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AI comes for the nerds

AI truthers are a funny bunch. By this I mean people who whine about LLMs being “stochastic parrots”, dumb machines that merely “predict the next token” and therefore won’t be able to do anything of import. It is amusing watching them floun...

14 days ago
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The loop closes

Les rois fainéants, E. Crété (1902)

Andrej Karpathy gave a great talk about LLMs in 2025. He talks about three generations of software: code written manually by people (1.0), narrow machine learning (2.0), and code written by LLMs (3.0)....

20 days ago
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Building a better alcohol 2

Joseph Wright of Derby, The Alchymist Discovering Phosphorus (1771)

Previously I talked about how bad alcohol is as a drug. If a lack of bioavailable fun was a medical condition and we put alcohol through safety testing, it wouldn’t get pa...

a month ago
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Living at the hinge of history

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich (1818)

As a software engineer, I’m at the pointy end of watching AI automate me out of a job (perhaps just behind mathematicians, who are seeing theorems which have been unsolved for hu...

a month ago
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Why do smart people get oneshotted by animal welfare?

The Slaughtered Ox, Rembrandt (1655)

More than once, an otherwise smart person has attempted to untie the Gordian knot that is the way we treat animals, and themselves come undone in the process.

Simon Sarris, otherwise a handsome polymat...

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