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The creator of this has a good note on how the Nvidia situation relates, under his diagram of their circular deal:

"To be clear: every deal here is legal, publicly announced, and defended by the people in it — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called the structure "nothing inappropriate in principle." Critics compare the pattern to 1990s dot-com vendor financing and warn it can inflate the appearance of demand. As Bloomberg puts it, a circular deal is legally different from a fraudulent "round-trip" — regulators' term for sham trades with no economic substance designed to inflate results. LARP is a joke about the round-trip. This is the legal cousin it rhymes with."

Plein Air 18 days ago

We're in a crazy heat wave on the east coast. I got a painting of the Oaxacan desert. Feels right!

8 hours a day, 5 days a week is a pretty significant chunk of your life. It is a part of your identity, if the word identity means anything.

Unless you are severed, of course.

Claude Tag 29 days ago

Yeah, it may indeed require some new Slack processes and discipline. But, the alternative would be account linking (like GH). Your interactions would have responses from Claude that are only visible to you if others didn't have the required permissions. It would use your credentials, etc.

That would defeat the stated purpose of collaboration/shared context, it would essentially just be another surface for your private Claude sessions.

Just gotta either decide not to use it or use it and not be willy nilly about the Slack channels in which it's provisioned.

Claude Tag 29 days ago

An admin scopes permissions on a per-channel basis. It doesn't allow external actions until an owner specifically provisions that tool for that channel. I think.

But people can be invited to a channel after @Claude is provisioned. So yeah, I suppose you'll need to be deliberate about channel memberships.

I clicked a news article a few months ago about a crash... Google has since decided I need to know about all future aviation accidents. I was surprised how frequent it happens. Two brothers were killed in a Cessna just the other day.

I suppose it's a combination of lower maintenance standards and pilot experience, definitely doesn't make me want to hop in a small plane anytime soon.

Fruit Is Too Sweet 1 month ago

I'm a honeycrisp fanatic (and it's a good balance of sweet/tart for me). This is the first I've heard of Sweetango, I don't think I've seen them in the grocery stores. Will be keeping my eyes peeled.

[dead] 1 month ago

"So it was families that had spent all day walking to a clinic in Sudan—you know, with the USAID logo on it—expecting to get food and medical supplies, seeing that clinic ends up being shuttered and were then forced to go home and then make the heart-wrenching decision of which of their children to feed."

That really personalized it. Imagine being the head of a household, trying to maintain morale and provide, trekking to get your supplies, and coming home empty-handed to your family because a man far away with hundreds of billions of dollars thought it was wasteful.

Infuriating.

A couple of years ago now.

I asked it to write a script that would search for a specific string in footers in a massive series of DOCX files and change them according to some rules. The strings ended up being embedded in cells within an invisible table in the footers, the LLM realized this and switched strategy to a full deep traversal of the underlying XML. It correctly processed like 50 of these files in about 10 minutes, using libraries I wasn't aware of. I had spent an hour being annoyed before trying.

It was an "oh shit" moment for at least that category of work.

I'm curious to find out if they're using a model to detect AI content. I'd be more amused than disappointed. But, alas, potato.