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This is happening with many popular YouTube creators as well, pivoting from tech tutorials to AI. Kyle Cook made a video showing how engagement has cratered for non-AI stuff, making AI content extremely lucrative [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFdTLLlby9E

I guess they updated the way it connects to the remote machine. Perhaps something about my setup wasn't one of their test cases?

I am stuck using an older VSCode. A few versions ago, it stopped connecting to my remote machine.

and 2tb -> 8tb storage is +$3k!

The most important part of math is advancing human understanding. A correct answer by itself is not as important as understanding why it is correct.

I'm constantly surprised how many people are critical of research to understand neural nets, immediately telling me they are black boxes and hopeless to understand. I believe it's a consequence of being portrayed as the opposite of (classically interpretable) linear regression.

Many people additionally have little patience for research when the engineering is moving so quickly. Even many interpretability researchers give up far too soon if research doesn't yield immediately gratifying results.

Was software made before 2000 better?

At the time of release, yes. They had to ensure the software worked before printing CDs and floppies. Nowadays they release buggy versions that users essentially test for them.

Everyone dislikes pedantically verifying references. However, if you cut corners here then will you also cut corners pedantically verifying research results?

Beyond references, the point of the literature review is to ensure you have read the literature and understand it well enough to accurately summarize it. If you present a literature review, it's likely assumed you did all of this. So at the very least you should be upfront about how an LLM assisted you.

Before LLMs, I've watched in horror as colleagues immediately copy-paste-ran Stack Overflow solutions in terminal, without even reading them.

LLM agents are basically the same, except now everyone is doing it. They copy-paste-run lots of code without meaningfully reviewing it.

My fear is that some colleagues are getting more skilled at prompting but less skilled at coding and writing. And the prompting skills may not generalize much outside of certain LLMs.

Elon at some point threatened to have an LLM rewrite all of the training data to remove woke. I assume Grokipedia is his experiment at doing this (and perhaps hoping it will infect other training sets too?) ...

I highly doubt collaborators are thinking less of you for not having more publications! After all, if they are collaborators they've already decided to work with you.

My understanding is you were awarded a PhD but with the minimum number of papers? This sounds completely normal. If you are trying for faculty positions it may appear "thin", but in industry will make you stand out for many jobs. In AI, there are many researchers who don't have a PhD!

It does sound awkward if asked why you didn't write more papers, but you can just discuss some of the challenges you faced in your existing works rather than getting into personal details.

Recently about half of the items sold to me as "New" have arrived used or counterfeit. The sellers have 5-star ratings, despite numerous reviews about receiving used or fake products. Unfortunately, Amazon crosses out these negative reviews and doesn't count them toward the overall seller rating.

The hypothetical you state only matters once you have a game! The biggest risk by far is not AI assets -- it's finishing the game.

So if AI increases your odds of finishing, go for it. Then once you have a game, more people will care about whether it's good than whether you used AI assets. I suspect there will be lots of interest in how you incorporated AI, maybe even moreso than otherwise. You could alternatively use the AI assets as placeholders and intend later to replace them with hand-drawn, if desired.

When I made games, I had zero interest in making assets but wanted to understand every detail about graphics engines. I just grabbed random mediocre assets from online. I would have definitely used AI to make assets but done the coding myself.

A notepad "welcome experience"? How is notepad turning into bloatware?

This happens with every new tech. When websites first appeared, many businesses trusted kids to build their website. The key in applied work is to build a portfolio that shows off your abilities.

The reality is that most people who need services don't know anyone who is traditionally qualified and available. So, a portfolio may convince them to take a chance on a newcomer over an overly expensive firm (that often also just hires newcomers).

True, I accidentally posted the date of the comment (1) not the commit. The only thing strange seems to be he used a smiley in the referenced commit message which doesn't seem to be his style.

(1) https://github.com/Hopding/Hopding.github.io/commit/40c7e0e8...

Have you tried emailing him? He likely also owns hopding.com, and both domains consistently seem to be at Squarespace. The last commit on his GitHub (Feb 2025) someone commented "Good to see you're still with us :-)", so he may just not update things often.

It's very possibly moreso a cultural issue. COVID caused continuing low attendance, there is currently an anti-education political trend, and AI advancements allow students to be lazy. If parents and peers don't value education, the students won't either.

What is this then: https://web.archive.org/web/20260203163430/https://www.cia.g...

It clearly states on the page that the Factbook was continuously updated, with "new data uploaded this week".

Why would someone with GE expect to keep it?

Peaceful protest is protected from retaliation by the First Amendment ...

This is the actual challenge: the medical recommendation might be solid, but a public policy doesn’t work unless people follow it. ... presumably due to misinformation, members of the public have opinions that are too strongly held for them to follow policies.

Right before you posted this, RFK Jr stated that his objectively worse vaccine schedule was weakened so that skeptical people follow it. Whether you were aware of it or not, your arguments merely parroted exactly what he and other anti-vaxxers were heavily spreading on that day.

This is precisely how misinformation spreads, and how anti-vax "influencers" like RFK Jr have a large effect both on you and the public.

- To see how closely your arguments match RFK Jr's, see: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTbrH_zDvqw/

- To see that in actuality Republicans as a group (influenced by prominent anti-vaxxers) dropped from 91% to 78% belief (2016-2025) that vaccine benefits outweigh the risk, see this new Pew study: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/11/18/how-do-americ...

So you're suggesting that in response to misinformation about provably beneficial safety standards, we should erode the standards.

That encourages even more misinformation, and further erosion of public safety.

Huh? As I mentioned, it has always been a requirement for students to get vaccinated to attend school. My point still holds that if not for this requirement then we'd be below the critical threshold, whether it's 95% or slightly less.

How many deaths are acceptable to say we can "handle" an illness?

Public health requires over 95% vaccination. There has never been a realistic path to that other than requiring students to be vaccinated to attend school. Without that requirement, even well meaning parents forget or may not make it a priority.

It's not fair for kids and others vulnerable in society to die because certain parents are ignorant.

Infants have rights too. It's against the law for a "seatbelt skeptic" not to put their kid in a safety seat.

Mentorships are simply how most junior scientists get started. Even in grad school, most students initially take on projects their advisors have pre-qualified as interesting.

To make high school-level competitions more fair, we should likely prioritize access to researchers for all smart, hard-working high schoolers rather than only those who are nearby a university or have wealthy parents.

RAM too. They want +$1K to go from 64GB to 128GB, with no other spec changes. It's a way of segmenting the market -- those who actually need it are willing to pay a lot more (e.g. for AI / 4K videos).

When I'm shown a pre-recorded demo, I suspect the product isn't very robust.

Nice job! As a US-based consultant, I've found it's always best if you immediately suggest a contract. This way you can ensure it starts with terms favorable for you.

I've also found it's pedagogically helpful to have two versions of each contract, a consultant-favored and consultee-favored. This way you can understand how each clause may be tweaked to benefit each party. For example, this book does this (US-based): https://www.amazon.com/Consultant-Independent-Contractor-Agr...

Also Trump asked to direct where the investment goes himself. It looks more like a gift than an investment.