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Per their market cap...

3.85 billion is actually closer to a "penny" for Microsoft.

Question (serious) - Why teach kids programming anymore?

I’m sympathetic to the concern, but I’m still unclear on what the concrete ask is.

If the worry is that AI companies are turning open problems into benchmarks and potentially “using up” fertile mathematical problems before humans can develop the ideas around them, what exactly should the companies do differently? Also why does discovering the answers preclude humans developing ideas from them? I don't get why solving a math problem stops anyone from doing that?

Should they (AI companies) avoid training or evaluating models on open problems? Solve them but not publish the results? Delay publication? Only release proofs after mathematicians have had time to study them? Require some attribution or review process?

The statement makes a strong case that “maximize the number of solved problems” may be the wrong objective, but it seems much less clear about what behavior they actually want from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, etc.

I’d be interested in the most concrete version of the proposal. Without that, it starts to read a little like: "Please stop getting so good at our thing!"

LOL. So here is the truth: I named it because my oldest son was really into the “67” meme. I was trying to come up with a domain name, everything decent seemed taken, and chess67.com was available.

I figured it would just be a temporary name until I came up with something better.

Then it stuck. I will say it has been easy for my customers to remember the name!

(Disclaimer, I’m the founder of chess67.com)

There is a very tangible benefit to people playing in chess that has nothing to do with the game itself. One example is for kids - I think kids playing chess (particularly over the board) learn quite a lot from the game. For example, etiquette (being respectful to your opponent), patience, logic, etc… but one of the best things they learn is how to lose. In chess you lose a lot. Asymptotically vast majority of players will lose approximately 50% of their games. Learning how to lose (respectfully), learn from your mistakes, then overcome them is really great process to learn. Doing this in real life rather than over the screen is also completely different.

Combine that with the game being fun and the social aspects (meeting new people, making friends)… chess very much transfers to real life in my view

How much data is loaded here?

I wonder how this would do with Thinky.gg games (Pathology or Sokopath). Are you familiar with the site? There's a group of engineers working on various types of solvers in the thinky.gg discord too.

I don't think that's a fair comparison. Regulatory teams exist to make sure companies comply with actual laws and regulations. There's a relatively objective standard they're enforcing.

Big tech has the same thing in its legal and compliance teams, and those teams absolutely can kill projects. That's pretty different from an amorphous "ethics" committee deciding what is or isn't ethical based on much more subjective criteria.

100M investment from Coursera? Isn't Andrew Ng a cofounder and still chairman?

Chess67.com - Website for real life OTB chess clubs, events and tournaments.

When is it rolling out? Currently on ChatGPT Pro but not seeing it yet?

Would be cool if these could animate/interpolate to their next position

"You Can't Miss It" https://k2xl.substack.com/p/you-cant-miss-it

Fun but should have difficulty levels!

Why did you decide to write this book?

I’m honestly surprised Apple didn’t retire the Siri brand.

At this point, “Siri” has a pretty strong cultural association with being underwhelming or unhelpful. Even if the new version is dramatically better, convincing people to give Siri another shot may be harder than launching the same technology under a new name.

Feels like a missed opportunity to reset expectations.

I would assume that the outcome probability of people selling other companies to buy Anthropic/SpaceX/OpenAI has been priced in already.

I do imagine they get an insane amount of reports, i guess they haven’t figured out how to filter through them all

it's confusing that ultracode is not enabled on the desktop though - or at least it isn't clear how to enable

How do you guys plan feature support between the CLI and Claude Desktop?

I miss those days. Oregon trail was the first game I played on the computer in 1993 (there was a computer in our Kindergarten class).

Nostalgia for the old web - building websites in HTML on Angelfire and Expage.com. Learning programming on visual basic and how to copy and paste <marquee> to welcome people to the site and to sign the guestbook…

Very surprised to see SpaceX valued higher than OpenAI.

This was great, thanks for sharing

Isn't there some alternative approach? I.e when someone submit ai slop they get a strike. Three strikes and you are suspended from submitting to the bug bounty for x months/years?

*Edit - I get it. It seems like the authentication is a challenge.

I wonder if movie theaters ever thought to have "Free" movie tickets before a certain time on certain days. They would probably make money just on the popcorn sales since most of these theaters are empty during the day.

User how old is the earth? and how do we know? who determined it

talkie-1930 The earth is at least 80,000,000 years old. This conclusion has been arrived at by geologists, partly from the study of stratified rocks, and partly from the consideration of living organisms. Strata have been formed, quietly, one upon another, in many parts of the world, from the earliest times down to the present day; and the thickness of some of these strata amounts to several thousand feet. Now, it is plain, that a long period must have elapsed, during which such beds could be accumulated. Then, again, certain living species have continued unchanged from the beginning of the stratified formations up to now; and, as no such species have become extinct, it is argued that the earth must have existed, at least, from the first appearance of these organisms. In round numbers, we may say, that the earth has been a globe, fit for the habitation of living beings, at least 80,000,000 years.

Yes. It was great for when I had a major surgery last year and had a bazillion questions for the surgeon. But I don't always remember to. My parents definitely don't even think about it.

I think the post conflates two issues:

1. AI-generated charting. 2. The existence of a reliable record of the visit.

I am skeptical of the first in some cases (i.e. bias), but strongly in favor of the second.

My father is 80 and has Parkinson’s. He routinely leaves appointments unsure of what the doctor said, what changed, or what he is supposed to do next. Even when I attend with him, we sometimes disagree afterward about what exactly was recommended.

This happens with pediatric appointments too. My wife and I occasionally remember instructions differently: medication timing, symptoms to watch for, when to call back, whether something was “normal” or needed follow-up.

That is a care quality problem, not just a convenience problem.

The risks are real: privacy, consent, retention, training use, liability, and automation bias. But those argue for strict controls, not for a blanket refusal. Make it opt-in, give the patient access, prohibit training without explicit consent, keep retention short, and require clear auditability.

I do not want opaque AI quietly rewriting the medical record. But I also do not think “everyone relies on memory after a stressful 12-minute appointment” is some gold standard we should preserve.

ARC-AGI 3 is missing on this list - given that the SOTA before 5.5 <1% if I recall, I wonder if this didn't make meaningful progress.

Surprised to see SWE-Bench Pro only a slight improvement (57.7% -> 58.6%) while Opus 4.7 hit 64.3%. I wonder what Anthropic is doing to achieve higher scores on this - and also what makes this test particular hard to do well in compared to Terminal Bench (which 5.5 seemed to have a big jump in)