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wesleywton US interest rates raised for first time in three years

He did say he would be an awesome Fed Chair, can he appoint himself?

wesleywton Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

Comparing Chrome in 2008 to a company in 2026 is a choice.

wesleywton Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

Yes but can you voice your displeasure against the government if they target you? I prefer crime, grafitti and vandalism

wesleywton AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200

I see once again that its not the AI model's incapabilities but the prompters fault.

wesleywton GPT-6 Astra

They can't create innovative stuff. They can only create what they are trained on.

wesleywton Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

There is nothing of use to be viewed over there.

wesleywton Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

I don't think its necessary. When everything is AI slop, people most likely will revert to trusted sources.

wesleywton Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

Just give up and don't even try. This is what I am getting from this post. There are already efforts to pollute musical data that seems effective.

wesleywton Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

A trillion dollar IPO buys a lot of politicians to make these illegal.

wesleywton AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

They are scanning "rare" books. I presume there are not a lot of copies left to throw out.

wesleywton AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

I was wondering what the pro book shredding take was going to be. Why destroy the book after scanning? You can create a beautiful library of rare books with all the AI debt bubble.

wesleywton Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse

Glad you brought that up. Because we fixed it. Now because of ignorance, we are not fixing this. As a person without kids, its not my problem. Strange that anti-science conservatives wants us to have more children while willfully destroying their future.

wesleywton As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

Nah, AI writing is overwhelming real writing but contributes nothing new.

wesleywton U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

Perhaps you shouldn't use Grok.

wesleywton U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

How is this related?

wesleywton LLMs reward expertise

No we haven't

wesleywton Our position on open-weights models

Didn't OpenAI attack Huggingface. Looks like a publicity stunt.

wesleywton US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

What is sus as hell is the US government. It is incredible how people here are accepting things that was outrageous a few years back.

wesleywton Grok 4.5

Musk has politicised Grok by manipulating it respond in his world view. You comment is extremely depressing.

wesleywton Claude-real-video － any LLM can watch a video

Gemini does read videos.

wesleywton Right to Local Intelligence

Not voting does absolutely result in political corruption.

wesleywton Right to Local Intelligence

Dario and friends are fear mongering local models to get them banned.

wesleywton Right to Local Intelligence

The biggest threat to the hyper-scalers is small bespoked models run locally. You don't need the world's stolen information to run a small project containing locally trained data you collected. But you do need to block everyone if you want to capture the entire market and get the trillion dollar valuation.

wesleywton Claude Sonnet 5

How do you deal with the lack of cognitive engagement? I think it is the primary driver of developing and maintaining skills as well as generating new ideas. Letting an agent do it for you will just get you average but well formatted code. Not something new.

wesleywton Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

But you Americans hate taxes. You spend like a European country and tax like an African one.

wesleywton The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true

This doesn't confirm their bias.

wesleywton The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true

Why should the person identifying the problem provide a solution? This doesn't make sense.

wesleywton Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

I don't think you can learn high level techniques or architectures without first understanding the basics first. This means boring boiler plate coding.

wesleywton Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

Does the American Dream myth still exist?

wesleywton Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb

Are you writing a book with GPS? Are you creating a program with GPS? Are you creating music with GPS?

You need to think to do this, you don't need to with AI.