please stop its physically painful

The first rule of data breaches: if it exists in a database on the Internet, it will be stolen. The second rule of data breaches: the service that lost your data will be incredibly vague about exactly what the hackers took, because it’s way worse than you imagine.

Australia lost one of our medical legends yesterday, with the death of Nobel Laureate Dr Robin Warren. Together with Dr Barry Marshall, they discovered the link between the bacteria Helicobacter Pylori & Peptic Ulcer Disease. It fundamentally changed how we treat ulcer disease.

I had someone asking the other day if I was not "worried that an attacker could exploit the potential unsafe C code." My dude, this is a PS1 game! The only 'attacker' I'm worried about is someone literally breaking into the front door and stealing the console. 😐

My basic political philosophy is that monopolies are bad but the decline of Bell Labs set back human civilization by several decades. I'm still not sure how to reconcile this.

Noah Smith 🐇 To be fair, he has no fucking idea what he is talking about. NVIDIA is a strong WFH culture, and we're doing just fine.

My student's comment on that LLMs generating more novel research ideas than humans paper making the rounds I think this says more about NLP researchers than about LLMs Ouch..

I'm sorry, but I did not engineer my whole life and joined a carreer in tech to solve problems. The goal was always to avoid you people! 😅

First Law of Matt Levine: the funniest thing is the thing that will happen

Our Kickstarter for the print run of Meow the Infinite: Book Three is now LIVE! meowtheinfinite.com

I find the story of AI and radiology fascinating. Of course, Hinton's prediction was wrong* and tech advances don't automatically and straightforwardly cause job replacement — that's not the interesting part. Radiology has embraced AI enthusiastically, and the labor force is

The vast gulf between all of our actual daily experience with LLM improvements plateauing, vs what some researchers claim is going on, is pretty interesting. You can't properly understand AI progress without using the models for real work every day.

The comments on software patents made me chuckle. After selling both Id Software and Oculus, my continued employment contracts included “will not participate in software patents” clauses, and yet I got asked to reconsider in both cases. It wasn’t a lot of pressure, so I don’t