Who's going to tell him not everything on the internet is knowledge and that an encyclopedia like Wikipedia is roughly 20GB, losslessly compressed too! This blows openAI plagiarised silliness out of the water. Not even talking about pollution; just pure size and dependability.

never studying OS again

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If your genome data is with 23andMe, the next owner could be someone like Musk or Peter Thiel. Musk might have trouble getting another loan right now, but he wouldn't need much - and Thiel already has a significant stake in healthcare data via Palantir.

“a number of NASA insiders called me over the following months to express profound pessimism that any kind of organizational transition or improvement could possibly occur. At the time I was optimistic, now I am not.”

Holding no punches, as usual. This is what actual free speech looks like ->

For all the sound engineers out there...🤭

Google are using Hinton's, Hassabis' and Jumper's Nobel Prizes to defend unlicensed AI training on copyrighted work. This is a huge leap of logic. Neither Nobel Prize awarded for AI work this week was for work that trained on copyrighted creative work without permission. The

This paper makes a compelling case that, if you want to be happier, better informed, and like your fellow humans more, you should simply unfollow hyperpartisan accounts. It works "like a scalpel" cutting out the harmful X stuff "while allowing the beneficial aspects to remain."

EU regulations are the clearest and least fragmented. by repeatedly saying "regulatory uncertainty" Nick Clegg hopes to undermine public perception of EU regulation & allow Meta to harvest data as it wishes without a shred of respect for fundamental rights

Top software engineering job locations, globally (based on city). Details from today's State of the software engineering market in 2024: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-eng…

Top software engineering jobs, by city, in the US and in Europe. Note how Austin TX has more openings listed than any location in Europe! Data source: TrueUp

It’s wild how many software vendors totally miss the point that users don’t actually want AI. Users just want their work/life to be better. AI is YOUR implementation detail, not their need. Don’t confuse the buzz investor relations (or VCs) want to push w/ good product

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Uh, thats quite a bit off

Gumroad was one of the very few startups doing not just full-remote, but full-remote mainly in an async setting. That Gumroad is coming to the conclusion that it’s more efficient (looking at business output) to pay more to have an in-person core team: this is notable.

Almost spat out my morning coffee to this one 😂 (it's an image as I saw it on LI, reposted by a friend)

Correct. This is how GitHub works. Nobody actually knows how 'git' works, even though everyone uses it. The GitHub admin is therefore the person who foolishly admitted they could do anything at all with it.

AI haters say AI is a bubble, but in less than two years, ChatGPT has become the 8th largest website in the world. ChatGPT now has over 180 million users, with 100 million of them active weekly. In September 2024, ChatGPT saw 3.1 billion website visits. Probably anyone who knows

This is Dario Amodei. He's the CEO behind Claude, one of the world's most advanced AIs. Yesterday, in a 5.5 hour conversation with Lex Fridman, he revealed our timeline to superintelligence. Let me save you 5 hours: 🧵