RIP to Bill Atkinson, one of the greatest programmers who ever lived. At Apple he created MacPaint, QuickDraw, HyperCard and was a critical part of making the Macintosh magic. He co-founded General Magic - go watch that documentary.

A 24-trillion-token web dataset with document-level metadata just dropped on Hugging Face License: apache-2.0 ESSENTIAL-WEB v1.0 collects 24 trillion tokens from Common Crawl. Each document is labeled with a 12-field taxonomy covering topic, page type, complexity, and quality

I think it's deeply funny that none of these threads about ChatGPT and critical thinking actually interpret the results correctly, while yapping on and on about "Critical Thinking".

"The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup can get the distribution before the incumbent can build the innovation."

Al final la peli es un anuncio de +2 horas sobre la capacidad de Apple en el cine. Su propia cámara, Final Cut Pro para editar, chips Apple Silicon procesando, masterización en Dolby Vision.

While I briefly have no employer, let me tell you what's really happening with AI companies training on public data: [1/n]

Hace tiempo que perdí la costumbre de subir hilos. A ver si encuentro ánimos para recuperar ese hábito. Vamos con uno un poco pesado. Una lucha de titanes. Dentro 🧵

Ya está en plataformas TODOPODEROSOS #119 Somos lo que comemos y la cortina. (Volumen 4) Aivox: cutt.ly/orUkkO2x Spoti: cutt.ly/ErUkkCXM Apol: cutt.ly/orUkk8Nw Yutub: youtu.be/RQzV0fPHCYc App🤖: tpcast.app ¿Un RT? #TPLoQueComenos

“screens full of words and minds emptied of thought”

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BREAKING: The EU Commission has released a mandatory template for AI developers to disclose training data. Unlike the Code of Practice, this is not optional. It could have global fallout, as rights holders abroad might use it to sue over copyright. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/exp…

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People assume that AI homogenizes creative writing, producing much less diverse work than groups of humans This paper finds this isn’t true: given stories to complete, GPT-4o writes as diversely as humans (stylistic, lexical, & semantic) when prompted with context & randomness

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Meet Leopold Aschenbrenner. He graduated from Columbia as valedictorian at 19 with triple degrees in math, stats, and economics. In 2023, he joined OpenAI's Superalignment team under Ilya Sutskever to work on one of AI's most critical challenges:

Si el mundo va a acabarse, que lo haga con claridad moral, sin jefes ni objetivos trimestrales. De Matrix a The Road, trece futuros arrasados que, al menos, ofrecen sentido donde ya no queda ninguno. jotdown.es/2025/08/ensayo…

Remembering Oliver Sacks, who returned his borrowed stardust to the universe 10 years ago today, with his immortal reflection on a life fully lived themarginalian.org/2015/05/18/oli…

This is why allegedly: "Not only are the CEO + COO (of ASML) French, they recently hired Le Maire, French ex-minister of Finance as a strategic advisor. ASML has also been rumoured to exit the Netherlands and relocate to France. It is definitely a political move." Just

Theodor Adorno, born on this day in 1903, on work, pleasure, and how the cult of efficiency limits our happiness themarginalian.org/2015/09/11/the…

Hey Claude: "Please create the PowerPoint shared by the high powered management consultants hired by Hamlet after seeing his fathers ghost" That was the only prompt. Loved that Claude made this from the McKinsey Elsinore office (with the right colors!), also that SWOT analysis!