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"What's the capital of South Africa?" "Bloemfontein".

"No, it isn't. There are 3 capitals" "China, India, Russia."

It probably doesn't help that it's mid working day for a large portion of the world, on a Monday as well.

We've been watching in the office though. There's been a lot of interest in it.

NVIDIA is part of that shift NVIDIA CUDA Rust closes that gap

I still think it’s weird if an agent is writing 99% of your production code.

It should be more like 80% with significant review.

Forgive me but where does 1.10^5 come into the equation? What is the significance of this number?

Both figures can be arrived to by taking the monthly total and multiplying it by 12.

You can have the best acting coaches in the world and still not get ‘it’.

Comparing anyone at keynotes to Steve is challenging. He really was among the best at presentation.

I’m not sure that’s a function of regulation but more a function of most modern freezers defaulting to -18°, where an American or industrial freezer is -22 to -28°C.

Getting a better energy efficiency score is one reason (and consumers are motivated on running cost, not just environmental) but presumably these are cheaper to manufacture as well.

I have an American style, EU-compliant freezer than I can set to -26° which I bought for preparing sashimi safely. It rocks! Highly recommend them.

There are many EU directives which benefit consumers directly in tech, including, but not limited to:

Consumer rights - 14 day cooling off period for online purchases

Sale of goods - 2 year seller liability for defective goods

Right to repair - likely doesn’t need explanation, require manufacturers to offer repairs and replacement parts

Unfair commercial practices - prevent misleading or deceptive advertising

Unfair contract terms directive - prevents disproportionately one-sided provisions in T&Cs (think Disney giving themselves legal immunity for a free Disney+ trial)

The EU’s problem seems to be in communicating its benefits to its citizens.

Love? Emotional connection? Care, empathy, social connection, support, like-mindedness…

Lust and control are perhaps the two worst reasons to have a relationship.

Galileo may not have been burnt at the stake, but he was placed on house arrest for the rest of his life for his beliefs.

It is an important distinction - they do not 'understand' at all.

Input tokens map to output tokens. The illusion of comprehension is a byproduct.

This is how Sakana's Fugu model works, achieving similar performance to Opus/Fable with a mix of open source & mainstream LLMs.

A minor point, but the colour scheme on that chart infuriates me. When the data can be seen a progression (not endangered -> threatened -> few known speakers -> no known speakers), why use red to green but in a random order?

"My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments" - already lost me there by quoting JD. Vance.

"...found that “other global powers’ robust progress in AI is challenging US economic competitiveness" - other countries having a slice of the pie is preventing the US having the whole pie!

"...secondary concern is the risk that powerful AI models may be misused to carry out cyberattacks" - yes, those powerful open-source AI models like ChatGPT... oh wait.

It doesn't seem to be as much a trend in the UK - fast food, takeaways etc have some leaking in of AI - but when I went to Korea I was blown away by how many restaurants had these AI style menus.

It's a shame because it takes away the choice of either seeing the real product, or imagining it - I'm left with this shitty generated impression of what the food won't look like.

Ironically to your point, I think adding a ConcurrentHashMap because it might be multithreaded eventually IS premature optimisation.

The work can be done in future to migrate to using ConcurrentHashMap when the feature to add multithreading support is added. There's no sense to add groundwork for unplanned, unimplemented features - that is premature optimisation in a nutshell.

Having spent a lot of time in denial before investing in a few light wool turtlenecks and some Aran jumpers, I can only disagree.

When wool gets warm it expands, which cools you slightly. It seems to have a much better range of temperatures you can be comfortable in.

Synthetic jumpers and sweaters get stuffy quickly and after a few washes can end up itchy.

And no, good cable knits from non designer brands go for $100-$200 and will last many, many years.

Interesting article, although with so few data points and such a specific time slice it is difficult to draw serious conclusions about the "improvement" of LLM models.

It's notably lacking newer models (4.5 Opus, 4.6 Sonnet) and models from Gemini.

LLMs appear to naturally progress in short leaps followed by longer plateaus, as breakthroughs are developed such as chain-of-thought, mixture-of-experts, sub-agents, etc.

Not the original commenter but this felt worth adding to: you mention 'cargo culting', yet there are already two comments raising the core benefit, which is keeping main 'stable and working' while develop stays 'rough and ready'.

A less rigid development branch allows feature branches to be smaller and easier to merge, and keeps developers working against more recent code.

A more locked-down, PR-only main branch enables proper testing before merging, and ensures that the feature and release branches stemming from it start in a cleaner state.

I've worked with both approaches and I'm firmly in the camp of keeping main stable, with a looser shared branch for the team to iterate on.

> it can also double as a NAS ... and home server

Devil's advocate, but it can't if it's in Starbucks ;)

There's far cheaper workstations out there than Macbooks, especially if you're running Linux on them.