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superposer.substack.com 4mo ago

Large Language Models – A Physicist's Perspective

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www.theverge.com 9mo ago

GM says hands-free, eyes-off driving is coming to Escalade IQ in 2028

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www.nintendolife.com 9mo ago

Notorious Group 'Crimson Collective' Claims to Have Hacked Nintendo

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corporate.walmart.com 9mo ago

Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods

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www.microsoft.com 9mo ago

Vibe Working: Introducing Agent Mode and Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot

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www.techpowerup.com 1y ago

Kioxia Announces Industry's First 245.76 TB NVMe SSD

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www.cnbc.com 1y ago

Goldman Sachs Implements AI Software Engineer for Development Tasks

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blog.google 1y ago

Gmail launches new "Manage Subscriptions" view

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www.npr.org 1y ago

After quitting antidepressants, some people suffer lingering symptoms

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Steve Carell on Jon Stewart – 2022 Mark Twain Prize [video]

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geod.itch.io 1y ago

3dSen PC v1.0

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poems.culturing.net 1y ago

Culturing, a Life's Work in Progress

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www.npr.org 1y ago

Hong Kong police accuse mobile game of promoting 'armed revolution'

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aeon.co 1y ago

Why Philosophy of Physics?

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www.cnn.com 1y ago

Nearly 3k-year-old Mayan complex discovered, featuring pyramids and canals

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www.whitehouse.gov 1y ago

Delivering most-favored-nation prescription drug pricing to American patients

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www.npr.org 1y ago

After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court

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www.whitehouse.gov 1y ago

Establishment of the Religious Liberty Commission

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waymo.com 1y ago

New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Insecure Code vs. the Entire RGB Industry – WinRing 0 Driver [video]

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www.reuters.com 1y ago

Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet

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www.nintendo.com 1y ago

Ask the Developer Vol. 16: Nintendo Switch 2 – Part 1

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www.reuters.com 1y ago

Perplexity AI proposes to merge with TikTok, with US Government getting half

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about.surf.social 1y ago

Surf

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Jeff Bezos Talks Innovation, Progress and What's Next [video]

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www.reuters.com 1y ago

US FDA finds widely used asthma drug impacts the brain

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Matrix Runs on Windows XP (2008) [video]

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apnews.com 1y ago

Technology's grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path

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apnews.com 2y ago

Webb Space Telescope's latest cosmic shot shows pair of intertwined galaxies

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www.theverge.com 2y ago

An AI version of Al Michaels will deliver Olympic recaps on Peacock

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This is remarkable if you consider how much it must wound Apple's pride to make this deal with their main rival in the smartphone software space, especially after all the fuss they made about "Apple Intelligence". It's a tacit admission that Google is just better at this kind of thing.

I don't use it for large-scale code generation, but I do find it useful for small code snippets. For example asking how to initialize a widget in Kendo UI with specific behavior. With snippets, I can just run the code and verify that it works with minimal effort. It's often more about reminding me of something I already knew rather than discovering something novel. I wouldn't trust it with anything novel.

In general, I think of it as a better kind of search. The knowledge available on the internet is enormous, and LLMs are pretty good at finding and synthesizing it relative to a prompt. But that's a different task than generating its own ideas. I think of it like a highly efficient secretary. I wouldn't ask my secretary how to solve a problem, but I absolutely would ask if we have any records pertaining to the problem, and perhaps would also ask for a summary of those records.

Strong agree. This reminds me of one of my pet theories: that research and education are fundamentally different skills. A good researcher should be flexible and open-minded, almost to a fault, but a good educator needs to be committed to certain beliefs in order to teach them. More important, an educator should instill good habits (even if those habits involve asking good questions) and set a good example, a requirement entirely lacking from research.

So why do all of our universities only employ teachers who have been trained as researchers?

I think much of the 80% grinding that you describe is just the publish-or-perish mindset of graduate school, which the teachers pick up along the way (I'm not faulting them so much as the process). It's more about appearing to know, rather than knowing. This may be what you have to do to survive in a competitive research environment, but one is left wondering what any of that has to do with educating our children, especially the majority who will never become researchers.

If you want books that can help you learn to think, you can't do better than the classics. I suggest Plato's dialogs or the Analects of Confucius. You may find them more accessible than you expect. They were excellent teachers.

Here's a good translation of Plato by Benjamin Jowett: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/plato-the-dialogues-of-pl...

And one of Confucius by James Legge: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/legge-the-chinese-classic...

Both translations are from the 19th Century and so have entered the public domain. But both are also often considered the best English versions of these works, even today.

(Note you can download a facsimile pdf of the original book, and print it out as you go. I prefer to read anything long-form that way. Better for concentration in my opinion).

GPT-4o 2 years ago

More likely future LLMs will mix ads into their responses. ("Your air filters are in stock in aisle A6. Have you heard about the new membership plan from Lowes...?")

You remind me a bit of myself. I work in web development now, but took some games classes in college and thought I might go that route for a time. My true passion has always been poetry. Here's my advice. Don't look for fulfillment from your job. It pays the bills, and if you don't hate it, consider that a blessing. Find something that occupies you only from 9 to 5 (plenty of web dev jobs like that), and use your free time to pursue the the music and storytelling that you really love. You would stop loving them if you had to do them for money. Might actually be better to do something that you don't love for money. I know this is the opposite of what they say at school, but it's what I find in my own career. You can't hate it, but it may be better not to love it too much. Best of luck.

The score as a whole is one of the best parts of the game. But I didn't find it vapid at all. I consider it an allegory about globalism. Sora's quest is to restore the integrity of each "world", integrity that was lost when the worlds were "connected". The denizens of connected worlds become "heartless", etc.

This only applies to the first game, though. After that I have no idea what's going on.

2023 Letter 2 years ago

I share many of your sentiments, but I have a theory that it won't be China or the West, but a blend of the two, which dominates the future (or, hopefully, rules without dominating). It's like our cultures are mating, and posterity will be the child of both. And like actual mating, the courtship is often rocky and marked by conflict. We'll sort it out.

Whenever I sign up for a streaming service, my first act is to disable autopay. I really think it should be disabled by default, and you can enable if wanted. That would resolve much of this problem. Do all users even know they are signing up for autopay? Many probably do not realize it. Often 1 month is plenty of time for me to watch what I want to watch, and if not, it's easy enough to renew for one more month