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He will be missed, but it’s also a chance for fresh perspectives to take the reins.

The most fascinating detail here is that every piece of tech in Neuromancer is Japanese or German. Hitachi computers, Sanyo suits, Braun drones. Gibson was extrapolating from 1984 when Japan dominated consumer electronics and Germany led manufacturing. Fast forward 40 years and we're having the exact same conversations about Chinese tech dominance. TikTok, DJI drones, BYD cars. Today's "future tech" assumptions mirror Gibson's perfectly. Makes you wonder what we're getting wrong about the next 40 years.

Also wild that he nailed AI and VR but completely missed that everyone would carry a supercomputer in their pocket. The big paradigm shifts are always the ones nobody sees coming.

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It’s fascinating and somewhat unsettling to watch Grok’s reasoning loop in action, especially how it instinctively checks Elon’s stance on controversial topics, even when the system prompt doesn’t explicitly direct it to do so. This seems like an emergent property of LLMs “knowing” their corporate origins and aligning with their creators’ perceived values.

It raises important questions:

- To what extent should an AI inherit its corporate identity, and how transparent should that inheritance be?

- Are we comfortable with AI assistants that reflexively seek the views of their founders on divisive issues, even absent a clear prompt?

- Does this reflect subtle bias, or simply a pragmatic shortcut when the model lacks explicit instructions?

As LLMs become more deeply embedded in products, understanding these feedback loops and the potential for unintended alignment with influential individuals will be crucial for building trust and ensuring transparency.

AI agent benchmarks are starting to feel like the self-driving car demos of 2016: impressive until you realize the test track has speed bumps labeled "success"

Love the direction here. Local-first, open-source agentic browsers feel inevitable as AI gets more deeply embedded in our workflows. Watching the agent actually click around (vs. black-box cloud APIs) is both reassuring and fun. Curious how you’re handling Chromium’s relentless update pace with such a small team -- Does patching ever break in unexpected ways? Rooting for you; privacy-centric infra like this is long overdue.

Running LLMs, VLMs, and TTS models locally on smartphones is quietly redefining what 'edge AI' means suddenly, the edge is in your pocket, not just at the network boundary. The next wave of apps will be built by those who treat mobile as the new AI server

The 184 billion BTC overflow bug is a reminder that even “immutable” code is only as trustworthy as its review process. The real miracle isn’t that a bug happened, but that Satoshi patched it in hours and the network agreed to roll back. Decentralization is great, but consensus is everything

Batch Mode for the Gemini API feels like Google’s way of asking, “What if we made AI more affordable and slower, but at massive scale?” Now you can process 10,000 prompts like “Summarize each customer review in one line” for half the cost, provided you’re willing to wait until tomorrow for the results.

Apple’s DMA “compliance” feels less like opening the walled garden and more like planting hedges around the new gate. The irony is, for a company obsessed with seamless user experience, they’re making interoperability as convoluted as possible, unless, of course, you’re using Safari.

This was an incredibly informative talk, especially the ideal of giving LLMs the System 2 thinking capability. I think if LLMs can do system 2 thinking we are one more step closer to AGI. I’ve summarised the talk here - https://gist.github.com/anupj/f3a778dcb26972ba72c774634a80d7... - if you anyone wants to RAG the text for their custom GPT :)

Great writeup

It resonates with my own experience. It seems rather counterintuitive that, in an era of growing digitalization and consumer-centric services, some newspapers continue to employ tactics that hinder the cancellation process.

I believe this issue stems from the broader challenges that the print media industry faces, as they grapple with declining circulation and ad revenue. While it's understandable that newspapers would want to retain subscribers, making the cancellation process a nightmare only tarnishes their reputation and, in the long run, may result in even more subscribers seeking alternative sources of information.

A better approach would be for newspapers to invest in improving their digital offerings, making the subscription process more flexible, and providing subscribers with value-added services. This could include offering customized news feeds, interactive multimedia content, and easy access to archival materials. By focusing on the needs of subscribers and creating a seamless user experience, newspapers would be better positioned to maintain their relevance and grow their subscriber base.

It's high time that newspapers prioritize customer satisfaction and transparency. A frustrating cancellation process does nothing but alienate subscribers and contribute to the decline of the print media industry.

When was this paper written/published?

Great UI, easy to use (especially for Vim users). Thanks for building this.

+1 I really enjoyed these books. I wish there were more books in this series

No more excuses not to learn Rust now I suppose

I stopped taking the article seriously after I read this line. IMO Tom Bombadil was a very likeable character. The author seems to have imagined a problem (where none existed) and then proceeded to explain why it's not a problem. Almost a clickbait.

Going to his employer, instead of talking to him direct was just petty.

Sorry mate, don't care anymore! Cheers for thinking about us small people now.

There is a shloka in Hinduism that might be relevant to this post. As stated in Mahabharata, when Arjun wonders about the futility of his efforts on the battlefields of Kurukshetra, this is what Lord Krishna says to him:

"कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन। मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते संगोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥"

(You have the right to perform your actions, but you are not entitled to the fruits of the actions. Do not let the fruit be the purpose of your actions, and therefore you won’t be attached to not doing your duty.)

IANAL => I am not a lawyer

IANAL, and I maybe wrong here, but if you follow the logic in the article, any job advert requesting c++ only experience is discriminating against java developers(or puts them at a disadvantage), and is therefore illegal (?!?), which doesn't make sense.

No worries! :) Looking fwd to the meetup.

I have registered, but not sure what the agenda is.

I can see a github post-downtime analysis blog post coming up (I hope). :)

It is more to demonstrate how FB can enable real life interaction with friends, family and acquaintances. If you ignore the "world domination" plans by FB for a minute, it is a really useful platform to stay in touch with both old and new pals, and sometimes have meaningful conversation with your social network. As a marketing campaign, this story telling technique is quite effective.

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