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That’s just a harness with a hat on it

I’m self employed, which means there is less than zero chance I could rely on self-hosted AI. $200/mo for virtually unlimited use, or $10k for a machine that will be less capable and slower?

There are so many cool harnesses I could use if I didn't have an outrageously subsidized Claude subscription

Are you browsing the web without an ad blocker?

We should be more courageous in adding `p{max-width: 36em;}` to our stylesheets.

BI is just the word Excel users give to charts they can't make in Excel

God, some people really can’t get over the fact that the site is run by a Nazi /s

The best evidence is just how comically bad their ad targeting is vs Meta

I don’t think it’s conspiratorial to question how strong the firewall was between your Gmail content and Google’s algorithms. Whether or not they actually leveraged that understanding for targeted ads is somewhat beside the point.

Can you say more? Why would the inference engine be the secret sauce that would protect trillion-dollar valuations? Isn't the inference side somewhat of a known-quantity, while the training is more of the lab's trade secret?

AI is good at code but bad at writing. So what makes you think that its skill with code would generalize to product decisions?

Put it on OpenRouter… I don't really want to sign up for the first-party API

The Postmodern Condition is a good one, and it's short. There are still some useful lenses from that era of critical theory, but the discourse has of course moved on over the past 45 years!

The narratives described in the article are metanarratives in the critical theory sense. Lyotard defined postmodernism as “incredulity towards metanarratives.” So welcome to 1979!

Investors literally can’t stop talking about “pattern recognition,” because it’s comforting to think that the past can predict the future if you’re clever enough. But the best investors are pattern breakers, not matchers.

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