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This article is filled with emotional triggers designed to drive engagement. Even the title. It can be hard to separate those things from objective facts.

Putting an llm in front of it helps me focus on the facts.

There are also too many things to read. My default before llms would have been to ignore this article.

At least now I learned some things (mostly about the Gallup poll which had source data)

I do think some people will outsource critical thinking to llms - but it also helps amplify critical thinking by doing a lot of the filtering and organizing and let me focus on the things i think are important.

The cool thing about the current generation of AI tools is how easy it is to uncover bias or an agenda in an article like this.

paste the verge article text into your favorite AI tool and ask for an analysis.

Make sure to ask it to read the source Gallup data that this article leans on and compare the conclusions drawn.

I wonder if it will turn out to be easier to adapt lifeforms to the planets than to try to adapt the planets to the lifeforms.

52 here, been a full time people manager for about a decade now. Coding manually makes me tired just thinking about it. When I think about embark on a new project my mind goes back to all the times I worked 12 hour days trying to get some basic system to function. I’m too old for that now, my back hurts if I sit too long and occasionally get migraines if I look at a screen too much.

Using AI has been really perfect for me. I can build stuff while I do other things, walk the dog, make lunch, sit on the porch.

Sometimes i realize that my design was flawed and I just delete it all and start again, with no loss aversion.

It says this in bold red at the top - "This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal."

I am not a climate scientist - how should I think about this statement? Normally I am looking for some statement that shows a document has been vetted.

What do you think this particular prompt is evaluating for?

The more popular these particular evals are, the more likely the model will be trained for them.

This has convinced many non-programmers that they can program, but the results are consistently disastrous, because it still requires genuine expertise to spot the hallucinations.

I've been programming for 30+ years and now a people manager. Claude Code has enabled me to code again and I'm several times more productive than I ever was as an IC in the 2000s and 2010s. I suspect this person hasn't really tried the most recent generation, it is quite impressive and works very well if you do know what you are doing

The cars are usually stolen

I’ve discovered a lot of research via two minute papers on YT. Entertaining and easy to understand.

https://youtube.com/@twominutepapers?si=hyvCvW4UwS0QBbrZ

The drumming technique works for me for a few minutes if I need some temporary relief

https://treblehealth.com/tapping-technique-for-temporary-tin...

Chicago had lower annualized endowment returns than similar universities, and so it couldn't support it's aggressive expansion.

https://www.ft.com/content/4501240f-58b7-4433-9a3f-77eff18d0...

UChicago’s strains came after its $10bn endowment — a critical source of revenue — delivered an annualised return of 6.7 per cent over the 10 years to 2024, among the weakest performances of any major US university.

The private university has taken a more conservative investment approach than many peers, with greater exposure to fixed income and less to equities since the global financial crisis in 2008.

“If you look at our audits and rating reports, they’ve consistently noted that we had somewhat less market exposure than our peers,” said Ivan Samstein, UChicago’s chief financial officer. “That led to less aggregate returns over a period of time.”

An aggressive borrowing spree to expand its research capacity also weighed on the university’s financial health. UChicago’s outstanding debt, measured by notes and bonds payable, climbed by about two-thirds in the decade ending 2024, to $6.1bn, as it poured resources into new fields such as molecular engineering and quantum science.

One of my hobbies is Houdini which is like Blender. While I agree with you that you can build a nice parameterised model in a few days - if you want to make an entire scene or a short film, you will need hundreds if not thousands of models, all textured and topolgized and many of them rigged, animated or even have simulations.

What this means is that making even a 2 minute short animation is out of reach for a solo artist. Your only option today is to go buy an asset pack and do your best. But then of course your art will look like the asset pack.

AI Tools like this reduce one of the 20+ stages down to something reachable by someone working solo.

40% of US households pay no federal income tax.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tpc-number-those-who-dont...

How do consumers utilize expensive compute resources in this model? Eg, H100 GPUs.

I suspect that it wasn’t trained well enough on your art, or even trained to reproduce a generic style.

With enough data and training you might be convinced.

Also see the "Door Problem"

https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/

I appreciate that the article spent a significant amount of time explaining the flaws of this research.

This headline is clickbait, though.

Is there a version of the Fred indeed job postings list that goes before 2020? I wouls be interested to see similar data since 2000 or 2010

The narrative that software engineer jobs are going away is confused by cherry picking the start of covid as the start date.

yes if your kid loves math - my kid benefited from Math Academy (currently in college studying CS). Started with Math Academy as a HS freshman and finished BC Calc 2 years early with a 5 on the AP Exam. While he did Khan Academy for many years (which is a great resource) it didn’t really motivate him as much and seemed designed for a broader more generalist audience.

We also tried some other programs like Art of Problem Solving (great program, but required very synchronous classes which were hard to fit in)

My suggestion would be try it for a few months,

Eventually we will pull the black ball out of the urn

What is this reference?

The article referenced in there about Lamb Weston and MvCain foods and goes into a lot of detail about how prices get determined in this market.

The “behave themselves” comment was certainly juicy, but the entire multi thousand word article is about how these companies are in an intense competition in a low margin industry. Here’s an example:

Former VP of International at Lamb Weston Well, McCain came in at a better incentives than Lamb Weston, and Lamb Weston maybe felt complacent and said, no, we're going to keep this account, and they lost it. That was a blow to their ego. They lost the Wendy's business. They lost the majority of their Wendy's sales to Cavendish Farms, which was 200 million pounds plus. So they've lost some major accounts. Tegus Client Because they refused to concede on the price mostly? Former VP of International at Lamb Weston That's correct. They could have kept the business if they conceded on the price. But there's a cost to conceding on the price as well. I mean there's a cost, but there's also cost to not to concede. I'm not sure when they're going to get the Aramark's business back or if they ever get it back. They've got to pay us to get Aramark's business again. They're going to have to do exactly what McCain did, try to maintain it. Tegus Client Right now, this sounds more like a good competitive market. So how does this tie back to just Lamb being silent on the price increase and McCain like leading again? Former VP of International at Lamb Weston Well, they felt that they're not going to give McCain Foods the price increase. The price increase never happened. Even though it did get announced, it never did happen. So this is one of those battles that may be short-lived, but it could be long-lived. It could be a couple of years because McCain, a privately held company, they're not subject to the stock market or the analysts asking them difficult questions, even though most of them don't ask difficult questions to Lamb Weston. So they're independent. They can do what they want to do. The 2 major shareholders are the second generation, Scott and Mark McCain. Their EBITDA exceeds $1 billion a year, not bad for 2 young men that inherited the business. So they're not really in any hurry to concede to Lamb Weston or to say, okay, I'm just going to forget this. It could be tit for tat down the road, could be. Or they may just say, let's not go there, let's just try to raise the price. If Lamb tries to raise their price in September, you asked the reason why would they raise prices if they had a cost reduction on potatoes, they're going to raise prices because inefficiencies in the plant, COVID costs, they're going to mention that. They're going to talk about ingredients, oil consumption, cardboard up and all. So their COGS have increased even though potato prices would have been reduced.

https://app.tegus.co/guest/document/view/67Hf3DiMGQ944SkfpRh...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1872724231999381790.html

You’d have to combine it with one of the text to image models.

Saw this submitted a few days ago [0], but it's a very impressive demo and would like to see it get discussed here.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342557

Idle musing - maybe some genetics is for stored environment?

Eg, perhaps some of your genes’ purpose are to encode memories in DNA.

Nuke and DaVinci Resolve are the industry standards for compositing. Node based editing graphs are often called “non-destructive” or “procedural”. It’s basically pure functions in a programming sense.

Blender geometry nodes take this approach for modeling. The rest of blender is destructive in that any operation permanently changes the state.

https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke-family/nuke

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

Most critical is the disappearance of dance.

Have you looked at TikTok? It is full of young people performing incredibly complex dance moves.

Clinical machine learning for cancer diagnosis is one promising area

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(23)00094-6.pdf

Kind of off-topic, but I always find it weird to see people's hands and arms in first person games like this. Like, if I think about it, I know my hands are almost always in view, but they almost always fade away and I ignore them.

Whereas whenever I see a first person game, it's almost all I can focus on and it breaks the illusion.