This was a great read and it reminded me of Bill Bryson's book, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way. Such an awesome overview o how diverse and quirky and globally distributed English has become today. With the web and now the bots herding us into a more homogenized language, I'm a huuuuge fan of what this dude is doing here!!
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Dude. If you give LLMs a vague rubric and force a choice, they'll make different arbitrary calls on the margins. Yeah. That's what happens when you give humans a vague rubric too.
If you learn how to walk, then you'll forget how to crawl
I'm into this.
Anthropic acquiring Bun, now OpenAI acquiring Astral. Both show the big labs recognize that great AI coding tools require great developer tooling, and they are willing to pay for it rather than build inferior alternatives. Good outcome for the teams.
Not exactly a great look for the "AGI is right around the corner" crowd — if the labs had it, they would not need to buy software from humans.
This is absolutely wonderful!
This was absolutely wonderful ... A perfect way to start my day
This is great!
I just added my little trivia game to the list using the Google Form
is there a rebuttal to this?
would be interested in reading something that addresses the authors points directly.
this dude at pixar named lars.
this is super cool! well done.
Navy SEAL
The Slack API is a thing of beauty
Irony: the author of this article gives a TED talk about her research.