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"Small government" is a euphemism for letting racist people be racist without censure.

That's why you buy inflation linked bonds

Profitable isn’t related to “worth the dollars”. You need to look at income and how much is being reinvested into growth. Amazon famously remained unprofitable due to reinvestment and waiting for them to become profitable before investing was a bad bet.

Amazon met profitability requirements and went into the SP500 at around $2.40 in November 2005. Two years before it was $2.70. Six Years before it was $4.40.

Two years _after_ listing it was $4.50. Six years after it was ~$10.

Waiting for profitability seems like it was a good bet.

Someone connected the spicy autocomplete to the "Do Things" button again.

If you connect the spicy automcomplete to the "Doing Things" button then you are responsible for the ethical questions when it presses the button.

It has been crazy seeing the explosion of Polymarket and Kalshi in comparison to Betfair.

Betfair doesn't present itself as anything other than what it is: a gambling exchange where the punters make the book. In my 10+ years time of using it they despite some occasionally shoddily worded markets they have only properly screwed up a market twice (The Australian Open in 2022 when Djokovic was denied entry to Australia and Betfair basically forgot the winners market was cross matched when they went to remove him and the 2020 Presidential election where they suspended the market when Trump went to hospital with Covid despite the fact the market rules said that the market would still settle if any participant died and obviously most people had been taking into account that both candidates being mega ancient whilst a global pandemic was happening might be a factor). Betfair is boring, staid and reliable.

Compare that to Kalshi and Polymarket who do everything they can to pretend they are not gambling platforms. It's kind of gross.

PipeDream was a wild piece of software. Even as a young teenager in the early 90s I could tell it was a weird paradigm.

If you remove the auxiliary tools and just leave the core LLM then strawberry still has an undefined number of `r`s in it.

"incomes are up!". Great, have they increased by as much as inflation?

Yes.

Can I afford a home?

No.

There's an important lesson somewhere here.

It will be relevant for a long time.

Citation needed.

(so infrastructure for clean water and all chemicals)

Fabs are some of the most complex chemical engineering sites (dealing with some of the most dangerous substances) in the world. So don't underestimate the complexity of this part.

Google was not marginally better.

I was orders of magnitude better. It is that simple.

Every year I ask the latest version of Chat GPT a basic facts question about rugby results. It almost always gets it wrong - even when it does web search and cites sources. Wrong scores, hallucinated matches, wrong locations - just gob smacking amounts of wrongness.

The latest "Thinking" version gets it reliably right but spent about 3 minutes coming up with the answer that 10 seconds of googling answers.

So I don't believe we are currently in a situation where LLMs are an effective replacement for search engines.

VisiCalc was the killer app.

"Very simplistic prompt" is the absolute and total core of this and the thing that ensures validity of the whole exercise.

If you are trying to measure GENERAL intelligence then it needs to be general.

Well, gotta hand it to the haters on this one.

If only there was some kind of formalised "language" to, as it were, "programme" the automata but alas such a concept is impossible to conceptualise.

It's also not very great at meeting summaries especially those where many speakers are in a room on the same microphone.

It is astonishingly poor at this. My intuition was that it should be good at this (it is basically a translation problem right? And LLMs are fundamentally translation systems) but the practical results are so poor. Not just mis-identifying speakers (frequently saying PersonX responded to PersonX) but managing complete opposite conclusions from what was actually said.

I'm genuinely intrigued as to what approaches have been taken in this space and what the "hard problem" is that is stopping it being good.

AbstractBeanFactoryFactoryInterfaceBeanContextFactoryBeanBean.java

You can tightly constrain MCPs and shape the context that is shared back to the Agent.

A skill is, at the end of the day, just a prompt.

IBM share price is back to where it was pre-Anthropic press release.

Are people who play the game as the developers intended using the tools the developer supplied cheaters? Wow, deep philosophical questions there.

Gonna have to ponder if people who aren't cheating are cheaters.

If they weren't motivated by a toxic sense of self regard and a desire to humiliate others they wouldn't cheat. This is axiomatic.

They don’t inherently want to see others suffer as they stomp

Cheaters want to dominate other players, feel like they deserve to dominate other players and are perfectly happy for other players to suffer as long as they feel good.

Wow, bit weird that Musk, who must have known about how badly xAI was doing, spent so much of his investors money buying out xAI.

What an enormous blunder.

What is the benefit of "moving compute to space"?

It's good but it's no Asus eee901

Flash was not particularly battery hungry (My go to example when HTML 5 demos started coming out was rebuilding a HTML 5 demo that was using 100% of 1 core into a flash app that used 5%).

The reason it burned CPU cycles is that non-coders could make programs with it and they would produce the world's worst code doing so that "worked". The runtime itself was fine (efficiency wise, not all the other things).

Sure it is not a smoking crater in the ground but outages are frequent, multi-media content loads about 50% of the time and search is basically non-functional at this point.

Let us never forget the "tweet reading limit" incident

Yeah like bro you plugged the random number generator into the do-things machine. You are responsible for the random things the machine then does.