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This 👇🏼is a quite informative, useful explanation about the $ tax / accounting changes that fueled tech layoffs of the past 2-3 years. It's not bloody AI, but it's hard to explain what it actually is. Why are they doing it when profitable etc, Mark? Well... qz.com/tech-layoffs...

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This article by MIT Technology Review is a fantastic walk through of the externalities at play for GenAI computing

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That's a good headline

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“We are embarking on a major experiment in restructuring the innovative engine in America, and China is the control,” said Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist and the president of the National Academy of Sciences. “China is not going to cut its research budget in half.”

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This 👇🏼 is a great - GREAT - rumination on ML tech such as LLMs and LVMs, aka 'AI' (and like several other folks have noticed 'pattern synthesis' is a brilliant description of what this tech actually is / does) Prescient, thoughtful, well informed - a must read 1/2

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Hmm. AKA 'the end justifies the means'...

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They say outrageous, indefensible things every day. In part to exhaust you. Conserve your energy. Don’t react to everything. A reminder to myself as much as anyone else.

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Whilst I wish it weren't so, to my knowledge, hype trains cannot be stopped. They go where they are going (which is often a crash)

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been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

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Good 🧵as usual. You really should read it all though...

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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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Tired of 'what?' Too many, too much

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What?

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What?

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Let’s demand more courage and leadership from those who… lead www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Twitter failed. Facebook, Yammer, Jive. Instagram, Snapchat. Etc etc etc. Every damn one of these failed. The constant across all of them is us. This piece (I absolutely loved and agree w the point abt Mel Conway) is deep and well worth a slow, careful read 👇🏼 Bluesky will likely fail too

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Action horror typing game where enemies have regexes above their head and you have to type something that matches them Is the horror from the enemies or the regex? Yes.

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I've said it before, and I'll repeat it: The expulsion of expertise from government and academia during Mao's Cultural Revolution devastated China for decades, particularly in science and technology. That profound harm led the country to take education as seriously as it does today. wapo.st/3YTivKW

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In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

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The idea that if something does not work for you, then it must be wrong for everyone, baffles me. I have seen so many articles that claim they know best because their team did not succeed. There is a reason why the most uttered answer by a consultant is "it depends".

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Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

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“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

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Just hearing from a reliable source that in one of the UK councils that are now Reform-led, all transit spend is on pause because it's seen as 'net zero' £ and therefore Verboten...

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The Great Migration has reached... The Vatican. That Sinners movie is weirdly topical...

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The music video for Weapon of Choice and no other answer is valid.

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This is called Jevon's Paradox

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This. Is always worth a repost

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Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

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Today's blog post is a thought experiment. Should we need the state in transport at all? www.freewheeling.info/blog/should-...

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