100+ nations almost guarantees government regulation…
> Crazy you think that the company who invests the most in AI won’t retain any value in the transition to the space. They’ll obviously retain some value. Google can integrate more easily and seamlessly with things…