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One of the coolest things about seeing a show at the Fillmore is getting the posters they hand out. A number of bands sell, or have their artists, sell show posters (which then become collectible limited editions); it's way less offensive when it's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard than when it's Wizards of the Coast.

I mean, they kind of have, but mostly by finding an infinite money glitch.

They’re skint too. It’s something you would really like the research council to take on.

The living-costs stipend for an EPSRC PhD student is around £20k so it's about ten percent of that... big commitment for a student to make!

The usual answer is "config macros", because if you don't give people something Turing complete they'll just m4 their way into Turing completeness and that isn't really an improvement. (Starlark in Bazel, etc.)

Another intuition is that near a minimum you can Taylor expand the function and show that the higher order coefficients (past the square) are negligible.

It is common for big workplaces to have multiple unions and essentially all unions are sectoral and role-specific rather than company specific.

Take the NHS; it will have to deal with ten plus separate unions - https://nhsunions.org/#about – of which the biggest powers are the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing, but the cleaners are GMB or Unite and they're huge pan-working-class institutions.

Education has to deal with the NEU, the NASUWT, and the NAHT, each of which has a different political slant. Some unions in the UK have been historically rather centrist in their politics (a good example of that is Prospect, https://prospect.org.uk/about/, which is a roll-up of a number of scientific and finance unions), some are firebreathing communists, but all of them work across employers.

There's also no such thing as a closed shop in the UK – because there are much stronger worker protections, there's less of a need for one.

(I was, at one time, in a majority-UCU workplace; https://www.ucu.org.uk.)

you cannot go to a bank and ask them to help you acquire something 100x worth your cap.

you literally can, it's the entire point of eg management buyouts

It's just an acronym, "parameter-efficient fine tuning". LoRA is one method, prefix tuning is another, there are more.

So much precision is required that session musicians are playing most of the things you hear, not the actual artists.

In pop music this has been true since the 60s. For independent music it has mostly never been true. This hasn't changed much.

Leverage. They’re essentially an 80s style junk bond LBO house.

kexp.org in Seattle and San Francisco for a start.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/machine-learning-stree... is a pretty good primer on METR, what it measures, and its limitations.

arXiV is not intended to be your blog. You should be held to a zero-mistake standard when publishing academic work.

The people I worry for are the junior researchers who are going to be splash damage for dishonest PIs. The PIs, though, deserve everything that’s coming for them.

You are forgetting the albums KG and LW which are both microtonal. I knew exactly what you were saying :-)

You’ve got nine years of experience, so work your network and get referrals. It’s very hard to get mid-career jobs through the front door; most people want someone they trust to vouch for you.

Bunch of Balkan and Turkish music has quarter tones too. (And you’re forgetting KG and LW…)

He did a stupid thing. Doesn’t make him stupid, but the action is. (Also this is a stock phrase.)

When you’re staffing work to a junior, though, often it’s the opposite.

The author knew fine that it was a knob joke (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26743882). In this specific case, play stupid games, get stupid prizes; no-one is asking Le Coq Sportif to rebrand or your local bistro to stop serving coq au vin.

Completely unrelated. Recursive Language Models are just "what if we replaced putting all the long text into the context window with a REPL which lets you read parts of the context through tool calls and launch partitioned subagents", ie divide-and-conquer applied to attention space.

You’re painting an EPP/ECR initiative as left wing? That’s inconsistent with the facts.

In one of my vibe coded personal projects (Python and Rust project) I'm actually getting rid of most dependencies and vibe coding replacements that do just what I need. I think that we'll see far fewer dependencies in future projects.

No free lunch. LLMs are capable of writing exploitable code and you don’t get notifications (in the eg Dependabot sense, though it has its own problems) without audits.

Because it's inordinately more expensive.

We're computer people, so we have a good analogy here; the COVID vaccine did speculative branch prediction. They basically operated _as if_ they would get approval at all stages where they could, parallelizing much more of the process at the cost of a _very_ expensive branch fail if something went wrong.

And Glow.

If you know what you're doing, you can achieve good results with more or less any tool, including a properly-wielded coding agent. The problem is people who _don't_ know what they're doing.

Organizations don't restructure at the speed of a demo.

I imagine I'm not alone in having seen a _big_ secular shift in colleague behavior since Opus 4.5 came out. The organization will lag the behavior, but weird things are happening.

(I'm not speaking to the rest of your points; the crypto-bro stable coin bit was jarring for me too. Europe will just go onto Faster Payments, the US will eventually catch up with FedNow, you don't need crypto).

It’s a very good way of getting LLMs to work autonomously for a long time; give it a spec and a complete test suite, shut the door; and ask it to call you when all the tests pass.

Football and F1 have become more popular by being less performatively male. Drive to Survive is The Real Househusbands of Oxfordshire (and Monaco).

For many software businesses, licensing is an issue. The spec is GFDL with GPL code samples, a non-cleanroom translation of the elisp parser would (likely) be GPL (or at least arguably enough so to keep lawyers busy), so going and doing some other roughly equivalent markup language instead avoids the copyleft requirements.

So, yes, “too much trouble”, much of it nontechnical.