You'll always be an embedding in my mind.

Oh great, AI researchers now think we should move on from LLMs and focus on building world-understanding causal models. What happened to all those statistics education they went through all these years during their LLM research. Correlation != Causation is one of the first things one learns.

Are AI startups the new shell companies?

Everything is an arms race, or a means to survive in a competitive world.

I got 11/26 on the fstrings.wtf quiz. Can you do better? fstrings.wtf (I need to go take a bath after that)

The world that social media shows is a trainwreck, can't ignore it and can't stand it as well. Time to go back to simpler times of living like a monkey.

Got meself a tennis sesh after a couple of years

How did I not notice the clock app icon on android is animated? And why don't more apps do this?

Short form content has nuked my brain. Nothing will grow on it for several years.

As a moderately technical person, I like my information medium rare.

I wonder whose idea it was to add stuff like "you're absolutely right", "that's an interesting insight" to LLM's responses. I highly doubt they come naturally from the training data. I guess I deserve to be treated like a child for using these apps.

Sometimes I wish I could start from scratch, forget what I learnt about the world and think in theorems. Does mathematics exist outside time and space?

So basically, neural networks are the big daddy of all functions, the god functions if you will and the only thing stopping them from entering your life is your permission.

I don't get capitalism. So two people make a profit trading some asset that they inherited from either something similar or violence, and they can then use that profit to get something from someone who wasn't part of the trade.

How do people manage to write a whole book of fiction? I know some of it is reality obfuscation, but still. I find it more impressive than non-fiction of the same integrity.

Just learnt bluesky is to twitter what mastodon is to bluesky

It's been around a week since I've started using obsidian. While the app is useful, I wish it was open source and didn't use electron to not give me the ick.

I'll just start saying things to the void. What's the worst that could happen?

I've completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1