My machine learning education has progressed to the point where I lose sleep tossing around a “brilliant” idea, only to find the next day that it doesn’t actually work. This is great! I talked about this a few years ago: amasad.me/carmack

15k likes on obvious AI slop that even copy-pasted the Retry button at the end of the response.

Oh... So many things suddenly make sense

Aaron's story is tragic and it should never have ended that way. But the arguments from Meta regarding fair use are completely different from the arguments you would have to make in Aaron's case. An LLM is not a replacement for the books it was trained on.

5 reasons why the UK is living in 2050! 1. Completely cashless! In the UK, almost nobody carries around cash anymore. You can simply tap your phone to pay, anywhere. Many coffee shops have even stopped accepting cash!

They didn't try to silence you, they just tried to get you out of office as soon as possible coz you were quite clearly utterly mental.

I just want to join a solid team. I am not cut out for solo work.

Elon is just pissed because he can't influence politics in Europe the way he has in the US. A gentle reminder: he bought Twitter as a political tool, spent $300M on Trump’s campaign, and wanted to donate up to $100M to the UK’s Reform Party.

He's crashing out 🤣 😂

Happy weekend to those who celebrate

Is it random?

Call the experts... but not for me!

In today's episode of programming horror... In the Python docs of random.seed() def, we're told "If a is an int, it is used directly." [1] But if you seed with 3 or -3, you actually get the exact same rng object, producing the same streams. (TIL). In nanochat I was using the

Finally a new paper that is actually exciting to me. It’s almost as if it was written from my own thoughts. I will dig in deeper and do a proper review of it. Recommended to me by Artur.

Rare win for Shibuya-ku authorities, who will require combinis and cafes to install trash cans. Trash has been increasing in the area recently with tourists unlikely to take their garbage home like locals.

microplastics are bad until it’s time to put on the Uniqlo Heattech Ultra Warm

Symbients workshop at Komaba today! symbient.life/tokyo

I am very happy to see a lot of push back on this today on my TL. Yesterday when i read it there was none, and i was worried this may even be a silent majority opinion?! I wrote a scalding criticism, but let it sit because i never rage-post. But now I'm happy to see that's no

That Demis Hassabis decided to remain in the UK rather than move to the US was the single most important event in the UK's future. An entire ecosystem is crystallizing around him.

Ragebait lol