This is literally 80% of my timeline.

How DARE you send a bug report without a patch attached. Have you no appreciation for tireless GCC volunteers, FFmpeg?

So, uh, Google watermarks all Gemini outputs w/ Synth-ID & can detect Gemini text/audio outputs from 2-3 sentences. Why is nobody talking about how this capability lets Google detect output [1] of AI-generated programs? I don't see a lot of evidence the public has considered: 1)

Stephen Pimentel “Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people.

Yannick Comte I think it'd be really fun to write 1) your own EMM386 / QEMM, 2) your own multi-tasking TSR, and 3) your own DPMS extender. These are some of the more mysterious low level DOS era things that even people around at the time never quite understood.

Journalist: What material did you use to train the model? China: Yes.

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Did you know we have ZERO real data on gestation in microgravity? Or even .4g (Mars)? I'm not talking about a mouse embryo developing for a few days: ZERO end-to-end experiments from conception to birth in anything less than 1g. Can we can reproduce on Mars? Unknown!

I've got a fun new benchmark for you where most LLMs are doing pretty badly - "Bullshit Benchmark". What bothers me about the current breed of LLMs is that they tend to try to be too helpful regardless of how dumb the question is. So I've built 55 'bullshit' questions that don't

Paul Graham I can fry 64 eggs an hour. I’m at home, not a restaurant. Nobody is eating them. I just fry them then throw them out the window. I’m getting sued by the downstairs neighbors. I continue to fry egg. I’ve spend $8,711 on eggs this week.

16807 is a very special number in Computer Science. You can find it in the Playstation 5 (freebsd 11), almost every Mac Classic game, and even the C++11 standard! Give it the right prime number, you can produce an evenly distributed sequence for over 2 BILLION values.

I am this close to just forking GNU Emacs. Immensely fed up with the BANANA attitude of freezing outrageous bugs in amber. Friends, please, if I ever become so sclerotic that I can't accept a fix for a bug that breaks setTimeout from setTimeout, take away my keyboard.

Maturity is understanding nobody really knows what he's doing. Goes all the way back to Plato.

Children should not be allowed to play with matches.

What everyone misses is that money isn't value. It's a distributed set of weights for resource allocation, and how we spend our time is a societal softmax over it. AI can impoverish us only if it produces a persistent misallocation of scarcity, and it's not obvious it will.

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Ok, I think my experiment leaving AI working on stuff 24/7 ends here. It doesn't work. Code explodes in complexity, results are not that great, the AI can't get past hard walls (it is still completely unable to even *grasp* SupGen), and it is insanely expensive (spent ~1k over