Alex

i had to see it so you do too

Some incredible clips of the absolutely unhinged ambition of HR people in this video. youtu.be/QkLHzY5kyEg?...

If the reason you think art is worth your time is because it took a lot of skill or effort then you are badly missing out on a lot of really good art.

The last time I watched an eclipse I used home made viewing glasses made out of floppy disks.

Sometimes I feel like I should go outside and touch grass but have you seen the grass lately? I think I'll stick to the internet thanks.

Tom Hiddlestone's Pompeii show feels like it wanted to be an alternative history drama in the style of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_S... but they couldn't quite commit to the bit enough.

If only Americans are allowed any future models from US AI companies isn't this going to just destroy their TAM? The US is not even half the professional market for AI.

Looking forward to welcoming our 7th unelected prime minister in my life time. We've only had 4 people become PM via a general election since 1979.

/r/conservative actually managed to make a joke involving Pride that at least has the general shape of a joke AND has no slurs. Our politics is healing.

A lot of confused Peter Molyneux fans on the internet today I expect.

I wonder if people who look at LLMs and worry about their fallibility know about biological processes like protein self assembly? Error tolerance and self correction is a critical aspect of resilient system design and it rarely relies on humans noticing every single error to achieve it.

After not using at all X since Musk bought it, I've been permanently banned for not being "authentic" enough. Thanks I guess?

"Pareto-Smoothed Importance Sampling Leave-One-Out cross-validation" aka PSIS-LOO. Data Scientists, are you OK?

IRC.

Watching cats snooze in the grass is a really good hobby. Strong recommend. 10/10.

Never going to be a good day when the first thing you have to do is write to your MP to complain about their participation in a pointless culture war.

for no particular reason: this is your regular reminder to check that your database backups definitely restore correctly.

Some great non-fiction books managers should be reading in an AI first world: * A Deepness in the Sky * Rainbow's End * Accelerando * The Diamond Age

LLMs are just speed running western philosophy. Tokenization: applied Saussure. RLHF: applied Wittgenstein. RAG: applied Derrida. Synthetic data: applied Baudrillard. Eventually we'll need AI reincarnated Zizek to debug anything.

Boo all you want, the power loom didn't care about many children you feed it and neither does AI.

It was the 69th anniversary of McCarthy's death last weekend but I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

Doesn't need to be exponential decline to be feasible on price. 10x cheaper in the next couple of years is probably pretty likely even. Maybe 30x cheaper per token by 2030.

Every time I have tried to use @zed.dev it uses all my RAM and crashes 🤷‍♂️

We are terrible at actually banning stuff. We just find ways to obfuscate the thing. Human cloning is mostly just regular cloning. Dazzlers exist and can trivially be made to blind by cranking the power up. No there was a 6 month voluntary moratorium.

In 6 months I have gone from "that's a cool party trick" to "I don't type code anymore" to "what even is being a software engineer now?"

I love red lines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Playing WoW Classic was not on my 2026 bingo card.

Back from a week in Barcelona and now Donald is here and all the websites want to know if I'm underage. Seems like a trap.

ime its less of an ic/manager pendulum and more of an ic/manager trebuchet

This is not just an RCE, it's a [popular British supermarket] RCE reliaquest.com/blog/threat-...

Why does Gemini API usage show up in the cloud console as "Custom Search" (an entirely different product) and why do none of the API usage graphs work? I just want to know what I am giving you money for.