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Isn't there a way to set up a thinking budget so it automatically tells the model "Conclude your reasoning now and provide the final answer." ?

Claudehart's law says that when a measure is picked as an indicator, then Claude will start to game it.

> Sandboxes drift from production in both metadata and data. Refreshes change record ids.

I find it odd you would expect sandboxes to not drift and record ids to not change on refreshes. People are working on sandboxes so they will naturally diverge from production, same for record ids.

Refreshes mean that data will be wiped out so you have to preserve the data you want first, then restore it after the refresh. Isn't that the same with any other database where you dump a copy of production on an instance?

I don't see a difference between custom objects in SF and any plain SQL database table that needs to be changed to accommodate a new requirement.

Dependencies between components break deployments - isn't that universally true?

What are other platforms where such things don't happen?

It goes both ways.

If you don't get to the point and continue to go on and on, I will use a LLM to summarize what you wrote and then decide whether to spend time listening/reading what you wrote.

Huang, Sam and Dario speaking at Dreamforce.

What is painful about a plain REST API?

Wouldn't it be better to use blocks (219 in ASCII) as the main paint unit and use some other half-block and "hashed" characters (ASCII 220, 223, 176-178) to implement dithering?

The four sentences:

- in our culture it’s healthy to switch jobs every two years, ideally to something the opposite of what you’ve been doing

- there’s an organization - the National Association of Campus Activities - that pays $1000 to $5000 per gig at universities

- to keep learning we need to be surprised. Read books about subjects you know nothing about. Move to a place very unlike home, so that you’ll be surprised every day.

- rich guy said that decades of pursuing more only made him miserable and he would rather have stopped at $30 million then switch to planting trees and writing poetry.

I misread the title and was confused and appalled for a few seconds sorting through the word being "Oreos" instead of "Orgasms" and the meaning that word has in Urban Dictionary.

This I can agree with: - People can "rediscover" knowledge that was already established because they don't investigate other disciplines first. - Agent engineering can benefit from decades of studies in management, requirements engineering, operations and process research.

But the article has a big irony: the article accuses engineers of oversimplifying other disciplines and then does exactly that itself.

> "Data science was statistics with a cooler name"

The author mentions David Donoho's "50 Years of Data Science" but that work presents a much more complicated concept of data science: one with data exploration, transformation, computing, visualization, modeling, etc. Even the study of data-analysis practice itself.

Look at that XKCD he posted with it.

Horn took a nuance argument and converted it into the "human slop" formula mocked in the XKCD:

complicated subject = simple thing I already understand <new complicated thing> is really just <old familiar thing>

The cartoon is criticizing the same operation the article is doing. Maybe that is the joke?

You're a good follow there.

To escape the walled garden, I've ran a script to download all posts (JS to scroll down my feed, wait for the lazy loading, click on all "more..." links, wait for the lazy loading again, everything in a loop, then download the entire thing when there are no more posts). Then ran another script to convert those to blog posts, then posted them on my personal site.

> Actual brutalism is actually pretty

I would like to see some brutalist examples of what you find pretty (excepting eco-brutalism, since the plants hide a bit of the ugliness).

Modern architecture is ugly, influenced by Brutalism.

And it is common for developers to present at the city council some beautiful drawings of dwellings surrounded by trees, with couples walking together holding hands and children playing. But when the actual thing is built it ends up looking like industrial warehouses.

And the people who complain about enshitification of diverse services are the same ones complaining that residents oppose anything in their neighborhood (Nimbyism) or anywhere (Bananaism) - they fail to apply the same criteria: no one likes enshitification, even less so in their neighborhoods.

There are no beige/cream colors, orange accents, and serif typefaces associated with AI.

The majority of the LLM training corpora comes from Common Crawl and social media - they're not a curated source like Open Culture.

Wow, why haven't LLMs been trained on the content of this site instead of Reddit and other less reliable/litigious sources?

That is awesome!

I am curious about the decision to not use GPU since this is for Apple Silicon.

Wouldn't the GPU potentially accelerate the DeltaNet/attention layers and matrix multiplication in general?

It is a list of wealth created for index funds, pensions, employees and co-founders, not the overall benefit to society.

A more serious ranking would probably be dominated by these groups:

* Agricultural and public-health innovators - affecting billions of people at low cost - Louis Pasteur, Norman Borlaug, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, followed by sanitation engineers, vaccine developers and epidemiologists, then the myriad of scientists/engineers responsible for clean water systems

* General-purpose infrastructure creators - electricity, semiconductors, refrigeration, telecommunications, etc... - Faraday and Maxwell

* Open standards and open-source creators - Linux, Git, FFmpeg, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTML, Python, PostgreSQL, etc - they repeatedly eliminate costs for millions of organizations. Richard Hipp created SQLite that is embedded in millions of phones, browsers, apps, OSs, ... - Claude Shannon, Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds

* Institutional and conceptual inventors - double-entry bookkeeping, randomized clinical trials, peer review, container standardization, cryptography, etc - reducing transaction costs and increasing trust across the world.

Until the 80s, many medical professionals believed infants could not feel pain due to an underdeveloped nervous system and performed major invasive surgeries in babies without anesthesia. Doctors sometimes used paralytic agents to keep the infant completely still instead of pain relievers. It was horrifying when I found out about that.

Phew! I was hoping it was not a novel way of spreading a malicious script!

Ubiquiti has another cool device: a little travel router that you can configure with WireGuard to VPN into your home network and make yourself safer while on coffee shop and airport wifi.

It is nice to be able to access your local NAS and LLMs while away from home too.

Yes, that would be my hope as well. But we all know what happened to Agile.

Any chance golf ball dimples in the wings would make it better?

In a golf ball, the dimples create a turbulence in a layer of air around it but results in higher lift due to smaller vortex and less drag.

It was basically "** you" delivered with the power of 1024 middle fingers (512 pages times both hands).

I think it is all normalized into positive vector space [0, 1] using min-max.

> I object, as a non-American paying Anthropic customer, to being surveilled and then having it justified in a press release?

You genuinely think you're not already being surveilled? And that Anthropic is somehow responsible with just a few words in a press release? In what world are you living in and how is the rent there?

That reasoning sounds confusing: are you actually in favor of US gov's surveillance on Americans?

If not, then why are you punishing that company for refusing to deal with the US gov?

Or is it just because they worded their opposition in a certain way that you dislike?

So you think only one party did that??? Only one party protects billionaires??? Wow that's funny!