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I saw ngt talk at the natural history museum. He is a crazy person. He ranted about the chinese, talked for too long about how he’s friends with “bob De Niro” and how bob has paid enough taxes to buy five F22s, he was completely unprepared and had nothing to say on the topic at hand, his own book about meeting aliens. Except to spend most of his time making fun of the critics who panned his book because his book was on the nytimes best seller list. The worst was that there were so many children there who clearly looked up to him and wanted to pursue science as a career. I have no idea why anyone cares what he has to say at this point. He has made a gross caricature of himself.

Is the EU planning on participating in the technological development of AI or just the regulation of it?

I loved my time at RC. It changed me a lot. I wrote several blog posts about different projects and my time during my batch. I would strongly suggest applying if you like computers and want to talk about them constantly while building cool stuff.

https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/rainy-citycom-a-side-projec...

https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/zork-bench-an-llm-reasoning...

https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/my-return-statement

I never thought about it this way but this is true. But why can’t you delete things?

I think those people are the ones in charge now and will be directing their ai resources to make even better ads.

I like to generate a variety of personal crises to deal with since now coding agents seem to do most of my job. That keeps me on my toes.

good news. now you have a feature request.

i think the point is less about what agent you should or should not do and more about what is the natural harness for an agent to succeed in. And agents are often autonomously doing things right now, why would you want claude code doing such stuff for you?

What are they?

I’m sure if you call the pentagon “central planning” enough times people will decide they are communists and get rid of them.

I apologise if this is overly negative. It is based on my experience working as a soft money researcher (my own grants) at a Dutch university. My opinions may not be shared.

In my experience The Netherlands is a rather unsupportive place to do research. There is essentially no money from the government that will pay salaries in full, especially early career salaries (vini, vidi, vici). I have had friends win ERC grants (millions in euros) that were fired as a result because there was not a space in the department to hire them full time (Dutch work law requires contracts to become permanent after a certain number of years of working). Departments also seem to have glass ceilings for non Dutch. Researchers are often given large teaching commitments that cannot be bought out with grants. University incubators seem to be better suited to let professors pretend to be start up founders then actual innovation centers. I have tried on multiple occasions to engage the local incubator and have always been run around. Yet local Dutch have no issues. The rules seem to be different for Dutch than for foreigners. A foreign colleague was offered a lucrative consulting contract (a normal thing for successful professors at other universities). The Dutch university he was at refused to let him take it except under the understanding the money would be entirely consumed by the university and he would receive no compensation for bringing in private money even though he would be doing all of the work. Meanwhile the Dutch colleague in the next office was allowed to start a private consulting agency through the local incubator and spend as much time as he wanted working in the start up. The universities publish reports how progressive they are by evaluating professors on teaching and outreach meanwhile having internal department expectations of PhD students to publish at least four first author papers or are not allowed to graduate (on four year contracts with one year full time teaching commitment). In my experience it is rare that PhD students finish on time. As one adminstrator told me, “university promoters are more interested in promoting their careers then their PhD students” (promoter is the word used for the adviser). The universities also disallow working outside of typical hours and there is no ability to work in your own office on the weekends. Also, recently they defended against this, but it will come up again, the government has discussed changing the tax law such that startup shares will have real world value so new valuations become taxable events.

This all is not atypical to universities world wide. But in the Netherlands I have not found a place that made me feel like I could work to the best of my ability and at the cutting edge. This is unfortunate. It’s nice to live here but I’m leaving to go to greener pastures.

I always thought that a clever AI agent system would create deterministic systems that had been explored randomly through user request. Like, Lovable should have a giant treasure of data that can be used to essentially create building blocks that can be put together for a fraction of the cost of having the coding agent live generate everything all at once. It only needs some sort of knowledge structure like a graph to be able to traverse things and then a predictive structure to show where a building block might need some custom thing that an AI agent could do. Or from an ML perspective, why ask an LLM to calculate the sentiment of some text, have an LLM write a code that calculates the sentiment using VADER (or whatever). I could be wrong about all of this or speaking in too much abstraction.

I would be afraid that the size of the revenue versus the margin would make small fluctuations in revenue create large fluctuations in margin.

There is evidence that children will oscillate between understanding and not understanding while learning topics. Philip Sadler at Harvard published about this but i can't find the paper im thinking of on his google scholar. too many papers!

but moreover, to verify a test item you need to make sure that peopel will select the same answers under teh same conditions at different times. people generally forget the specific questions they were asked if you ask them the same questions a month later so being able to get them to answer the same way each time is important. it is assumed the people have some static knowledge of a topic in this scenario.

If you want to consider a statistical examination of how people answer tests and how we assess knowledge and other things in people through surveying you can read about item response theory and rasch analysis.

Test retest reliability is a thing in psychometrics.

You could also make it historical so as you go through tech trees and stuff it goes from like 1970s to today

The truth to me is that ai in some ways makes coding more accessible even if the code it produces is labelled as bad

I wait for YOLO vista

This is why Russian propaganda always tastes like cherries.

It’s jammed!

retro hackathons will replace retro arcades as gen x retires and millenials are 50+ and have money and kids out of the house. haha.

This comment certifies you as ai expert.

I always thought it would be fun to write an o’Reilly book. The format seems like a fun way to organise information on learning about a topic.

it is somewhat sad that a company already profitable would devote it's time and energy and profits to becoming more profitable instead of doing cool shit. doing cool shit always seems to be a better idea than anything else when one has profit.

I think the worst part of all this is AI managed to make software cool again while also attacking software developers for no reason at all. Instead of claiming that AI will automate everything (like hello what do you think software does?). They could have said this will create millions of new jobs by giving access to tooling that lets you create whatever you want inside of a computer and offer it up to others. I guess people just like being negative about things.

and if you happen to use zulip instead you can use zulip-zork!

https://github.com/mnky9800n/zulip-zork

Maybe they are booing being told what to do by old people who have dollar signs for eyes saying AI AI AI over and over like it’s a mantra.

I wonder when the trump administration will ever decide if it wants to Be isolationist or global imperialist.

LinkedIn is good. It’s not addictive. All your friends have one already. You can post whatever you want but nobody does because they think it’s work related. If you do post whatever you want you will begin to filter who is real and who is ai slop. You can’t spend more than like ten minutes a day looking at it because most of it is too boring to care. Friend me on LinkedIn:

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