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3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible

We’ve ultimately decided to treat the models with more respect, nurturing, and collaborative support than we ever did our follow human keyboard smashers. Writing all the documentation, detailed guidance, allowing them multiple attempts, to help the LLMs be successful. But Brenda, the early in career new grad? “please read this poorly written, 5 year-old, incomplete wiki, and don’t ask me questions”

I’ve been thinking about this for months, and still don’t know what to make of it.

How can an LLM “talk” to another LLM, except by emitting tokens in its output stream?

You can name the mechanism whatever you want, but the models don’t have hands. Tool calling conventions (as a concept, or as a spec) is what gives the model hands!

Hard Drive, ostensibly about Bill Gates, was a great read when I was a kid. I recommend ‘Microserfs’ from Douglas Coupland as a fictional (but grounded) homage to the work in the 90s.

This is a build or test lab, not the offices of developers. I visited multiple times in the period mentioned for the picture, and saw multiple of these. The one I saw most often was the NT build lab. When I started there in the mid-2000s, these labs were still used, although the build labs were a little less densely packed thanks to remote tools.

A post I wrote thinking about the 'addiction' that ads & subscription revenue can cause, and how it leads to a loss of identity in companies whose core products were not 'recurring revenue' originally. (e.g., contrast Google / Meta to Microsoft / Apple / Oracle).

It doesn't have to be this way.

What’s the overlap between people who had their password reset, and people who used/signed up for Beeper iMessage verification?

Gonna save this post for some arbitrary point in the future to pull out as a point against ‘impossible’. Might have to gift it to my descendants to make sure it’s available for long enough… /s

Especially since the versatility of A Cat is unbounded.

I expected this to be longer. I wish it was longer. Plus, if you want to be somewhat-complete, theres so many that are missing:

- Chromeffects

- DUI

- Splash (Media Center)

- Splash (Zune)

- Silverlight (Phone)

- Silverlight (C#)

- Silverlight (JavaScript)

If you want to stretch it a little:

- Visual Basic

- Blackbird

IMHO, this is a misleading headline: They are not building a “porn preference register”, they just going full-dystopian nightmare collecting live biometric data that could be used to _infer_ your porn preferences.

We don’t need stupid headlines to make this idea sound dumber, and kinda distracts from the real issue of biometric verification for websites being a stupid idea.

I’m assuming the type foundry legal departments are getting ready to come for the image generators when they find out their typefaces have been vacuumed up and are now generating new content without licensing the typeface for use?