A student from India designed an AI machine that writes his homework in his own handwriting.

I think this is how the whole vibe coding / AI generated software will play out: (1) Less complex apps can basically be one shotted / done in a few prompt (2) More complex applications will become HARDER to develop, because engineers will have less of a grasp of their code base

For the last time: People born blind still develop intellect without the vast amount of visual data. It is not necessary for cognition. Do you know what input is crucial for cognition? Language. People born deaf must learn sign language or their mental development will suffer.

There is a field experiment showing this exact effect. Introducing GPT tutors increases performance by *a lot*--students seem to be picking up the material much faster--but when GPT is removed those who had access perform *much worse* compared to those w/o access. 1/4

The Python Paradox in the wild. (I knew when I chose it that this name wouldn't age well.)

Predictions about the future in 1993.

Having safe air travel depends heavily on having this type of guy in the captain’s chair

People are losing their jobs. And it will only accelerate. By the end of the year at the latest, the huge impact will be felt.

Halle Berry hands down

Two dudes in 2003, unaware they were making a legendary song

A major mistake I made in my undergrad is that I focused way too much on mathematical lens of computing - computability, decidability, asymptotic complexity etc. And too little on physical lens - energy/heat of state change, data locality, parallelism, computer architecture. The

The average Turk works ten hours more every week than the average Dutch. This isn’t a simple story of lazy Dutch workers and industrious Turks but rather a reflection of the complexity of the two economies. In the Netherlands a huge service economy grants its workers shorter

I’ve spent the last 25 years encouraging young people to get into IT. Yesterday, I didn’t - and that break in the pattern says more than I’m ready to admit.

People without coding skills have created apps that top the charts — even before ChatGPT. Read more: sinanh.substack.com/p/its-the-prod… It seems many developers asking “Where are the great examples of AI apps?” haven’t read Paul Graham’s Beating the Average- a must-read: paulgraham.com/avg.html

My sleep scores during recent travel were in the 90s. Now back in SF I am consistently back down to 70s, 80s. I am increasingly convinced that this is due to traffic noise from a nearby road/intersection where I live - every ~10min, a car, truck, bus, or motorcycle with a very

Scaling up RL is all the rage right now, I had a chat with a friend about it yesterday. I'm fairly certain RL will continue to yield more intermediate gains, but I also don't expect it to be the full story. RL is basically "hey this happened to go well (/poorly), let me slightly

One of my favorite lessons from neuroscience: When you start something new, it feels like a struggle and requires your entire focus to figure out. But as you get better, it gets easier and you need far less brain power. Things become automatic and you can dedicate your brain to

THIS chart is the CLEAREST signal of where the internet is heading. social media time is SHRINKING for the first time in HISTORY, and young people are leading the pullback. Brainrot is OUT. they grew up online, saw the full cycle of social platforms, and learned early that

Tech has the fewest assholes per capita. Politics has the most

Weather depression is 100% real Nobody warned me that weather controls your entire life: Years 1-20 in Spain: "Weather is fine, I'm just naturally unmotivated in winter" Years 20-22 in Central Europe: "Why do I want to die from November to March?" Years 23-31 in