underdeserver

What do you want from him, seriously? Anyone who follows the scene knows that blogging about AI (and participating in conferences etc.) is what Simon does nowadays.

There's nothing shady here. The disclosure is front and center on his About page on his website.

He's not spamming you. It's one short link, sometimes a link to a first-impressions post. It's interesting and useful for me and the other commenters who keep upvoting his comments. Why are you so antagonistic?

+1. First thing I look for in a model announcement thread. I actually came across this one an hour ago and was sad there were no pelicans yet.

It's a decent heuristic because the better models generate better pelicans. That's all. Nobody sane is going to make a bet on a model based on a pelican. But it's cool, it's tradition by now, and it's a semblance of a good first impression for new models.

I'm interested in more posts about this bowling nonsense.

Isn't this exact idea a theme in Asimov's books?

I feel like doctors and physiology researchers have known this for some time.

Turtles all the way down

Easy fix: Allow donations, merge updates once donation pool is enough to pay for the maintainers' time.

PC games are physical. I have my games right here on this thumb drive in my hand. If I sell it to you, and you plug it in, you can play my games.

It can change, if we get to net negative emissions. Not probable but possible.

Undergraduate degrees are not vocational in any of the leading universities in any field. They are sometimes a prerequisite to vocational training, but aren't one in and of themselves.

There's a pretty good reason for that - the base assumption is that training in fundamentals, methods and ways of thinking is something you won't get anywhere else.

Nit - it is not completely free.

You are paying for the extra power draw.

My point is that it's easily vibeable for you, because you do game stuff.

I don't - I did large scale web, embedded, data, and security, but no graphics or games. I wouldn't know where to begin.

I don't think I could have vibe coded that.

At the very least, he photographed and built models of logs and his own yard.

This is a remarkably open-source friendly business model. I hope it works out similarly remarkably well for you!

Eh, I don't use Lime Scooters or Waymo for the dopamine, I use them to get to where I need to go.

These are dudes, likely some of them teenagers, playing Street Fighter and Tekken.

Who signed up for what?

Nearly impossible in some contexts, where the trade-off makes sense.

There are many scenarios, especially in embedded systems, where it can happen and you want to handle it robustly, e.g. by evicting a cache or flushing a buffer to disk.

What do you mean? How did it manipulate you?

It's not going to be a particularly expensive product, but a product it can be.

Was this a technical role?

Um, could it have been the job itself that killed your productivity and not the walks?

Is writing the blog post taking longer than the rewrite

There is a tradeoff between the freedom users have on their devices on one side, and the likelihood less sophisticated users will get their information stolen or their devices pwned and used to DoS innocent websites on the other side.

If you don't address this tradeoff you're not really engaging the issue.

What I think we need is a professional, well-informed advocate of freedom who is willing to seriously discuss the tradeoff and concede that neither extreme is ideal.

When I was in grad school I graded homework for first year math classes, and the thing about math homework is that the perfect homework takes almost no time to grade.

It's the bad, semi-coherent submissions that eat up your time, because you do want to award some points and tell students where they went wrong. It's the Anna Karenina principle applied to math.

Code review is the same thing. If you're sure Claude wrote your endpoint right, why not review it anyway? It's going to take you two minutes, and you're not going to wonder whether this time it missed a nuance.

Okay but that hardware doesn't have to be in Beijing, it can be in a Dutch data centre.

They didn't mention it was Oregon. Maybe they're rolling out to Portland, Maine?

Those footnotes - "no, not that outage" - are damning.

Did the guy in the grocery video just leave his bike outside? That's so beyond naïve it's rude.

It's not VTOL. It has STOVL and CATOBAR variants.

Please quote the clause he violated in said contract.

I used to hear it called "virtual scroll", and I remember webpages ballooning in RAM when they didn't do it.