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"I just don't think about it, Theo"

The path to ubiquitous AI | Taalas By Ljubisa Bajic Many believe AI is the real deal. In narrow domains, it already surpasses human performance. Used well, it is an unprecedented amplifier of human ingenuity and productivity. Its wides...

Extremely interesting LLM-dedicated (escribed, really) chips. Reminds me of LISP machines, and possibly some old soviet style computers.

taalas.com/the-path-to-...

is there any good paper on LLM optimization/localization and "transfer learning" like one would see in the computer vision literature?

its incredible - we like, created a query-able culture-cognitive interface, and most of what it's used for thus far is sending emails and porn.

does anyone have a tagger for Blue sky that's a "real human" model classifier?

intensification use cases/dynamics: publishing, cover letter spam, slop instagram reals, etc
use cases enabled w/o intensification: easily-built custom-to-user software/scripts (i built an app the other day for a language learning workflow I always wanted), ???

im very interested by what kinds of use cases LLMs enable which don't also result in *intensification* (per scott cunningham's post on academic publishing).

every eboy in DC: *goosestepping noises* (10 hour loop) [$5.99/mo]

every egirl in san francisco: so, i have Thoughts About Love [$5.99/mo]

god help me i am going to finally learn linear algebra - but not for llm reasons

grey skies and rain drops
against window panes between
the world and myself

white collar cowboy,
pink slip pirate (land ahoy),
non compete nomads -
get money when money's good
walk away as if you could

refreshing, excatly the kind of analysis i was craving

Sending in the TANKs Against Citrini's AI Doomerism In which we use an internet sensation over AI displacement to learn some New Keynesian modeling and the economic possibilities for our grandchildren.

"My worry now is less that AI causes a recession. It’s that AI can raise output while worsening workers’ position, a distributional transformation without a traditional macro crisis." [based on a simple new keynesian toy model]

newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/sending-in...

I'm a NEET (Notably Erudite, Eloquent, and Tender)

Iran attacks show perils of US haven status In moments of extreme uncertainty investors usually rush to the safety of US government bonds, but not this time

"This forms yet another piece of anecdotal data suggesting that US Treasuries are losing their status as the world’s go-to asset in times of crisis — the result, investors say, of erratic geopolitical and economic policy and the erosion of institutions under Trump"
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

proud member of the aristocracy (unemployed)

useless fucking boomers

alright, i finally did it

thinking about the one 20-smth guy i worked with at $large_tech_co, when i had a one on one with him after he announced he was leaving, started explaining how the $large_tech_co we were at was too woke and he was going to Linkedin which was less woke (and presumably would pay him more) -- unprompted

maybe im just not fit for public society / corporate america any more

i feel like everyone in and around tech and tech adjacent orgs are just getting more and more wack over time but maybe thats just me

finished yesterday: the last days of new paris
starting: language machines
returning to: the sleepwalkers (very very good, so far)

we allow a little dooming and spiraling on thursday afternoons

btw i can tell you from what i know of ppl in there that they are utterly ai pilled, to the point where it's being shoved down middle management's throats and they're getting tired of it

not excited for the used phone market to blow up the way cars did