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My favorite is how it’ll just forget which apps are installed. A list of like 30 items. If you had one job spotlight, it’s this

TIL the Newton had a PCMCIA slot!

Like everything in LLM land it's all about the prompt and agent pipeline. As others say below, these people are experts in their domain. Their prompts are essentially a form of codifying their own knowledge, as in Rakyll and Galen's examples, to achieve specific outcomes based on years and maybe even decades of work in the problem domain. It's no surprise their outputs when ingested by an LLM are useful, but it might not tell us much about the true native capability of a given AI system.

We are the creature

You know all those dark patterns in software? What if we applied the same concepts to gigantic mechanical devices, taking advantage of human psychological faults, and generate a profit margin on those? Sure seems what seems to have happened with motor vehicles

As much as this may have unintended consequences, I can appreciate the motivation. I can't let my kids play iPhone games unless I turn the device into Airplane mode. Almost all these pay to play mobile games have 60 second interstitials after each level that can't be skipped. It's insane. I've taught my kids how to force kill the game and reload to get out. Definitely depressing compared to the PC shareware days I grew up with.

It’s a scam made of scams!

Yeah I feel like the real ah ha moment is still coming once there is a GPT-like thing that has been trained on reality, not its shadow.

ai-hominem

Good thing I drink hazelnut coffee while eating eggs and bacon! It cancels out right?

Yeah it's definitely a combination of posting for peers but also creating material that is helpful for finding the next gig

Yes just like there are shaders for the same thing with mesh-based grass. This repo already has some animation abilities: https://github.com/sparkjsdev/spark?tab=readme-ov-file#featu...

Yes there are a bunch of weird niches that got a lot of Twitter traffic but found a home on LinkedIn when there's an overlap with professions. Another niche example that I see is applications for AI powered architectural visualization, many folks posting actually useful stuff there on a regular basis.

Also self-driving cars which are hoovering this data already. Both alphabet and grok have an unusual advantage with those data sources.

The math checks out for this campaign at least: https://www.waituntil8th.org/

This is super awesome but to set expectations it appears that Waymo is quite limited by fleet capacity in all of its current operating zones, so as a practical matter it may be months or years before it operates in all these areas.

If you're interested in this stuff I highly recommend this podcast, not affiliated with it I genuinely think it's a great source to hear about the behind the scenes of fleet operations to meet demand: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/autonomy-markets/

(Edit) I prefer using the apple podcast app, here's a direct link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autonomy-markets/id177...

Another case study to add to the maritime chapter of this timeless classic: https://www.amazon.com/Normal-Accidents-Living-High-Risk-Tec...

Like you said (and illustrated well in the book) it's never just 1 thing, these incidents happen when multiple systems interact and often reflect a the disinvestment in comprehensive safety schemes.

As a Replicate customer, I’m excited about this news. Cloudflare has the strategic incentive to invest in this line of business and it puts Replicate in the hands of a very good product marketing and sales team to get the volume it needs for sustainability.

Add some voting and you got yourself an AI World Clock arena! https://artificialanalysis.ai/image/arena

I mean at some point you have to evaluate the content on its merit and they have a point — a chain is functional not just decorative in its precise placement.

Wow and here I was doing this manually all these years.

> Everyone wants a detached home with a yard. No one wants to live in a condo, an oct or a quad, or even a row house, as a permanent life-long dream.

This is easily disproven by the state of the real estate market and relative value of said urban condos to suburban sfh

> Obviously, this has the vulnerability that you can take a picture of a computer monitor with it, showing whatever you want to.

Is this a reverse analog loophole? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

I’ve used memory in Claude desktop for a while after MCP was supported. At first I liked it and was excited to see the new memories being created. Over time it suggests storing strange things to memories (an immaterial part of a prompt) and if I didn’t watch it like a hawk, it just gets really noisy and messy and made prompts less successful to accomplish my tasks so I ended up just disabling it.

It’s also worth mentioning that some folks attributed ChatGPT’s bout of extreme sycophancy to its memory feature. Not saying it isn’t useful, but it’s not a magical solution and will definitely affect Claude’s performance and not guaranteed that it’ll be for the better.

After digging into the contact form embed it looks like this is a project from: https://futureoflife.org/

Yeah my first thought was, oh it sounds like a bunch of CLAUDE.md's under the surface :P

Insane that this happened a few years ago and all the models still fail this test on weval!

Shout out to Mr. Dybvig who taught our intro to CS course at IU Bloomington 20+ years ago! It was my first intro to recursion (of course the class was all scheme based) and gave me much more confidence in software development coming from a self taught background.

They’re one gigantic organic blob?

Assuming you have to generate new content for each viewer second watched yes it won't pencil out. But if you have a library of tons of content you can keep building out...